Arizona republican., 1918-11-26


 Of The Associated Press)-Here is the story of Lieutenant F.. Y. Isaacs of the United States Navy, watch officer of the American transport President Lin coin when that vessel was torpedoed in the Atlantic on May 31st last. He was which sunk the ship. When off the Scandinavian coast he attempted to swim ashore but was caught. On his way to a prison camp in Germany he jumped from a train. but was recap tured. He escaped from the prison and swan across the Rhine river to safety in Switzerland.
 The story. has been told briefly in The Associated Press despatches but its details are so filled with the spirit of adventure as to be well worth the telling.
 When the President Lincoln went Co the bottom of the ocean Lieutenan. Isascs, who is from Cresco, Iowa, climbed upon d raft. Soon afterward the submarine emerged and her com mander demanded the captain ct the President Lincoln as prisoner. Tht sur vivors told him they were aware of that but to save, if possible, the captain | being taken prisoner.
 While this was going on, Lieutenant Isaacs said, he lay on the raft with his arms under him to hide the officer s stripes on his uniform but without sue | cess, and he was ordered aboard the submarine. It was the U-90 and her commander, Capt. Rerfsy, had resided in the United States and England and spoke English fluently.
 Apparently Kenny had been affected by our civilization" said the Lieuten- | ant, as he treated me pleasantly while l inquiring as to the whereabouts of the | skipper of the Lincoln. I was told that I would tell him where he could find our captain or go to Germany myself as a prisoner. I could not conform to his first command and of course would not have had been able to-
 The young officer said that he was given a good bunk on the submarine and four good meals daily including meat, eggs and real coffee. The fo:- lowing day as the submarine was cruising about seeking new victims sh, wa ssighted by two American de- stroyers.
 While the destroyers were plungins toward us we were getting under water as rapidly as possible and finally stopped at a depth of so meters" Lieu tenant Isaac said. When the depth bombs began exploding every German was at his station tense and pretty badly scared Now and then a junior officer would sing out to the captaIl that a destroyer was about so far away to starboard or port as the case might have been. They were recording the positions with their listening devices Then would come g. depth charge. It is difficult to describe just the sensation but it seemed to me much like a dos shaking a rat and it was anything but pleasant to be in the rat. With each eK- plosion a look of horror would flasi over the faces of the Germans, for they expected every moment that one of tn, charges would be fired btt closer snt they knew their craft could not with stand it."
 Too many destroyers were in tha area for comfort, so Remy headed fol the Kiel canal the next night. When of the Scandinavian coast, Lieutenan Isaacs said he decided to attempt t, swim to shore when the submarine ap preached territorial waters. With hl! life-be on, he was just slipping ove the side shortly after midnight when n' was discovered by Remy himself ant :. pulled aboard.
 On arrival at Wilhelmshaven. h, was kept three days on q submarine mother" ship and three days in a lanC prison, carefully guarded and badly fed During this time he was taken to tn, German battleship Kaiser Wilhelm Il the flasshi, of the fleet, and questioned by staff officer
 T finally told him that the Unitei States would send so many men t' France that the battle lines wouldn. hold them,' said the lieutenant. T wa then taken to Karlsruhe and placed Il a. hotel room bv myself the first day The next day I was put into snotne room with eight French officers, having been learned in the meant;m that I spoke French. These rooms al terward learned were known as tn listening rooms" and they were right ly named. The F'renchmen and foun three dictaphones and destroyed them The next day l was placed in room with three British officers and ther were dictaphones in that room"
 After a few days at Karlsruhe, tn lieutenant was started for prelimi nary distributing camp at Vilringer Badan In the railway carriage wit him were two guards. He was unawar of conditions at the Villingen cam and decided to try to get away fror the train if the slightest opportunit came.
 "One of the guards seemed to be doz ing while the other was interested i something out the other side of tn carriage, when I dove through the car risge window" the officer said 9Th train was moving more rapidly than believed, for I received an awful bum