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(Continued From Last Friday.) '
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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>
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J K/ y
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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
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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
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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>^[ ^ <
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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'
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\ 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
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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.)
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