New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 25, 1919, Page 10

ASTONISHING The Tale NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1919, all probability render more valu- ";P\V ! H:'I”;\“::],'lll‘ th:\l‘ 1\'%!()1\ than in Bel- ) » EcRET S l giu Sclf, so in small parties we i\ moved towards Little and Cambrai. The Germans had begun the evacui- tion of the latfer town when I ar- = - vived in it, but 1 found that tho i British prisoners who had been held | up owing to the congestion of the German line of communications were of Men Snatched from the Hvn e e | Commitiee for the Rclief of French and Belgian Civilians were good Belgian Martyr's Heroic Death—Executed By Germans For Helping British enough to account for my presence Maxwell has well visoner’s Friend.” oraanizer ol a seeret so- Beleinm which had as its | s the aiding of British who fell hands of the Huns. Many ands of captured men were leased by (the members of this markable i which is re- | the work of this amazing FPREDERICK MAXWELL. ht, by Frederick Maxwell.) > were the | rmans dur- ing the period extending from Feb- ruary of last year down (o the sign ing of the armistice The enemy realized then that the vears of suffering borne paticntly by the Belgians were bearing fruit, and that those . people were (uic pro- paring for the day when ir re-| venge would come as the German hold on Belgium relaxed. 1t was in the hope of countering this move- hnent by cstablishin cater reign | f terror throughout the occupied ter- | ritory that t Getmans ook the courso they aia measures taken the G When it was decided to evacuate | occupied towns or villages, the order was glven that the residents were not | 0 appear in the streets, until they ot | pecial permission from the German puthorities, and as no food was pro- vided for them this meant that the people were left to starve. In the same way, when German troops were being massed in Belgium before the great attack of March 21, | he civilians were ordercd on ¥ebru- ry 2 to remain indoors during cer- tain periods of the day--periods se- ected for the passage of the troops. | All.of the soldlers sent through Brus- | gels Were new men, who had heen in garrison in different parts of Ger- | jmany, with the exception of a few units made up of men who had been alled back to the army after being lischarged in consequence of wounds ustained earlier 1n the war, I mixed very freely with the Ger jman soldiers at that time, for, though it had many close shaves when help- ing Allied prisoners to escape, my elgian nationality was never ques- ioned, and no one identified me with he mian whose association with es- aping prisoners had led to the offer a reward for his capture. I found hat the Germans were very despond- ent about the outlook. One man said to me, “It is folly. [We are being sent to death. The Al- les are too strong for us. We can- not hope to prevail.” German officers at that time were hardly less pessimistic, but some of them counted on catching the British happing. One oflicer of the German larmy with whom 1 (alked when he lcamo to see me in Brussels in March of last year about the Dilleting of fresh troops was a Major ——, an Al- satian, and a relative of a French »fiice. The major was tvpically German land had the fixed idea that his rela- tive 1 brought disgrace on the name by siding against Germany When I suggested lo him that the world was sick of the war the major fed: Yes, but it will soon end. The British are going to be surprised and heaten badly. Then we can deal with the degenerate irench. As for he Amecricans, they don't count. The British are certain that the talk of an offensive from our side is bluff, and they will be bluffed badly, for they lare not taking precautions’ | That was typical of the thought of the German oflicers at that time, and I fancy that the Germans must have tried at one time to make the British really believe that their talk of an loffensive was bluff in order to lull the British and French into false security. German Nerves, German nervousness lest the Al- lies should learn of what was going on behind the lines hecame more in- tense every day. and by the summer of last ye the German authorities suffered v badly from nerves. It was known or suspected that air- craft werc landing trained intelli gence offic and it was knowy that escaping prisoners were taking bac wble information. There- fore, the guards got instructions that they were to firc at once on any prisoners attempling to cscape in the streets of Brusscls, even though it was well known that crowds of inno- cent people W in the street to see these prisoners pass through. The German reply to this point was that people had no right to be in the streets, and that if they appeared there they must > tho consc quenc Regulations relating to aircraft be- came more stringent, and CGerman acroplancs were required to signals from the anti-aircraft stations around Brussels. Aeroplanes passing over the city were fired on inless they observed the instructions issucd to them, and it was a common occurrcace to find the guns suddenly open fire on apparently innocent aero- planes overhead howers of shrap nel fell in the streets on such ocea slons, and many innocent pa by were badly injured. The Germans gave them scant sympathy, saying that if they wished to escape h dangers they should ecither remain in doors or appeal to the British and French to stop sending spies by aero- plane. Outside Brussels, as I have already stated, the practice was not only to fire on prisoners attempting to pe, but where rescue was 5 1)“30”ch to ESCHpE‘ fin the town, and I had no difficulty in gaining admission. Indeed, the German commander seemed rather ad to sce me, hecause he got the kill the prisoners rather than let when 1 deemed it wise to order the | IMPression that 1 had come in re fall into the hands of the res- attack, which proved entirely succe shonse lo a hint from German head Towurds (he end of March, ! ful. The Germans were cavght at o | 4UTters o relieve him of the re- i, inncareatlo e chas (Kdishdvantage ardiver eyt ot tion | sponsiUiGAforINEEICealnE o tiithese s rront, and thel toaway. civilians 1 said nothing to enl - specially desirous that The whole of the prisoners, Cony LB G 0 by ol heibfon, i settled quictly down as though I had leakk out, strongly in-| bering one hundred and oiw N s 2 0Nng mdred an S of i realiy come on the errand attributed were provided for the ! French and British nationality, were ort of prisoners, and on the slight- § relea and broken up into small| © M St pretest shots were fired into the ! partiss under compeient guides, who | O UEC last day of the German oc- ks of prisoners, { ideriook (o see hem safely on ihele| STPEtOD the Brillsh prisonces, to fhe W ree intimation that{\wav through the German lines. Most! LLL0SrS Of hearly a thousand, were 3 lquarters were eager of them suceecded in the attempt, and moved oul under escort with a num- ber of Iorench and German nurses, [ | nllm~i | | tirst-hand information of the British headquarter ot tho in- happencd on the Arras- formafion asked for without muen (14 mot like the thought of all these road, and aiso with regard further delay men going away with the information { they could give to the Allied com- tions bevond that point. Tt was sug-, who was able to make a report on onders, but I did not see how it . sted that if we could effect the re- the state of the transport behind the hoswrle Lo cifect their reseuo under of some of the men and R NG T TG e e N | ) CRIGHERES SR (R Al-] 1 decided that it would be best to keep an eye on the movements of ite of Gorman communica- here was an oflicer in the party tined otheer this information mig licd coramanders all th wanted to | be forthcoming. Some men of > know in time for the measures they s 51st Division were paraded proposed to take to break "lyl\n (”:(‘ [htiicsop puisoners Fandjiilennad finom the streets of Brusscls on the TR CO T i ea o Sl DN il we i loncRof the ime MU SR ENVE S d e of March, the Gerans giving out that est point by | to halt five miles out of the town that Relas. i s e | night, and resume the journcy in the morning. means of vigorous attacks umous division, a story th may ome of thesc Unpleasant Experience. linés, and were| Late that night British troops en- believe that this tervible black-listed severcly dealt with when they fell ' tered the town, and I told the com- division was no louger to be feared, into Gorman hands once more. One | mander what 1 knew about the pris- @ RO i >d to impr party we encountered again and sue- | oner He agreed (hat it was worth once more, this | while attempting to them back, Shot in Cold Blood. j time with better luck here was a | and asked if I would act as guide to were early on the move on the! Party of eight men belonging to dif- | the spot where they were to camp of effecting a rescue, but in ferent H and regiments that s! for the night. T said that T would, Firussels atself there was absolutely unlucky enough to fail in the attempt | but wus somewhat surprised to find S e e with , to get through the German lines, that he had some doubts about my th> priscners ,s0 strictiv were they The names of the men w RSeS| suarded Cooney, s, Hill, Seten, Bru Giil- the head of his troops with two sol- Near the Hotel de Ville a Belgian | move, Duvison, and Glover. Th et diers on either side with revolvers irl held out @ bunch of flowers to Out with two Belgians who had been | ready to end my days should I show parties of British | hive been intended (o lift the spirits prisoners failed in their efforts to et | the new troops by letting them through the German the Belgian civilian population | ceeded in rescring it | these men, most of them were wound- | Working with us for some time, and ' signs of treachery. ed. One of the soldiers stepped fo 1 believe succeeded in reaching the It was not a very pleasant experi- rd to receive the llowers. A Ger- | neighborhood of Hooge, where they ! ence for me, conscious as 1 was of man struck him with the butt end of Were caught in the act of crossing | my own good faith, and when our his rifle, and the poor fellow was Over to the British lines. Fire was party was fired on rather suddenly knockad down. Two of his comrades opened on them, and several of the; from the wheatficlds on either side | made an angry protest. The German Darty were killed outright. The sur-; of the roa 1 thought that they were uised his rifle and fired in quick suc- Vivors took shelter in a shell hole, going to kill me without waiting to cession, killing one of the Scots and Where they remained in water up to ! see whether the attack had any con- wounding the other. Soldiers and the knces during the night, exposed nection with me or not. Fortunately civilian alike were horror-struck by to the terrors of one of the heaviest they thought better of it and took me this cold-blooded altack on unarmed artillery bombardments expjerienced to the commanding ofiicer, who ques- | men, and they made protests, butthe on that part of the front tioned nie very closely in order to only answer they Pw to be at-! In the morning, when the party set | test the truth of my statemen. 1 tacked by the soldiers with their bay- | out once more, dodging from shell seem ‘o have convinced him of my onels he German official explana’ | hole to shell hole, the Germans dis- | honesty, for he assented when I said tion of this affair was that the pris- | charged poison gas across the ground that 1 could guide the cavalry across oners were conspiring to escape with | and all were asphyxiated, with the the fields to ancther road by which the aid of the Belgians. | exception of one of the Belgians, who | they could reach the halting place of It was not until the party had got! was afterwards brought into the Ger-' the convoy of prisoners. clear of the city that it was thought man lines and nursed buck fo life, I made good my promise and we ar- wise to attempt rescue. We had when he was put on trial at Brussels' rived at the encampment to find the spent the previous vear preparing for, for plotting with others to released Germans in confusion, and only too an uprising of the Belgian people | Allied prisoners who were employed ! glad to be taken prisoners. We man- against their (yrants, and some ex-yas spies on the Germans. ged to et the whole of the prison- cellent companies of sharp-shooters " ers back into the fown during the or francstireurs had been formed to Sentenced to Death. day, though in thé last stage of the v on guerilin warfare against the All that could be done by way of | operation the Germans suddenly be- Germans once they began their home- | defence of the poor fellow was done, | came aggressive, and followed us up ward trek. By way of kee but it proved unavailing. He was| in force, pressing close into the town selves in training we made f sentenced to death, and in the i itself as thoush they were bent on attacks on the German line of com- | man cavalry barracks the sentence | retaiing it. munications, cutting up weak detach- [ was carried out the next morning. 1| This haul of released prisoners was ments, destroving stores, and rescu- | was sreatly distressed on hearing the [ a lucky one for us, because among ing prisorers. Such an enterprise as | fate that awaited this poor fellow, | the prisoners were discovered —two we had now embarked on was just| but it was not found possible to aid | French intelligence officers who had to our liking, and none liked it better | him in any way, so strongly was he | been sent into the town to find out than the women who belonged to our | guarded. I am (old that he met his! where the Germans had placed mine Van end bravely, another martyr to the|to cause roc among the occupyin We kept close {o the Germans and | cause of Belgian freedom. troops. It was found that one of the | | their prisoners from the moment of I heard later that he could have | aveas most dangerously mined was their departure from the city until| got away during the attack had it | that selected by the British officer for selected their billets for the [ not been that he went back to see | billeting his men, and had it not night Le German guards were put | what assistance he could render to | been tor the information given by in houses at a hamlet on the main | Gilmore, one of the party who was be- | these daring French officers the road, and the privoners were supplied | lieved to be alive. Ile arrived in | whole of the British soldiers occupy- with waterproof sheets and ordeved | time to find Gilmore breathing his | ing the place that night might have { to look out for themsclve: Our plan | last, and while he was trying to con-{ been blown up. ime fuses had was to attack suddenly in the night, | sole the dying man, who was in| been fixed to the mines and they wero Kill as muny of the Gern E F t agony, the Germans released | due to explode about three o'clock in could, rc ¢ as many prisoners as | more gas, which so affected the Bel- | the mornirg. There was orly an hour were willing to take the risk of fli glan that he could not get away un-!in which to remove these mines and then disband quickly as we | til the German patrol arrived and ar- | they were safely disposed of. could before the inevitablo German | rested him. & reinforcements arrived on the scene. 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