Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BARNWELL SENTINEL, BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA r f ~ *AGE TWO STRASSBURG, OCCUPIED BY THE FRENCH Tennessee Boy Swims the - Rhine to Swiss Soil After Days of Tramp-, ing Through Enemy Country—Seventy Americans in Con ceded Effort to Escape From Prison—Three Get Through— Swiss Give Them Kindly Welcome. '•'/ LO, THE POOR, INDIAN.” -> RICJ-I AND PATRIOTI the Poor Indian” Jh no • • •or. instead he. iv pa-\ • 'I'Iit*r-i .five civilized • • uihscribed for $2yl»<HMXki • ill Liberty bonds, Gain- J- superintendent of the • announced. The five' J (‘lioclaws, ChickHfcjUWjl, • Somewhere in France. — Seventy • cans ..were- placed In a romp which Americans 1»-the GenTmrrpTison-camp had been used us a- quarantine camp at Vlllirigeu, Germany,, made a desper- and where they v^vre vaccinated ate and concerted attempt' to escape -against typhus' cholera and smallpox, on the night of Sunday, October ft. So Pur-yea* was kept at Lnndshut from faf thre* men hate crossed, the border. August 21 to September 1-L, Dui'fng his stay lie applied for a transfer to Villingeh,' where a number of Ameri can pilots wore confined; " lie was re moved there on September—Jjw- After nine slays in Jail at. Villirvken Pur* year was released. Six days later; on the night of Sunday, Octpbt^dC Ptir- year made his. seeomf and successful attempt to escape. • I’urycar had planned to escape with one other companion. Aviator Willis, however, asked him to postpone his attempt for several days, ns a dozen Americans hud been planning to es cape for some time and It was feared that If Puryear failed the general SetidPnles, < ’hq'rokce-s and '(•'reeks have-— pow y Invested some -SA*..»!!.'{,♦»7<< in Liberty bonds ampWar Siixings stamps. The first fs Lieutenant Aviator George Wright Puryear of .Memphis, Teim. I'llrycar swain across the Hbihe to Swiss soil early in the morning of .October 11. Two days Inter Harold Willis of Poston, a former oLafayette escadrille tlj’er who was captured at Verdun In August. ll>17, ilhd Naval Llcuteriftn't Kdounrd Isaacs of Ports mouth, Va„ cscapctf''Into Switzerland. Only a few. days previously, on Oc tober 0, the first American sbidler-td escape from a German prison camp Into Switzerland arrived at lted Cross headquarters in HernC. Ite was Frank Sovlekl of Shenandoah, I’ll., a Pnlish- Amerlcnri who enlisted a few, days af ter America declared war. Puryear was the first American 'officer to es- * • ' ■ . 'jf •_ cape from Germany. - On-June 2t», while patrollingnear Ville Neuve sur Fere, about four kilo meters southwest of Fere en Tarde- nols. Puryear engaged an enemy ma chine In combat. The light carried him unawares' into the German Hites. Puryear shot down bis adversary. mortally wounding the observer of the < icrmnn m a chine/ -Seetrrg -run* of ids niirefsniTes was badly wounded, and believing himself In/'allieiT* territory, Puryear descended, Intending to rd- move\piie or both of t[ie aviators as prisoners to an American hospital. Such descents In allied territory to aid a badly wounded adversary have been a part of tiie\|<nightl,v code of-the air.’ Captured by Germans. Ppon landing ;Vpd before he could , burn his machine puryear was cap tured by German truupa, who were In biding. The German pilot of th«>| ma chine whom lie had descended to+enrry to a hospital Insisted that he btjTshot at once, for "shooting at a Wounded man"—the observer of tin* German plane. After his capture Puryear was tak en to a hospital which was also an Intelligence examining post. He was kept there-for three liyttrs. From the hospital Puryear was taken to li cas tle, where he was again examined by an Intelligence officer. Next day he was marched, again j alone, ten kilometers behind the llu<£ to another Intelligence post,where he was once more examined. On the fol- ! lowing day, with fifteen captured i Americans of the Twenty-sixth, divl- j filon and about 1XK) French soldiers, he was taken to Laon. — j At ea<^i stop intelligence officers ex* amlned him. On August 2 Lieutenant Puryear was taken to Itastatt prison camp. On August 5 he escaped with Andre Con- j reau, a French aviator. August (1 and I 7 they spent In the woods. At 5 a. I m. on the morning of August 8. how- j ever, they ran plump Into a German sentinel. They were taken under gunrd to Kehl, where they were given a good meal. Two guards accompn-1 nled them hack to Kestatt. where Pul*- j year was imprisoned five days. Later, f when he was transferred to Vlllingen, Puryear .served nine more days of the fourteen-day- sentence imposed on him for trying to escape. Makes Break for Liberty. Oh August 13 Puryear was trans ferred to-Karlsruhe, the concentration camp for ail prisoners, .where .he, stayed until August IP. He was then taken to Lamlshut on a closely guard ed train, togetla^with a number of Loyal Flying corps aviators. At Karl sruhe the British and American’ aviators were separated.---'Wie Ameri- ^ l/.v/. That commander Strnsshurg. the capital of Alsace, w hich was occupied by the French under General Mnngin Jr “shown Tifrhe Insert. TV . r " 1 GETTING J^EADY FOR AN OLD-TIME CHRISTMAS <*<>• Fired on by Guards ress in.the brush a U<L cutover timber. I Immediately the German guards -blew their whistles and cocked their guns. Surrounding tin* barracks was a low barbed wire fence, and beyond that a deep ditch with barbed wire entanglements in it. Still further was a ten-foot fence with hooks facing inward along the top. Outside this fence -were the guards witli riffes uwjijtiiig. Puryear, 'Isaacs. Willis and their companions had to run this gant let, after getting through the barred windowS\of the barracks. The penalty of being caught in the wire was death. Only a few days be fore in the gem ral breakout a Itus- rflan had been caught In the wire and Instuntly killed. Puryear climbed Finally lie-struck-another road which lie followed until daylight. With the dawn lie again took refuge in 'the woods. ■ • All that day he spent poring over hfs 1 maps' endeavoring to locate him- it) YVefttcrn .Nonnp.ipcr I'ftion in spite of nil war work, the American toy manufacturer- toiind .-film* to make plenty of toy es. Photograph shows toy. guns being made to help the celebratlm*?of the coming holidays. STARTING HOME FRGM THEIR WORK WHERE FORMER KAISER LIVES self. By nightfall, however, An found a sign reading: "Wnldshut Thirty Kilometers." On the /light ot Wednesday, October 0, Puryear j?ot widijn a few miles of Wnldshut. In order to be sure of his directions he Climbed to the -top —a mountain nearby ^rnm which he couhhset* trile Uffifles entering the Rhine. PuryeaV also was supplied w ith a vigw of Wald- shut which he carefully compared with (he town below. Puryear planned to cross the Khina at the point where the current strikes the north shore and then rebounds to tin* south hank. llv> figured upon be \ir g carried hy the eurren/ across to the Swiss shore. ..For six hours he carefully watched the shore for the appearance of sentries, hut no one having passed- the spot he had chosen he decided to make the attempt to swim acrosk. Cold Plunge in Rhine..' He crawled to the river edge, took off all his clotluV except ht? shirts and underwear and trousers and dip ped; Into the icy~fctream._ The strong (Virrent immediately swept him down stream at a terrific rate.Xl htngeroUS whirlpools and currents abound'ln this vicinity. _ \ After half an hour’s alternate swim* ndng and floating the Icy water he^an to affect tin* young aviator. \ ~ "I thought it was* about all over uryeaf carefully guarded his lied N with rnr." said Puryear, "I became/ 1 dizzy and fought hard to be aide to ■distinguish the 'shore I -had-4eft from- the Swiss side. About thirty feet from the hank my hand In swimming {..touched rock, hut before I could pull -myself upi .the strong current - w renrhcd r nie back Into the deep wiTfcT again. ) "I was fast becoming weaker and ■•“wen&er —The hanks were -rocky and- | steep and I could not get u hand -holtP anywhere. I fearetf that I would be lost at tlie last moTnent up against the fence. As he leaped over the fence tiring began. His com panion had his foot on the lower round ot the ladder as Puryear went over. Once outside - the barracks ^Puyyear found himself between two guards. Hoth shouted at him to halt. Strictly according to orders they shouted three times to him to stop. Six shots were tired in all point blank at Puryear. The guards, how ever, were old men and their aim was had. At the time they tired one guurd was 21) feet off and the other , r K» feet away. Just as the second volley was tired at him Puryear stumbled and fell In a ditch. He believes he would have buen wounded or killed hy these shots If he had not fallen. As had been previously arranged, Puryear, waHed-at a prearranged point for Ills companion. When tin* latter did not arrive'lifter 13 minutes’ wait ing, Puryear went alfyne. While ho waited, Puryear' heard the guards lire several score rounds. IK* had now re covered ids strength and made ' good progress. That night lie went 13 kilo- "This is Middnchten eastjv^a{ Ame- rongen, Holland, where William I lohenzollern. one-tLafe emperor oi Germany, Is now^p^siding. The Dutch do not relish having the former kaiser in their muKt, so he may have to move Speaker’s Office Important. • .<iffiee’ of tin*’ speaker 'Of the - of representatives is of great •tarn e, on account of tin* power c "peaked in shariing ami <*on- trolling legislation, whic'li is now much -less than formerly.- ILis influence on * national legWation was liepVved hy many even; to. exceed that exerted by :!i**. pn , siih-nt..‘" v ‘It earries \\itli ii s <\ rtiileli political prestige ami iritluence 4 that it fs g«*iM>rally^ regarded as a s 1 e pp i t rg-^-ronTrtre-H o- - peosi if »tttty, 1m t— up to the present time only -one speaker lias' been eleet<*d*-]TresideTit, U-vlz..' James • K. Polk of Tennessee. BROADWAY QUARTET” IN FRANCE W rsl. rn N< 1 li .m- This British oliici: * fdtotogriinlr shows a nuniher of women niillers in a Lancashire factory’ shooting thp^chute. which is a-general method of getting downstairs quickly hy The' slcCk clone after the day's- wor-k isHkme, 11 en rv--t-’luy elect e(|sjiT*ak* er, was a lifelong .aspirant for the presldfncy.. -J»nf did not attain it. James G. Blaine, speaker front 18(51) to 1873, was nominated and defeated AMUSEMENT FOR WOUNDED TOMMIES AT DEAL for president In 1884 FimtBy 1 grasped a projecting rock and hung-on to It until I recovered my strength in part. Then I climbed up and out ot the water and fell down exhausted; For -everal minutes f lay tliere weak and trembling with the cold-and fear. "1 had been carried far below Wnldshut. .Along’’ the shore, ran a railroad and 1 knocked at the first crossing keeper’s cabin. Tile-'hitter when he learned that I was . n Ameri can, greeted .iw«r \Varmly~took off my w«-t clothes, ehafcti my trembling leg** Frogs Hide Their Eggs. In the manner of disposing of their •ggs many species of'frog exhibit re- mirkahle* peeuliurifies-. Qne of the cost yurlous. a tree frog, native-of gTiay.T'makes its nest in n hush overhanging' a pomi. . The lower ends a ‘nim111of. ienv-e* aiv drauii lo- iter-attd fixed in that—position i>y :t .ml>* r of empty egg enpsujes, Tire _-c-~ aTe also covered \\itli a shield empty capsuh.s to pivueet them from ^n and air. y tim Ha -oTTK n Just Girl, After All! . She wpre khaki pants. Hiema-L’shirt and -a cap, with a pencil behind her ear ; had \i lmviriessin>e Idokii—• -~ath- er money pout'h swung from +■ strap over her 'boulder, and looked like a ? laundry wagon driver nT eo|- Yet, -in passing a street mlr- .lector. per L'nUml Vor, she pulleil a chamois rag'ou* of her pants pocket..gave her nose a few dabs and stralghtenVd her cap. La femme atemklie.—Los Angeles Tiinaft These Tomqjfes, i.holHive ih»0P their part nobly in the victorious struggle against tlo* Hun. are seen here showing great Interest In the tine codling caught by Mrs.^SicHutcljiBs. dinner of the ladies’ sea angling competition at ;. These ynnk*.fwho used to live in and around a well-known north Atlan tic port, put pn a Broadway musical show back of the lines In France for the entertainment of their comrades. * —‘ -—g. y.WZ’.y*. WfJM |\\ ft; * v|Sf