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><X J**'1 g fT PAGE SIX r OUTW ^tme VtlEUTEN, ^ PAT Q'BRI CLSMf, tr/WALM OS I -^3^ (Continued From Last Friday.) ' YNOP8I*. CHAPTER I?Introductory. Pnt O'Brtsn 1 t*hs of his purpoM In writing th? story , ?f his adventures. CHAPTER II?Tells of his enlistment In the Royal Flying corps, his training In C&nsda and hLi transfer to France for active duty. j CHAPTER III?Describes fights In which < be brought down two German airplanes and his ttnal tight in which he was brought down wounded within the German lines and was made a prisoner of War. CHAPTER IV?Discovers that German hospital staff bwharously neglected the futally wounded and devoted their energies to restoring those who might be returned to the tiring lines. Witnesses death In tight of his best chum. Laeut. Pawl Rainey. CHAPTER V?He is taken to the officers' prist in can.i at Courtral. There ha began planning his escape, Hy great sa>mice In- inai' .gc- to save and hide away two dally r lions of hresd 5?'tn?'tiin.- with tliis meal they gave tis butter Instead of jam, mid once lu a while wo had some kind of canned ' tneat. This comprised the usual run of est- ! aides for tlic ilny?I can cat more than I that for breakfast! In the days that Were to conic I learned that I was to ' fare considerably worse. We were allowed to send out and * buy a tew things, but as most of the prisoners were without funds this was but an empty privilege. Once I tooh advantage of the privilege to send my ^ shoes to a Belgian shoemaker to he ? JuUf-soled. They charged me 2d marks?$5! Once la a while n Belgian Ladles' **ener society visited tne prison and brought us handkerchiefs, American ftonp?which sells at about $1.50 a bar in liels' ?toothbrushes and other little articles, ull of which were American made, hut whether they were supplied by the American relief committee or not I don't know, j At any rate, these jrlfts were mighty useful and were very much appreciated. One day I offered a button off my Uniform to one of these Itcliiinn ludies Us a souvenir,, but a Oermnn uiuird aw me and 1 was never allowed u> - m J K/ y /S*~+crS?r * i - Facsimile of the Check Given to Lieutei Dickson When They Were Fe go near tin* visitors afterwards. Tlie sanitary conditions In this prison en nip were excellent as a general proposition. One night, however I ' I discovered thut I had been captured by "cooties." This was a novel experience to me ^nd one that I would have been very willing to have missed, because In the flying corps our airdromes are a number of miles back of the lines and we hnve good billets and our acquaintance with such things nR "cooties" ami other unwelcome visitors la very limited. When I discovered my condition, I ? f made a holler and roused the guard, and right then I got another example 1 ^ of German elhcleney. This guard seemed to he even more perturbed about my complaint than 1 myself, evidently fearing that he would be blamed for my condition. , The commandant was summoned \ and I could see that he was very an- [ gry. Someone undoubtedly got a se- I .lo re reprimand for It. 1 was taken out of my cell by a I fnmrd with a rifle and conducted about | a quarter of n mile from *ha 1 - '?? ' . a to an old factor.* building which hn<] I C* been converted Into an elaborate fuml- J * Kitting plant. There I was given a piokte bath In some kind of flotation. And while I was absorbing it tny * ,t clothes, bed clothes nnd whatever else 1 bad been in ray cell was being put ' through Another fumigating process. While I was watting for my things 1 to dry?it took perhaps half an hour? ' 1 hnd a chance to observe about one ' hundred other victims of "cooties"? Oerman soldiers who had become in- ' tested In the trendies. We were ail ' nude, of course, but apparently It was not difficult for them to recognize me as a foreigner even without my uniform on, for none of them made any Attempt to talk to me, although they ware very busy talking about me. I could nof understand what they were saying, but I knew I was the hutt of guost of their jokes und they* made no ^ Y * . . ' < TH IjmmfmA, ammtm. w * So fhe poor en I 11 MrT P III Pi %. I I tnan cruelty. ? | ||| At one time I __ ! were a French ( V P" : officer, two Bel, ^P I^lJlVI | United Klngdoi | | I7I l\l I from I II U ^ couple from Sc P I IhmI P J(% a man from ? ^ Algeria, and 1 A |V| I man whom I tl ^ 111 J^HKcS^V and he was e I I \J * numan and myi I f WQ8 t?lte wctJT as ?ne * worth mention! Germans with A this was not 1 effort to conceal the fact that I was fhh Ullhinof /*# .vj.vt Ui luufrinnuvu. When I got back to my cell I found that It had been thoroughly fumigated, and from that time on I hud no further trouble with "cooties" or other vlsl- J J tors of the same kind. C As we were not allowed to write \ anything but prison cards, writing was out of the question; and as we had no rending matter to speak of, reading nil. We hud nothing to do to pass away the time, so consequently H9B^H cards became our only diversion, for we did, fortuuutely, huvo some of H| these. S* ** There wasn't very much money as a ~*>i fWH circulation, ..'><1 i in my life I held not duo to any particular ability 011 my part in tlie game, but I happened to have several hundred francs in my pockets 3 8| when shot down. Hut we held a lottery that was watched with >ut quite such intense interest as th. t. The drawing was always held the da\ before ?n learn who was the lucky man. There ^ was as much speculation as to who 1>woubl win the prize as if it had been the tlnest treasure in the world. The BB|HS9R& great prize was one-third of a loaf of ?|P|33H3| bread. Through sonic arrangement, which I never quite figured out. it Uuppeucc} that yuiypg the eight or ten ollicers who were there with me, there was always one-third of a loaf of bread over. There was Just ?>i 1 < way of getting that bread, and that was to Bl^?|?pFSB draw lot>. ('onstsjuently that was \\ hat $4?pJ|1%mI started the lottery. 1 believe If a man had ever been Inclined to cheat he would have heen sorely tempted in this Spn? >J Instance, but the game was played aheolutely square, and If a man had heen ^at"**^ * ; caught cheating the chances are that . ^ he would have been shunned by the L.x i ?. rest of the ollicers as long as he wus V? In prison. I was fortunate enough to win the prize twice. > y One man?and I think he was the *?*-mmk smallest eater In the camp?won it on three successive days, hut It was well From a Photoi for him that his lack deserted him on Which Li< the fourth clay, for ho probably wouhl O'Brien It have la-en handled rather roughly by Table In t the rest of the crowd, who were ?row' - ? mans, nor was ^ hearing, or \\< , / have had quite s ' J zL A ' " i l:,"'h "l!'n " tps? ,ds nati (jrfD < Q C/?)r^ ' /&* ,1",, !1 dian and China - -a!.'. I'.ut tiey 'j V-'- . ><* 'j and that was n VV_ /. swimming pool c '*J have a hath. one for the (Je cant O'Brien aa a Joke by Lieutenant for the men. J llow Priaonera at Courtrai. cers, we had to ng suspicious, nut wo handled the by the men. W Ira wing ourselves and knew there was mlng a Uermai icthlng crooked about It, so he wuh across his kneec mnred. * un* ihioi and v We were allowed to buy pears, and we dreased ant >elng small and very hard, they were Interpreters acci ised as the stakes In many a gume. these trips, so But the interest In these little games talk without th< ras us keen as If the stakes had been going on. dies of money Instead of two or three Whenever we mlf-starved pears. No man was ever j for any 10 reckless, however, In all the betting paraded us thro is to wager Ida own rations. streets evident! Hy the most scheming aud sacrlfio- |are an ng I ever did In my life I managed to jots af pr|?onei loard two pieces of bread (grudgingly dlers we passe ipared at the time from my dally ra- ?,ftde no effort ions), but I was preparing for the day UD)j sneers. vhen I should escape?If I ever should. . !t was not a sacrifice easily made l< e g an i dther, but Instead of eating bread I y v< ry cur OUH ite pears until I finally got one piece 8e ? 8rn ( >f bread ahead; and when I could w 'nf*^'r ' force myself to stick to the pear diet we w* ou" .gain, I saved the other piece from a "18 wo"1(1 e hat day's allowance, and In days to ? r?? w ? cr :ome I hod cause to credit myself fully ,n?. 87 , 8"! for the foresight. ?retty ?lrl' ,an<] Whenever a new prisoner came in er,nan Inn( ? ? ind his German b<?sts had satisfied su 8 " themselves as to his life history and ched he'' ?? i . , I. tatlon would h taken down all the details?that Is all - . , . , , . , , ,, for her and I w tie would give them?he was lminedl- i , , ... . less to have asi iti-ly surrounded by bis fellow prisonirs, who were eager for any bit of j Whenever w lews or Information he could possibly home or other jive them, and as a rule he was glad been wrecked b; to tell us, because, If he had been hi our Kuan'H mui the hands of the Huns for any length or ,w? while r?f time, he had seen very few English remarks among ttfficers. One of the n The condition** of thin prison were' nlrs,I have of bad eityurii when h mnn was In nor- 1 ourfral is a p mally K^Uj^'ohh, but It whh hnrbnr-,**'^- taken In ous to suhj^n^^wounded HoldleLj^l The. picture wa the hardships umrVlF^forti^oTtiie Kuafrda, who sol place. However, ^thta was the fate of ?f UH who w< a poor private we discovered there one price one marl day In terrific pnin, aufferlnjf from As traced shrapnel In his stomach and hack. All we 'd 1? of us officers asked to have him sept the n ty of to a hospital, hot the doctors eprtly too/,l80^'t he refused, suyint It wu*? uauir ?t ordefa*- e>^[ ^ < ; IE LANCASTER NEWS, LANCASTER, S. ( attire weiit on suffering Hun guards Is shown in th< lay and was still there seated at the table. I am Another victim of Her- directly behind htm, nttlred li Irtg tunic, which they allows n this prison camp there wear ull the time 1 was la |i marine, a French flying lH the usual custom with prls glau soldiers, und of the wur. Three of the British u one from Canuda, two shown In the picture, in I three from Ireland, a ground, are clad In "shorts." otland, one from Wales, Through all my subsequen South Africa, one from tures I was able to retalu a i New Zealander, the this Interesting picture, and >m my own squadron, a when I gaze at It now It onl bought had been killed, to Increase my gratification at quully surprised when mate eseaj>e, It fills me with the prison to find rae think that my fellow prison* tlon there were a Chi- not so fortuuate. All of then self from the U. S. A. time are undoubtedly eatli a Cosmopolitan groUD. hearts nn In #h? uriunn ? ? " " ??' mll'VU V Illtij yplcal Irishman said, terlor Germany. Poor fellow lave every nation that's Despite the scanty fare an< ng, Including the darn strlctlons we were under In th us whites." Of course we did manage on one occasl< :ranslated to the O^r- rnnge a regular banquet T Hi .f * a jraph Taken in the Courtyard of the Officer*' Prison at eutenant O'Brien Preserved Throughout Hla Perlloua t Shown Standing Behind the German Guard, Who 811 he Center of the Group. It even spoken In their nkri# which was necessary h prohahly would not ptiss the time. siuopolltati a hunch. At this time there were eljjl ie prison wtws ready to We decided that the prindp ve country in any argil- we needed to make the a (Till d possibly he started, cess was potatoes, ami I coir a ait saying that I never plan to get them. Kvery otln it In any of them with noon they took us for a wall itneriea, with the ('ana- country, and It occurred to man chimin;; in on my It would he a comparatively y were friendly argu- matter for us to pretend to e all In the same boat and sit down when we cunit 0 place for ipiarrcling. first potato patch. morning, the weather It worked out nicely. \V ere taken to u large came to the first potato pal and were allowed to afternoon, we told our guards rhere were two pools, wanted to rest a hit and v rtnan officers and one allowed to sit down. In tht Uthough we were ofll- of the next five minutes eac use the pool occupied managed to get a potato or t\ hlle we were In swim- Ing Irish, I got six. n guard with a rifle When we got hack to the i 1 sat at each corner of managed to steal a Imndkerel matched us closely as of sugar, w hich, with some apt I undressed. English we were allowed to purchase, ompanied us on all of lly converted Into a sort of Jai at no time could we We now had iwitatoes and J ilr knowing what was no bread. It happened that t who had charge of the potati were taken out of the a great musician. It wus n purpose they always difficult to prevail upon him ugh the most crowded us some music, and while he v ly to give the popu- to get his cither I went Into til iat they were getting pantry und stole a loaf of br< rs. The German sol- | Most of us had saved som< d on these occasions froiu the day before, uud we to hide their smiles to fry our potatoes. By brlh of the guards, he bought some i people were apparent- us. Tl?y cost 25 cents apiece, to see us, and they were determined to make this >ut In large numbers a success, no matter what It c vord was passed that The cooking wus done by th< At times the German cook, whom, of course, we itrlke the women and bribe. owded too close to us. When the meal was ready 1 lied and spoke to a It consisted of scrambled egg [ wnen sue replied, a potatoes, bread and jam, and a run for her. Luckily of beer which we were allowed 0 the house before he That was the 20th of Augus I am afruld try sulu- I known that It was to be i a?e resulted seriously real meal that I was to eat fc ould have been power- weeks, I might have enjoyed dsted her. more than I did, but It was ct e passed a Belgian very good. building which had We bad cooked enough for el| 1 bombs by our airmen while we were still eating, lie us stop a moment Joined us. lie was aja Kngllst they passed sneering who had Just been brought 1 themselves. * stretcher. For seven days, he lost interesting souve- be t?n?l lain In a shell hole, w toy Imprisonment at >n<l be was almost famished, ihotograph of a groumwere mighty glad to share o the prison courtyard. 1 Quet with him. 8 made by one of the J We called on each man for a d copies of It to thoae and one might have thought t pre able to pay hlfl were nt a flrst-clasa club meet c apiece. j fewt days ufter that our par the camera I auppo*6 br^aan up and soma of the men look our hupplest, but P"*''1 * -shaU pevyua. I am afraid, were <)ne of the kouvehli* of my art to raise a smile. t,,rf' ,s ? cl,efk ?lvon h,<> ,1,Jrl HTualoa. Oi^o.of our "banquet" by Lieut, panes' ... p' - - ? " \ TUl a picture ()f (ge Tenth Royal Irish Fu- I jump standing gHeers, a fellow prisoner. It whs for Unes I 11 my lly- fnines and was made payable to their me to order of "Mr. Pat O'llrlen, 2nd u 'r son' Q? Lieut." Poor Jlin forgot to scratch Chunc< iOIU|?8' ? ou* "Loodon" and substitute ?p|ie l. ? c^1*8 "CJourtral" on the date line, but Its whleh e ore~ value as a souvenir Is Just as great. j,e fG, I When he gave tt to me he had no idea riKht t adven- thut j wou|tj have an opportunity so thougl print of BOon afterwurd to cash It In person, gwiui although ?im k * ? ?--* ? ?kuvuKu i am tjuuc sum uini wiiui- The ly serves ever fluunc|tti reverses I may be des- n0nai my ulti- tined t0 meet, my want will never be to eve regret to grt,ut enough to Induce me to real!** jn tha ? on that check. *the gi 1 hi There was one subject that was trlcall ig talked about In this prison whenever ery fc ^ or In- conVersatlon lagged, and 1 suppose It gium i 8 Is the same In other prisons too. What watch 1 the re- were the chances of escape >j?hli In prison, Kvery man seemed to have a differ- j| COQ >n to ar- ent Idea and one way. I suppose, was Blx ^ he plan- about as Impracticable as another. WQ8 a None of us ever expected to get a fUuy ____ chunce to put our Ideas Into execution, {OUC|) but It was Interesting speculation, and anywuy one cun never tell what op- anot't|( portunltles might present themselves, j,|Kh One suggestion was that we disguise " ourselves as women. "O'Brien would stand a better chunce disguised as a * r 3 norse!" declured another, referring to .'J the fact that my height (I am six feet *u ( Hj two Inches) would make me more con splcUOUS as a woiuan than as a man. Another suggested that we steal u |Hh German Ootha?a type of airplane ? ?? uuiu navo pi UL te I)read Hi ad. IP effect on prices. i butter |i| | ustiti it H !]1 Iiik one Bpi Swift & Compan but we I per cent dividends to boMqut>t I stockholders out o had"?to HP profits. It also ha o serve I 11 extensions and im] "pi/r I I out 0/ profits; to fin tto Had I | stocks of goods mad< ,? many1 I J by unprecedented re '' e.Vi? Hi ' of the United States prtalnly I | III Governments! anH Kni, mil | Hjfl ?- ' . ? anoth<;r Bid protection against t i officer | i n on a Hi declining markets. ur"\,un- 11 A it fair to ca In1 . . profit?ring Hpeech, Will r ^*3 11 Swift Company ' A used for i?mn-? 1 iwtbombing. It is Gtjg j| tin-so machines which are used for jjoss , I bombing I*mdon. Tiiey arc manned I j ^ I by three men, one sitting in front with i | u machine mm, the pi lot sitting behind j ne ^ him and an observer sitting in tlte rear ' g with anotlier inacldne gun. We 11k3 tired tlint. at a pinch, perhaps, seven * c or eight of us could make our escape + PI 1' in a single macliine. They have two 0 motors of very high liorse power, fly | + + B very high and make wonderful speed. J Hut we hail no chance to put tills idea | 1 worked out another plan by which t I thought I might have a chance if 1 j 1 could ever got into one of the (Jerman I *1 airdromes. I would colieetd myself in I P one of the hangars, wait until one of ' | the Ovruiuu Uiic.iiiu.'s sttir^vtl iMlb uui t as taxied fliott? grdlinu I WOUlu 1 Qffl, jHBflsl rush out, shout at the top of my voice and point excitedly nt ids wlieels. This, ~ 1 figured, would cuuse tlie pilot to stop and get out to see wliut was wrong. sici: fegdjE 1 ty that time I would lie up to him, and &t ' HK| H as lie stooped over to inspect tlie ma- fltal chine, i. could knock him senseless, Oflh Courtral, I Journey. I n jn at the Ij lo ! Profits and tit of us. al tiling || :;fa Frofitsmay bec lt aftei*- r k m the from two ai me that I . r simple | .h'w"ule 1st?Their effect hen we 2nd?As a return t tch that { that we I i :\:z When profits at ^!00fBuJ! compared with sales Hj little effect on prices lrimrn, I U ;1 r >lef full I >iea ttiat j Swift & Compai we eaa- it n- ! are only a fraction am, but i !j he ilun 8 it per pound on all pri sea was , | ' ot very m i and if eliminated to p,ny ili ,j ? rent out ! II wrmlH ^? ,""t* I ESDAY, JULY 30, 1918. Into the machine and he over the before the Huns could inuke up minds Just what had happened, was u tine dreum, but my u was not to come thut way. re were dozens of other wnys we considered. One man would r endeavoring to make his way through the lines. Another tit fill* un f nut nl o n ur/tnl/1 Ka Borne river that crossed the lines. Idea of making one's way to id, a neutral country, occurred ryone, but the one great obstacle t direction, we all realized, was eat barrier c2 barbed and eleoy charged wire which guards ew >ot of the frontier between Belind Holland, and which is closely ed by the Herman sentries. ? barrier was a three-fold affair, slated first of a baibed wire wull et high. Six feet beyond that i nine-foot wall of wire powercharged with electricity. To it meant electrocution. Beyond at a distance of six feet, was er wall of barbed wire six feet ond the barrier lay Holland and r, but how to get there wus a m which none of us could solve ew of us evor expected to have nee to try. e came sooner than 1 expected. Continued Next Friday.) cures Headaches, Biliousness, >f Appetite, or that tired aohidlng, duo to Malaria or Colds. Tonic. tOFESSIONAL CARDS (3 %* . .1. KEUCK I'lNIIKKlUKK, Dental Surfjcon. Hours: 8:30 to 12:30 M. 2:00 to 6:00 P. M. And by Appointment. Office Phone 160. Residence Phone lo. over Lancaster Pharmacy. t". S. IIOLLY, Veterinary Phyin, Surgeon and Dentist. Office jregory, Heod Live Stock Co. )les. Residence Phone 186; :e Phone 226. Prices vs."onsidered lgles: j on prices; [ | :o investors. p | H U e small as i j 8 \t they have I Hi 1 ? iy's profits !fj of a cent | I Jk oducts sold* [V I entirely jjl if - ^ tically no I * y paid 10 | over 20,000 |? . f its 1917 K d to build ' Ij \ & provements j I' * ance large | 9 necessary II j quirements jjlwJrj and Allied ji* to provide j M ju /.U.S. A. ' li