The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-08
TELL OF ESCAPE
 FROM WAR CAMP
Three French Soldiers Adopt
 Daring Method of Evad- ing Germans.

The London correspondent of the Washington Star says: The French soldiers who managed to escape from a prisoners camp in Germany have just arrived in London. They are Sergeant Louis MouiIlot, Joanny Bril- liant, private, and Emile Houthaeye, private. Here is the story of their adventures they told today:
 we were captured by the Germans at Maubeuge September 2 with 25,- 900 French and Belgians and about 200 British The greater part of the prisoners were marched in parties of about 200 to Estinne ont. We were hurried on so fast that a mum Der of prisoners fell out en route. and one French gunner fell dead from ex- haustion. when the column halted. He was hurried to the roadside before the march was resume ed. At Estinne- au-Mont we were taken aboard train and finally lodged at F'rederichsfelde, a camp near Vessel, where thirty huts had been erected.
 sOn our Journey we received 1 neither food nor drink and had to de- pend on the charity of the Belgfans, who gave us bread, and water and fruit at the stations. At the camp we 1 were divided into sections, one for the l French, one for the Belgians and one for the British. Altogether there were about 5000 prisoners at the camp.
  "On the whole the French and Bel gian prisoners were not badly treat ed, but the food was very coarse and the supply not at all generous. The British prisoners were treated worst of all. When in the first few days at the camp the food was really short, the British prisoners were almost starving. If there was a dirty job to be done about the camp it was the tsBrit1sh who had to do it. Francais. comradesi' the German guard used to | say. 'Ang1yais bah!' and they would draw a finger across the throat ex- pressiveIy.
 Tt was Brilliant escape that gave us our idea of getting away. Brilliant was out with a fatigue party, and when they went back to the camp he remained behind and hid in a potato patch till dark. Then he made off across the country, but he had no map and when he was only three miles \. from the Dutch frontier he ran into the arms of a German customs off Ger. who sent him back to camp. For 1 this Brilliant was sentenced to a fort night in a dark cell on bread and wa
 The camp was surrounded by a I thick entang1ement of electrified l barbed wire and high barbed-vviTe 4 palisades 50 escape was only possible ! by ruse. It was when watching the I fatigue parties going out of an after noon to bury rubbish that the ser l geant hit on the idea that saved us I He got himself appointed in charge or fatigue party, ordered some o1 I his men to take two schoveIs each ii. l stead of one, and as his party passed l through the camp signed to us to join l up There was also a fourth man wrt escaped with us, but who has remain .l ed in Holland Il Plan of Escape.
 After we had worked, some time f ourylng the rubbish, the sergeant made a sign and our comrades put Brilliant and Houthaeve in hole filled it in with sand up to tbai, waists and then after putting a piece or saeking over their heads covered them lip with loose straw and pieces or wood and paper. Finally ou, comrades and sserkeant were sirnilarl,