New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1919, Page 10

NEW BRIFAIN DAILY HERA .D. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1619, ! have found ‘him, for he was still to be 1 feet, and apolozized for his hasty ac- ! _ | seen in the streets, openly going | tion. 1 told him it did not matter ; mixing with other Germans. 1tifle shots were fired in our direction, The nerve of the man was amazing, | but so far as 1 could sce (hey werd and he was certainly cut out for this | randomn shot nd ihe Germans did | | : own ease with German oflicers, and I o e Dichne wera seamantl Th T l f once had actually agreed o 20 along | Robert Duncan and Petty Ofticer Mel e ale of Men Snatched from the Hun with another German officer. who wins | or, Tagir task had been to remain positive Lbut the wanted man was In | on bourd the “Vindictive” to {he last lidimgingiuliiouso Routatd Rl G RtoN DS o L B o R R (LT (G How An Abandoned Mine Helped With Rescued Prisoners—Germans Eager to The visit was made, but, needless 0 Beould, Thers wits no question of get- YOU Nevel‘ SaW a Better LOt say, the German did not find (he man | ting off in the hoats with the rest of Escape to British Lines—British Sailors Work With German Crews. liecnii ited | the men, but they had (o take their ‘ chance of reaching the shore and f At 1he fime of the second Dritish V) making their eseape either hefore o after falling into encmy hands. Both naval raid on Ostend T was sent into 3y FREDERICK MANWELL. ~iruth, and [ {old them that | knew hardly realize (ho extent fo which | the Lown fo give aid in cifecting tho i men had beer 1 By RICt | ne ad been in the habit of doing gCopyright, 1919, Frederick Maxwell) | i way by which (hey could reach the the avera British and IFrench offi- | rescuc or prisoners captured in this gpservation work ashore and were re 3 - | British, lines an wive themselyes ' cer visked his life in making the | teld in order to get hold of the in- i 4 ciilled in noting the essen i vork of zeling escaped pris without fear A first they demurred most daring reconnajsances behind | formation they would be able to af tis . mers (hrough the German iy N cing that they | the German lines ford of the cifectiveness of the worl K E ! this tion, saying that th i s They had learncd all that they [ dititenlt as one had heatdg that , re starved One day 1 was in the sho I done by raiders. ne, and not even attended with in Great Gritain, One of the British Madamoe Jacques in Lille, o very es- When the firing opened thererove I :‘hr““\": e ‘HM‘ o f ®oh risks wo I have deseribed in ‘pre oldlare Miorviaie: st he leud timable lady of whose work for us [ made my way down to the shore, b ey o Sl us articles. 10 spite of the rigours i u hat W have some e say luter & cure keep oul of sight of N the 8 anxious (o cor A h OWS ar In ite the rigours SO (e oly and/lie had M have something to say later. A | ing caveful fo keej MRC Wl alon niem this by waiting on shore until nyW ele BRERE Ctorman occunation movements ot the iinpression (h the German | German oflicer walked into the place. | the German patrols, who were then el i and Pronce were compur- prisoners were having agood time “You are Mr, Maxwell?” he said | moving about very cautlously on ac- [ "0, "0 (0000 i Qislodging the boat v eas (N { Gk “Pha R ¥ e in FFrench. 1 am Mr. Maxwell,” count of the heavy shell-fire from the 3 ) g ! M d f G 1 W e ar i W a3 i S e S D R R ade from Genuine Western weople an e German ok ame time ul t ferman wi 1 S ume tio wore I found out afterwards, hut my _ ; oy . shat ne ouble ¥ the latter falling very short of the | : i ) WRAL e trol 5 Jcant s follneRicy { immedinte concern was to zet the Cl Germans, . comuinions, and The German burst out laughing, | argels fixed ety Fonveimy e i place. I hurried (1] » attemptin t . { which [ did and said—"T am glad that my dis- It is eloguent of the confusion that s ! ] G e them through the garden into the v 16 poinis e L was that tho ®uise is good enougl loceive lcvc reigned among the Ciermans o 5 at t] i v 1 1l 1 is 0¢ nough to decei even & house and they wore hidden in the Wits covered wi ntowith us. you. My name is Hall. 1 am a Brii- | occasion that the German Lreops. G0 BOYS d ME v . . 10 ish soldier, I have moving down 1o resist any attempt N an they found whether the German hours covering and been (old to e . whed {1 o [ of the British to land in the harhor ortunadely the Germans did mot the British L you out, hecause you ean he : Iy, The Ger vexistanee to me were vigorously shelled by their own spect the presence ol the men ind Do x| Th sas oven s he sald, and chis| suns, and teneatedly hwd toahandon., there, even If (hey wero awnze of (ho 6 00 U imd thot officer moved frecly aboui Lille and | the attempt to zet down fact (hat they had got ashore, and . p 0 - L e e R e i S G s ey From my hiding place I could Hear | for {wo days we kept them in hiding 1 r ¢ »oeu ers, the thirc we IS heny up & comyinde (o desert. movenents. e was subjected to in- | the commander cursing il unnes, l’:n he third day we fitted t t]l” : | permission of (he Beitish sults by the townspeople, who really | and afterwards 1 heard him order onc Belgians, both nien being able to L Lens (0 =0 back and imagined him to he Crerman, and on | of his mon (0 go and tell {he battery speak FRrench and Flemish well Boys’ Blouses Of 1 ore of their « los, with one occasion so well did he act the | commander to correct his ranse ot :’x]vom:h ml cvable them to pass i . - o they had i N nich bt ol therunEey: B thal the _ !l cease firing altogether lemish when speaking Frenech, s h b t k d Ui e ' It I ' ke i o i m\u.l\“,“;..‘;3,.\.”‘.‘.,,":‘I‘I\yu I was Iving all this (ime in the gar- ' Delgian when speaking Flemish. They the efter mn . . Gueally re- | ilians for offering insulls to Lim, and | den of a housc not very far from the were dr od as Belginns of f N . hat i prontised the Germans (he captain agreed to appear hefore | Inner harbor, and I knew that any ing class, and they went to seek em- Ot o : f would look out for any of the the court the next morning to give | Prisoners taken re likely to he ployment with the squads who werc Hart S h ff s i tie Arsor | e less on niy return, Sure enough evidence sxuinst them brought alonz that road. I had with sent down to repair the quay walls c a ncr arx Bout it, for | neve f on to nd another party of 16, and I (hink the man would have been | mo four trusted companions, but [ damaged in the fightit e Ui but 1 have lielzinn s wore sent though fo Lens, | daring cnough o have donc {his wits by no means certain that they . . T 3 . Cool and Calm. D o dquarters sinc aristic . they arrived safcly, jing, but fortunately he was called | Would be enough io effect the rescue CLOTHES | | (I of any prisoners should it he neces- | These two men remained at work i Phis permission wos na the labor- angdoft the passage. and have seen Glastly Sisht. el to the British lines ) M iestimony (o its exiztence and My next journey hrought b s I saw himo on my next visit o [ Sanv o rescue by force. What L Was | long enough to find out that the Ger- G sldstly reminder of the danger ate . Lille. He hud come back on another | teally counting on was that the Iel- fPhe secret roadway with which Tl unging the use of these galleries, Dlissiom and for about four months | slan government, who knew of e Bsmtawitiar wis the one around f\vhen | passed through the narrow Sfter that he wis continually coming | cXistence of the house where 1 was, | Gillo,, . Accoss fo this was sained DY | gutlery connecting with the main @04 80ing sometimes using the unde would have instructed the men orjand (hat the passage was closed {o Bicans of o mine shaft sunk some | workings 1 bocamo conscious of Sround road of which I have spoken, jinan deputed by the British —com-|jall but very light craft. They also @b les (o the northwest of LIS, | neqviness i fhe atmosphore, and (( and at others travelling by air. mander to malke straight for (his ) ¥ G S This officer is now serving with the | house as soon as he got ashore and . 5 was possible | was because of the accurate informa= army of oceupation in Germany. 1| Was cortain that it was impossible to 10Ns of the German naval —officers | With the aid of a very valuable friend | tion furnished by thess two brave have seen him in the streets of Bru reach the boats again. This hope was 'hit Zeebrugge was then useless oy a | in the German permits office at Os- | men that the British admiralty wers cule Dheing sluted by German soldiers | realized, for after the fiving had died Submarine base, and that the er- | tend (o obtain permits for any per- | able {o assert with such confidence T retmaning the ealutes as natural- | down I heard the sound of hurrying Mans would very soon have to'let go | sons we wished to get through, so0 | what had heen the effect of the last lo a8 though he hitd svorn the kaiser's | footsteps, and on looking out I saw their hold on the Belgian coast if they } long as it was not a matter of pass- | raid on Ostend el 1Ny e the figures of two men in British ©ould not use it again for this pur- | ing them into territory occupied by THE END. seamen’s uniform hureying along the | oS | the Allied troops. All T could do for | road. T was lost in admiration for the | them was to get them the permits to mans had failed in their efforts to shift the wreek of the “Vindictive, learned from overhearing conversa- | alons, for T . : i aring a- [ alonz, for at that time it pd fhen we vassed along coul work- | \i¢ not long until 1 had izt for about two miles, when wo | ooy that leached other workings, through satisfiod there was zas about. The further 1 went the more oppressive Bhidly one passed fo o point Just out= g it scem, and when I reached the e Tens, which was near enough 10 | poians that had ben used by the first 5 ¢ party of Germans I came on a sight se. Later, when the British cab- | hy¢” qimost froze tho blood in my eegAhils pithead or slug heap, the |y, i Amazing Coolness, it (®0m the mines was within the 16 British lines to make it safe to i bk o L eohy e sccetchad@on RUhe e roun i relossil DI oz B onof sto bl this officer cool wiy in which these 1men put | move towards Dixmude as Belgians, vifigh Jines, and our task f vere a number of wmen in German (hat T would not believe were it not ; . S i Sl B 3 el Germans I jumped out and (o them | their heods into the lion's den. I nev- | to be employed by the Germans on {0 stop. | One of them svidentls tooke | r expecied them to come out unbit- | roadmaking behind their lines, and ten, but they did. Ih ave it to their native wit to get forfékbondingly casy uniforms. Some had a penceful look vouched for by a cold and matter- TWE, secret of this underground pas- | on heip faces. as though they had of-fact official document, which was @ s first revealed o me by MU g0 i (heir sleep, or mizht even be shown to me in London, and is now oulidain, the Belzian inspector of Geaping il Others hud the look | reposing with the director-general of hings: [le told me that the exXist- 00560000 that is often scen on the | military intellizenc One day when ot the connecting zallery siving ‘There is no “cure” me for a German, for he rushed at but relief is often me and struck me with his fist. T e e brought by— partly dodged the blow, but could not | €¢d their intention of making their I heard afterwards that they suc- | E When they returncd, they annonnc prevent muvself from falling. As Iiw.._\- along the coast to Dunkirk, and | ceeded in reaching Dixmude, and of (he gassed men, and 1 knew | (he ofiicer was wandering about in these poor devils had been | Lille he observed two German sol- IR oLy fo.8 sttt neonle N Bent diers conveyving a French officer along foulliz hardly be known to the Ger- alie. e produced plans of - the oiies, which he had exploved himloly during (he period following Telll Thcallod int Pnalish—Tent be | F went of the way with them, | managed from there to get into tho fool: T am the friend you are looking | Put had to leave them bhefore veach- | lelgian lines, from which they were fou lccdgs to the Lens coal fields was ing the neighborhood of Zeebrugic assed to the coast with their infor 11 appeared that {wo dayvs previous- | under arresi. e recognized this of- We had little difficulty in getting | mation for the British commander. It the Germans had ziven the work- | ficer as helonging to the French se- helped me to m their periodic gus deluge, prob- | eret service, and quickly made up his | because they suspected that de- mind how to act. were in hiding somewhere, e stopped the two soldiers, and hecause it was part of their | said-—*There has been a mistake. T policy (o render the mines of the oc- | will take this prisoner back to the cupied region dangerous by releasing ! brigade headquarters. You will go zas throush them, o that they could | back to your officer and tell him that not be used by the Allies after Ger- [ an escort is to be ready to convey many had been forced to give them | this prisoner to Tournai by the next . available train, When you have de- wese poor wretehes had heen | livered the message, come and ve- ciught as they lay resting, some of | port to mo at the brigade headguars them probably asleep. A few had | ters, Pivicd 1o crawl away to escape the The soldicrs salufed, and went Jleggant journcy, for part of it had i Bl 4 'Lig colliery disaster there in Wi made our first descent not by hoe fmain shaft in the Lille region e pigin, was closely guarded by the ¥eripans but by an abandoned shaft arfly hidden b the slag and waste Nalifad been deposited there 14 Miles Underground. The total distance tfavelled under vound b this road w about four cen miles, and it we not i very funies, for we found a number | away, without the least suspicion that bodics in the zalleries, further | they had heen tricked. The oflicer 5 N Afier we had gone a mile or ! brought his prisoner to me, and the ‘ oand were getting away from the | two men remained in hiding with us v filted t of the workings after | 1 track of the gas, we came on two | until the following night, when [ sent heft tirst use of poison 15 in the z : dead hodies British ofiicer and «a | the prisoner with n safe guide to be SHOW Y R fanders fishiing. [ have KBOWN | Grporal. otk helonged to a Low- | conducted (hrough the undersround IIIUDE Because Your Boy Came Back mep shrink from making this Jour-g ;G egiiish veziment, but there was | passage to Lens. | heard that he | [ \ey, nnderground, ad declare that they A ) " v udersround, ad declive that (G otely nothing 1o identify them | made the journey in safety, and lived cos it B : by. Both had been sassed to render very zood service to the SHOW YOUR LOVE of Mankind Whom the Red Cross Served i ncighbor- 11l ore case, that of a young n: & \1 ho”h‘! 1l[.{u~u1 e £ 1 1ood of Lille during the years 1915- | there was a hue and ery after the et in some of the most tertible| 16 and in that period we helped | Britisher In Lille, and the Germans fenting of the awar, heroiom (hit was | MY hundreds of Allied prisoners to | circulated a description of him. while i e B e e e e, Inaddition, | had to ar- | patrols frequently made surprise v B tins This officer Rad been cap for the passage of British offi- | its to houses suspected of harboring ey the ememy. in Flanders in | (SIS to make observations hehind the “aped prisoners in the hope of find- B enrly part of 1917 and made hia i naaniiiness ing him. They failed, but had they y Efipe in May of that vear. I under- The general public at home can | been a little more diligent they might bgk to see him back to the British ; fnes, and we started to zo through he mine galleries. We had not gone Pery far when my companion pro- sted. ' “T cannot stand th he said #Eurrowing through the carth like is is not a man's job. It is a worm's bl T S i “Say it with Flowers,” /| Remember that 50 Per Cent. of the Amount he German line than go on like this.” He went up 1o take his chance, s You’ll p[ease pretty Rose called it, and alas! it proved to he B T ol il have Hloiers collected will remain in New Britain fan pos Later T heard from some Bolgian peasants that this officer had SRR R Wherever. she goes. B 2, 2 37 | £ for Home Service Priendly oes. o e Rege . There is no tastier token he existence of this underground " atn o1 S | of good will or friendship or \gig New Britain has gone “Over the Top” in every Drive e e end e were ool o § one more fully appreciated than flowers. o ba made on hand md knees Tere was also great risk from gas, | Vith which the Germans systematical- « S sanied by two Belgians and o part y¢ British soldiers, number fourteen We v on the point of retracing ur s when o party of German conducted and every one should strive to put this City on top in this one by ENROLLING NOW P 2 S50 e word, and made it inpossi for us to el aw unscen. One CGermans burst out la Let us help you ho of the British soidiers. B i e E with a suitable fck of this business, and v o et SR R selzetion. |V s || Membership Fee $1.00 lould stand it no longer, and had 92 West Main St. greed to desert. I was satistied from: the bearing of Be men that they were speaking the * 'here were 43 of them altogethe + 0% b et et rerang