New Britain herald., 1914-08-21
NEW YORK MAN HELD
 IN ENGLISH PRISON
Chicago Doctor Relates His K.
 DGTienCeS in War Zone.

week ago for Munich to bring out his
 niece Miss Stone, also of Chicago,
 returned to London today having succeeded in his mission.
 pr. Martin tells a story full of in-
 teresting experiences on the conti-
 nent. He attempted first to make his
 way to Munich by way of Paris and
 Berne but was unable to proceed be- yond Paris. Stories related to him of the hardshfps endured by Americans
 marooned in Germany impelled him
 to make a second attempt and with
 John Moran, of New York, whose
 wife was last heard from in Munich,
 Dr. Martin started again through
 Holland. There he fell in with s.
 Bergman, of New York, who had just spent three days in an English
 prison at Winchester owing to his ina bility to prove his American cit iZenshlp.
 Safe in Munich.
 pr. Martin speaks of his experi- ences as follows: We as Americans had little difficulty in passing through the German lines, but MT. Bergman was stopped until he finally | exhibited his papers of release from the English prison upon which his photograph was pasted.
 "At Crefeld we secured an automo-
 bile to take us to Cologne. Through the efforts of Bergman who upon arriving at Cologne learned that 6OO of his automobiles in a factory in Ber-
 lin had ben communicated by the government for war purposes we se-
 cured the necessary permits to pro-
 ceed. We covered over 1,100 miles ,, on Saturday and Sunday and found
 to our immense relief that Mrs. Nor
 an and Miss Stone were still in Munich"
 American Cars Communicated. Meanwhile the military authorities l had ordered that no more gasoline
 be sold to non-combatants. Several American cars in Munich had been taken by the authorities when their owners revealed their existence by appealing for fuel.
 MT. and Mrs Moran decided to remain in Munich but Miss Stone and I left Monday with, I supposed, only | two gallons of gasoline in our car. We 1 had determined to keep going as long as possible.
 "Once safely out of Munich our enterprising chauffeur revealed to us, covered by blankets, several cans of the precious fluid, in all enough to get us half way to our destination. i Within German Lines. During this journey we actually were within the lines of the German army At one point between Cologne 1 and Crefeld we passed entrenchments being rapidly thrown up by thousands 1 of troops. Entertainments extended on both sides of our highway and as ! far as the eye could reach there were
 masses of troops with field guns and munitions. Moving in the direction of Belgium between Cologne and Bingen, was a continuous line of l troops provision wagons and am- balances. & @t'"
 "At Frankfort, 5000 French pris- oners were pointed out to us. We appeared to be the only persons trav- cling who were not soldiers or of- ficials and the journey was con- tinuous thrill as we momentarily ex- pected to be deprived of our slender
 stock of gasoline. Our fearless chauf- feur worked his siren and passed the caravan of war at a rate of forty miles an hour.
 "At Coblenz we had to make our
 way through enthusiastic crowds who
 were watching the passage of trains loaded with Belgian prisoners. We constantly met ambulances filled with
 wounded soldiers.
 Source of Wonder. "It was a constant source of won der to us that we were not asked oftener to explain our presence. Only at rare intervals were we requested to show our papers and when it was seen that we were Americans we were greeted with courtesy.
 we arrived in Cologne Tuesday
 night after having run 250 miles dur
 ing the day. We pushed on to
 Crefeld. The highway was congest-
 ed with guns, ambulances and muni-
 tions of war of all kinds, but only
 once did we seem to be in real danger.
 This was when two soldiers pointed
 their guns menacingly at our heads
 as our deliberate chauffeur took his time in stopping on their orders.
 Most Difficult Of All.
 "This last stage of our journey was
 the most difficult of all. As We were
 travelling on a war highway in the
 immediate rear of a great battlefield
 we were stopped dozens of times Our
 success in getting through was due
 largely to the resourcefulness of our
 chauffeur. Among other things
 which helped us was a little German
 flag placed on the radiator of the machine It seems that an order. of which we were ignorant, had been is-