New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 18, 1919, Page 10

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY', OCTOBER 18, 1919, CAPIT;‘:mD LABOR—HEART TO ‘—lr‘lEART‘, ASTONISHING WORK OF SECRET SOCIETY | | Globe Clothing House [ BELGIUM Froe g Established 1886 The Tale of Men Snaiched from the Hunm | » : o How V. C. S, Saved British Prisoners—Risked Their Lives to Rescue Comrades SNSRI ; I : A GO TC THE STORE WHERE From Captivity. M. Prederick Maxwel who 1917 1 sggested the idea (he cigavette from his mouth and be- | St xauei : e : i ; > art9 c a ner makes these remarkable revelatio of airmen sssisting our work hy san reading oat his own description the founder of o nameloss seeret taking hac with them rescued y and the particulars of the reward of- i B S y which operated ia Belglum oners whe we s ion o In- fered. ioods 3 v i ; _ %’ < ° the war, and which was the formation regavdine rman disposi- When he had finished the Germans A 0 § i el e e uttered surly thanks and went away, ) g B rx ot ln " osoldiers to escope from e hands “That is o jolly zood idea,” replied cvidently not having connected tha y S 3 i ¢ 8 : = » 8 of the funs, 3 o1l descvibes | Lhails ut 1 denbt whether zeneral obliging interpreter with the wanted SR 1 G b S 5 E * most exciting 4 arters wounld approve. T will man. Harker smiled grimly at me, e i veomen at general head- turcs of this amazing wman after- CHMAXWELL, i entical of the idea, but wards but did notsee him until a few Freacria Stasvein. | i e T IR T, i | SRR SO - R money, the quality that economizes for you. nsed it by coming he walked into the house of M. Loi- Ec ik e s g i It you have any in- selle, about five miles from Brussels, ol 0 4 A : ¢ > o ; Hiion 1 omt maind maks m whose srounds the ame el | EEINE | S - o { Suits and Overcoats, $33.00 up. n ambulance driver. fnw @ ial 1 were landing on their visits to the i £ e 3 . the line, and was sta ol Bricadion neighborhood. He greeted me with a § Sl > > close to Gouzeacourt. On Ranenod ha by had in Swmile. . XN s 5 ; ( % : > ot November 30t [ wanted ‘o 1ot Thr away from. the spot - Thousht I was not coming back, ; ] e ; TOM WYE KNIT JACKETS AND loumencourt to visit a fri ? fheso darc.devil airmen were Ch2” he remarked. “T thought so my- G Gk G : G Sy bit of landing a vers inter- SCIf at one time, but evidently my ‘ 2 & " a soldler in order o] 0 i - S timo has not come yet.” { > - = - e mdecd, Brigadier Ger = & e | VESTS urnod bael. Gl b known ns the boy brigadier, That night, Vedrines who was at 6.00 TO $12,00 ately, the Gorms e lian ot {1 Sarls ame ot wilicn me At time netine as air covrier for n ,»i\v:“:m; u;:] ISt O e I :,1.‘\“ J:x'ltie:h' _m‘w';-rnmelxzt in place of tich Tollowed o 2d hesn wounded and left on the fleld Ball who had been killed, 1 think, *° Washington.—Industrial conference [ Jr., on the steps of the Pan-Ameri- | Th b b i d SHlie e Rl L R e ol g pone (e 1”|‘(|:(«l3; 20d }‘:9"!‘]”}1_“‘ daring Harker recesses bring together important fig- | can building. Tho photographer dis- § ey must be seen to be aPPI’ECIate . el e e s o el R e e o el g ettt i T BT it 2 A f Children’ T hT s and brougit into Brussels, : uring my recent sty photographer snapped Frank Morri- | shoe laces twice about his shoo fops B threuzh T was caplured with the rest (AW 0 as dotained for three daye London. He was worrled at the pros- on, :;L‘r"‘("l.ll',\' 57 i et e || e ) S them, S e e | n assortment o C dren s Hats that S R B e e, )w(w'll of Inv]u\)z :mmlr\g ()hf: unemploved ation of Labor (ieft) in earnest con- | him as a bit unconventional, at leas,, W , . S or jeoving Brussels the And wondering if therc was any versation with John D. Rockefeller, j for o millionaire. $1 00 $5 00 ik conveying iy prisoners \l:fi chance of employment offering ¢x- | S 4 mvites yous attentlon, G 50 il held up. and the men were quartered | ‘itoment and adventure. | : e hbied i o L selgian viliagers close to the “n ‘cx.mun Al‘( udden paid a |\un]‘h(-r ried the bodies of the German patrol have red hell. He got it right enough, 12 o < Y £ aillway. That cvning there was a :’, r\ 1:(;]'(17 (n(l‘ neighborhood on sim- outside ‘\hf village and buried them. and then I bounded up so as not to T was frantic with fersor when! Il conflict beween the civilians and thei 8% (‘l"?.n.,xm‘ on one occasion he The German authorities were some get caught in the flame: Hlglsea e b orhen T \iiitary, and @ number of the Brit. ' farried with him Major D—, who time in finding out what had = han- R e el o O, e dEe S oy done secret service pened (o the patrol but they did dis- the streets. Somothing prompted Mo s Joy huigadior and two stafr off- ronvr,k”.u‘x the British’ government be- cover its loss in duc course, and 19 hes oy saslatance FISb I hron Beeit helonging to the Ninth Secott ‘rn,‘ 'um\y\.xr ; ’nr got the \ (.. and n]\nl:’.\l) 5 were taken to punish the . e A e T ey and South African Division of the B 0"0 LORTOn fise ploits, and u(.wr villagers. I believe that a number of s:’fl]gun\‘mu e free again, hut T am | Loy | Gl i different parts of the world, hostages were shot, and a fine w il anwlons lest I should expose voul =i, 0\ S5 % i ionds brousnt B— ana \3:1:‘1';:0:"v“]{}‘ik to Illr‘,vllil‘('c at inter- imposed on the villagers. rage. paluabIehrepLr o= ard tug iuheRond s when they find I have escaped. It the two other men to us, and they re ‘C;“;"' hci‘?’::‘ d“ 1:\{9 ll,?Ll\:(‘e work ) 'l((yhvln' m’s Capture, Be e e 0 e “What the devil do you menn by | tion of the camps and the feelings was very good of you to risk your| 1:dined in hidiug until the following e G S e A e e e o hinately ot b hee ntenferingBiniwhat fdosenit fooncernyjjamoeng fthe f IriahEprisoners Bol Smar. e for mine. I hops the Germans [0 ¥hea Balls amlyal gave me the | Thrilking Rescue. i{l‘.‘-"n,.r e Ay by Ko 0 B8 EID Ghers T B G o plan, oo oy e Gal e an e i e e R will not punish any of the others for | Chance for which I was waiting of | On this occasion he was nearly e i oot B oihat UG aferecting eioTls bnidn) B4 plagned, and fromithatidatsinn i my escape. I am fold that they al-| Botting B away. When I fold terminating his career. After lend- the nelghborhood in connection with: ¢ s L et Y whose gratitude I expected rather | Armistice Day he was at Liberty in | 1r0ops My brother and tell the truth for e should befrll me. Rescue Attempt Fails. It was not our fault that Robin W not rescued As 1 have Vedrines was in waiting, ready to carry his British comrade to safety, and we had laid our plans for am- bushing the escort which was to go whom I have spoken. This was an | the captain was successful. He gzot Irish officer, & captain in rank. When | through the camps, as he wished, and he was brought to our house with the ' all of the time he was able to keep rest, the captain was in a terrible | the British government supplied with of the prisoners, including the one O[I I understand that the mission ot ways do that” all what I had for him he Wwas ing his passenger M’Cudden had gone U1 landing of French intelligence of- “’;”" e S ‘"”’“I'L‘”“ "“l""""(f’“‘"“ took, me aback. Germany, moving among those who i apprcoiatedlincllz sl concen b atly pleased, and readily agreed to away, and Major D— was going by ers to lake a survey of the roads W L havluv?m vlu e ot aveling to e I answered, controlling Were plotting for German aid for the Mol B DL Sl » the brigadicr and one of the road to an adjoining village, where DY WHICH the Germans were to retreat Berlin and was eager to take hisldiss B R e e ot callfiEli ISinn wEln party. ™t v w1 tne phena 'r 19T | stac officers refrred to. The {rib ihero was an inn, the proprietor o When they decided on the abandon- tinguished prisoner along with him. ! terference if men risk their lives to| How he succeeded in doing this and Qae by day, and was ready to face Was made successfully in spite of the which was friendly to the Allies. Be- Ment of Belgiun The escort was attacked on t save you from the torment of German | in getting his information out of tha anvthing for the sake of helping these i Ml,, ,,‘“1“.,“”(\ was fired On fore reaching the place D met a | ke ‘:llnsmrldrln’m’ voung (vl.lum]' (}:n road as arranged, and E pumberilofie Ut P L | country he would not tell me when 1, helpless prisoners, but I was anxious "‘” o ‘;\“j" ';’h' );lx Y"‘*\r‘: :'f the jour-; German patrol. He was dressed in \?‘li‘o;‘ llsn:l’;w "‘I:r:‘ “m‘\"‘“‘:;‘l:l\\ “;‘“l' D 0““"‘ “‘;;“) selessat BRUL RNl S001 “Torment be damned, and you be | Put it to him, excusing himself on the ney hae to © itis es. “eivvies” ~ i i o assg Major arker, C reely o D unc E: yhins vas a ng ¢ about her, because I knew that if she MR L ine civvies” and I think intended to pass . od g found that Robinson was not among ...,,.4 with it!” was the retort of | ground that it might get others into ; . 1 like the thing immensel was for a Belg 1 a 5 Brussels and the districts around {hem After this incident, the Ger- ' £ 3 = : were discovered in this uniform her Seatle T X 2 Belgian. He had no idea that . el dae Tirae s o T 5 the angry Irishman. “I insist upou | Serious trouble with the Germans. EE e T e what Bali told me next time he came he was likely to be questioned, and Ghent without being challenged once. mans sent large bodies of troops into = [ e e i : = Sy - e s o 4 ) being set free at once and allowed | There is, however, no doubt of tha . over. “G. H. Q. were glad to get the g0 made no effort to get away. When _ Coptain W. Lecfe Robinson., the inc gistrict to search the woods and igsie Gongesandialion “‘1 =0 on my way, torment or no tor- . f his story, fo P t it 12 hals back, for they think a 1ol Jio was stopped by the patrol he pro- DUritish airman who first brousht roads for escaped prisoners. Thes ‘:‘”,‘,\:'.,,‘,”. ,h,’\ ',.‘,':',{1,:‘,]":j,-",',\,:, 2 l,‘\]‘-f of both of them. They are not going dquced his permit, but the officer in J0WN @ Zeppelin on British soil, Was encountered a few, who were shot i it Sl e e fo say anything about their capture, charge at once declared it to be a Another man of whom T saw @ £00d gigp¢ hut I am glad to say that (he but the Germans have reported the forgery, and placed D— under ar-; dedl at that time, and I had the Pain ot of the men we had rescued got capture of a British general and staff regs, of seeing him carried off into captivi- , T " eoie peing sent in parties of me as i man likely fo prefer impris- ty withoul being able to render him 3 a onment to the dangers of the fighling nent.” I confess I did not know whaf to| orities who s&ere in a position to make of this man. He did not strike | know what ¥th¢' captain was doing during the two years or so he was prisoner and a fugitive in Germany This method of getting spies inio to 1t was somectime before we get the Allied governmen to recog n'ze our work, and give us sistance we got from the Fovernment from the start Iritish and French governments been | "”[',""',“' « division. o ] There were no German troops oc- twos and threes through to the Brit e to o el e el n this occasion Ball had brought cupying the village at the time, and fur wmove mmighl have been| P hm A4 BrllEh | omicer | mamied Spenaing the antival of | veinfore | | the slightest assistance. We had 70, 08 (o) line, and I thought it best to ask what [ heard of his capture from Vedrines, s B e rising that fhe S2S0n ho had for his stranse prefer- | Germany was more e e rler, m 1 was told as: 3 % ¢ p aid rprise v 4 3 2 & by the French than b . British or achiovod than was actually the case, | Frker whom I was told to assist in ments the officer quartergd his pris- | Who had paid a surprixe visit that g0 5 yblic seems to know so little 0% I Bsethoencsholy Snn DY R r 3 his efforts to get information regard- oner and his men in the village day, and the littla Frenchman was Ciiish PEC S SSERs B0 Lhein hat is that to you?" he reforted, | Belgians, and they certainly found it ing the disposition of the German D— afterwards said to me when ' Very anxious we should save the Brit- ol ihoek :‘“ O NAUCH NS j“IT‘ © ww there was only one wayv to | Successful enough to be kept up. We {roops Dhetween Brussels and the i ¢ this ni o1 ai ™ ish airman at all costs. At great dan- Prisoners was going on every day INj ., jec pim, and that was to let him | Were often warned of the inclusion eaking of this night, “I did not ex- ;s 2 s France. Yet, if one looks up the off " 3 - S i ger to himself he remained in the ance . t 2o his way. To the amazemen. of | Of these men in parties of prisoners, neighborhood that night until it was ¢ial lists, one will see that after ever the Belgians and some of the British ' and when rescues were successful we clear there was absolutely no hope of nnpon:\mrmm-* H\“Nl“\"‘v scores }“ soldiers who had been rescued, I *old | @id not object to the men going bacK r i ansiSh e " i Gty ¢ the men at first reported missing w $ ~ LN | N British soe- | Fuise of a Flemish commercial trav- got on my track I don’t know, but if £etting Captain Robinson out of the e I"d “.ni“‘ et 'I‘ - 1© 1 them to allow the captain to go buck | to the Germans yment refused for so long to recog- | Sl1er for morc than six months. He j had not escaped then my life would hands of his captors. L ISRl LB A e<¢ | 45 his German captors. (To Be Continued Next Saturday) il nesint us was toe fear op' was particularly active during the have been taken. T was so convinced When T said to the excitable little men were actnally far behind the Bt ok (B cn e ey e nren andiasslstouss s 2 L 5 as at Passchendaele i to- 2 o 5 a 5 ore was no hope, he near- German lines when first reportec v s £ operations at Passchendaele in Octo- of that as T lay in the room into | Man that there was no hope, he near Germar e ¥ reported | o (..o alone I sugsested that per- | 1% was hard for mo to understand reluctance of these governments co-operate with us, and I did not 3 o ceblenaton boniorne bu e o A pect to come out alive. I think they Riiclory antll Iican e ito Tondon | , This intelligence officer remained knew who I was, and they had many the armistice. Then T learned . P¢hind the German lines in the dis- o]d scores against me. How they the reason why the ing down on our heads and on 4 % ! 24 G Heaqs ot tne lcivill popniationinns ML =LRLINT NG Mhedinionmation A roRBh ol ey fthrewiim s fthathr i ougiit| IVEDrokea oK /g ey hi “‘ml‘",“ R ehs e anothery j. s he would mot obiect to telling | S lJ L Vi ntha] connected with us the vengeance of N obtained was collected perlodical- oniy of making my peace with my Oh, mon Dieu,” he said, wringing they had got back to their units. |, ;%40 recgon for his strange pref- | amue . e (& Eheltlerniantauihorifics wholhadtint | o lypeansiofitio oo I¥postiw H1Chi ) Tre ! his hands and pacing about in his _In other cases. men reached the ' [ 0" Sechice fthe Wilisd sovennaints it tne d then been established between Yes T broke in, “there is not the | excitement, “and he was such a brave British lines before ever heing re- ey il e g s A e outset of the war that it was their in- i e [ritish and different points be-| jeast doubt that they knew you.|man, such a good comrade, ang such Dported missing and thelr mames do |y, yeplied, “but wha: it is you must eqac er o0 - tention to deal in the most severe NNd the German lincs. There must have been treachery |a daring airman! They will Xill him not appear in the lists at all. i e e s manner with any attempt on the part S°me of the most daring of the Al-T somewnere." for certain, these Boch They do Not all of the prisoners we helped W 0 1 oot e Germany of civilians bohind the German lines lied airmen were employed on this g, I think,” remarked D—: and | not love the brave men who fight to escape were grateful to us. Some 71 0 F20 & S0 MO TS 0 LS 5 5 to hamper the movements of Ger-: WO and the risks they ran were (pen he proceeded: “About five in!them from the air. They have sworn were olutely war weary, and even | SE e e {\m it lo ln man trospa of aid the Alites in any | amazing. I think the Germans Wers ihe morning I heard firing outside, | to kil him if ever he falls into theic the prospect of Imprisonment in Ger- .o EiWe it Uik W iEORE S8 vou aware that a service s kind was i ¢ = choose that alternative.” way. j aware that a service of this kind was ;4 the German officer came in and hands, for Count Zeppelin does not many they preferced to going back to ' 9 - 195 MAIN STREET Uniil the British govermment was ! in operation, for they were continu- 1 had to leave the fiery little man, 93 1 2 ¥ _ told me to get ready to leave. ‘These N e a showec hat his the drudgery and discomfort of the . induced by circumstances to join 411y offering rewards for the disclo- MG UG o B Gl e 8 '® .nd it was not until nearly two vears | pJCKINSON BLOCK, Apartment 6. : ; Srongt damned Belgians, he said, ‘are at- | ajrships were not good.” {renches. duind forces with us in spite of fears, the §r= Of LB l,"‘»;‘f"{" of 1’,‘""‘“‘;’, "’1“‘“" tacking us. Tt is men like you who| vedrines was, unfortunately, right There was one of these ungrateful ;‘”"' ”f“l‘ ll “j’_’t”:y" ooauutLg A WEDNESDAYS. only co-operation with outside agen- [OF these machines, and in Septem- gnogurage these people to rise against | in fearing that poor Robinson would men, however, who had an entirely |55 @BXICty to get lnto Germany. ¢ | LOR TERMS ADDRESS 926 MAIN- \ HARTFORD. ; her of 1917 placards were posted in e 2 ; ritish g me as any I cies was unofficial, mostly coming DT of 1917 placards were posted I us. Thoy will pay dearly for this| b illtreated in Germany, but nome different reason for resenting our m- PSH HOVERCEC WS SO0 5 from the airmen and the agents of o el PSR S o bR ! of us imagined that the ill-treatment terference on his behalf. He was one o 0% ' M. Wo@ BOUAE OB BEIRE o0 the Allies, who sometimes appeared . & Ak 3 ‘Eethurriedlysleft meandl I heardit <e0 sy iy e O R ToE S0eisiont his Tof 0 paity ofl about 208 Prenchtand Mo chooRll EESHEAEY S S 10 8 CF : in occupied Belgium. [ 605 e 5 X the firing come nearer. Suddenly the geath so soon after the armistice British officers and men who were Loierence to the plans for aiding in- Comparatively early in the war wo GoolRCu=tomcr. window was broken in, and some one oo, 0L 000 CU N L B binson sent out of Brussels one morning to Surrection in Ireland. had established mlonlml relations While {his hue and cry was on,!' called to me in French to come out. U0 1hoqest and very daring. I march to Valenciennes, whence th Lived in Disguise. { b our mouth tastes with the British and French head- Harker was moving freely about, and ' 1 went outside, where I saw a num- 08 7O8 O TR D00 FEE S0 8 wwere to be sent on to Germuany e rronaAMa E”k s quarters, the link between us beins in Brusscls isclf I saw him one day ber of German soldiers Iving dead, {55¢° 4 S e S : S Eas el S e s> 1eeh 8 [RELC M ShLL g 1 = ; . AT ; ~ . Dbringing down a Zeppelin. ailway route that had Jjust to Berlin, where he had many friends things you ever dicl— the airmen who frequently came be- standing al a street corner reading and others taking to flight. T was "' o 4 : : ; ! % z g e S . Tl . Only my luck, just luck. and reopened after extension. The escort ,3q had lived before the war. His 5 mixed together, then tween the lines to seek information one of these placar He was smok- pushed into a car, and taken off | : i 5 S S e S el Beachars! i % . 4 el e A 5 Hiore o nothing more,” he said. 1t was accompanying them was very small, own way of getting there was char- you ne: am's rgarding the movenients of German ing away as coolly as though he had where you now find me = - Sl g - 2 . v et troops. In this way I made the ac- pot the least connection with the T ihe as eIl o T oxplain hatoush on ki e o thers SRTh oy dRONIL StoRtie Macap i a B th ofCermany St eristic T BvenilioutitoRtheBtront Pills. Yourmouxnsagmdh n&l;gleon iairtancellof | Veanneoll Garronl i co b teniacnpaal iR Gie DR oreqinistaleascitolonolon thosel stalked ithelbeost for some tme fon 1M ENe then keging e (0 icel the DInchiBniih aniIxish) resimont and oneiday of the condition of stomach an els. i t v are going e ! as he days of e b T - i f G t Tonck, Ball, M'Cudden, Robinson, plucard. A few Belgians and some | occasional outbreaks on the part of dUst when they were going to get him = it \\_\' inithe days of the ’l'f allowed himself to he captured It , and other I'rench and British airmen Germans joined us. the oppressed Beigians. They had the German changed his course and the Somme—and wanted all of was his intentlon to see as much o who frequently risked their lives be- | The could not malke any-| séen D-— brought in a prisoner, and €ame right bang up against me. men for the fighting line the German camps as possible in soldiers hind the German line in quest of in-' thing of the notice, which was in| as they had iheir own grudge against Otherwise, [ had not an earthly trange Irishman. order to find out the state of feeling - e v bout 12 Nercity < Sold everywhe: formation that was vital to the Al- ppench and Flemish. The Belgiar the officer in charge a number of the chance of getting him. I was no! About es out of the city, among the Irish prisoners of war an: o l:"“" - lied command. were appealed to by the German sol- | villagers got hold of the arms con- slow to take the chance offered, and the close of the first day's mareb, afterward to escape and live in Ge = s attacked the escort, which was casily 10c., 25¢. It was to the late Captain Ball, giers, but they were unable to oblige cealed near hy and attacked the I climbed above him until T was > many in disgulse, which he believed when I mect him outside Brussels in yijth inslation. Harker removed house. After rescuing D— they car-, ready, then 1 came lower and let him overpowered, and rescued the whole § po could obtain through friends. 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