The evening world. Newspaper, April 30, 1918, Page 16

TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1918 iscaped FromGermanPrison, * Played Dea and Dumb, Private C. V.. Combe, Canadian, by Clever Bluff Almost ‘Reached Neutral Border W hen, Exhausted by Nervous Fell Asleep in German Cottage and Betrayed Himself, By Marguerite Mooers Marshall t » Strain and Iliness, He t ce O escape from the German prison camp I crawled tor ee hour: in the dark on my stomagh through a diich of difly water. 1 b hid all day in a potato hut only half a mile from the prison Camp, and one guard saw and spoke to mé. Some of the other prison. fs filled, my bed with pepper, so that scent, Pretending soldier, 1 walked to the Dutch frontier But 1 must beg the war 2¢ nbe of the Car man prison cam Peeture bureau manager is going to enterprising life if he does not hurry @ion, No. 511 Fifth Avenue, and ‘ bf what has happened to him since At that time he was merely a slen- | 84, dlack-eyod, olive-skinned young frewepaper man of Winnipeg, about torbe marricd to a very attractive Young woman who now wears the Rea Cross uniform somewhere in Franco. Hoe volunteered at once- he Was No. 238 of the Eighth Battal- $o8, C. B. F.—otherwise known a the 90th Winnipeg Rifles, the “Little Black Devils.” They were christened bey the Indians of the Northwest, who declared that they didn’t mind fight- fing the red devils (English soldiers), because they couldn't shoot straight, but Lord deliver them—or words to that effeci—from the little black evils, the dark uniformed Cana- dians. | After six months in training, Pri- wate Combe went to France and was ander artillery fire for the first time Ploegsteert Wood. This was ly im March, 1915. He fought as e hine gunner at Neuve Chapelle, 4 Mthe Second Battle of Ypres, April 2M 1916, he was gaseed, Thirty-six irs later his machine gun was put @Bt of commissidn by enemy fire, The of the story | shall let him tell r himself. “I was the last man but one to feave the trench,” he said, “my offi-| Per being just behind me. 1 was) Jaughing and saying, ‘They can’t get me, when they did get me, most ap propriately, with a machine gtn bul Jet-in the temple, which knocked me Ut My officer stooped over me, but | 1 told him I was doné for, aud a few | feet furcher on he himself got @ bul-| Jet-in his heart. “When the Germans took the} éench they took me. I was carried | firet into a church at Passchendae filled with prisoners and wounded. The fret doctor who looked at m extlaimed angrily, 2, | one of the most remark ly pure and ign up” Private Combe for the story dogs could not get my and dumb German e German to be deaf a point oniy eighty kilometres from a > stories that has come out riences of Private G. V. itionar and of his escape Force in Ger-| means of a mal American bluff. Some| miss the chance of his young and over to the British Recruiting Mis- adian I e beginning to tell properly} of a certain squad and then they | threw him down and their Sergeant stamped on his chest. Of course the| N.C, 0. died, and as a punishment the Sergeant and the squad merely were taken off prison guard and/| deut to the front “Another case of brutality was that of an English N.C. O. who re- fused to put other prisoners to work on the docks at Libau because con- | ditions were so bad. The Germans hung him up by the wrists so that his toes just touched the ground Then they took off his shoes and| stockings and pushed snow under | his feet. They became gangrened | and finally both had to be ampu-| ; tated. he third class of prisoners tn cludes those who have to work in| ctories not devoted to munitions. | In the next class are those in other | occupations. |The fifth and nearly the most desirable class is com-| prised of those on the farms, who usually have a good home and de- cent food, 1 consider the sixth and best treated class that to which 1| belonged—the seriously wounded or | | ill, who are kept in the hospital or | ‘show’ camps, such as the one at Diesen, where I was when Ambassa- dor Gerard had it inspected, Only you musn’t get a doctor who delib- erately will putate an arm or leg | he might save to make sure that you | do not fight again “Now, ple tell me about your escape,” 1 requested “I was in a camp at Litchtenhors Hanover,” he began. “First of wrote my father for food, as we we allowed to do, and requested th he send me the old g 1 e of ‘sap When ice Bay Tedslies | the Wilds of Canada’ moe,’ over witch we had spent so You are an Eng-|™any happy hours. Read ‘sapmoc’ Msher! All Englishers are swine! |Dackward and you'll see ft spell Take away the pig!’ He would do} }came I thought my father had no: nothing for me, and when they brought me to another doctor I was | sQ@,furious that 1 would not even | ¥roken roulette wh \days later, while 1 was at a pump| Open my eyes to look at him. | lay compas.” When my next package 1 ‘sapmoe.’ Two mothe operating table and felt him|4t@wing water to wash my ehirt, a examining the hole in my head. Sud Gealy soft fingers stroked my cheek end I beard a kind voice murmur, Geot poy!’ 1 looked then, and a D rather elderly German sur @eon was beaming at me in the most benevolent fashion. “Ip all my association with him, that suregon never did but one thing which I couldn't’ like,” added Private Gombe. “When the Lusitania wa sunk he came in and slapped the pa per telling of the disaster down on my bed, exclaiming fiercely, ‘We have sunk the Lusitania! Britannia no longer rules the waves!’ Many Ger. mans who are not Prussianized when they are young are generous, kindly tender in their personal relations; but these same men are relentless brutes when it is a question of na tloal politics, ‘That's why we've got te kill the German nation.” asked Private Combe if the Ger- mans really abuse their prisoners, “I divide the prisoners into six classes,” be explained, “Thos teeated worst are the ones who have tried to escape or broken other rules. Jp the next unbappiest class are «hose forced to work in mines and munition factories, I know of one N.C, O. who, according to a rule ac- aepted by both sides, should not have been forced to do such w Rut when he refused he was stabbed mith bayonets nine times by we men it s fellow prisoner slipped into my hand & compass which he had found in the centre of a cheese I had given him from my parcel of food. ‘There were two barbed wire nees around the prison camp and guards with rifles inetructed to shoot anybody who came within four feet of the inner fence, | decided I must walt for a dark, wet night when the guards stuck closely to their sentry drainage ditch. I did it, takin three hours to g the fence Then it was so dawn that I hid mysel near & potato “Before leaving 1 had arranged with other fellows in prison to fil |my bed with pepper. So when hey | ) | dogs began to snee to swear! Also I carried a letter which I had asked a Belgian fellow prisoner to wr stated that I was a poor German soldier, referred to the plainly visi ble wound I had received in fighting for the Fatherland, and added that the shock had left me deaf and dumb and slightly simple-minded. The doctor who was supposed to have written the letter said he had sent me on a walking tour in the | direction of my home on the Holland frontier to restore my health, and N the s the wilde caught on, for he had labelled an old, | simple vegetable food to drink and shelter if I need milk or water boxes, and crawl out through the] d me to be back under and beyond}! # certain hour hinking I bad been 4 hut only half a mile from the prison, | brought in dogs to get my scent the | in his wagon and the guards | ; although after T had y mB COAST] w hundred yards ised being de t within 80 kiléme pretty well don I had been trave asked all good Germany to give we ja good deal god getns TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1918 Mother Wants to Make World Safe for Babies; - Talked in Sleep---Caught! HowPrivateCombe Worked“ American Bluff’on Germans Writes Book Telling How EPISODES IN HIS ESCAPE FROM GERMAN PRISON CAMP WHICH ABRUPTLY ENDED a ees betes WHEN HE “TALKED IN HIS SLEEP” ALMOST AT HIS GOAL! (Tane (ror ris AWAY! Ta \Her Own Baby Never Sick, Inspiration for Mrs. Mae Savell Croy’s “1,000 Things Mothers Should Know,” in * Which She Tells How “Common Sense’ Methods Have Best Results. @ At Diesen AMTER GERAROS de oe es | AKING the \ for babies is the idea of an interesting Misi f Ve COMBE | Me Gauait (Ss ; ; A (N GERMAN | ye Nue Savell Croy, who has just written a PRED CAMP. | iceessful g practical book, ‘1,000 Things Motherg i *8 | Should Kno is the wife of Homer Cr author and | humori man of GOT A COMPASS FROM HOME + IW A CHOEGY Whose name is Creighton Croy, and 1 who never had tummy-ache, never has had a ally etlicient young life. “What I of him is what I have put into Cr ; ghier of a me who brought up : hea Mrs, Croy undersiands that, besides ildren have four chi ng, Play and discipline. these four require- ntitic, con \ Avat « | ments are what sh | “Babies are tho most important | = active little le and arms Don't Swathbe even small babies in too many entangling petticoats thing In the world,” she told me learnestly in her apartment at No. nf pee | Riverside Drive, while blue- RGA, | ' Jeyed baby Creighton trotted busily jabout the room or played with his |military doll, “Persh (8) “The clothing of a child, even during a Northern winter, must not be too warm, Modern h es are so “Of well heated that a child's skin may course they always have been the | he made unduly sensitive to the cold most important thing, only not!i¢ ne i too heavily dressed in the everybody has realized it We are house : waking up now; war hag a¢ (hy orisararOGEHE dette GaUkee 5 Ten complished that. Here in this coun ceca bees ; ty “SnoweD PAPER try we have begun ‘The Children's | 0% &* 8" in & child's clothes, Pins IMG: Ahi GERMAN | Year,’ a Nation-wide campaign to |°*” be replaced by tapes or buttons, hoy Saar save the lives of the babies who die | 28d &% he grows older simplo fas unnecessarily. And all over the | te7!ags will help him to dress him- | world Governments are interesting | 8°! themselves in babies, working for, (19) “Any clothing is the wrong |their protection and welfare. clothing for a child if it makes him “With a very few exceptions—- | Uacomfortable, such as babies born with congeni-| “The question of play is most im Ital de ry baby in the world | Portant in a child's life,” continued can be well and strong. His fate Mrs. Croy, “The right principles of usually depends on his mother. The, play I should summarize as follows responsibility for making him a! (11) “A child should play out- strong, efficient member of the hu- doors every possible moment. My . or an unhappy weakling, own youngster, at twenty-six months, |rests on her, I owe my own health is out from 9 until lunch time and to the way in which my mother from 2 until 5. brought me up, down South,” Mrs, (13) “ 3 Croy admitted frank cts—eV | }man A child's mother should be near him when he plays, but ehe “T imagine | you owe your physical fitness to the STALKS INE HAS, should not interfere with him con- SCREP. i ame cause, stant], or do.” I assured her. “Now, i {though there no doubt n SHOULD know the thousand thing 1 A J =8 to play with other children as much you have mentioned in your book, 1 hay as possible, for their influence on Jisn't there a smaller number of py ene: for thelr \things which mothers MUST kno Weber Sete hig if their babies and growing children : Sue ae ROULG Bee (13) “As a child grows out of babyhood he should be encouraged / é : are to be well? What would you se-| °Yt!¥ Sacrifice to give their child his , lect as e twenty most impe nt; Summers out of the either in We | bits of knowledge for a mother je country or by A “Leta divide the twenty points into} (15) “Too many playthings should z bs four groups,” said Mrs, Croy,{ ot be bought for a child, but he | j | “Every normal woman knows how to) should be encouraged to make hi | The Feast of the Bees, give her child love—its primal need,|own. He will enjoy them so much But love alone will not insure its | better. Queer Religious Ceremony |°*"* the proper food, wearing the| ‘The ential things | Proper clothes, playing in the right/ for the mother to remember con * NE of the strangest religious Jinch of his naked body is literally cove) way and receiving suitable disci-|tains the points of discipline,” Mrs, last group Appen to enter 1} and festivals ever witnessed by civ-|vered with bees, and great swarms Of pline, Suppose we make five funda-|Croy concluded The company quickly r ilized man is celebrated every] the insects surround and follow bim.| mental points under each one of! (4g) § A mother should insist upon ufter the end of I 1 pring in the vil of the He picks them up in handfuls 44) these peadings, considering food first | opedience : ° auth, ‘ ! (17) “A mother should make no 1 Wns, f rated far up the Desert of Sahara Med Bo to se (1) “A child's food must be sim 1 at . t0 Rocky | terranean tea in Northe Africa. Itlae though t , more prohibitions than are abso. M In aR ‘ ig | is called the feast of the bees, and the the most danger y ple. He must no Beas desserts, | iutely necessary 1 ‘ ; ork or veal, and he should not have | nonop. v0 | busy little honey makers tuk ead-|gards their pork or veal, and & ould not have} (18) “Impudence never should be Hudeon Bay Company |ing part in the ceremonte ts who have jmuch candy, Of course, the main-| ioicrateg 1 to the B Government The programme begins with a com. | ure unable to explain the source | stay in the diet of the small child is! (49) wpe child 1d be made to ‘ \ 1 return! bat between two Berbers of }of the dervish’ wer over the bees)! milk and the mother should nurse | - ; $1,500,000 Crovr 0 A but it has been sated that te | see the wrongness of any dishonesty, ebay y title to} Whom has his head swathed in yellow il 4 the young baby whenever that is} ates one-twentleth ¢ fer. |cloth and the other in black, re hides a queen bee on HES -POrMOD: |: ssibie even in a game, @ belt” between the Hed River and] senting yellow and black bees, After|Among the medicine men of the In- iiceuitaa dona auaitataen 20) “Every child, boy or girl, the Rocky Mountains this duel, which is to the death, a|dlans of Central and South America child's food should be ba hould acquire the habit of industry said to have dey monk or dervish froim the Moslem | many loped sim- | anced, He should have some and be taught to do simple work.” I decided to risk a night's | monastery of Medidjie appears on the| lar Bowers over the singin ts. | starchy roqsiables and some sarees | in a house scene and a solemn hush falls over the|T#@ Medidjie Monastery vegetables, chicken, lamb and beet me food trot owd as he capers about to the|monks to all larger ¥ a” tach fal eels eka PILLS OR PEAS. uy I tried to show him that 1) Music of a flute i by himself.{the Atlas Mo) and the cere-| beads, eggs. Books by scientific iE wo couple s ide by side The ext rdinary fact is that every | mon S repe dow of places. t road doc %. ng da bed mime, In th dietitians will te 1st how these ee) Higgs; midst ef it 1 fell asleep in earnest ; ; ; aie | foods may be combined, and al a hallatorna Wa Gaueatene with my head on the table, and 111,000 Miles in 1,000 May Day a Festival of the! jcaitny cuita may be taught to like| rain viaw. oe there talked in my sleep! | - ost of them ‘that the sun é priltia ind the y $ omans, me f course the game was up. | wa Hours. 4 Rom n re (3) “There oyght to be simple \piras swayed on the adjaccnt bougbs rearrested. A young Prussian officer i‘ the days b ere was 4b be ouretyenia: of bea lagntive fooda, euch) ab apinach, |) (AIMel! choy sanay “We bave ; ; celebrated towns of of May as a apring festival] 18 eicnopere We yeu SSR 088 0 BYR TO MUSE BA’ ® ADD 1 . anniver k back to ancient baked apples, stewed prunes, orange | been Making garden us are next morning, and T thought he , ? Bhi t tat at avane child }somewhat absent nm 1, and after might keep his word, Y never = h x , fel ves Preise yk eel Pou ROS. RNAP Sh roe | thinking it we fear that Samu , f ver can which a/began on April 28 and conttnved| (4) “4 child's meals should be! cia has planted t ver cilia aad hat the i » wher « t ‘ mong « } 4 dey .s i he they are} woman was the ‘heroine, She wa eral as Among i) served with absolute regularity.’ Horace hus taken the aweet peas . Prussian y captors | Mary Cutter, who leted a journey |ar nt peoples of Ireland, the Beot~| i164 title babies should be fed at! Howaver, we are not absolutely sure f ‘ Nahe A af as con elle’ Hi vInvvery (the first of May was the date of a|certain houra—unot ten minutes be jabout it, and it 1s the uncertainty that re rman ries, an to do in 1,000 hours. She did it in very | the o ay wis t Gate A 5 ii aly “ nurte Kaneae City Star had to work hard thinking up a lot|much less time. It was during the feast called Beltein and the princi-| fore or teu minutes after, There} bu Kansas City § Ailled victories 40 snateh dayu- of aa ing in England|pal observance was t shting of| should be no eating between meal Private Combe wa ken to| among the men, and the women too |bonfires on the summits of | 1 (5) “Too much care cannot be ONE ON RASTUS. ivate Combe was taken back to & # } tt ' 1 Mm 1 s old Nn but was not pun y] Were not ave to laying wagers,| England the floral feast of the a taken in making sure that a child ‘| NDGRO was recently} brought his attempted escape, He was in| Mary laid bet that sho could travel|cient Homans was pety ted and) mins, fruits and vegetables are in Virginia court on a fi ua Sieaicniy (his 4 | the distance mentioned in the stated th new u perfectly fresh condition ee reel r hear rabid hai ats te 10u } body r uled her | former countr et evidence t Judge pondered irgeon recommended his beit ti Maypole and 4 Moment before passir tene w she did it history fails to] : TAL Haig pa 1g sentence to Switzerland, ‘This was in Bit etm avidanh that did| fairest’ maiden in each village in clothing a child?” I asked. iG 1916, and tn August he was in Lu-|it eit 1 horae back or in a coach, or | aucen of the May” made the Maye! «1 think we may sum them up this] “Ras + it ei on horse back © a coaci, « ay festival very popular with t 13 you are fined $10,” ern After 5 crowning of the! “What are the five essential mi tying in Swi hos: | both, They had no r ‘oads in thove dren and young people, These| way,” smiled Mrs, Croy Whereupon the negro replied sof the} pitals thirteen months, he finally was | days and motor cars would have been toms are followed in America to! (6) “A child's clothing, like his] ‘Boss, dat's a small skimption, Ah exchanged Physteally unt for | Considered q dream of the Any, | & fare ‘ y food, must be simple, A child is un-} sot da $10 right down in mah deft. more fight Two months ago he | WaY Mary completed the {a's —— ‘ easy and really ill-dressed in expen-} #and ves came New York, and ho is now | ttle more than two | NO CHANCE FOR HIM ten teas baad clathing w continued the Judge, “Sust 7 . : Beit : ay lotted time, and when 1 | Does your husband talk 1 his|* (2) "A child's eleibine sau dig down ur right-hand vest speaking fo iritish Recrutting sleep 7 Mild’s clothing must i 1 8} her (na town the pec ved but then he never gets the best pocket a ee if you can find thigty ie Missioa und (ue Liberty Loaa, a i Bex paths : of me.’ 80-do 1" __, 6 Wyck irecdom ag possible 49 We guyy,"—laverybody's, Ei car - lee eee eee a as —