New-York tribune., 1918-01-21

SAID the aviator, indicating a scar GOV.
cred in part by a sandy mustache.
I'm killed, I'm killed. kept re-
pcating to myself as I fell" said Lieu
'.1 tenant O'Brien, continuing his stor.~
The next thing knew | was looking
INTO the face of q German doctor in
n Bochc hospital behind their lines
lie showed me the bullet he had taken
out Of my head
Told Huns to Guess Again
"Thcy kept me there six DAYS. Then
was taken before the Intelligence
bureau of the Flying Corps. was
questioned at great length by a Hun
|no SAID the Americans would mobilize
100000 men, but that only 100000
would come to France, the rest being
required for service against the Jan
ancsc. told him to guess again and
Courtrai."
Three weeks later. continued the
lieutenant, he with seven French and
belgian prisoners. was put aboard a
train for transportation to a prison
camp in the German interior. Four
armed guards accompanied the prison
ers, the party travelling in a small
fourth class compartment. Starting be-
burg when. late in the afternoon.
O'Bricn decided to escape.
81 knew Werc'd be no chance, once I
was in the camp he said "The only
way was out Of the window, but the
train was travelling at from thirty to
thirty-iive miles an hour. Look out Of a
window OF train some time and you'll
sec how it feels. I began hacking and
coughing. 'Gott in himmcl,' told the
bochcs, it's hot in here and they Jet mo
put down the window When | got it
down I suddenly sprang through, hit
ting the gravel conside rable."
The train failed to stop as quickly as
the guards wanted it to and O'Brien
was able to gain cover before they came
up, he said. Swearing at every Ameri-
can trait and tradition, they searched
Tor him III vain. and finally returned to
tho train, which continued on it's wav
prisonward. For eighty-three days
OBrien trudgcd through the mud of
Luxembourg and Belgium before he
reached the Dutch frontier. ALTHOUGH
the actual distance from his startino
point to Holland, he says, is only about
seVenty-two miles. he travelled at loast
2oo before he reached safety.
Lived on Bcets and Turnips
Mlies ana miles OF beetS and turnip3
nothing but beets and turnips in ali
the country I saw" he said. 81 saw
enough bects and turnips to feed Ger.
many for years. They fed me all the
time was there had nothing else
except two pcars-don't forget to men
ton the pears"
For moro than one month Lieutenant
O'Brien wore hia Royal Flying Corns
uniform while making his way by night
through Germany. Then he manaeed to
annex pair of Teuton trousers from
a Teuton clothesli,.e and coat from,
bochc barn. When he finally reacheJ
the Dutch frontier he found it barrod
by ninefoot fence of clectrica,l,
charged wire. He built a ladder of
small trees and twigs, only to fall from
II and to receive severe shock fro,,
the wires. Then he dug under the We
and reached, in turn, Dutch soil ~
American Consul at Rotterdam. London
and Hing George, and finally New YorL
I've got three months leave and
then I'm going back. III show the
oochcs I'm not casualty yet. I'll ho
glad to meet some of those Hun fliers
again. They're not bad-treated m.'
rNctty decently. want to say thera,s
. chivalry among the Allied and enemr
Tiers which would do honor to th'.
knighthood of old N''0