The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-10
THE AMAZING CODE THAT BAFFLED ALL OUT-WTTTING THE HUNS Secrets of Escapes From German Prison Camps Revealed For the First Time
  Ccopvrght 1919 By International News Bureau Inc,
OUT-WITTING THE HUNS

aware of it, we were scooped into Ihelr net, IS it were, cut off, and | nothing for it but to get back to his
 lines Instead of our own.
 We had pretty rough time of it | after all, but not so rough, I imagine. as the time. the boys had when Jerry was having it all his own way. He was
 on the losing side now. although still Ilghtng gamely, and if he hadn't much time. probably less inclination to look after our comforts, still we could put
 up with it. We were bundled into
 tram, and soon we found ourselves
 Whlrllns off to the F'ather1and. We
 had many a weary mile to cover. and
 many weary state of congestion, but
 ultimately we were dumped into the
 camp, which was 10 be our future
 home. It was only a few miles inside
 the Huns frontier-a fact We didn't forget.
 From the way things were going at the front we knew it wouldn't be our home for long, but that didn't prevent us from making I'D our minds that our residence in Hunland would De even shorter than our captors de- sired, if we could possibly manage it. Ihere were all sorts in the camp French, Italians, and Americans-and 1t wasn't long before we gathered from the Yankees with whom, of course, we could speak more freely that the dis clpline of the Hun seemed to get slack CT and stacker every day. They had been longer there, so that they could judge. This was all to the good. and we felt that, with that sort of thing going on. our chance would come. And it did.
 We had talked over several plans with the Americans-the Huns seemed | to have no heart now for dragooning | us Into silence, as we had been told | they had been doing only few weeks | oefore-and one night one of them | had brilliant idea. He was a bit of | an engineer, this chap, and his plan | was to short-circuit the wires in the camp, plunge it into darkness. and | then, in the hubbub which was bound | to follow as many as cared to risk it would make a rush for the barbed | wires round the place, and simply | scoot, chancing their luck after that |
 Preparing for the Flight.
 There were difficulties. of course. such as getting through the wires, ana then making our way through the | country if We managed to negotiate them. but the Yankee soon put our minds to rest on these points. It so happened that sheds were being erect ed in the enclosure, and there was a lot of loose wood lying around. All we had to do when the lights failed" he said, was to rush some of the boards across the wire, as they had been taught to do when negotiating Fritz's barbed enclosures in the fighting, and 1 bolt across. As for the rest he had discovered in another shed, some old uniforms belonging to a once crack corps of the Kaiser's. These could be dOnned the night the deed was to be done.
 well, things went like c1ock-work after all, although there was almost 1 ! tragedy at the close. The night fixed for the grand rush came around, and -he Yankee true to his word, stole into our hut with several uniforms These were speedily changed for the tattered khaki we had on, and although we felt inclined to have a good laugh at the ;onical figures we cut, we suppressed lur mirth. We knew we would re- luire all our mind for the final spir- t. Soon there was nothing to do but o wait for the moment when the sen ries had taken a certain turn, then he Yankee was to dot the needful wires and we would slip out. The wood lad been left, careless-like, at a spot we had already selected.
 an HOL sufficient or an eleCtrt- 1 ,ian to know how the darkening rick was done. It was something in [ he nature of crossing the wires, as the American explained 1t. Anyway to the minute the Yankee set about his job 1 { He succeeded. You bet he did. We had l 10 lights at that hour in our shed, 1 I 'f course, but we the light which ] he Huns kept going all night go out | I md without a moments hesitation z hose of us who had made up our l minds to bolt simply bo1ted. In a trice ! We had crossed the yard, seized the \ blanks, and, as quietly as we could 2 lad placed them quietly across the , 'arbed wire. It was now or never. ,
 And very nearly it was never The r allure of the lights had alarmed the I Iuns to begin with but when they S an and saw the figures moving about f he darkened enclosures. and then leard the twanging of wires, a shout f vent up that seemed to sound our f leath-knelL But that wasn't the e worst. Hardly had the shout subsidiz- :, d when there came crash upon 6 rash, and bullets were zip dipping trough the wires over which we had T ust scrambled. It was a narrow . nd long before the Hun sentries had discovered our escape, we were well m our way to freedom a few miles ,eyond."
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