The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-03
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER | - Introductory. Pat
OBrien tells of his purpose in writ
ing the story of his adventures.
CHAPTER H-Tells of his enlist
menb in the Royal Flying corps, his
training in Canada and his transfer to
France for active duty.
CHAPTER iII-Describes fights in
whica he brought down two German
airplanes and his final fight in which
he was brought down wounded within
the German lines and was made a
prisoner of war.
CHAPTER IV-iDiscovery that Ger.
man hospital staff barbarously neglect
ed the fatally wounded and devoted
their energies to restoring those who
might DE returned to the firing lines.
Witnesses death in fight of his best
chum, Lieutenant Rainey.
tJEiAPTER Vile is taken to the
officers prison tpmp at Courtral.
There he began planning his escape.
By great sacrifice he manages to save
and hide away two daily rations OF
bread.
CHAPTER Willie confiscates
map of Germany and just half an hour
elater is put on a train bound for
prison camp in Germany. He leaps
through window wi lie the trains is
travelling at rate Ct 80 miles an
hour
< lAPTER VII-iFor nine days he
craN through Germany, hiding dur
ing the day. travelling a night, guild
ed by the stars and subsisting on raw
vegetables. He covers 70 miles before
reaching Luxembourg.
CHAPTER VIII-For nine days
more he struggles on in weakened
condition through Luxembourg in the
direction of Belgium.
CHAPTER GX-He endures terrible
hardships, swims rivers while deliri-
Gus from hunger, living like a hunted
animal and on the eighteenth Gay af-
ter jumping from the train he crosses
into Belgium.
CHAPTER X-Vbco we'll on his
way through Belgiu g is befriended
one night by a Fle1ilg peasant, who
feeds him and direets aim to man
in Belgian city 4o gill help him
to get a passport.
CHAPTER XI-B, ii leliag NTH
Belgian peasants he laaa res 20 elude
German soldiers and reaclcs the Bel
gian city where he finds the home of
he man from whom he exaects help.
continued from yesterday
do not mean to imply that all Bel
gians are like this. l had evidently
fallen into the hands of a gang who
were endeavoring to make capital out
of the misfortunes of those who were
referred to them for help. In all coun-
tries there are bad as we'll as good,
and in a country which has suffered SO
much as poor Belgium it is no wonder
if some of the survivors have lost their
sense of moral perspective.
| know that the average poor peas
ant in Belgium would divide his scanty
rations with a needy fugitive sooner
than wealthy Belgian would dole
out a morsel from his comparatively
well-stocked larder. Perhaps the poor
have less to lose than the rich if their
generosity or charity is discovered by
the Huns.
There have been many Belgians shot
for helping escaped prisoners and other
fugitives, and it is not to be wondered
at that they are willing to take as few
chances as possible A man with a
family, especially, does not feel jus
tilted in helping a stranger when he
knows that he and his whole family
may be shot or sent to prison for their
pains.
Although l suffered much from the
attitude of Huyliger and his associates,
| suppose l ought to hold no grudge
against them in view of the unenviable
predicament in which they are in
themselves.