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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY,
On May 31 at 11.30. No reburne from Japanese stations Pressure Las decreased moderately over NE, Cains, a lacreased alightly along the cost from Shanghai to Hongkong, and brar Formons and Inson. It is nearly stationary over Indo-Chins and in the extreme Southesom
YEARS
TWO AND A HALF
WITH THE GERMANS. ENGLISHMAN'S REMARKABLE
EXPERIENCES.
THE ESCAPE.
JUNE 1st, 1917.
The following morning we came within "HOW ARE WE TO REMAIN
GERMAN 22. an inch of capture.
NATIONAL EXISTENCE AND ITS ESSENTIALS.
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Mr. J. P. Whitaker, the young York shireman who has been describing in The Times his experiences during two-and-a-half years behind the German armice in France and Belgium, tolla in the following some of the incidents of
bin escape.
VI
In publishing this account of my escape from France into Belgium and fross Belgium into Holland, I have no inten tion of revealing anything which might make it more difficult for those left a hing to make their way as I have done to freedom Nor shall give any clue to the identity of those who gave me shelter and helped me in many other ways on my perilous journey....
the Brat
NEW RUSSIA AND THE SIBERIAN EXILES. HOW NEWS OF THE REVOLUTION CAME
Fifty thousand sledges, carrying victims of the old régime back to freedom in the. now Russia from the mines and convict settlements of Siberia, are speeding across the snows of North Asin toward the nearest points on the Trans-Siberiad Railway, cables a correspondent from Tuymen, Siberia, to a New York paper, Their passengers range from members of the old Terrorist societies to exiles who were banished by administrative decroe without trial or even known offence
It is a race against time, as the spring thaw is imminent and the roads, even in the coldest settlements of the Lower Lena, will soon be impassable. Exiles who do not reach the railroad within a fortnight must wait six weeks or two months until the ice melts and river navigation begina,
TOLD OF THEIR FREEDOM,
We wore sitting in a teamcar approach- ing the city boundary when two Germsti soldiers stopped the car and demanded the
Dr. Beumer, a well-known member of production of papers. We were at the far end of the car, and they came to us the Reichstag, has been lecturing in tha an last. By a lucky chance the cards carried Cologne on the interesting theme How by any companions were of the same colour as these issued in the Antwerp nouncement of the lecture clearly caused district, but mine was of the Roubaix some excitement in Cologne, and the coloura vivid pink. Kölnische Zeitung reporta it nearly iced their verbatim produced The two Frenchmen cards, and presented them half-folded Eight things are necessary to be, to de over their shoulders, carefully covering and to suffer if Germans are to remain with their thumb, the words Under Germans. In the first place Germans control," which appeared at the foot of must cherish the great conceptions ex- the cards. The soldiers glanced at them pressed in the three words Potsdam, and were satisfied. Then came my turn Weimer, Shonhausen. The foundations visions of a German prison passed of German existence are represented in through my mind as I drew out my these words, and the lives of Frederick pocket book and began to fumble among the Great, Goothe and Bismarck show the its contents. For a fraction of a minute great exemplars of the nation. II Get my fate was in the balance. Imagine mans ace to remain Germans they must my relief when one of the soldiers, tired follow the leading given to them by perhaps of a duty which had become Frederick, Goethe and Bismarck. Fre monotonous, said It's all right, and derick gave Prussians a State, Goethe
had "the picture Humanity, turned to get off the car. Fortune
Statthalter in the realm of German in- magnificently again served me
A member of the Dunia, M. Rosenoff, We had discarded, after thinking over tellectuality united the people in one I have, therefore, carefully omitted the situation from all points of view, any spiritual existance, and Bismarck united and two members of the former Council thom politin heaven. Provisional Government to explain the All three men were of Empire were sent to Siberia by the mang, to discover the exact route which I the shortest route. We guessed that
Further, Germaans
Immanuel try: took or the precise point of my entry would be closely watched, and we
Their mission carries them to some for some distant part of the frontier. Kant. The lecturer illustrated this point scores of thousands of heathen Asiatio route many days and with an elaborate comparison between the tribesuch, and they are especially The indire ravel, all of which must be utilitarian view of life as it was practised directed to instruct voters in regard to nights made on foot. The weather was severe, in England and the Platonic view pre- the coming Constituent Assembly, which the temperature well below freezing point, valent in Germany In England with will decide the form of Russia's new Snow fell at times, and fron as it fall out the categorical imperative the most Government.
The liberation of Siberia's prisoners Urads Thon sentries, I should explain, are We plodded on, sleeping in barns and important thing was the happiness of the drawn entirely from the Landsturm under hedges, until at last we found individual, in Germany where Kant's
when the revolution began, were at or They are easy going men, most of them shelter in the house of a villager #sonic-philosophy was supreme we have the has barely begun. West of the fathers of faillies, and almost to a man where in Belgium, general welfare as the aim and object of there are only a handful of exiles who, near the railroad. The first large party Here we stayed for more than three the individual. their one desire is to get back to their
of 150 exiles was encountered when the homes Many of them can be bribed weeks, not venturing out of doors except, *UNCEKAN HATRED." *________ quite cheaply. Some are lazy. Nearly by night. Once more, as in France, time Nor must the Germans, if they are to Siberian express reached Ekaterinburg in all can be easily fooled. Not even Prus hung heavily on our hafids, and gain remain German, follow any longer after the Urals het
card games, especially piquet, became my strange gods. Dr. Beumer regards this
They were met by a vast crowd at tha Kian organization can make alena chief occupation. Now and then, for a old habit as a most dangerou o longer
The returning exiles. men of languid, portly old men. Change, we would shell peas and beans for quotes Bismarck We shall no longer railroad station, which cheered them
Nor, apparently, can young men be the lady of the house. Strings of them, ask for anyone's affection. We shall run tumultuously. spared to take their place. It is a not threaded like beads, were hanging up in after nobody. Germans, in the opinion returned the cheers, but they were in a able fact that the number of what may the kitchen to dry. be called fighting toldiers to be seen in Belgium when I was there is extremely small The garrison consisted in ose parts of Belgium almost exclusively of tubby and tired Landsturmers.
certain facts which would enable the deriden of attempting to go into Holland messengers from hea
decided
to
into Belgium and my passage thence to that our wisest course would be to make categorical imperative fact the great change which has come to the coun-
Dutch soil. In practice, I believe the German sentries are well aware of a the means of escape across the Dutch frontier. The editor of this journal and the authorities at Hull have the full details of my adventure...
mant
unwashed and
extremely
One evening in February we made our of the lecturer, have neglected this wise deplorable physical condition, shaggy
our method. They have been running after uncouth, first effort to cross the Belgian-Dutch the foreigner They have engaged in a emaciated Many were crippled with frontier. We tramped for hours through system of exchange professors, presents rheumatism, two had lost hands and feet the darkness over fields and through have been made which have not been asked from frost bites. thickets.
We slept on straw in a disused for, and an entire system adopted which The exiles had started West to
continued our tramp soon
contributed to the unhurriedly that they arrived in an extra- I left France early in January and building,
clean hatred months later, having travelled across on, still keeping to the fields and woods.
war this must not continue, supplied by sympathisers along their and some had handsome fur Belgium and a good part of Holland On the way we overtook another small Germans by the entire world. After the Some wore new costumes which had been
party.
They seemed at fist no titere Dr Beumer moreover, is highly dis route For some time before I set out on my.
Among those who wore this adventurous journey. I had been growing pleased to see as than we were to sec satisfied with German diplomats. If Ger- overcoats covering their hideous juil increasingly restless owing to the moad them, but it did not take us long to dismans are to remain Germang they must uniform. tony of life in Roubaix, the gradual cover that their purpose and ours were be represented abroad by men who will latter costane was a young millionaire. worsening of the food situation, and the the same Among them, I found, was an not refuse to support German industry aristocrat from Odessa who had been recurrent rounding up of young men for officer of the British Army. He did not and trade with all their might, and be sentence for life ten years ago for deportation,
give me his name, but he mentioned that representatives as well of German family fomenting a revolutionary mutiny in the By the medium of the smugglers to he had been stationed at Hounslow Hd and national life. They must be in con- Black Sea fleet. Other of the party were whom I will refer Inter I had establish had been wounded and captured by the Atant contact with Germans living in the shuggy sheep and wolf skins One man
all their obinmunication with two young French Germans during the retreat from Mons, countries to which they are accredited, from the Irkutsk city jail wore the gold- ir enterprises with all braided uniform thaid of the dismissed Governor of Irkutsk under a ragged and their fr intention to make a bid for liberty, months in hospitghtfall & hut in the Germans
We reached by We met one day at the French Belgian heart of a wood, and there we rested until there must be no repetition of pesce uro. frontier to talk the matter over with only a 5ft, wire fence between is Later about o'clock. Then, walking in single posals. This would never do. But there I joined them in Belgium, and they be file, each man holding the hand of this no fear of this, says the lecturer, for came my companions in fight until we may in front of him, we approached the the simple reason that there will be no trontier. We were within a few yards of withdrawal of anlimited submarine war parted in Holland. We the electrified
when a German fare The enemy nations want peace, but patrol suddenly took alarm and fired in stronger than their wish for peace is their
direction.
We turned and ran for wish for victory, Bismarck, in view of o some distance. It was raining in for the 580,000 square kilometre of enemy rents. We crouched under a hedge for territory in German hands, would er hours, and then, when all seemed quiet, tainly hold this fiat pledge in the hope we went dismally back to the hut in the that a war indemnity would be paid to woods. There we hold a council of war redeem it. This also Germans must do if It was decided to postpone the attempt they are to exist. For a while; and to return to our hiding places What
landed in England just two calendar after All that day we tolled as matero lavishly bestowed on ordinary variety of incongruous garb.
ed
many
friends in Belginet, and I notified them and had managed to escape after #nd supporte to remain. Cormans greasy overcont
KARAYIN THE SMUGGLERS THACK.
Of the method of my cacape front Früne, into Belgium I will say no more than that I followed the track of the amagglers and adopted the same means as they of evading the frontier guard I entered Belgium with 500 marks in German money (formerly th, equivalent of 225 sterling) in my pocket, and no
more luggage than two officer I do not know of the British
NO SENTIMENTALITY.
As soon as the news of the revolution had the nieaus started for the nearest railway, travelling day and night in the fetic cold on peasant sledges or Govern- ment post sleighs. An enormous number of sledges from widely scattered settle. monta Converged on Irkutsk and so con-
me days. gsted the trails that the movement held up sometimes for hours. Five after the trininph of the revolution 0,000 exiles entered Irkutsk but the vast majority were unable to proceed west. - oving to the lack of rolling stock. They encamped about the town and along the railroad, and at least a month will be
spread through Siberia those exiles who
Germans, moreover, must cherish Bis
ha
When I am
There are probably altogether 100,000 persona in Siberia who have been released.
Biberia voluntarily. Maty of the peasants will remain in
and two nandkerchiefs!
flow and where I met my friends I do My companions and I retraced our marck's statement ance made in the Reich-needed before they can be sent home... noi propose to divulge, Shortly after we steps wearily to the village from which stag: I am a Christian, but not that met we fell in with a party of Belgians we had started, and for a fortnight we sort of Christian that if I get a blow on who made a living by struggling wool remained there, under the roof of the one cheek I would turn the other and why theral von Denk's parts of the defend mysolid
Fillager who had previously sheltered us say, Another blow, pe If. Bismarck The famous Terrorist. Nicolai Anuikhi country into the area controlled by thich was even more trying than the had been in
ing, General von Rissing. They agreed to fret, which opted our fourney stage the broken, off relations with the American He would also have told take us with them, and that evening we stage to the hut and on towards the Government
President Wilson that his prayers to accompanied them through plougheil fields Frontier and woods to a spot nour the border r When we
ve drew near to the wires, just leaven for peace had better be discon between the two areas. Here we waited
before midnight, we lay on the ground tinued until he had broken off supplying the fore all else Germans, if they are to yards of Holland. There we lay for
while the leaders of the gang went ahead
mentality. That was a fine stroke of the when he e prohibited the formation Minister of War, General van Blein
日
Euello, Chief of the Potrograd-Warsaw Railroad. He said that after a year in the Alexandrovsk Prison; miles from European prisons he spent ten years in is 18 the biggest odgviet. contained Russia and
Katroga, the severest, form Prisoners mostly sentenced to life
spent the first years in the so-called pro punishment short of death," he said
class with hands and feet which I had to take everywhere.
of Russian
o make suite that the coast was cleston wriggled along until we were within y min, mow, t'thunder, v vidility, w dew (wet Not many vard away paced a German what scomed to be an interminable time, teaäin German, must abjuret ordinary criminals and about 50 political
sentry. One of our party brushed i bough of a tree with his shoulder, and We saw patrole passing. An officer came the soldier heard the crackle of the twiga along and inspected the sentries Every He stopped, instantly and shoated thing was oppressively quiet. "Hall! The smugglers dropped theit packages and ran, and the Frenchmen and I ran with them
HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER
Hongkong Observatory, May 31st.
Provicos On Date On Date
Day
想是
Barometer! Tamper Humiding
Wind Directia
Force Weatherham 194
Rain
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Brussels was an open
AS THE LAST STAGE.
Each sentry moved to and fro over a
German committées to look after the comcled and chained to a wheel-barrow.
of foreign prisoners of war WERE an absurd and sickly sentimental
idea it
In
of a couple of hundred yards was And what a mess the committees addition I was repeatedly flogged by We were more fortunate in our next attempt. Once on the other side of the Opposite the place where we lay two of would get into! They might have been order of the "Goverly fogged by
but what about the ordered daily floggings for his own satis
inetions. hord. F-line we found our way easily to the met. Choosing his opportunity, one able to converse with the British, French Governor, during the absence of int
gloves some weeks beforussians, Ashantis, Senegal negroes and Brussels, Part of the journey was made of my comrades, who had provided him and Italians,
A FAREWELL FLOGGIKO. other barbarians The entire Orintal lin would be required as on foot, part in an open carriage which self with rubber
for this critical moment, rushed forward
After our releass we learned that the we hired without any difficulty, and
to the spot where the two sentries had sentinary of Berlin
interpreters
on getting news of in a farmer's carb, just met. Scrambling through barbed.
also must their Assistant $9.76 29.76
and we
in order to entered 70
without Friends wire and over electrified he gave us shelter and food, and we passed grasped the electrified work, and wriggled exaggerated complaints about the supply the revolution, adored that he would four days, as enjoyable as any prewar between them. We came close on his of food. The situation is by no means give a farewell flogging
remark, It could not be worse even Alexander Popoff, who was sentenced to holiday. I have already described life in heels. He held the deadly electrified rosy, but it is not so bad a to justify the prepare my jail-birds for sweeb liberty Brussels as I saw it, but I may perhaps wites apart with lengths of thick plate add one or two personal notes. The glass with which he had come provided though the eneiny were in the country death for an alleged plot against the
creatures and place Tobolsk, said → in
A most remarkable feature of amnesty upper of one of my boots had given way while first my other companion and then the lecture would like to take some of Emperor, telling of his releass
before a ruined French farmhouse. ander the rough usage of the last few crawled through. Before the sentries
them the farmer bemoaning his day in Tobolsk was the sudden demand int No Man's Land between the Jays A Brussels cobbler patched it for a returned we had run some hundreds and shows lost property, his lost wife for blacksmiths. The prison blacksmith.
lost home, ew pence. On one of our sight-seeingilied wiren and the and children, and then ask them whether fearing the vengeance of the convicts, excursions I was indiscreet enough to frontier. offer a couple of French sous to the con Only one danger remained. We had no or not the present situation would be fled, and private blacksmiths, in the general orgy of revolutionary triumph. ductor of & tramear in payment of myrtainty that the Dutch frontier guards Worse with the enemy in Germany. Fare. He politely told me that they could wear wit hand us back to the Germans. mans should always remember that those could not be found. In the meantime
Somewhere between
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732:
not be accepted, and ance and p We Look no risks, though it meant wadingeries of anxiety at home appreciably sixty chained men waited for their libera In practical Joker had given, us an address through a stream waist deep Our diminish the striking power of to the dismissed Governor's palace,
I was without one villager in whose
given to the Belgian
over By troubles were now practically it the capital at which we might apply and stages we proceeded to Rotterdam, for help. It was 13. Ruc de la Loi.
My watch I had Fortunately we discovered in time that this was the headquarters of the brutal give
A cottage I had found refuge. My clothes General von Bissing
in Brussels we were shabby from Frequent soakings and Refreshed by our stay in nide our way to the outskirts of hard wear. I had shayed only once in
Belgium, a
and a stubbly growth of beard Antwerp. En route we walked through Malines, and saw the effects of the Gerz did not improve my general appearance
At Rotterdam I reported myself to the
soldiers abroad
where a banquet had been prepared, and we had our first free meal.Above the din of speeches and cheers for the Russian Republic could be heard the jangling of Our shackles.
I wrote to the Home Office on the day. received three weeks ago A week later I after my arrival in England, now over from the Department a printed acknow Two girls, who started from the remote fedgment, stating in the usual formula village of Kiatun, without proper equip
at my letter would receive attention in ment were overtaken by blizzard nest-
Hinman. Kung in early days of the British Consul, was treated with the due course. Since then I have had- no. Vrakolensk, and, it is said, were frozen
We
War.
dared not linger there, but we could made to repair some of the damage to the the next four or five days, while I waited the publication of these articles I have who had been exiled to a place
passing that attempts had been utmost kindness. My expenses during word from the Home Office though since to death 0.412athedral there was new brickwork, for for a boat, were paid, and I was given given certain, and I hope useful, informg-
about the windows and that the my fare to Hull There I was a further incidents in my wasted two out by the village
af by two
police and military
tion to various Government departments. ucar the shores of Lake Baikal said that In my concluding article I shall narrate when the news of revolution was given. priest Bity exiles. the debris of closely, by an examining board. My 5907 battered houses worded a tramfar: papers, were taken, and was told to so and a half years of exile, and give some rushed out of church, determined on
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streets had been cleared of the
Outside Antwerp we
Terman soldiers at the octroi apparently London, and noply for them at the suggestions, as to why the Germans have vengeance on the local police captain. were searching carts going into the city, Home Office. As I was again practically begun to treat the Belgians with oficial anton tyrant. They were met by the but they ignored the tramcar, and we without means I was given, nermission to kiudness as to food and other matters at policeman's ten-year-old daughter, who notoriously suffering from rem-fammermo Brst The child's action
saved the captain's life. went unchallengd. We walked about the go to my home in Bradford before pro a time when many parts of Germany are stood before her father and xclaimed
o London
of next column.)
To be Loncludeil.) streets all day, taking rur meals in aoeding to 3
Continued at foot of cafe, and passed the night in an hotel
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