The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-12
SYNOPSIS.


CHAPTER | = Introductory. Pa
O'Brien tells of his purpose in writ
ing the story of his adventures.
CHAPTER H-Tells of his enlist
ment in the Royal Flying corps. hi
training in Canada and his transfer t,
France for active duty.
CHAPTER IlI-Describes fights il
which he brought down two German
airplanes and his final fight in which
he was brought down wounded Withfr
The German lines and was made {
prisoner of war
CHAPTER IV-Discovery that Ger
man hospital staff barbarously neglect
ed the fa ally wounded and devoted
their energies to restoring those who
might be returned to the firing lines
Witnesses death in fight of his best
chum, Lieutenant Rainey
CHAPTER Vile is taken to the
officers prison CAMP at Courtral
There he began planning his escape
By great sacrifice he manages to save
and hide away two daily rations oil
bread
CHAPTER Vile confiscates a
map of Germany and just half an hour
later is put on train bound for 9
prison camp in Germany He leaps
through a window while the trains is
travelling at rate of 30 miles al
hour.
CHAPTER VI-Fo7 nine days he
crawls through GERM ny, hiding dur
ms. the day, travelling a night, guild
cd Z the stars and subsistins on raw
veges ables. He covers 70 miles before
reaching Luxembourg
.8iEIAI'TER VIII-For nine days
more he struggles on in a weakened
condition through Luxembourg in the
direction of Belgium.
CHAPTER IX-He endures terrible
hardships, swims rivers while deliri
GUS from hunger, living like a hunted
animal and on the eighteenth day af
ter jumping from the train he crosses
into Belgium
Chapter X-When we'll on his
way through Belgium he is befriended
one night by a Flemish peasant, who
feeds him and dire him to a mar
in Belgian city " viii help him
to get passport.
CHAPTER Kill u iAgfing witt
Belgian peasants he raan9gos to elude
German soldiers and reaches the Bel
gian city where he fege the he-9e oil
the man from whom be azrects help
CHAPTER XII-4IIuyliger forges 8
passport for O'Brien and promises to
assist him in getting into Holland
Later Huyliger and his associates de
mand an exorbitant sum for theiI
services and OiBrien break with
them.
CHAPTER XIII-He spends five
days and nights in an unoccupied
house without food except for the
scraps he picks up in night forays.
CHAPTER XIV-To gain confidence
for the adventures to come in his at
lures one night into a moving picture
theater patronized by German soldiers
CHAPTER XV-Some observations
is Belgian city.
CHAPTER XVI-He leaves the city
in the daytime and after some hair
raising adventures reaches the from
tier of Holland.
CHAPTER XIWII-IIe passes the
e ectrically charged wire barrier thai
separates Belgium from Holland by
digging under the wire. Seventy-twC
days after he had leaped from the
train he breathes the air of freedom
CHAPTHR XVlIII-lAssisted by the
British consel at Rotterdam he final
" reaches England and gets a sum
mons from the king.
CONTINUED from yesterday
The cable read as follows:
Mrs. III. ]. O'Brien, Momence, Ill.,, U.
S. A.
"Just escaped from Germany. Let
ter follows"
AS l delivered it to the cable dis
patcher / could just imagine the ex-
ultation with which my mother would
receive it and the pride she would
feel as she exhibited it among her
neighbors and friends.
1 could hear the volley of II told
you SOS" that greeted her good It'd
ings.
ut would take more than the kaiser
to keep Pat in Germany" | could hear
one of them saying.
sKnew he'd be back for Christmas,