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WOMAN COURT-MARTIALLED. Į predicament as myself, that she was working in our cause, and
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discovered her they fetched har away. Her came, as she gave it to me, was a rasco.
"I was put into solitary con- finement after being numbered eff, my call being one of the smaller ones, which were supposed to be used only as sleeping rooma for the prisoners who worked ont of doors Everything they could
to make things worse for me, because I was English, was done.
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"I soon discovered that she was one of their searst police and that she had been seat to try to get information out of me, and A torcible story of her experiwhen she realised that I had ences as a prisoner in Germany is told by Miss Agnes Short of Liverpool, who is probably the only Englishwoman who has
*On Pancake Tuesday I was undergone penal servitude br
of a German court taken before a court.martial and Bentence
remanded for eight days I was martial.
Miss Short reached her home later condemned, and on March recently, clad only in a night-13, at 9 o'clock in the evening, was taken of to Germany: ress, skirt, wooden elogs, and a soldier's blanket fashioned into don't really know what came out 5 substitute for a coat. This she with regant to the sentence, but secured only on reaching the knew my chief offence was British lines in Belgium. When supposed to be recruiting and the war broke out she was a procuring false papers. They did
BUTTONS MADE IN ENGLAND." governess teacher of English in tell me I was given two years' Brussels, and on August 4 she hard labour for the papers and a
month for having told Major von In her prison cell Miss Short joined the Belgian Red Cross.
From August 4, 1916, Miss Beyer that he was very impolite was given a machine and ordered Short was arrested several times,on an occasion when he told to make 1,000 buttons a week. for no real effence wearing a me to shut up only in mach When she found the buttons were to be stamped "Made in brach with the Belgian colours, worse language. and the like and she was insult- "We, myself and another two Fagland" she refused to do the work. The governor of the ed and brutally treated,
women, were sent to Siegburg "On the evening of December and put into a cell where they prison told her it was an old 5. Misa Short told a Daly hail been cleaning vegetables for mark and that the buttons were Chronicle correspondent, I was goodness knows how long.not going into commerce, but were meant for the soldiers. She arrested in the street and taken Potato peelings and vegetable to Liege to be confronted by two waste were all over the place and retorted: "I am not going to German boys to whom I had given false the smell was enough to knock make buttons to keep up
soldiers' pants." In the end the papers to enable them to erves one down. You would not have
machine was taken away and the frontier. We got to Liege at pat a dog into such a fifthy hole.Miss Short was put to knitting 3 o'clock in the morning, and at There was nothing to sit on. the police station we were in- They brought us two sacks with formed that the boys has been straw inside," but they were in sent back to Brussels. I was such a filthy condition it was not taken there and confronted by possible to lie on them. I had a the two young Belgians, who re-trunk with me and we spent the cognised me, and said it was night sitting on that. who gave them the papers.
chicory leaves and a piece of black CIGAR STORE bread, generally mouldy in the middle. Dinner consisted of a np that the pigs at home would never have been served with. Tea was an exact repetition of breakfast, and for supper all we
I had to live on for well over three got was hot water. That was all months. For beds we got seks of straw, a straw pillow, and one blanket, winter or summer."
IMPRISONED WITH A SPY.
"HOSE-PIFE" FOR A BATH.
*After this, no matter what our I was placed in a cell and kept condition, we were obliged to for 10 weeks awaiting trial, subunit every week to being he Being alone in the cell I asked pipel-which they called taking for a companion and they sent a bath-in the presence of a me an Austrian woman who number of others, and when I spoke perfect Flemish, who was objected to the in lecency of it was posing as a Belgian, and who told that I had "better get back pretended she was in the suneto London."
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The Freuch and Belgian paisoners were allowed to receive food, on some agreement or other, sent to them from outside; but as an Englishwoman Miss Short had not that privilege. Some- times she did manage to get some quietly from the other women: otherwise, she says, she would have certainly starved to death.
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One of the most terible of Miss Short's stories was that when there were no combings from her hair--which had to be saved and were taken away every Monday -the matron helped herself forcibly by tearing the hair from her head, and same treatment was given to the other women. The hair was wanted for making ropes and A. TACK & CO.,
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things. One day she saw some prisoners being inoculated. One had a Union Jack tattooed on his arm, and when the doctor saw it he savagely slashed through it with a lance.
On November 8 the prison WAS broken open, and Miss Short and! others got to Cologne by train. Orthographia On the night of November 10-11 British airmen shelled Namir, and she and other ex-prisoners lay in a cattle track at the station.
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"How we escapad is a miracle,' she said. "By painful stages | got to Charleroi, Maubeuge, and Le Catean.
"The women of Germany took a delight in watching us starve, and they used to say "Why don't you ask England? It's all Eng- land's fault." I was shown in prison the stories of Donington Hall. Imagine how I felt ?
"I was hit with the batten of rifles before I was tried in Brus sels, and when I told the judge, or whoever he was, he said. 'Be thankful you had to do with an honest soldier, or you would have got more.
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