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-"V- ' THIS itfORNINGr STAR, "WILMINGTON, N. V SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24ri918. 15INE.' VAL OFFICER'S .? rn v CAPTURE BY SUB AND ESCAPE rrrn The Great Credit Store 10) II la. : Lonaoii, - - . .. .1 Tlf nCQ T J i - i 3 a A 1 I believed, for I received and awful bump on the head and both of my P?ralSl,retrlckUt n irVIe8 t (put. E. Ar.- Isaacs of th ;ted states navy, waicn omcer or the . transDort President Lincoln ;!': . . ifi l .- , . j.-j whUfii i . "U"D were .i.-t msspi was ivi ueaoeu in rn i "oi.iiiit aonur mo -o u s ... - i G Pay As -I t You Wear If nc whs cap-itlr.. T , - 6"wus were on my ZZZtt xuia not make sneed Jn the IJZa Up. my nands in token of sur render when the guards were about 7 yards away. t!3hei they came u me one of them welcomed me with a blow with ?i l , . was beaten and kicked and knocked down seven or eight times before they finally loaded me uuvn. into me train. - T Ol 1 .1 i hv the German submarine which coast he attempted to swim a" ft" ,ore but was caught. On his way : r-i . n - - j prison camp " ucimoujr jic jump- a nam uui o icuapmreu. il from the prison and swam the Rhine river to safety in aitzerianu. T;ie story 5 details are so filled with the spirit , t.i. a to bf well wnrfh t Vi sau'iuu.v - ) a i ,r,l S I. v. - Press despatches bu When t lie iTesmeiu uincuin went to bottom ot tne ocean Lieutensnt ..-',1,1 i frofll Oreson 1rrtrr uiion a ran. soon aiterward submarine emerged and ner com- iander deraanui'u tne tuyiain oi tne resident Lincoln as prisoner. The rvivors told him tney believed the 1 ; ' , .. il. . i i . . tliey ci e anaie ui III It I out ave, ossible, the captain being en prisoner. While this was going on Lieutenant ;,acs said, he lay on the raft with ; inr.s under nim to niae tne oi- ctrnnes on his uniform but with- success, ana ne was ordered i t . c in m ' t I ! ! i ' I i si u t n A .0 and her commander, Capt. Reray, id resided in the United States and nsland and spoke English fluently. Apparently Keray nao oeen arrect by our civilization," said the ;Lieu nant. "as he treated me pleasantly t:ie SKlJ'l'ei uic uilliuiu. x Wits ouid nnd our capuan or go 10 uer- any myself as a prisoner. I could ,ifnrm to Vii3 first Pom manH and course would not nave nad x been i!e to. The you::sr officer said that he was ivri! a uood bunk on the submarine ,d four good meals daily including eggs and real coffee. The fol- UIpIu iuuul circrniia n vivviiuo quo as sighted by two American destroy- 'S. "While the destroyers were plunging ward us we were getting under water d at a depth of 60 meters Lieuten- u Icaaos said. "When the depth an was at his stationtense and pret- badly scared. Now and then a - dXi . . 1 -.1 1 n . . . A I- i;:or oiuLei wuum suik uui iu iiie nnm Tn-.i! n nfx nivfr w i s h ihiiii kii .j. .tllH fc.A.. " ' " . . 1 3 A. r aav 10 siaruuaiu ui uuri aa tne ise might have been. They were coram? tne uosuions wiin ineir i m 1 j depth charge. It is difficult Xo des i'.K just the sensation, but it seemed me much like a dog shaking a rat d it was anything but pleasant toJ in the rat. With each explosion a e i . . . . ,Vi -3 a n n A "i ul iiu.iu: nuiu uasu uvw Lite ces oi me uermans. lor iney ex ited every moment that one of the isrses would be flxed a bit rcloser and knew their craft could not with- and it." Too m'.r.y destroyers Jn that area comfort, so Remy-"Jleadeid. ".fffthe el canal the next night. When off e 'Scandinavian coast -Lfeutenant ;aacs said Me decided to attemDt to vim to shore when the submarine )proached territorial waters. With life-belt on, he was just slipping er tne skip sshortlv arter Tnifl-nie'ht -en he was discovered by Remy him- :I ana nn erl ahnarrt On arrival at WTilhelmshaven he was -pt three days on a submarine "moth- snM) ana three days in a land pri n. carefully guarded and badly fed. "fin? this time he was taken to the crmin K . . i , : T" : . TTr!ll.lM 1 T ;e flag of the fleet, and questioned i" 3 Staff nffinor "I finally told him that the United ates would send so many men to ranee that the battle lines wouldn't Old thftn " aairl a I iniitonont "T as then taken to Karlshuhe and ad in an hotel room by myself the " . me nr.L xy i nan fuu xucv ..jni miji ciglll x- i ciiv.il J- :ers. it having been learned in the eantime that I spoke French. These ms I afterward learned were known tne "listening rooms." and they uaiucu. i lie i' i ci.viiiiivii ni I found three dictaphones and dis j;ed them. The next day I was plac- i if! a rnom Uwm UvUtffVi rf- .win n un 1111 111 1 11 u II v. ' there A t r a few days at Karlf.ruhe, the f'Jter.ant was started for a prelimin- rJ 'listriiiiil inf m r at VilHncrpn , .... v, V. J i M. W A A r . - in me railway carrige witn ere two sruards. Hft was una- clrp r.f a ft .1 : i ; . .i TT.-iii , uuuiLions at me viiiingen "via : no ; : e a":ty Mm(. On of the guards seemed to be doz- ' wmie the other I Arriving at the i n iv atiiru has men told briefly ini" Pr Dandages they have vrv lit. Z Germany you know. Had i1 been for food supplied by the ouio i wouia nave starv ed to death but with that we fared very well and within a month I had regained mjk strength. There were about 150 Russian officers and 75 Am erican officers In the camp." Lieutenant Isaacs and other officers immediately began to lay plans for escape by collecting necessary articles, such as pieces of wire and rope and short boards with which t6 make a ladder if necessary. They also traded some of their food to a Russian for a pair of wire, cutters he had smug bled into the camp. Three different times they had their escape plans com pleted, each time with the connivance of a Russian, and each time they had reason to believe the Germans had been appraised and they did hot try. "Finally we learend that they were to take all the Russians away on Oct. ,7 and, working without the Russians, we planned to trjr again on the night of Oct. 6. Fifteen feet from our bar red windows was a high barbed wire fence which turned inward at the top much the same as at our Internment camps in the States. Between the fence and oru window was a ditch seven feet wide filled with scrapped barbed wire. We had almost severed the bars of the window in the room in which I was imprisoned, using an imporvised saw one of the officers had obtained from a Russian. y "Two other officers with me were to use two tennis court markets, eighteen feet long, as a bridge from our window to the top of the barbed wire fence. The wooden markers whicfc we calculated would barely hold us when strapped together were to be rought into our room after the roll-call at night. t "We figured that soon after the at tempt the guards would be attracted from the main gate, so three officers elected to try a dash there at the proper moment. Three others were to attempt to get through the fence with the wire cutters, while two others planned to get over. We had fixed the electric-Mght wires so that we could quickly short-circuit them. This was to be done exactly at 10:30 o'clock, when every man was to be ready to so. "I will tell the name of only one of the officers, as I do not know the fate of the others. He was Corporal Harqld B. -Willis of Boston, a member of the Lafayette Escadrille. He was one of those who w"ere to dash through the gate, and he and I had render zvous two miles from camp. "When the lights were extinguished b ythe short-circuiting, we forced the bars as quickly as ' possible, and ran out the two markers strapped together, and darkened with shoe-blacking as much as possible in the short time we had. These was no moon but the sky was clear. "One of the window bars stuck, and we made considerable noise forcing it, but it ,didn't take us long to start the risky tripe to the top of the fance. I got outside all right, but there were guards both to my right and left. There were no protecting trees, so I ran as fast as I could with bullets whistling about me. "I met Willis at the rendezvous and we set out southwest. We travelled at night, slept in the day and lived on raw vegetables we took from gar dens. At last we reached the Rhine at a point between Schaffhausen and Basle. "We found that at every place where we hight approach the bank it was thoroughly guarded. We decided then to find a creek if possible and wade down it until we struck the Rhine. The current in the one we found was very swift and the water cold. Willis had just taken off most his clothes for the plunge into the Rhine, when he was swept away by the current which at that point moved about twelve kilometers an hour. "It was an awful trip in the cold water with eddies swishing me around, were dictaphones in and at one time I turned on my back to float as long as possible. It seem ed that it was impossible to bring that bank any closer with my waning strength. Finally I was fortunate enough to be caught in an eddy that gvrept me to the shore. "When able to walk, I found a farm house and was welcomed by the Swiss peasants. I told them of Willis and asked them to send someone down the bank to look for him. A short dis tance down the road the peasant met one of his neighbors who had come to look for me. Willis had landed much the same as I had, was treated as I had been by another peasant and had sent a messenger for me just as I had for him. 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Women's s s The very cream of this season's most popular styles, plenty of navy blues, mixtures and the new solid colors in belted and plaited back coats extreme and conserv ative styles. ANYTHING YOU WANT ON EASY TERMS OF CREDIT UI T All of the leading styles with large fur collars, belts, patch pockets an3 many nobby touches silk lined suits, plain tailored and novelty models all colors. LI 109 N. Front Street BERTY CLOTHING COMPANY F. M. SOUTHERL AND, Manager MACHINE GUN BULLETS EFFECT ON THE TANKS Cannot Penetrate Armor, 1 But They Bent Off Fine Steel Dust That Is Irritating. London, Oct. 30. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Machine gun bullets sprayed against the sides of a tank produce a queer effect within it, says one British army officer, who has spent three months fighting with the interior looks, much like a -demonstration of cheap fireworks. "While there is no danger from "ma chine guns to aNtank. crew, there is real and pressing danger from armor piercing or explosive shells. "Unless it is possible to get within a mile of the guns before being discov ered one is liable to come within a range of shells that will wipe the tank off the face of the earth. . A direct hit means that everybody is going to get hurt with the chances that somebody is going to be killed. The Germans were always trying to make such a hit. Once within a mile- of the enemy the lank is comparatively safe for the tank in France. The bullet, he says, cannot pierce the armor, but it does, guns cannot be' depressed ' to get the knock off on the inside a thin flake range. Then the only thing the tank , A. , , , , a. , I has to deal with -is the machine gun. of. steel that pulverizes and flies In all Wnn ,tl, iK accuralelv looted tha HUNS PLANNED TO STAY IN NORTHERN FRANCE Changed Names of Streets in All the Towns- They Captured Dreams Didn't Come True. It gets into the faces and tank ciuiekly runs it down. The Ger directions. hands of the crew and stings them like a strong wind on a cold day. The sur geons have found that a simple bath of iodine solution will heal the paha and prevent infection. Describing the scene within a tank which is being hit with . machine-gun bullets the officer When JVilliam Pfest, of Ripon, England, was ilaid to rest in 1789, at th ne-e of one hundred and eight, he a fiir,Vp(f-tn his wave by his eld-I said: est son a veteran of S$, and by-his I r. "As the bullets strike the tank, sim youngesVboy aged 15, who made his I ultaneously with the sound of impact aonearance when his father was with-J and r the creation of thef flake," a blue in sight of ninety-third birthday,lflame is seen, and when a machine-gun or-! whn hi Clde8t' pronw-owas jB.yijj6. u ,aim',uuirm,uw, jomw .m 7 - , -. . v :. - . LUQ uvys v. uuwut 4 neon syviy . iub Bventy-tt. best flghteT. Generally he would hang on to a po.sition, peppering the lum bering tank until he found it was no use and .fled or was run over. . "One. of. the tricks we. learned was the tremendous value xf ; tanks agains t masces of enemy troops. At -'first , we were content to use-'the ordinary ma chine guns in tanks, but In the. latter months we used th eshell .timed,-to'Tex jDl6dei as. i t let t .thevguh; scattertuits scores of leaden-bullets like-a hit; ,g.uh. Troops - without artille'ry i were x solely nitttble t staini Suclr,reT 4s'j?u With British-American Forces in France, Oct. 26. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) That Germany expected to occupy for a long time, and perhaps permanently, the northern portion of France, is shown by the fact that the Hun military authorities changed the names of all the. important streets i nthe large towns which fell Into their hands. There is scarcely a village where a distinctly. German designation was not given to a road or street. , Such names as "Kaiser Wilhelm Strasse," "Bismarck Strasse," "Von Hindenburg Strasse' took the places of the French names. When the Am erican troops operating with the Bri tish entered these towns they took particular delight, In.destroying these France would be divided into two parts. North France, which -would be long to Germany and South France, which the French would be permitted to keep. They put the inhabitants under severe discipline and .required them to stand at attention and salute whenever one of their officers address ed them or passed them on the street. When the German officers entered any of the homes, the whole family was required to stand at attention until they left. Breaches of this order were severely punished. The Boches had the population thoroughly cowed and permitted them only the moat. ' ordinary privileges. When the Americans and British came in, the people wept with -joy at '' their deliverance from their oppres-sors. It is estimated that five per cent of" the inhabitants of all the countries now at war are under arms, the pre- centage ranging from 02 In the case of Liberia to 10 in the case of Ger- many, which has made by far the heaviest call on its male population, j. Catarrh is a Real Enemy v and Requires Vigorous Treatment Do Not Neglect It. "When you use medicated sprays, atomizers and douches for your Ca tarrh, you may succeed in unstopping: the ehoked-up air passages or the lime being, but this annoying; condi tion returns, and you have to do the same thing oyer and over again. Catarrh has ' never vet been cured signs and replacing the original French nV thesA WjlI atmlications. Have ?hkinoprrnlnstoid'the' French- 'in i ? ? rperienced any ml benefit ui twr,. tho't I xroxn sucn treannenti. - !: v, Throw fhese makeshift remedies to the winds, and get on the right treat--ment. Go to your drug store to-day, get a bottle of S. S. and commence a treatment that has been praised by 1 sufferers for' nearly half a -century.. S. S. S. gets right at the source of Catarrh, and "forces from the blood the germs which cause the disease. You can obtain special medical advice regarding your. own case without charge by writing to -Medical Direc', tor, 22 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta; at to t-i Hi t in m m L I i 't , is 'I Is - l'l,c 1.5 JI. ml - a if. It n m 11 f t . i pi; -5 .1 ! 'I t d 1 HI: th 111: 1 1 4 i
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