Baxter Springs news., 1918-11-01
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER III-DescrIbes fights In which
no brought down Two German airplanes
and his final fight In WI. cn he WAS
brought down wounded withln the Ger
man lines and was made prisoner OF
war.
CHAPTER IV-Discovers that German
hospital SIAN beFDaroubly neglected the
fatally wounded anu devoted their ener-
returned TO the firing lines. Witnesses
Death In fight OF has best chum. Lieut..
Paul Rainey.
CHAPTER Vile 10 taken to the Of
dcerB' prison camp at CourtTnl. There he
began planning his escape. BY great Bac-
Tihce he manages to save and hioe Away
two daily rations OF bread.
CHAPTER VILE conflscates map OF
Germany and just half an hour later Is
put on q train bound for q prison camp
In Germany. Ae leaps through windoM
while the train is travelling a. rate OF ~
miles an hour.
CHAPTER vII-Tor nine days he
the day. travelling at night. guided BY ti,e
stars and gubsistlng on raw vegetables.
He covers 70 miles before reaching Lux
ouburg.
CHAPTER VIIl-For nine days more he
struggles on In weakened condition
through Luxemburg In the direction OF
Belgium.
CHAPTER IX-He endures terrible
hardships, swlms rivers while dellrous
from hunger, living like hunted animal
and on the eighteenth day after Jumping
from the train be crosses into Belgium.
CHAPTER X-when well on his way
through Belgium he is befriended one
eignt ny ..ci e EsmSn h e1sI man VINO IN ifsJ Esl.
CLAN city who win help him TO get q pass
Go.t
CHAPTER XI-By IpinEling with Bel
giOn peasants he manages to elnde Ger
man soldiers and reaches the Belgian city
where he finds the home OF the man from
whom he expects help.
CHAPTER SsII-1iuyilser forges pass.
BORT for OBrlen and promises 10 assist
him In getting Into Holland. Later Huy-
orbitant sum for their services and
O'Brien breaks with them.
CHAPTER XIII-He spends five days
and nights In an unoccupiel house with
out food except for the scraDs he picks up
In night fprays.
Az the officers seated themselves,
q walter came to US with printed
bIll-Of-fare and program. Fortunately,
he waited on the others first and l
listened intently to their orders. The
oficers ordered some light wine. but
MY Belgian nelghbor ordered "Bock"
for himself and his wife, which was
what / had decided to order anyway,
as that was the only thing l could say.
Heaven knows Lwould far rather have
ordered something to eat, and l was
afraid TO take q chance ut the pronun-
citation Of the dishes It set forth.
There were q number Of drinks listed
which ] might safely enough have or
dered. For instance. ! noticed Lemon
Squash, 1.5O," "GInger Beer, L."
"Sparkllng Dry Ginger Ale, L."
"AppolInaris, L." and "Schweppes
Soda, O.SO," but 1t occurred to ME that
the mere fact that I selected some
thing that was listed in English might
attract attention to Inc and something
in nv pronunciation might give fur
ther cause for suspicion.
It seemed better to parrot the BEL
Rian and order "Bock" and that was
what decided to do.
One item on the bill OF fare tanta-
lIzed me considerably. Although 1t was
listed among the "Prizzen der
dranken," which I took to mean
GPrices Of drinks" It sounded very
much to me like something to eat,
and Heaven knows I would rather
have had one honest mouthful Of
food than oil the drinks in the world
The item refer to was "Dubbel Ger
stein de Flesch (NIichaux)." A double
portion Of anything would have been
mighty welcome to me, but l would
have been content with q single "ger-
stem" II / had only had the courage
to ask for 1t.
To keep myself as composed as pos
sIble devoted a lot of attention to
that bill-of-fare, and ! think by the
time the waiter came around ! almost
knew II by heart: One drink that al
most made me laugh aloud was listed
AZ sIemonades gazeuses," but I might
aa well have introduced myself to the
German officers by my right name and
rank as attempt to pronounce 1t.
When the waiter came to me. there
fOre. I said "BOck" as casually as
could. and I felt somewhat relieved
that / had gotten through that part Of
the ordeal so easily.
While the waiter wnS away ! had
chance 20 examine the bill-of-fare and
I observed that q glass Of beer cost y
eentimea The smallest change / ha'
d, was q two-mark paper bill.
Apparently the German officers wer'
almIlarly Fixed and when they Oneret
their bin 10 the waiter, he handed y
back to them with a remark which
took to mean that he couldn't maxi
change.
Right there wss In Quandary. II
oner him my bill after he had Jus
told the officers he didn't have chang'
would have seemed strange and yet
couldn't explain to him that / was u
~ sams boat and be would have y