FIVE HUNDRED MILES TO FREEDOM
BRITISH PRISONER'S WONDERFUL ESCAPE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1919, 1917.
OUT IN FRANCE. CONSTANT WORK TO OCCUPY THE MIND
Life in the trenches is not only on tongus and uncomfortable, but also entails a great deal of hard work Trenches are always being
An Englishman, who was taken pei- soner by the Germans in East Africa on January 1st, and successfully made his are often blown by the repaired..
escape shortly afterwards, has recorded in the long run it is the elements which
experiences in a letter printed in the Northern Post, and Border Fees Both do the most damage. You many say that Afrien. The letter
stering the main mice, stern the cle miles with th
ments do three times ns
damage ne Germans as a prisoner, the writer and
the enemy's shell fire,
Srvatont Four trenchus water. If your his companion marched well over 250 miles in 16 days in making their escape, are situated in low-lying, damp ground, this distance being the longest, so far
you are often
long sections
arching nearly, bobes how after a desaltory character the d
scourge of all is
covered in German East Africa" by a misfortunesy roken by
escaping prisoners.
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GERMAN-AMERICANS AND THE WAR.
[DY OTTO M: KÄRN]
The editor of the Christian, from which paper this article is taken, suys
"WE WILL DELIVER THE SHIPS." ENGLISH SHIPYARDS ROAR WITH ACTION
GLASGOW, October Ist.
Recently there was held in New York On the hull of a big ship being built meeting of the Merchants Association in one of the many yards that line the bods which comprises the leading river honka of Scotland and North-weat cotamercial men of that city. Its object Engiad a workinn has written with was to further the success of the Jiherty chnik, in bold letters six feet high, five Loan, and its result was remarkable. The most striking addream was delivered words that express the determination of
British ship builders to do their bit by Mr. Otto I. Kahn, a prominent toward befeating the German submarines. German-American, and we have
plea Bure
in reproducing it for the clear The five words are We will deliver the statement it contains of the objectivos ships of the war as they appear to on German birth who is note to see things in their proper perspective. We wish that it might be circulated in the Fatherland, for in the enlightenment of the German dumocracy lies, the greatest hope of Pearu
We bave met to-day in pursuanes of high purise, a purpose when it this wherever, taroughout the world, the
gags of tre lpen is spoken and under
A staff correspondent of the Associated Frena has now just completed a trip through the yards of the rivers Treeя. Tyne, Wene and Clyde as the guest of the Foreign office and the Admiralty
Great Britain not only will deliver the ships, they are being delivered how, hundreds of them. Of the four principal availabls font of adjoining land has ship more or less completed over it. Nearby engire works are turning out motive power for the vessely at a tremen-
take about a wet away in time two or three weeks in the winter month Lena moment in ese ship building rivers of the country every
was Mahenge. and found marching
our kit. I had a fairly big lond,
of your, trench collapse at one tinie. WITH THE GERMANS.
Water rots the sand-lags, so that you are The letter Logins by describing the compelled to rebuild a trench for four
laise later on journey with the Germans. On January that it
Water Tray collapse 2nd our officer told us, the writer sa Roods your! Ung-oute and renders there ha we would start for the prison camp about uninhabitable Allied to this evil is midday. The journey was supposed to of frost. Your water-logged trenches of and our destination the autinn become as hard as flint for they rk, after Then suddenly it thats and down to hard work,
all come, the
the water anting out everywhere. my great bout, waterproof sheet, and another frost comes, and you have to hack mosel containing
and cooking for hours in ground like solid steel Move country for Work-eternal work That is your fot utensils. We were in
the accursed thing when has marching, no hills, but unfortunately the trenches. Even when a trench is in and never to cease nor rest rather swampy after the December rains comparatively good order, work has to be brought upon the world the nitterale The chin holds up a little in January, done, for no trench is so good that it calamity, the deyil's visitation or this
We were lucky. We marched for cannot be made better
appalling War, in destroyed beyond all about five days until we arrived at the
pesabuty of resurrection. Best German magazine, as they call the We call the magazines supply depats, They did not overning snot more
but it
being used to riding. We had to carefore repair the damage, stuwa.gov.
than six hours a day, hrt, or que march about 6 o'clock. The only food we were served out with was rice. As having it for menis you know: 1 min for three times daily I de not the it as much as I did formerly Fortunately and few pounds of flour, and my half section and I were able to
r menu with
ith a small loaf of bread
W
for.
Every battalion is given u certam amount of work to do while it is holding
The Battalion the line
it is the purpose of a common deterious rate inmation to nght and to hear and to dare.
that accursed thing is not a nation, but * an evil spirit, a spirit which has malle the government possessed by it and executing is abhorrent, and bloody, we
apportions some of it. He goon
to Le diferent every day and points out, to the chi munt
They are the things without which dark nose intolerable. They are the things ness would fail upon hope, and it would
Ship builders, men, women, boys, girls, all are working at top speed to beat the Germans,
The rivers are overhung with smoke, blast furnaces are blowing everywhere, atreaks of rod metal go back and forth in
the rolling mills and through it all on them busy rivers there is a roar of untomatic
steel into riveters, the clash of sledges on
Just now the builders of ships are rush- ing through work on countless destroyers, cruisers and other naval ships that must remain for the present as mysteries. They, too, are working at a tremendous rate completing merchang ships of which there appear to be hundreds. Some ars being built for private owners, some for the governor
Especially fast work is being done won the builders are anxious to increase their the merchant ships as the government and
construc
ning in Eurono We were all veryhole different way. At that rate thao humanity, liberty, justice, and mercy, tonnage by building standard vessels of
It was a trent sonrchiveof to be entirely whailt
day, where about ten
as
tor which the best mes amongst all nations including the Geruun mation have fought and oled these many genera kous paal, which were the sdoals of Lather, Goethe, Schiller, Kant, and host of others who had made the name of Lermany great and beloved until fanati cal Prussianism run amuck, came to make its deeds a by-word and a hissing:
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be repaired. He will say. This trenching an abomination at the sight of das machines that punch holes in plates wus menge en inch thick, which at times truly is dig is not deep enough, or You must
These sand-bags are What we are now contending for by the deafening, a drain here, rotting; you will have to tear down this side of our spistididly brave and surely, pars of the trench and rebuild it. But cried Allies, after unite forbearanci, those are comparatively surall odd juba ter delay which many of us round I often happens that a trench is in such hard to bear, are the things which are
that 漉 a state of disrepair whole mouth of lurd
work may be ruded to effect enthe highest and most cherish
Loat the civilized world his attained AT MALENGE
improvement Clare in a co. like this, through the toil, sacrifices, and suferite black song
have to he thought of its best in the course of many crp Our guard consisted of 10 Askuris and two Germans The one out. It is no
matter German spoke English very well. I had the battalion. They are the nation to curies, several yarns with him. He was very trenches for a few days. One battalion ver of the war, and admitted they were may commence a job one way, and the hopelessly beaten out here, but all I reheving battalion may continue it in
to have every confidence they are a
never be finished. Const-
which many are oven now under would never- pleased to arrive at the first German quently, the Brigadier is responsible for
tion, many having been launched. Thess magazine, as there carriers were arranged the major improvements Hogues
landard ships, builders agree, will
Sízo will have
greatly culurgy this output of tonnage, trunch with no round and says This
In the first ・OF “A new com
pince it
Price was pointed out, thing to carry. We made the carriers in camp; they fetched water muniention trench will have to be unde
construction has been greatly simplified our fires, etc.
from here to there. He sends for the
as all parts of hulls, engines and all parts The leder goes on to describe the officer commanding be brigade, engines
have been standardized and tuny be used where first needed. Heretofore thirty-five prison is arrival at Mahenge, a small ing company, and tells him what he wants
sizes of steel scations were used in build- pretix town in the hills on the 12th Hose, promising hisor unttalions of the This appalling conflict which has been ing an ordinary wip. The standardizi have been imprisoned since the begintring brigade. It may he a big job requiring mer fight of one or more peoples againation process has reduced this number to of the war. Here they had n few "eighty men continuoxuly at work. rest and more liberal rations were given In that case each of the four companie dee or more other peoples. It goes far eight
deeper It sharply divide, the smil and Bo far, all the standards, us they. ara for in battalion front may havi to them and they made arrangements
provide
conscience of the world. It transcends called, have been named after flowers, the another 14 days march to the main two working parties, each of twenty met vastly the bounds of racial allegiance 16 word war" preceding the name of the prish camp
Their
chip diet was une by day and one by night. And to is ethically fundamental. In determin-flower, such as War Rose, War Thistle, again rice, and the country made march the work goes on under the superintending one's attitude toward it, the time bus War Poppy But for the name, it would ing difficult and unpleasant. On Feb ence of the sappers. Ench battalion ruary 4th they reached A
magazine and which comes into the line continuts the one by if it ever was when race, and be impossible to tell that they are stand- had orders to wait for further instruc work of the battalion it has relieved. and inherited affliations were Berards. They all will be well armed.
Germans in the early days of the tions before proceeding to the main Even when a battalion is out of the line mitted to count. Piano comp. Up to that time they had it may have to send up a party to help English birth rose to fire this country of the Tees, the Tyne and the Wear In - A century and a half ago Americans of war tried their best to destroy the yards the Work of improvement.
from the oppression of the rulers of
one shop behind a mass of roaring The construction of
of dug-outs is
trench work birth are called on to rise together placed there by the company in honour feature of the men hate working in the with their fellow citizens of all races, to of more than a score of
of employés At Mahenge, a man who was captured with the Belgian forces and had been trenches, they work eagerly enough on free not only this country but the whole were killed on the spot when a Leppelli prisoner for nearly two years, joined the construction of dug-outs. They wild world from the oppression of the rulers Tomb crashed through the roal and ex :do great deal if they know it is for of Germany, an oppression far less cap ploded. On any river they will point out That is the reason why able of being endured and of far graver to the visitor where barobs from the ed to escape from the Germans, but WUR battalions recaptured. He now arranged 19 cscape t
did away with the menace--at least in with one of the men, but
same front when they come inte the lins the fellow
Speaking as one born of German Tar that section of the country. The Zeppe backed out as the last minute. He If the officers and men know that they then sounded me," the writer of the are likely to hold a certain line of ants, I do not hesitate to state it is my lins don't even try to reach the yards any Jetter continues, but I was not keen
trenches for considerable period they deep conviction that the greatest service more. It would be suicide for them to it, did not fancy wandering about in
done is for origin is to feel a natural inducement to improve
which men of German birth or unteer make the attempt... comfort, It dents can render to the country of their the bush and without firearms. As rach
is the thought that all wor
proclaim and to stand day went by I got more sick of the if the benefit of others which paralyses for those great, and an idea which and the idea of life as a prisoner in raniń prison Camp was a horrible one energy. It is only human nature for men national qualities and traditions
minde up ray, mind one night that if to Y, Why the devil should we build they inherited from their ancestors, and
was still keen on escaping Gay dug outs and dig fine tronches? We to at their faces like Bint against went to him the next day and asked him again ever come into these trenches monstrous doctrines and acts of a rules blood in foreign lands if it would be possible to arrange for selvigt our successors fend for the ship which have robbed them of the Ger. But I know that neither Germany, nor
marched nearly 000 miles and still had large of the working the England Today, Amerienng of German machinery there is a big brass plate
four days' march to go before reaching in the camp.
DA DESPERATE RESOLVE.
a
ant
Who
them. On two occasions he had attempt their ownly niways hold the portent ECUE GERMANY, Zeppelins have dropped before the British
I would make the attempt with him, I shall
when
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______TO_REECUE
everve-and-attain the goodwill and the high respect of the world and the affec ionnte loyalty of all those of German
many which they loved and in which they this country, nor the rest of the world can took just pride, the Germany which had return to happiness and peace and fruit- the goodwill, respect, and admiration of ful labour until it shall have been mado the entire world
manifestbite rulers who bear the and unmistakably I do not hesitate to stile it as my alt for this wanton
War, and
to
to
No amount of niger-driving er nitive guide to take us to the British swearing will compel men to perform lines, Ile could speak Swahil fairly more than the barest minimum of work well and he at once got busy. We were
they are in that frame of mind
the trenches: is Although working.. then in country where the natives were Not so such in favour of the Germans in very irksome, it has at least one value
quite apart from the material.
mean takably and whole-heartedly Americans of fact, most of them favour the British by this that constant to farmun Origin throw themselves into the that the epiritwich unchained it cannot
ส native porter who was doubtedly
the mird, which willing to guide us to Songea, This was tend to occupymiseries at struggle which this country has entered prevail, that the hateful doctrines and
otherwise brood on February 6th. We arranged if posdangers of the life. Even in the front la ordce to rescue Germany, no less than Methods in pursuance of which, and in ible to alterant our escape on February line I have almost for that I was those sinister forces that are, in Prom compliance with which it is conduct
He found
hoy
a hand and
are rejected with abhorrence by the civilized world, and that the over-weening never he achieved: ambitions which it was meant to servó can
America and the rest of the world, 7th. The boy was to take our haversacks containing food in a bucket to the river in the trenches, by
Wilson's language, the enemy of all man us if to draw water.. After eunset we three hours, in the mer for two
hours, digging and filing and bags
samo and kind, the better they protect and serve were to get them some and piling them up till we made a thick the true advantage of the German people. The fight for civilization, which we failed us at the last minute and backed wall of them. Work does unquestionably I measure my words They are borne fondly believed had been won many years out then asked me if I
divert the
mind. It helps, if only in make the attempt with him. He
to jussen one's sense of the out all ton emphatically by the hideous ago, must be fought over again. In this tunately had a compass a hand-drawn
slight degree.
eloquence of desde which have appalled sacred straggle it is now our privilege to map, also some dried ment. He was fair
this existence an the midst
in the conscience of the civilized world take no mean part, and our glory 10. und possible to employ a of pain and sudden death. It is even They are borne out by numberless expers bring sacrifices one job, the one pur written and spoken, of Germen Our one and supreme one pur- little under these conditionaban did for the its youth, en of that teaching is that it to bring that the team toward that ate to teach pose to which all others must give way, You professors employed by the State to teach
is this War to a successful com BLOOD BROTHERHOOD to yourself,
The burden
he shot at sight when escaping, but with no and told me we were liable to Was fed with the life and 1
P
agreed
make the attempt.
corn
to
nation
The letter goes on to describe their this little bit of trench I have seen might makes right, and that the German end is to make the Liberty Loan a verit
great fortresses of France, I can do for escape with n small stock of rations pride in good workmanship even in the nation has been chosen to crable triumph, an overwhelming expres consisting mainly
salt, and some dried meat have sometimes felt such pride myself.-
of rice, a bag of Kafir trenches, and can honestly say that I morally and actually the over-lordship sion of our gigantic economic strength
of the world, and must and will accom On the first night they nearly walked
plish that task and that destiny and feel himself personally responsible, let what To accomplish that, let each one of us into an Askari camp, and on another SUBALTERN
ever cost in bloedshed, ccasion just escaped runnning into a
spirit of that
teaching, in teach one of us work as if our life depend
German patrol. Their chief food was a and his brother if they would performon. The s mixture of sanctimonioused on the result. And, in a very real
to
good fire goining the night and
Two days after the
they
a lonely native but, but the owner could BAPE AT LAST
not tell them
the
way to Songea.
Later
on they met a native fishing Wa After many day marching, sometimotestanty and Catholicgilled one held the world by the throat, if the priz
him
kind of thick porridge, and some dried the ceremony; and this they agreed to do ness and covetousness, and its self-rightsenge, does not our national life and our meat, and
and they heard lions, they had This is most binding and zusred onth cous assumption of world-improving individual life depend on the cutcome of keep watch
with the native. The ceremony restored mission, is closely akin to the spirit from this War 1 their confidence, and they went off to which were bred 1
religious wars of the Would life, be tolerable if the power of came to sleep quite comfortably.
past
through the long and dark years when Prassianiam, rus mad and murderous,
and devastated Europe. I speak in sorrow, for I am speaking meat steeped in the doctrines of a ba
macy of the earth belonged to a Govern- promised
through thick bush country, as they did substantial reward if he threw hires the Germans by taking of the country of my origin, and I have barons past and supported by a ruling them safely to Songen. The native
casts which preaches the deification of took them to his brother's
the roads, and passing through some not forgotten what I owe to it a kraal that
liberty hates sheer might, which delpiseg evening, where the
native villages, they arrived at a small BITIER DISAPPOINTHERE. had a really sore
democracy, and would destroy both if it mead of native
porridge made very thick. British outs
* I speak in bitter ritish outpost, and later reached Bongea where they were able to give the chief I am thinking of the Germany of former could 1. almost like
dough and green meelies, intelligence offer some useful wero
natives there and their tion about the Germans. The writer says its fall here to the
nted informa days, the Germany which has contr went off and one of them. They returned, each carry Grst time for over a month. He
I had a long, talk with behind a look at himself in a mirror the imp shable assets,
had sev ing a nasty little are. We thought
Few fields of hunmal Brow out with the idea of a six or eight day something of
he said
that things African natives.
but knowing
dvd not look very AZArch and had been on the tramp in th
bush for over a fortnight in C
One way of trained, there was only Africa, med-only with a walking stick m
I keeping natives to their word,
tions
Central An
in the firm fá
and that was to perfona peremony there was only a food up an evil fats has cast upon were full of holes and badly atoner for the dreadful called blood brotherhood with the parties concerned As they appeared to ply depot at Bongos, he was unable to former Germany is bound to be in a tight corner, they asked the guide got a new issue of clothing, but some of and, in due course of time
the follows there gave him some spare (Continued at foot of riezt column) kit
intmen
the
To that spirit and to those doctrines, we citizens of America and servants, as such of humanity will oppose our solemn and unshakable resolution to make the place world safe for democracy, and we will with a clear conscieros in the noble words, which more than Ave hundred years re uttered by the Parliament of Which Scotland:
It is act for glory, or for riches, or Star honour that we Gght, but for liberty villagein
kalone, which no good man loses but with
his life. (Continued at foot of nest column.)
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