The Great Escape Part 4

 Steenkamp had observed that while the place had been “crawling with journalists yesterday…the pack got fed up when there was no sign of you, and they all left.”

Unfortunately, when the pair reached the Grand Hotel their presence was quickly spotted by “what turned out to be a lone journalist from an Afrikaner newspaper – a man who they learned subsequently, was thought to have close connections with the Security Police.” Within an hour, the news that Goldreich and Wolpe were in Francistown after all was all over the radio and wire services.