The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1916-04-08
FLED FRANCE IN
PLANE, He SAYS
American Tells a Marvellous
Tale Of Adventures at Front.
FEARED THE FIRING SQUAD.

Arrested After Attempting to Send
Dispatches by the Censor. He Broke
Out Of Jail. Walked Many Miles and
Met an American Aviator, Who Took
Him Safely to England.
Thomas A. Price. a news writer, of
Audubon. y. j.. came back from the
European battlefelds the ether day
with a story OF strange and divers ad
ventures The narrative as Price told
this fight from court ms rtial and
death in France. crossing the English
channel ia an aeroplane and returning
60 New York as a stowaway board the
American liner Philadelphia follows:
i went over last May us a free
lance. But soon found thst could
net see anything more than the author
tiles wanted me to see. and / couldn't
send that out unless they wee willing
5" ! went to Kent and enlisted as
Canadian | was sent to Fra nee about
Il Isl Of July to station at KEN.
m. between Yprcs and Mess ines, with
IL Second divisional Ammunition
cn-S WAS made a dispat ch rider,
ata Neat al through the French and
II th"s. under shell fire most Of
= ae
ag the battle of Loo, and got
=" - he base hospital at stapes as
= ii - icing buried in a shell era
II
All His News Censored.
he time | was trying to get
A.n" out. but | found that every
IL -- wrote was slashed At last
70 .,ii u min going to England on leave.
n hc asreed 10 take some of my
staI cont know whether they trap
ped him or whether he turned back on
M. but was arrested AMI held for
court martial. The rules are severe in
such things. ana death is usually the
punishment.
Il was pat in prison ut Nestoutre.
Belgium. in an old building that had
been hit by shell fire. 1t looked easy
TO escape. AMI as | saw nothing ahead
but the firing squad | ma lie the at
tempt When the sentry was lounginc
In corner out of sight | SLIPPED away
l could only travel by night for | was
hemmed In on all sides. At Ploeg
street. near the Belgian Frelch border
| got caught in the middle of a body
of troops accidentally. and1I had t.
hide IN a haystack for four days with
out food or water before they moved
on. weighed 40 pounds when
started. and I'm down to 40 now
The whole trip was practically con
tinucus fast.
Saved by American Aviator.
AT last | got 10 an await on hangar
at Ballieul. about eight miles across
the French border | hid near by. liv
ing on raw turnips from the fields an,
creeping i'm when no one was arount
TO gather up the leavings from the sol
sliers' mess
AT last one day | heard an Ameri
can talking. was hiding behind
hedge fence. and | managed to get hin
alone | told him the whole yarn, an
begged him TO get my mt moranduI
book home 10 my folks. But the Amer
I
did more lie was starting with som
dispatches across the chanllel. and h
PUT me Oh his machine, gDggled an
disguised "a his helper We were THU
ty-tive miles from the chanllel, the dis
lance across was twenty miles. an
he dropped me near Hendoil. where b
was going. sixty miles inlind, dli
lance of 10 miles in all Then h
gave me IA pound note and left me.
made for my old quarters at Londo
and got some clothes and enough MOI
ey 10 take me TO Liverpool.
II sneaked aboard and hid In n
sand lockers. ! expected e be caugl
even them. for although had III
American passport. | wol ldn't nav
dared 10 show il. for il wol Id have +
vealed me as Price. n deselter. But
found that | could walk among Il
stcerage passengers without anybod
suspecting that | was not one or then
When the ship docked just wake
ashore as one OF the crew, and som
how or other | got by with it.