The Cordova daily times., 1916-07-14

were approaching the electrif1ed oD
 stacle. Nippers were no use here, but
 the trellis was fixed upon posts, leav
 ing about a foot of space underneath
 Brousset went first and I watched
 him breathlessly until he drew his
 foot safely under the wire on the
 other side. Then followed, still hold
 ing my breath. until l also had gone
 under the dangerous barrier.
 "The most difficult work had not
 been done; on the other side of the
 three barbed wire lines were the silh,
 ouettes Of two sentinels scarcely 20
 yards away. When we got through
 the barbed wire, were in plain view
 of them and had nothing to do but make a sprint for a clump of bushes
 nearby. We succeeded in reaching
 them without being observed. The
 sentinels went away, and we took up our journey toward the frontier. Three peasants chased us in the morning for
 an hour, until we finally threw them
 off our track in a wood Near Bele-
 field two hunters set their dogs upon us. For this eventuality we had pro-
 vided ourselves with pepper, which
 proved effective. We avoided the vii.
 lage of Rheines by following a route of the woods and marshes, and crossed
 Metelen at midnight; then more
 marshes that seemed interminable. It took us two nights to get over them, sleeping in the day time among the bulrushes and eating meagerly of the little provision that we had calculated might keep us alive ten days.
 After nine days of privation and exhaustion we arrived at Ahams to- ward midnight, close to the frontier town of Breden. Again liberty was within few hundred yards of us when we had the misfortune to run straight into a German frontier GUS toms house. In our flight I stumbled over a stone at the very instant a customs officer fired at my back. lay motionless, and the officer, think ing I had been hit, joined his com rades in the pursuit of Brousset. As soon as the officers had disappeared I got up and went to hide in bushes nearby. At that moment l was on Dutch territory, but unfortunately did not suspect it. I thought I was safe though until a half hour later l heard the steps of a patrol, then the rays of a strong electric lamp searched the bushes. The Germans, remember ing where had fallen, had come back to look for men. Suddenly the rays of the electric lamp struck me full in the face and almost blinded me. Sur render or we'll fire on you" cried one of the subaltern officers. I rose and advanced towards him, and had only made about four yards between my bush and the patrol when the Ger mans began to snicker It is unfor- tunate for you. but you have just come out of Holland The only thing that consoled me was that Brousset had not been taken. He was now in safety.
 Again returned to the camp at and again brought before the court.martial, was sentenced to twenty days of close confinement in an unlighted cell, and afterwards sent to the prison of Recklinghausen, where the Germans thought would find no further opportunity to escape. There I met Adjutant Bienvenu, of the 18th infantry, Messrs. Major Durupt de Ba- laine, and two civilian prisoners, Messrs. Van Calster and Yves Le- guen. We all of us decided to attempt to escape at the first opportunity. and we fixed Christmas as the most favor able time. We succeeded in breaking out of the barracks from the second floor cell occupied by Van Calster, and with the aid of barrel got over the courtyard wall, not unperceived, how ever, for immediately we were outside there came the cry, Halt Wer Da!' Some boys had seen us and given the alarm. In an instant all the sentinels were at our heels. At top speed we went through a street, a garden and another street, and how we got over the icy soil so much better than our pursuers am unable to explain. After we had distanced the sentinels, score of boys gave us chase, but soon left them in the rear, and at nightfan had rid ourselves of all pursuers and had the entire night to put distance be- ..khor> and ouruoIyoG 2