Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 28, 1918, Page 6

Ww) ~ g a was about an hour's ride. BE. rath | a FE ELD “OUTWITTING THE HUN” ss By Ss LIEUTENANT PAT O'BRIEN * > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Copyright, 1918, by Pat Alva O'Bri CHAPTER V. The Prison Camp at Courtral. t From the intelligence department I twas conveyed to the officers’ prison “camp at Courtral in an automobile. It My escort @ was one of the most famous flyers in y the world, barring none. He was later t t t ee, kitted in action, but I was told by an = — combat, that he fought a game battle, } Hnglish airman who witnessed his last % and died a hero's death. @ The prison, which had evidently } been a civil prison of some kind before 4 the war, was located right in the heart 4 ¢) knocked on the doo! 8 $ s ARAMARK AM Rata ARAMA WA A A A AAA el % of Courtral. The first building we ap- @ proached was large and in front of the arch which formed the main i entrance, was a sentry box. Here we “i were challenged by the sentry, who the guard turnéd ‘the key In the lock and I was admit- ited. We passed through the archway % and directly into a courtyard, on which fgced all of the prison buildings, the windows, of course, being heavily barred. After I had given my pedigree —my name, age, address, etc.—I was shown to a cell with bars on the win- dows overlooking this courtyard. I was promptly told that at night we were to occupy these rooms, but I had already surveyed the surroundings, taken account of the number of guards and the locked door outside, and con- cluded that my chances of getting away from some other place could be no worse than in that particular cell. As Ihad no hat, my helmet being the only thing I had worn over the lines, I was compelled either to go bare- headed or wear the red cap of the Bavarian whom I had shot down on that memorable day. agined how I looked attired in a Brit- ish uniform and a bright red eap. Wherever I was taken my outfit aroused considerable curiosity among the Belgians and German soldiers. When I arrived at prison that day I still wore this cap, and as I was taken Into the courtyard, my overcoat cover- ing my uniform, all that the British officers, who happened to be sunning themselves In the courtyard, could see was the red cap. They afterwards told me they wondered who the “bug Hun” was with the bandage on his mouth. This cap I managed to keep with me, but was neyer allowed to wear it on the walks we took. I either went bare- headed or borrowed a cap from some other prisoner. oners were allowed to mingle in the courtyard, and on the first occasion of this kind I found that there were 11 peas imprisoned there besides my- self. They had here interpreters who could speak all languages. One of them was a mere boy who had been born in Jersey City, N. J., and had spent all-his life in America until the beginning of 1914. Then he moved with his folks to Germany, and when he became of military age the Huns forced him into the army. I think If the truth were known he would much rather have been fighting for America than against her. remained at Courtral only two or three days, From there they were in- variably taken to prisons in the inte- rior of Germany. Whether it was because I was an American or because I was a flyer, I don’t know, but this rule was not fol- lowed in my case. I remained there two weeks, During this period Courtral was con- stantly bombed by our airmen, Not a single day or night passed without one or more air raids. In the two weeks I was there I counted 21 of them. The town suffered a great deal of damage. Evidently our people were aware that the Germans had a lot of troops con- centrated in this town and besides the headquarters stuff was stationed there. The kaiser himself visited Courtrai while I was in the prison, Iwas told by one of the interpreters, but he didn’t call on me, and for obvious reasons I couldn't call on him, ‘The courtyard was not a very popu- lar place during air raids. times when our airmen raided section In the day time I went out and ug that perhaps I never would nave |I rve about one | another chance to fly, and I used to sit |hundred other of “cooties”— | by the hour watching the German ma-|German soldiers who had become in- | | chines maneuvering over the prison, |fested In the trenches. We were all as they hud un airdrome not far away |oude, of course, but apparently it was and every afternoon the students—or|0t difficult for them to recognize me I took them for students because their|#8 # foreigner even without my unt- flying was very poor—appeared over |form on, for none of them made any Assistant’ Cashier Ai E. Biglin of one for the German officers and one for the men. Although we were off-| cers, we had to usé thé pool occupted | by the men. While we were in swim | heby girl who arrived last evening at t! ming. German guard with a rifle/19 oclock at the Casper branch of the i across his knees sat at each corner of | Wyoming General hospital. Mrs. Big-| ' the pool and watched us closely as|,- f Jy Miss Francis FE. Sev-| we dressed and undressed. English |" Wan fornee i THE MEN IN It can be im-| ‘At certain hours each day the pris- | I found that most of the prisoners | Several | that Se te Watched the machines and the shrap- nel bursting all around; but the mans did not crowd out there, for their own antiaircraft guns were hammer- Ger- in the sky as possible, and shells were * Iikely to fall in the prison yard any moment. Of course I watched these ‘ battles at my own risk. Many nights ‘from my prison window I watched with peculiar sight with the German searchlights playing on the sky, the “flaming on- ions” fired high and the burst of the antiaircraft guns, but rather an un- ‘ confortable sensation when I realized that perhaps the very next minute a bomb might be dropped on the building in which I was a prisouer. But per- haps all of this was better than no excitement at all, for prison lifé soon became very monotonous. One of the hardest things I had to machines flying over Courtral, know- | the town, One certgin Hun seemed to find particulur satisfaction in flying | right down over the prison nightly, for | my special discomfort and benefit, it seemed, as if he knew an airman im- | prisoned there was vainly longing to try his wings again over their lines. ' But I used to console myself by say- ing: “Neyer mind, old boy, there was never a bird whose wings could not be clipped if they get him just right, and your turn will come some day.” One night there was an exception- ally heavy air raid going on. A num- ber of German offic came into my room, and they all seemed very much frightened. I jokingly remarked that it would be fine if our afrmen hit the old prison—the percentage would be very satisfactory—one English officer and about ten German ones. They didn’t seem to apprecinte the joke, | | however, and, indeed, they were ap- parently too much alarmed at what was going on overhead to laugh even at their own jokes, Although these night raids seem to take all the’ starch out of the Germans while they are going on, the officers were usually as brave as lions the next day and spoke contemptuously of the raid of the night before. I suw thousands of soldiers in Cour- trai, and although they did not im- press me as having very good or abun- dant food, they were fairly well clothed. I dd not mean to imply that conditions pointed to an early end of | the war. On the contrary, from what | 1 was able to observe on that point, unless the Huns have un absolute crop failure they can, in my opinion, go on ; for years! The idea of our being able to win the war by starving them out | strikes me as ridiculous. This is a | war that must be won by fighting, and | the sooner we realize that fact the sooner it will be over. Rising hour in the prison was seven o'clock. Breakfast came at @ight. This | consisted of a cup of coffee and noth- | ing else. If the prisoner had the fore- sight to save some bread from the pre- vious day, he had bread for breakfast also, but that never happened in my case, Sometimes we had two cups of | coffs that is, near-coffee. It was really chicory or some cereal prepara- tion. We had no milk or sncar. For lunch they gave us boiled sugar beets or some other vegetable, and once in a while some kind of pickled meat, but that happened very seldom. We also received a third of a loaf of bread—war bread. This war bread was us heavy as a brick, black and sour, It was supposed to last us from noon one day to n the next. Ex- | cept for some soup, this was the whole lunch menu. Dinner came at 5:30 p. m., when we sometimes had a little jam made out , of sugar beets, and a called tea, which you had to shake vig- or the cup, and then about ull you had was hot water. This “tea” was a sad blow to the Englishmen, If it hadn't | been called tea they wouldn't have felt 80 badly about it, perhaps, but it was adding insult to injury to call that stuff “tea,” which with them is almost f national institution. Sometimes with this meal they gave | us butter instead of jam, and once in la while we had some kind of canned | ment. | This comprised the usual run of ¢at- | ables for the day—I can eat more than that for breakfast! In the days that were to come I learned that I was to fure considerably worse, | We were allowed to send out and | buy a few things, but as most of the prisoners were without funds this was but an empty privilege. Once I took advantage of the privilege to send my shoes to a Belgian shoemaker to be half-soled. They charged me marks—$5! Once in a while a Belgian Ladies’ | Relief society visited the prison and | brought us handkerchiefs, American | Soap—which sells at about $1.50 a bar in Belgiuin—toothbrushes and other little articles, all of which were American made, but whether they were supplied by the American re | lief committee or not I don’t know. At any rate, these gifts were mighty | useful and were very much appre- | clated. | One day I offered a button off my uniform to one of these Belgian ladies asa souvenir, but a German guard saw me and I was never allowed to go near the visitors afterwards. | The sanitary conditions in Prison camp were excellent as a gen- | eral proposition, One night, however, | I discovered that I had been cap- tured by “cooties.” This was a novel experience to me j and one that I would have been very | willing to have missed, because in the flying corps our alrdromes are 6 number of miles back of the lines and we have good billets and our acquaint- ‘ance with such things as “cooties” and other unwelcome visitors is very lim- ited. preparation | Sly or It settled in the bottom of | 20! this” attempt to talk to me, although they were very busy talking about me. I could not understand what they wefe | saying, but I knew I was the butt of | most of their jokes and they made no effort to conceal the fact that I was the subject of conversation. When IT got back to my cell I found that it had been thoroughly fumigated, and from that time on I had no further trouble with “cooties” or other visi- tors of the same kind. As we were not allowed to write | anything but prison cards, writing was sut\of the question; and as we had no \reading matter to speak of, reading was nil, We had nothing to do to ‘pass away the time, so consequently ‘ards became our only diversion, for we did, fortunately, have some of i these. There wasn’t very much money as a | rule in circulation, and I think for once in my life I held most of that, not due to any particular ability on my part in the game, but I happened to have several hundred frances in my pockets when shot down. But we held a lot- ‘ery that was watched without quite | such intense interest as that. The rawing © ayy “eld tie day before :| . here | | was as much speculation as to who! would win the prize as if it had beep | the finest treasure in the world. The | great prize was one-third of a loaf of} bread. Through some arrangement, | which I never quite fighred out, it | happened that among the eight or ten officers who were there with me, there} was always one-third of a loaf of} bread over. There was just one way | of getting that bread, and that was to draw lots. Consequently that was what} started the lottery. I believe if a man had ever been inclined to cheat he) would have been sorely tempted in this instance, but the game was played ab-| solutely square, and if a man had been | caught cheating the chances are that | he would have been shunned by the! rest of the officers as long as he was | in prison. I was fortunate enough to} win the prize twice. One man—and I think he was the smallest eater In the camp—won it on} three successive days, but it was well for him that his luck deserted him on the fourth day, for he probably would ‘have been handled rather roughly by| the rest of the crowd, who were grow- | Ing suspicious. But we handled the} | drawing ourselves and knew there was | | nothing crooked about it, so he was) | spared. | We were allowed to buy pears, and} being small and very hard, they were used as the stakes in many a game. | But the interest in these little games, was as keen as if the stakes had been} piles of money instead of two or three} half-starved pears. No man was ever so reckless, however, in all the betting | | as to wager his own rations. | By the most scheming and sacrific-| ing I ever did in my life I managed to} hourd two pieces of bread (grudgingly | spared at the time from my daily ra-| | tlons), but I was preparing for the day | when I should escape—if I ever should. | It was not a sacrifice easily made| | elther, but instead of eating bread I} | ate pears until I finally got one plece | of bread ahend; and when I could) force myself to stick to the pear diet | again, I saved the other piece from that day’s allowance, and in days to} come I had cause fo credit myself fully | for the foresight. Whenever a new prisonet came in| and his German hosts had satisfied themselves as to his life history and | taken down all the details—that is all | he would give them—he was immedi- ately surrounded by his fellow prison- ers, who were eager for any bit of news or Information he could possibly | give them, and as a rule he was glad} to tell us, because, if he had been in the hunds of the Huns for any length of time, he had seen very few English officers, The conditions of this prison were bed enough when @ man was in nor- mally good health, but it was barbar- | ous to subject a wounded soldier to} the hardships and discomforts of the place. However, this Was the fate of a poor private we discovered there one day in terrific pain, suffering from | , shrapnel in his stomach and back. All of us officers asked to have him sent | to a hospital, but the doctors curtly | refused, saying It was against orders. | So the poor creature went on suffering from day to day and was still there when I left—another victim of Ger man cruelty. , At one time in this prison camp there were a French marine, a French flying officer, two Belgian soldiers, and of the | United Kingdom one from Canada, two | from England, three from Ireland, a | couple from Scotland, one from Wales, | a man from South Africa, one from Algeria, and a New Zealander, the latter being from my own squadron, a man whom I thought had been killed, and he was equally surprised when brought into the prison to find me there. In addition there were a Chi- \ interpreters accompanied us on all of these trips, so at no time could we talk without their knowing what was) going on. Whenever we were taken out of the| ly of this city and Olean, New York.) |The little girl has been named Mar-! |garet. Angeline Biglin for her two | grandmothers, | . . . | Miss Eva Smith, formerly on the} prison for: any _pirpyse. they alwaye| nursing staff of the State hospital, | paraded us through the most crowded streets—evidently to give the popu-! lace an idea that they were getting lots of prisoners. The German svl- | diers we passed on these occasions made no effort to hide their smiles and sneers. | The Belgian people were apparent- ly very curious to see us, and they used to turn out in large numbers whenever the word was passed that! we were out. At times the German} guards would strike the women and | children who crowded too close to us. | One day I smiled and spoke to ay pretty girl, and when she replied, a) German made a run for her. Luckily} she stepped into the house before he reached her, or I am afraid my salu- tation would have resulted seriously | for her and I would have been power- | less to have assisted her. j Whenever we passed a Belgian) home or other building which bad been wrecked by bombs by our airmen | our guards made us stop a moment} or two while they passed sneering} | remarks among themselves, | One of the most interesting souve- nirs I have of my imprisonment at} Courtrai is a photograph of a group of us taken in the prison courtyard. ‘The picture was made by one of the! guards, who sold copigs of it to those | of us who were able to pay his| price—one mark aplece. As we faced the camera I suppose | we all tried to look our happiest, but} the majority of us, I am afraid, were| too sick at heart to raise a smile, | even for this occasion. One of our) Hun guards is shown in the picture seated at the table. I am standing | directly behind him, attired in my ily-| ing tunic, which they allowed me to/ weur all the time I was in prison, as is the usual custom with prisoners of war. Three of, the British officers shown in the picture, in the fore-} ground, are clad in “shorts.” | Through all my subsequent adven- tures I was able to retain a print of| this Interesting picture, and although | when I gaze at it now it only serves! .to increase my gratification at my ulti- | mate escape, it fills me with regret to think that my fellow prisoners were) not so fortunate, Al of them by this time are undoubtedly eating their hearts up in the prison camps of in-| terior Germany. Poor fellows! Despite the scanty fare and the re-! strictions we were under in this prison, | we did manage on one-occasion to ar- | range a regular banqiet. The plan- ning which was necés§ary helped to pass the time. At this time there were eight of us, We decided thay the principal thing we needed to make the affair a suc- cess" was potatoes, and I conceived a plan to get them. Every other after noon they took us for a walk in the country, and it occurred to me that it would be a comparatively simple | matter for us to pretend to be tired | and sit down when we came to the first potato patch. It worked out nicely. When we came to the first potato patch that afternoon, we told our guards that we wanted to rest a bit and we were allowed to sit down. In the course of the next five minutes each of us managed to get a potato or two. Be- ing Irish, I got six. When we got back to the prison, I | maneged to steal a handkerchief full of sugar, which, with some apples that we were allowed to purchase, we eus- | fly converted into a sort of jam. We now had potatoes and jain, but no bread. It happened that the Hun who had charge of the potatoes was a great musician. It was not very difficult to prevail upon him to play us some music, and while he went out to get his zither I went into the bread pantry and stole a loaf of bread. Most of us had saved some butter from the day before, and we used it to fry our potatoes. By bribing one of the guards, he bought some eggs for us. They cost 25 cents apiece, but we were determined to make this banquet a success, no inatter what it cost. The cddking was done by the prison cook, whom, of course, we had to bribe. When the meal was ready to serve it consisted of scrambled eggs, fried potatoes, bread and jami, and a pitcher of beer which we were allowed to buy. That was the 29th of August. Had I known that it was to be the last real meal that I was to eat for many | | weeks, I might have enjoyed it even more than I did, but it was cerwiumy very good, We had cooked enough for eight, but } } | pected home tomorrow from Greybull left yesterday for Cheyenne in res-| pense to a -ali from the Red Cross. Miss Smith has been ewniting her call i-r some tin: sud expects immediate -wiice overees? with a he-pital umit. Following Miss Petersdorf’s resigna- tion to take up her duties with the Red Cross, Miss Smith was acting superintendent at the State Hospital until the arrival o Miss Mary Brown, the present superintendent. ** Mr, and Mrs, Roy C. Wyland of South Wolcott street are both ill with influenza. Mr. Wyland’s con- dition ‘is reported as being some bet- ter today . * When you are hungry think of the White House Cafe. 10-26-5 Jt) * * * s 2 Mrs. Ed. L. Godsell left today after spending a few days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. F.} Flannigan on South Durbin street. | Mrs. Godsell’s husband is now a cap- tain and is with the headquarters company of the 134th Infantry, Fran-) ce. Previous to his leaving for Fran- ce he served in the Spanish American| war, holding the rank of lieutenant,| and was at one time a conductor on) the Northwestern railroad, where he made many friends among Casper residents. ‘ Cae Peay Mr. and Mrs, George McRorey of | South Maple street left yesterday | morning in their car to makesthe trip| to Wellington, Texas, overland. They! expect to Visit relatives in Welling-| ton and will probably be gone several} weeks. | 4 . j E. J. McIntyre of the Interstate; Pipe company, who was erronously re- ported on the street today as having passed into the great beyond, is much} better today and if no further com-| plications occur will probably be at) | work the latter part of the week. Mr. | McIntyre stated today that he be-| lieved the rumor to be false, absolut- ely false and without foundation. 2 @ J. C. Lyons of Stockton, Calif., is! in the city and will accompany the! ‘body of his brother, J, T. Lyons, to Moline, Ill., where interment will be! made. Mr, J. T. Lyons was a victim of influenza and was ill at a local hospital for some time. The body-will probably be removed today or tomor- row. i Peas et, Miss Ethel Kissick, stenographer at | the Leidecker Tool company, is ex- where she went some time ago to as- sist in caring for members of her fam- ily who have been ill with influenza. They are much improved in health now and Miss Kissick will be able to resume her duties here. ** © Coroner and Mrs. Gay and their children are confined to their home on East Second street with influenza. Mr. Gay’s,condition is reported some better today, while Mrs. Gay is | seriously ill as yet. =. | Homer Shaffer returned last even- ing from a day’s hunting trip with a} fine coyote which he is reported to have shot from the topmost branch ‘of a tall tree. 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Box 476, Casper, Wyo. n The following is the list of prices authorized by the Price Interpreting Board of Natrona County for two weeks ending Sunday, Nov. 9th, 1918: ’ Retailer Pays. Customer Should Pay, Commodity Low High Low High Price Price Price Price Wheat Flour, 24-lb. bag. $1.40 $ $ 1.55 $ Wheat Flour, 48-lb- bag. - 2.80 3.10 f Wheat Flour, bulk, per lb--- .06% 073 Barley Flour, bulk, per Ib-.. .06 063 07 073 Rye Flour, 10-lb. bags_ -70 Rye Flour, 24-Ib. bags_ 1.55 Corn Flour, bulk, per Ib -06 064 07 073 Rice Flour, bulk, per lb. - 103 -123 Cornmeal, 10-lb bags- Sie 3 | e 75 Cornmeal, 24-lb. bags - 1.40 1.55 Victory Bread, 16-0z loa: 10 - Oatmeal or rolled oats, blk. lb. .164 084 se bi 52-0z. pkg. .27 -835—8 for $1-00 Sugar, gran. per 100 Ibs.-_- 8.65 10.17 10.00 11,00 Beans, white, navy, or pea— not lima—per Ib--_--.- .13 17 Beans, colored, pinto, etc., Ib. .104 13 Potatoes, white or rish, Ib--. .02 023 .03 Onions, per Ib, -__ -034 05 Raisins, seeded, 11-0z pkg--. .09 3 Raisins, seeded, 15-0z pkg--- .12 15 Prunes, per Ib. —- 16 Prunes, per 10 Ibs. \ +163 Canned Tomatoes, standard grade, per 20-oz. No.2 can .12) 173 Canned Corn, standard grade, per 20-0z. No- 2 can... .16 2-8 -20 Canned Peas, standard grade, é per 20-0z. No-2 can.-.-_ .16 2-3 20 Canned Salmon, tall pink Alaska, per 16-0z. No, 1 can_ Ss 25 Evaporated Milk, unsweetened, . per 6-0z. can -_.-~ eS El ar 073 Evaporated Milk, unsweetened, 1 per 16-0z, can --.------. .11 314 -15 .20—2 for 35 Butter, creamery print, Ib--_ .60 -65 ‘ Oleomargerine, best grade, lb .36 .45—2 lbs. for .85 Eggs, stored, per doz. _ - 50 -BB Cheese, Am. full crm. cut, Ib. 37 45 Lard, pure, bulk, péd Ib-... 29% 9 35 Lard, pure, in tins, 2lb net.. 63 73 Lard, 2lb 4 oz, ----+----.-- 16 85 Medium --. 1,30 1.50 Large ---- 2.70 8.15 = Lard substitute, in tin, small. -67 80 Medium old style pail -..--_1.18 1.40 Medium, new style pail,5lbnet 1.43 1.75 Large, old style pail -___._ ~-2.40 * 2.80 Large, new style pail 10lbnet 2.80 3.30 Bacon, breakfast, standard grade— wide, per Ib,____ - 46 .55 narrow, per Ib.... - 41% .50 Ham, smoked, per Ib.__ - 36% 42 The question of 10¢ bread at retail will be settled this week. \ Don’t Worry About Cold Days GET ONE OF THESE ‘ing away to keep our planes as high | Interest the afr raids) carried on, and It was a wonderful, |had been in my cell was being put éndure throughout the vwo weeks 1/rough another fumigating process, Spent there was the sight of the Hun | Oo i aman and myself from the U. 8. A. it was quite a cosmonolitan group, as one typical Irishman sald. re, and we have.every nation that's vorth mentioning, Including the darn Germans with us whites.” Of course When I discovered my condition, I made a holler and roused the guard, | and right then I got another example! 7nd of German efficiency. s This guard seemed to be even more perturbed about my complaint than I vi myself, evidently fearing that he wou'd! this was not translated to the Ger- be blamed for my condition. | mans, nor was It even spoken in their The commandant was summoned} heuring, or we probably would not and I could see that he was very an-| have had quite so cosmopolitan a bunch. gry. Someone undoubtedly got a se-| Each man in the prison was ready to vere reprimand for it. | uphold his native country in any argu- I was taken out of my cell by a| ment that could possibly be started, guard with a rifle and conducted about | and it goes without saying that I never {a quarter of a miie from the prison| tock a back seat in any of fhem with jte an old factory building which had | my praise for America, with the Cana- | been conyerted into an elaborate fumi-| dian and Chinaman chiming In on my gating plant. There I was given a} side, But they were friendly argu-| | pickle bath in some kind of solution,| ments; we were all in the same boat, jand while I was absorbing it my| and that was no place for quarreling. | jclo™Ses, bed clothes and whatever else! fyery other morning, the weather | allowing, we were taken to a large. swimming pool and were allowed to; have a bath. There were two pools, While I was waiting for my things | dry-—it took perhaps half an hour— | | stretcher. while we were still eating, another! Joined us. He was an English officer | who had just been brought in on a} Fer seven days, he told us, | he had Iain in a shell hole, wounded, | and he was almost famished, and we) were mighty glad to share Our ban-)| quet with him. We called on each man for a speech, | and one might have thought that we were at a first-class club meeting. A few days after that our party was broken up and some of the men, I sup- pose, I shall never see again. nt Portraits made at your home. Mc- Crory, Phone 559-J. 10-18-6tx Fs aPreSat . RS See Ben. “A Look Means a Lot.” ——————<— List your property with us. The Security Loan Company, Room 4, Natrona Kimball Bldg. 10-1-t: — White House Cafe serves you right. 10-26-39t BUY W..S. S, See You'll like The Harvey cooking. 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