New Britain herald., 1919-10-11

ety without name, presided over Scot, Frederick Maxwell by Sne, and among it's members were HndredS of men and women, and Nen children, in the occupied regions France and Belgium. In this series 6. Maxwell tolls for the first time @ story of his great work).
 @Our treat organization was found- in Brussels shortly after the Ger @n occupation. It was suggested at #meeting of eight persons held in N house to consider the best means getting out of the city two Brit x soldiers who had been captured @the Mons retreat and had escaped @ reaching Brussels SsAt that time we thought it nothing VI soldiers hiding in Brussels, but Morc the war came to an end I # e known as many as one thousand @n to be in hiding as the same time, M that in spite of the fact that M Germans made systematic search, # were offering large rewards for
 rmation regarding Allied soldiers N den in the city. Many of these Mn changed into civilian clothes M plied by us, and walked freely @u Ut the city. dining in the restau- @ ts, riding in tramcars, and mix a with the German soldiers with # being found out.
 &he outcome of that meeting at my M hse was the decision to start a SO- N that I now call the League of @ends of Allied Prisoners, but, as
 latter of fact, we carried on our
 < without any name at all. The $&@Bn bership of the Brussels branch &sw rapidly day by day until it was #l over two thousand. and then we #Snd it necessary to extend our Op-
 tiOns far and wide.
 n armistice day we had branches 8M only in every important French @ Belgian town occupied by the zS mans, but in Germany itself. We
 nd that nearly every member had &#nds in sympathy with our aims, & wherever these friends were they ###S dShSd lO lOIHl 1OSttl ctSSOCld- a#s in their own areas, and in less
 h six months of the Brussels meet
 we had a long chain of friends | Allied prisoners stretching from IKE most advanced point of the Ger Ml line in France and Belgium to W Rhineland
 M ach day saw an improvement in M organization, and within a year
 had a we'll organized courier sys- &, by means of which it was pos #e to pass information through the man lines, and to move large
 ches of escaped prisoners without HE detected. The percentage of
 1res was very small, indeed, in %Ne of the fact that the Germans
 Ne increasingly alert after Won Bis $M had discovered that we were in 2tence.
 8 Under Von Bissing's Nose.
 UT principal depot in Brussels for 8S wing escaped prisoners was sit B q within a stone throw of the
 8 se occupied by Von Bissing him. S and one of the jokes we had & nst the German authorities was 8@ they pressed into their service
 valet to the governor general of
 sium an escaped British soldier, H was in hiding with us after his M ure in the attempt to force a Asing of the Aisne in Septemb Der,
 This man was a Scot named
 dy Low. He was an excellent zB ant, because he had been em- M ed in that capacity at a London & before he was called back to #@ colors on the outbreak of war. & circumstances of his escape were: B he Germans had been trying to
 ress the people of Brussels by
 ching through the streets all Of 6 allied prisoners they could lay 8i of. The procession was not as &S8S, as the Germans wished it to be, & or better effect the men were re- M Iped and marched around many 5 s. We had a few trusty friends W ed at different points of the route W he hope of being able to assist M of the men desiring to escape. 1i1 q observed Sandy Low because Of & fine physique, and in a halt i lZa aged to get near enough to speak &l i'm.
 When you reach the corner"
 tid, "break from the ranks and M into the first alley on the right ends will be there to meet you" RBs5hndy answered not a word, but
 ded his head to tell me he under as d. When the corner was reached 2E few guards who were in iron
 er thought of looking behind & those coming at the rear were
 able to keep an eye on the pris
 rs Sandy made the dash I ad
 d, but a number of the othe1
 oners did likewise, and instead O.
 we found Is had to be escorted
 & the house where we sheltered
 Sn.
 he alarm was given almost a
 D, but not quick enough to pre- 2S8 the escape of the prisoners, who e indoors before the German
 Re on the move to stop further es < &,~o o1- F1,o