Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-24
LIEUT.. HAACS TELLS OF CAPTURE BY SUBS
 LAND HIS THRILLING ESCAPE TO SWEDEN

l ol He RSSocldled Press. )--Here i l the story of Lieutenant E. V. Isaacs of the United States Navy, watch off
 cer of the American transport Presi dent Lincoln when that vessel was torpedoed in the Atlantic on Ma, 3l, last. He was captured by the ] German, submarine which sunk the l ship. When off the Scandinavian coast he attempted to swim ashore l but was caught. On his way to | prison camp in Germany he jumped rom tram. but was recaptured. He escaped from the prison and swan across the Rhine river to safety in Switzerland.
 The story has been briefly told in The Associated Press despa1ches, but It's details are so filled with the spirit Of adventure as to be we'll worth the telling
 Captured From Raft.
 When the President Lincoln went to the bottom Of the ocean, Lieuten- ant lssacs, who is from Cresco, Iowa climbed upon a raft Soon afterward the submarine emerged and her com- mander demanded the captain of the President Lincoln as prisoner. The survivors told him they believed the 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, Lieuten- ant lsaacs said. he lay on the raft with his arms under him to hide the officers stripes on his uniform but without success. and he was order ed aboard the submarine. It was the U-90 and her commander, Capt. Remy had resided in the United Sta tes and England and spoke English fluently.
 Apparently Remv had been affect ed by our civilization,' said the Lieu tenant. "as he treated me pleasant ly while inquiring as to whereabouts of the skipper of the Lincoln. I was told that l would tell him where he could find our captain or go to Germany myself as prisoner. | could not conform to his first com mand and of course would not have had 1 been able to-"
 The young officer said that he was given good bunk on the submarine and four good meals daily, includ- ing meat, eggs and real coffee. The following day as the submarine was cruising about seeking new victims she was sighted by two American destroyers.
 Like Dog Shaking Rat.
 While the destroyers were plung ing toward us we were getting un- der water as rapidly as possible and finally stopped at depth of 60 meters," Lieutenant Isaacs said. When the depth bombs began ex- plOding every German was at his sta tion tense, and pretty 'bady scared. Now and then a junior officer. would sing out to the captain that des- troyer was about so far away to star board or port as the case might have been. They were recording the po- sitions with their listening devices. Then would come a. depth charge. It is difficult to describe just the sen satiOn, but it seemed to me much like a dog shaking rat and it was anything but pleasant to be in the rat With each explosion look of horror would flash over the faces of the Germans. for they expected every moment that one of the charges would be fired a bit closer and they knew that their craft could not withstand it."
 Too many destroyers were ill that area for comfort, so Remy headed for the Kiel canal the next night. When off the Scandinavian coast Lieutenant Isaac said he decided to attempt to- swim to shore when the submarine approached territorial wa ters With his life belt on, he was inst slipping over the side shortly after midnight when he was discover ed Iby Remy himself and pulled aboard.
 On arrival at Wilhelmshaven he was kept three days on submarine mother" ship and three days ill q land prison, carefully guarded and baddly fed. During this time he was taken to the German battleship Kali ser wilhelm II, the flagship of tue fleet, and questioned by staff offi- cer.
 q finally told him that the United States would send so many men to France that the battle lines would not hold them," said the Lieutenant. "I was then taken to Karlsruhe and placed in a hotel room by myself the first day. The next day l was put into another room with eight French officers, it having been learned in the meantime that spoke French. These roomms, afterwards learned. were known as the listening rooms,' ana they were rightly named. Phe Frenhc- men and I found three dictaphones and destroyed them. The next day I was placed in room with three British officers and there were dlc- taphones in that room.
 After few days at Karlsruhe, the Lieutenant was started for a prell- minary distributing camp at \Vlllin- gen, Baden. In the railway 'carri- age with him were two guards. ne was unaware of conditions at the Villingen camp and decided to try to get away from the train if the sllgnt- est opportunity came.
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