The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-10-10

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from IN English merchant who had
escaped from German detenfion camp
and came 10 me for assistance and
whom ! had been able to get through
the lines. His message telling me Of
his safe arrival In Rotterdam came to
me In an indirect way. Of course. but
the fact that the plans we had made
carried through without mishap makes
me feel that we ought to be able 20 do
ss much for you
told HuyiiEer I was ready to follow
his instructions and would do any
thing he sugEested
y want to rejoin my squadron ~
eoou n possibly can" told him.
Aut ! realize that Il viii take . Ger
In length Of fime for yoa 10 make the
necessary Arrangements, and viii b
- psticnt ~ can"
The firsf thing 10 do. Huyliger told
me, was to prepare passport. He had
= blank one and IL w'ns comparatively
simple matter to fIl In the spaces. us-
ing u genuine passport which Huylieer
Possessed as . sample of the hand
writing of the passport clerk. Ny oc-
eupntion was entered ~ that Of q
sailor. My birthplace we gave as
Spain. and we put my age at thirty.
As matter OF fact. at that time 1
esuid easily have passed for thirty
ave. but we figured that with proper
food and . decent place to sleep mt
night. ! could soon regnin my normal
appearance. and the passport would
have to serve me. perhaps. for several
weeks TO come.
Filling In the blank spaces ON tie
parstively easy matter. bot that did
not begin to MI the bill. Every geuu-
Inc passport bore an ofiiciai rubber
stamp, something Hike an elaborate
pcstmark. and i was at . loss 30 know
how to get ovsF that difhcylty..
Fortunately. however. Huyiiger had
half Of q rubber stamp which had evil
IDENTIFY been thrown away by the Ger
mans. and he planned to construct the
Other half out OF the cork from wine
bottle. He was very skfllful with u
cenknife. aud although he spcilt
score or more OF corks before he sue
ceeded In cutting anything like the
result he was after, the flnished article
was far better than our most eanguine
expectations. Indeed. after We had
pared It over here end there, and re-
moved whatever iInperfections our re-
peated test disclosed. We had stamp
which made an Impression - closely
resembling the original that without
mngnifying glass. we were surc, II
would have been impossible to tel
that Il was q counteSfeit.
Huyliger procured . camera and
took q photograph Of me to paste on
the passport In the place provided for
that purpose. and We then had . pass
port which was entirely satisfactory
TO both of M and would, we hoped.
prove equally 70 to our friends the
Huns.
It had taken two days to Az up the
passport. In the meanwhile Huyliger
informed me that he had changed his
plans about the convent and that In
stcad hc woull take me to an empty
house. whore could remain In safety
until he told me Il WAS advisable for
mo 70 proceed to the frontier.
This wns quite agreeable to me, a I
Ind had nlisgivings a. 70 the kind
Of = priest ! would make ard Il seemed
to me to be rafer to remain alocf from
everyone In deserted house than to
have to ningle with people Or come IN !
coataeS with sAsn. svsn With ~ ~
of disguisen. s, !,
/. That night I accompehied HQyoleer
= fnshionabls sectloA q IL cl1ys!
where the house n WhleA 4 N1s = 6s1
eQncealed was locat9 n y; s..; ii ( &
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rtofG e&RuctuEo N bfkclks 41eil1Rr teia
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