The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-19

at the frontier he built bridge to get across the charged wire barrier. but broke through and was nearly killed. He dug under the barrier and after hiding in a barn for several days un- til he was quite sure he was on the right side of the fence he hurried joy fully of to the British consul.
 In February. 1917, three Britishers escaped from a German prison camp where they had been set to making bricks They were Robert Bruce of the Gordon Highlanders, Frederick Hawkins of the Wits Regiment and John Davis of the Royal Welch Flu Eileera
 They had several times seen men trying to escape shot without being asked to surrender, at other times when the prisoners escaped to the de- mand that they should surrender by holding up their hands, the sentry nevertheless shot them dead.
 But despite these examples of what happens to man who tries to escape and doesn't make it, the three Brit ishers bided their time and took their chance when they thought 1t was brightest.
 There Is a touch of humor in the escape of the little French prisoner who got out of Germany by wrapping himself neatly around the pedals of a piano. He found the piano, huge instrument, carefully boxed in a Der lin station He succeeded in opening one of the sides of the box, and then crawled inside
 %@ hinge on one of the boards of the box 90 that at intervals in the course of a nine days' journey he was able to come out for air and exercise. Lieut. AldatoT, a Russian officer, escaped from an Austrian prison by announcing that he had Musselman soul, which inspired him with 1ongng to enter the Turkish army. This great | ly pleased his Austrian captors, who 1 conducted him on railway Journey with the object of gratifying this de- sire Then Lieut. Aldatof jumped off the rear platform of the train and was heard from no more until he re- 1 joined his Russian regiment
 Sergt Henry Greene, at one time the secretary of the French Embassy at Vienna, attempted to escape from the war prison camp at Muenster, Wespha1ia, brought back and lashed to post. But when he got free again and had red, white and blue stripe painted on his arm to show that he was dangerous. he tried again. this time accompanied by an English of fcer.
 They rode the first stage of their | Journey in a refuse cart having crawled into the bottom of the cart so that the refuse would be dropped over I them. The cart started of with the refuse six feet deep .Aad two stou, German soldiers piled on top of them.
 They were dumped in a field along with the refuse. Having taken plenty of pepper with them to throw the dogs off the scent they were able to es- cape to the Dutch frontier. Here they thought they would grapple with a sentry who barred their path. and this one at least would be able to make his escape. So they fell on an extremely stiff example of a German military man who waA standing guard and discovered that he was nothing more fearful than a dummy cut out of the hedge and dressed in German uniform.
 There are many others who escaped in all manner of extraordinary ways
 some by hiding themselves in the | holds or even on the decks of vessels
 others by passing themselves off as Germans or peasants of the occupied territories, sometimes even eonvers- ing pleasantly with men who were looking for them, and who didn't recognize their quarry when they saw it.
 Altogether 1t is a record that makes - one realize how indefatigable and how
 triumphant over great odds is the un. t crushed spirit of man.