Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-11-25
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captain had gone down with the ship
not that they were aware of that but
TO save, if possible, the captain being
taken prisoner.
While this was going on Lieutenant
Isaacs said. he lay on the raft with
his arms under him to hide the Of
ficers stripes on his uniform but
without success, and he was ordered
aboard the submarine. 1t was the
U-90 and her commander. Captain
Remy, had resided in the United
States and England and spoke Eng
lish fluently.
Apparently Remy had been affect
ed by our civilization" said the lieu
tenant, "as he treated me pleasantly
while inquirng as to the whereabouts
of the skipper of the Lincoln. l was
told that | would tell him whore he
could find our captain or go to Ger
many myself as a prisoner. l could
not conform to his first command and
of course would not have had been
able to-.
Was Well Treated.
The young officer said that he
was given a good bunk on the sub
marine and four goods meals daily IN
Guiding meat. eggs and real co1tee.
The following day as the submarine
was cruising about seeking new VIC
Tins she was sighted by two American
destroyers.
while the destroyers were plung-
ing toward us we were getting under
water as rapidly as possible and final
ly stopped at a depth of sixty meters,
Lieutenant Isaacs said. 'When the
depth bombs began exploding every
German was at his station and pretty
l,nY,
officer would sing out to the captain
that a destroyer was about so tar
away to starboard or port as the case
might have been. They were record
ing the positions with their listening
devices. Then would come depth
charge. 1t is difficult to describe Just
the sensation, but it seemed TO me
much like a dog shaking rat ana
il was anything but pleasant to be IN
the rat With each explosion a look
of horror would flash over the faces
of the Germans, for they expected
every moment that one of the charges
would be fired bit closer and they
knew their craft could not withstand
it,"
Too many destroyers were in that
area for comfort, so Remy headed for
the Kiel canal the next night When
off the Scandinavian coast Lieutenant
Isaacs said he decided to attempt to
swim to shore when the submarine
approached territorial waters. With
his life-belt on, he was just slipping
over the side shortly after midnight
when he was discovered by Remy
himself and pulled aboard.
On arrival at Wilhelmshaven he was
kept three days on submarine
oh IA "A
land prison, carefully guarded and
badly fed. During this time he was
taken to the German battleship Kaiser
Wilhelm II, the flagship of the fleet,
and questioned by staff officer.
Placed i'm Listening Room.
81 finally told him that the United
States would send so many men to
France that the battle lines wouldn't
hold them" said the lieutenant. Il
was then taken to Karlsruhe and
placed in a hotel room by myself the
first day. The next day / was put in
to another room with eight French Of
flcers, it having been learned in the
meantime that / spoke French. These
rooms 1 afterward learned were
known as the listening rooms" and
they were rightly named. The
Frenchmen and l found three dicta-
phones and destroyed them The next
day l was placed in a room with three
British officers and there were die
taphones in that ROOM"
After a few days at Karlsruhe, the
lieutenant was started for prelim-
mary distributing camp at Villingens
Baden In the railway carriage with
him were two guards. He was UNI
aware of conditions at the Villingen
IN FRY Tn a WI
from the train if the slightest oppor-
tunity came.
Zone of the guards seemed to be !
doing while the other was interested !
in something out on tina other side of |
the carriage, when / dove through |
the carriage window" the officer |
said. THE train was moving more |
rapidly than l believed. for l received ;
and awful bump on the head and both |
Of my knees were cut on the iron ties |
If the parallel track.
Il scrambled into the brush as best
1 could. Very soon bullets were
whistling about me as the train had
been stopped and guards were on my
trail. | could not make sDeed in the
l was in, so to save my life
held up my hands in token of surren-
der when the guards were about sew
enty-five yards away.
when they came up to me one OF
them welcomed me with a blow with
his rifle. | was beaten and kicked and
knocked down seven or eight times
before they finally loaded me back
nto the train.
Arriving at the camp I was
'wathed in paper bandages-they have
very little cloth in Germany, you
know. Had 1t not been for food Sup
,lied by the Red Cross, I'm sure
would have starved to death but with
hat we Jared very well and within a
ncnth l had regained my strength.
There were about $50 Russian officers
Ind seventy-five American officers In
he camp"
Plan to Escape.
Lieutenant Isaacs and other officers
began to lay plans for es-
ape by collecting necessary articles,
uch as pieces of wire rope and short
boards with which to make a ladder
f necessary. They also traded some
If their food to Russian for a pair
f wire cutters he had struggled into the
amp. Three different times they had
heir escape plans completed, each
ime with the connivance of Russian,
nd each time they had reason to be-
ieve the Germans had been appraised
nd they did not try.
FINALLY we learned they were to :
AXE all the Russians away on Octoberl ,
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