The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-25

1t was inevitable that the enemy
should know of thissvisit to the Brit
Ish lines, and a Turkish deserter who /
came over to the British forces told
Of the terrible tortures to which
Greenway was subjected in the en-
deavor to find out 1.-The were really
deaf and dumb,
A week later Greenway, suffering
aSouies from gangrene, which had |
supervened the wrenching out of the |
finger nails, returned to the British |
lines, The doctor had to take off the |
left arm, And then this great hero, |
still In the guise OF an Arab, told all |
the enemy's plans, described their po- |
sitions, their batteries and encamp- |
ments, giving to our officers informa- |
ton which they could have secured In
no other way, and which was of in |
calculable value.
In April of last year there came |
another letter to Mr., Holmes, in which
Greenway described how he reached
his beloved and their little children
1t was a perilous journey, and very
difficult because he was weak from
dysentery and privations. But event
ually he got to Basra, where by luck
he met his father-in-law, whose ship
made sail for Mocha, calling at Alden
late in March, But his home was
gone, The Turks, discovering his
service to Britain, had determined to
be avenged and they had swooped
down from the north, so horsemen
strong. to destroy his home and carry
away his family, By chance the wife
and children were working in q field
at the time, and were warned Of the
danger to fee into the wilderness.
But his heart was restless. He
wanted to do something more for Eng
land. And the way was pointed out
as he strolled about one afternoon in
Alden. Here he overheard a CONVEX
sation between two German officers,
who were disguised as traders. They
were talking of a great arsneal which
the Turks had filled with German
munitions near Bagdad, and of plans
they had for blowing up ships with
devilish time-explosives hidden in
Alden.
And now. comes the great story of
| the blowing up of this mighty ar
senal.
In the book entitled "Besieged in
Kut," by Major Barber, the explosion
| of the arsenal is described, while a
| letter to Mr.. Blackwood from a pris-
oner of war in Kut from May to
August of 1916 gives ,corroborative
evidence of the character and time of
the explosion.
His Deadly Clocks.
1
in Alden, and, luckily. it had a map
in one of the pockets of the very dis
trict to which he was journeying.
And the deadly bombs he carried
were none other than those which the
Germans had hidden in Alden. The
river trip was without mishap, and
| eventually, after seven days af1oat,
the date palms and minarels and
| domes of Bagdad came to view.
Steering for a palm grove by the
waterside, he made fast his boat, then
reused the sleepers in hut close at
hand. No longer mute, he made
them obey the powerful but disguised
German officer confronting them
showing the uniform under his cloak
|. They unquestionably &C
cepted his claims, and he was convey
ed with his goods (these were the
terrible clocks); inside of the very
gates of the arsenal he sought, some
miles down the river.
Marching to the Turkish colonel in
charge, he was received with true
Oriental courtesy. A few German
junior officers who hung about en-
abied him to demonstrate his import
ance. He remembered German
tastes, and had brought Strong drink
with him By nightfall he was mas
ter there. None, he knew, would dare
disobey certain directions he gave for
the safe keeping of his additions to
the stores. The day had passed
pleasantly. His clocks were wound
up and going beautifully, and the
guards slept; he took himself to Bag
dad for an hour or two About
midnight the arsenal blew up with q
> tremendous roar which shook the
, earth.
After this amazing adventure he
rejoined his family, but it was tt
. die. He organized an expedition tc
: punish the Turks who had stolen hi.
home, and he recaptured the boot,
but the accused dysentry returned
and nothing, it seemed, could save
him.
So ends this poignantIy pathetic
= and yet so gloriously great story NJ
further news has come from the ia
off Arab home except sealed not,
book brought to Mr. Holmes by ;
. sailor of the merchant service VIII,
had actually seen Greenway's chill