The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-07
fcortinued From Yesterday.)

Let us analyze this tract" The
 rst paragraph tells how the North
 tation Is to be located. Tho second
 aEaGraph reminds him that 1t is
 ecesser ry he should make adequate reparation for his journey.
 The third paragraph Is crammed nll of information. He Is told that O had many rivers to cross, and that
 @ ought to be able swim, that all be bridges across the rivers and analss are guarded, and that any at smpt to cross them will lead to his rresA He is told to keep away from he roads, and cross ploughed fields. shere ho will he free from obserya- ion and more likely to make pro- ress unchalleusod.
 He Is encouraged ss learn that all he stories he hears, and which were
 O soduously circulated by the Ger mans of barbed wire on the frontier all bunkum. In the next para ;raph he Is particularly warned to seep away from the towns, and an sxtrn warning to him Is that all hough there are no barbed wires on he frontier there arc continuous sen ries day and night
 The tract has the double advantage n that if 1t Is not understandable as
 
 hat 1t cannot fail to bring somo saSt # spiritual strength to the men who ' To not read it's real message and see 1othins below the surface of its eX- 1ortations- There is, of course, no Christian Science Brotherhood at sS Dreams Buildings.
 The mon who have benefited by .he activities of tho committee are -arely mot with During the 51 months of war mon were escaping at consid erably over the rate of 100 q month, and, of course. the majority | of these owed their liberty to their own initiative. though in many cases quite unconscious Of the fact that hey derived considerable help from Inc committeo- Here is the nara live of ono who evidently received di- eot assistance-
 He was a prisoner at Stroehn, a bleak and desoiate camp which was set on the edge of O marsh exposed |to the bleak and bitter winds which swept down from the north. The |sanltary conditions were appalling, land the government of the camp the last word in German tyranny. The |command1nt had evidently recefl'ed |orders to make himself as objection |able as possible, and awarded pun ishment without going through the |formality of trying tho delinquent. British officers were put in cells hike common felons, deprived of food, |liCht and even air. In tho summer it was SO hot that the prisoners ware obliged to bo naked in their cells with closed windows. and 1t was only by smashing tho glass of the cell window, involving further improve ment, thatmany ofthem were able to save their lives.
 A Terrible Prison.
 Fora long time Stroehn was one of the mystery camps, and no word crept through to the British govern ment concerning the outra geous treatment meted out to the prisoners. rhe camp was dominated at it's four corners by watch towers. Tn which machine guns were plentifully dis played, and there Tere in the time of the Russians-many of whom were imprisoned there-some very bad riots when these machine guns came into play.
 It was turned into g. British ctrafe camp, and officers were sent there from an parts of Germany-generally men who had attempted to escape and upon whom 1t was necessary to exercise more than ordinary vigilance. The account given below by an ofl- cer who managed to get away is an interesting instance of how prisoners were helped without their being aware as-ro the identity of those who assisted them
 when I was at Stroehn, which rvas ono of tho worst of tho prison helIs. I heard of A society in London which helped prisoners escape-it was always referred to as the society and never az a committee. One man had received tools from home to help him to get away, but the difficulty with us was that we did not know how to get in touch with this society.
 Tho German commandant was such n brute that I think we should have got poison out to him if we could. Unfortunately this was i'm possible. but after a kick-up, when two of our fellows were bayoneted by order of tho commandant, we deter mined to make soTIlo sort of effort to bring our condition to tho attention of the authorities.
 ''1fr. IzaL O V. C. man. and two other fellows made their escape, and carried tho news to England as to how we were being treated-celis and Imprisonment without trial, threats from sentries, etc, so there was no mood for any testimony from us. Soon after ono of our men received a packet of chocolates. whicA was broken up by the comandant before being handed over.
 Accompanying it was another parcel addressed For the R. r. C.. officers at Stroehn,' and this contain ed preserved fruits, maron glace, etc. When the parcel was opened-that is to say, whom the brown paper was Temoved-it WIS seen that the box was bAaufffully male of padded blue stik. with a big monogram " sur mounted by the Imperial crown.
 This staggered the examining of Beer and he immediately summoned fhe old Villain of & comrnandant It was ssreamingly funny 70 see how rsvereniy they handled the box. and with what awe they inspected the wrapping and the label:
 why said the commandant, sthis was posted in Brusselsp
 The confectioner's label was that of a well known firm in Brussels. and fha parcaI had been 'frauked'