The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-09-10

Wao wonderfully accurate and H1p11.
he Teutons would concentrate their
eatire fire on one battery and when
that vas out ef action would turs To
another.
When the British retired before the
German onset he remained In the
trenches SO as to get pictures Of the
eearging Germans At close quarters.
No snapped pictures until the Ger
Dans were within . hundred yards Of
tAe abandoned trenches and then ran
~ life. He said the storm OF bullets
vas 20 thick he was afraid the Kansas
uDdertaker would never get the Job Of
borying him. He says the British b.
hAyed with the greatest gallantry and
retired In perfect order. but they
would have been wiped out II they had
remained.
FED BY Frsaeh.
That night he bivouacked with q
French line regiment. the men giving
him food and = blanket. The next
Dorning he was arrested for the tenth
t1ne and taken before the general
commanding the division and stripped
and searched and sent to Amiens IN
Der guard with orders to leave instant
" for England.
AT the train for BOulOgne was pull
ing out packed to the doors with refu
sees, he noticed n nrst-class compart
ment marked reserved" and Occu-
pied only by a young woman.
The train was moving. but Thomp
son took running jump and dived
through an open window into the lap
OF the astonished woman. She was
cons derably startled until he ex-
planned he was an American.
The woman. who was young and
good looking, proved to be q Russian
Of high family leaving Paris for St.
Petersburg.
The government had given her the
compartment. but she had lost her
maid and all her money. Thompson
told her the Scotland Yard detectives
would search him when the train
reached BQulogne. and asked her If
ahe would conceal his Aims on her
person
Paid In Cigar Coupons.
She consented. but asked for the
danger she was incurring to be paid
5000 He had only $50. SO he paid her
the balance in cigar coupons, which
he explained was American war cur,
rency She seemed quite satisfied
Thompson said he paid her almost
enough coupons to get briar pipe.
At Boulogne, he was arrested,
stripped, and searched, but nothing
was found He was permitted to con
tinue to London. where he went to the
countess hotel and recovered his neg
atives. An hour later he was on the
way to the continent again.
He landed at Ostend and managed
to get train as far as Malines. Their
he started to walk 25 miles to Brus
sells carrying huge camera, and over
coat, field glasses, a revolver and 300
films
When he was ten miles from the
highway . dozen uhlans suddenly
spurred out from q wood and covered
him with their pistols. He pulled al
American flag out Of his pocket anc
shouted "Hoch der Kaiser" and "Aui
Weidersehen." which was all the Ger
man he knew.
Upon being examined by the Ger
man officers he explained that his Ca
fn1c vrnvoly q Hind
to get through the lines OF the allies
and that he really represented a syn
dicate Of German newspapers in Mil
waukee, whereupon he was released
and sent into Brussels In a motor car
Taken ~ Spy.
Next day a German Oflicer saw him
chatting with an English girl in front
Of q cafe and ordered his arrest as 4
SPY. Thompson said: "All right. I'm
used to being arrested. bat just wait
until get your picture"
The officer was so furious he
smashed the camera with his sword.
The Germans destroyed all the films
and ordered him to leave the city in an
hour or be shot He left and walked
50 miles from Brussels to Ostend
where I met him in the consulate. He
said he had been there over night. was
tired Of the quiet life and wanted tc
see some excitement. So I brought
him with me in our car to Antwerp.
The last saw Of him he was wiring
ing the hand OF the chief OF the gen
eral stan and asking permission tc
take pictures from a Belgian aero
plane. They might as well give him
permission. because he will do 1t any
way.