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were a forlorn enough lat, I can nasiro you The nerve of the toughest of us was wearing thin. My fear that it might nap suddenly all round was not realised, however, for we we given further in dications, which our practical cars were not slow to catch, that the great work of

tapping of the divers outside was u rescue was well in hand. The constant

ing sound, and brought hope to those of cheer.

us who, in the steadily increasing stifle of the atmosphere Weng now breathing hard to live

The opinion of these people never ap

FATHOMS DEEP. pears in the newspapers, Thore remarks are never made in public anywhere.

IMPRISONED IN A SUBMARINE. The fate of Licbknecht hands over

A great story may always be told every German People like Mr. Philip simply Wa published a few days ago [HY ERNEST LIONEL

Snowden, M.P., and Mr Ramsay Mao- the brief official note of an act of heroism TROUBLE FROM WITHIN

dinak, M.P., do not exist in Germany which will ever claim a leading place in As a sojourner in Germany for 3 years outside placce like the Moabit Prison in that long, roll of noble donds of, and 8 months, with abundant facilities Berlin, where there is no philanthropic sacrifice that has been so rapidly enfold golf, for free converse with Germans of every nonsense about detention in the scended of late, It told of a naval bero. class; from Prince Max of Baden down division. What happens to the Snow Commander Francis Goodhart, who gave to the humblest Social Democrat, my dens and Maudonalds of Germany is that his life in an effort to save his comrades acquaintance with things German during

i corporal's guard at their pl

places of reimprisoned in a submarine which had the war in anturally much more intimatesidence, puts them into a Black Maria, become fast on the bottom in 3816 of But rescue waa long delayed, and in than my knowledge of what has happened and takes them to a gaol that prides water, Placing in his belt a smil tin the early hours of the following day moet in England.

itself on being an exact copy of Penton, cylinder with instructions for the of us wrote our lase farewell to our loved FINE CAMBRIC FRONTED The fact that I am a Freemason and vile Prison. The establishment was set rescuers, be went into the couning-tower ones short, tender

pretty high up in the craft brought me up for the intensification of the silent with the commanding officer determined pencil-and some of us made our wills. messages scrawled in into close tond with German opinion, system which was exposed by Charles to allow himself to be shot up to the Then, as if by a mircle, three strong As one of the leaders of the camp at Dickens and Charles Read. I give here surface. But the great adventure mis strands in the ladder of oscape came to Ruhieben I necessarily saw practically exactly what happens to such public carried, and the hero paid the penalty us from above. Exactly in what manner everyone who arrived there. Nearly all rators from one who has had a dose of with his life. Those who had the this was made possible I cannot tell you,* the visitors who came desired to inspect the it, and he was only let louse on a striel privilege of knowing Commander Good We got air, water, and lood, in only the kitchen arrangements, of which depart- undertaking not to offend again, hart declare that he was as modest as he smallest quantitios, but just enough to ment I was inspector. Among the This system of detention is known as was brave, and his fellow-prisoners rostit as into new life. That was a god. visitor, were Mr. Gerard, then-American preventive arrest: "That is to ray, the member with admiration the coolness dis-send as welcome as it was unexpected. Ambassader (who makes kindly referollending speaker or writer is removed played by him when he went forth to And we had not to wait long for the ence to me in his book); Bishop Bury, trial for an indefinite period. Moabit is

to a convict prison and lies there without take the fraction of the Episcopal Bishop of Northern and probably the most scientifically cruel achieving his great purpose a living details of that liberation are given it will chance of opening of our prison door. When the Central Europe, Miss Hobhouse, the late Prison in the world, Each prisoner man. His last remark to the cominani. occupies a tiny cell, is taken down to a

cause surprise and congratulation every- Sir Roger Carement, Colonel Gordon,narrow exercise yard, walks up and downg officer was: "If I don't get up the where. It vorges on the miraculous. DOZEN. V.C., Herr Goldschmidt Rothschild,

a dazed and shaken lot of men, but I MAONI When we scrambled into freedom we wero General von Kessel, General von Baume, and the Inte Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz, whose recent sad suicide will be

gratitude to God for saving mercies.” warrant you our hearts were full of "remembered.

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himself along a narrow strip of brick wall in a space hardly wide enough to The circumstances which called forth admit two persons abreast. Then he is taken back to his cell, where ho spends this signal heroism may now be re the remaining twenty-three and a half ferred to. There are displayed in the hours of the day. Offeinl Germans, of course, we had It is remarkable that although the and daring that grip the imagination. narrative elementy of courage, regonroe, them gnlove Many representatives of Moabits all over Germany (and Austria the German middle class also came to us well) are full, there remains a surg. A representative of The Daily Telegraph, details of the impression, caused by the It was left to others to give me fuiler see the semi-German interned. Othering and increasing amount of revolu- who has had an opportunity of conver visitors included Dichen. Swiss,tionary undercurrent in Germany. This Swedes, Danes, and Norwegians In all cannot, however, get into print in Gor sing with one of the rescued sailors, who in the life ladder. The first was air--

anespected arrival of the three "strands I cante into contact with scores of many, but it gets into typewriting and owed his life to the gallantry of the life-giving air which, was forced into people monthly, to which must be added mimeograph. In the form of leaflets it submarine's Commanding Officer, writes: the stifling compartment from above. the numbers of Germans whom I met makes its way into Switzerland, Den. during my many visits to Berlin and mark, and Sweden, and, to a lesser during the period of leave which the extent, into Holland. It is active all the break through that thick crust of tacira had had about fifty hours of I confess that it was hard task to The boon came just in time; the prison German authorities kindly gave me time. There is a good deal of it in turnity behind which our sailors su cononptivity, their tast light was burning

Iee that I have been described here the German Army and some in the Navy, in the newspapers is the last man out When discovered among the soldiers it sistently hide their best qualities. The of Germany "I do not know whether dealt with by putting the offender in men who do most generally speak least. that description be accurate to-day, but the most dangerous position at the front, I am certainly the last Englishman out of Germany who had special opportunity for minute investigation into what has been happening in that country. I have been comparing my observations with the reported statements of the Kaiser's American dentist, who has now arrived and I are in accord about most things.

That we do not agree with many car, rent English views about Germany must repeat it is due to the fact that opinions now held in England about Ger- many in war time ure completely out of date They are based upon the period of the war covered by the years 1014, 1915, 1910, and the early part of 1917, when a great deal of information came out of Germany especially though Amertean channels.

prison house was vile. More than one of the company had lost consciousness, dimly, and the atmosphere of their

but the effect of the tiny air current was instantaneous. The senseless men stirred eyes, breathing hard, whist those of the as if in troubled sleep and opened their

with all their senses about them fele in: company who had stood up to the ordeal stantly the glorious effect of the air draught,

very old Prussian practice. You will I get a version of the story from one of not find it in any of the Socialist nowe its central figures in reluctant sentences. papers, moss of which are either Govern-One had almost as soon have squeezed ment-controlled or Government-owned, such as 'ordert, formerly an independ water from a stone, but the big, hard ent Socialist paper, but now in Govern knit man-an indomitable spirit encased in the United States, and I seo that he of Vienna, the grim tale one of the grimmest in cold water-also forced down by the ment pay. You may find a little of it in a frame of steel-gave me ultimately now and then in the

A PATEFUL SEVEN MONTHS

-To-day Germany is a sealed book. It requires an event of immense detonation, such as the Kiel naval mutiny or the Berlin strike (some of which I saw at first land), for news to come out of Ger many and reach the outer world ́ CUTLER PALMER & CO. S typhus as they call it there makes no The slow, steady spread of hunger aoise as yet, is never allowed to be re. ferred to in the German newspapers, and will only became known here in England when the outbreak reaches dimensions that can no longer be concealed.

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I am glad to and that corroborative testimony as to my statements regarding the 1917 food situation of Germany and Austria is beginning to appear. The Bureau of Statistics at Washington has, I notice, commenced to issne the figures which deal roughly with the food posi tion of these two countries up to Septem

ber last year

I say without hesitation or fear of con

THREE DAYS AND NIGHTE.

The second straud was water-fresh

splendid salvage party. The quantity was very small only a sip to each but, on the refreshment of it!

"We were parched in lip and mouth and throat," aid one of tian prisoners and never wo a drop of water more welcome Tha- third strand was found, pellets of cons pressed food

tradiction that the lack of food, which the annals of the sea. He told me that has been the chief cause of resolutions he had observed in a long life spent afloat since the beginning of the world, has that it was the unexpected thing that altered the whole situation of Germany almost always "alged the bigg in regard to the possibility of revolution. At one period of the war it was the fashion to say that the Germans were so docile und well drilled that they would

And surely," he added, "this affair never revolt. Then came the food riots, was the most unexpected and the big strikes, and other demonstrations of un- gest that ever Fate forced me to have a expected recipients of a triple blessing. The men were most thankfully the un- rest at Berlin, Essen, Hamburg, Kiel, hand in What exactly happened to our which brought to them astrong ray of hono Düsseldorf, Leipsic and elsewhere, also craft (a submarine) I'm not going to stay in what had come to be a hopeless plight in Austria, at Vienas and Prague, for to tell you, for the simple resson that The salvage party had accomplished instance. People then said that thero I don't know myself. We were a goodly almost the impossible. And this was might be a revolution in Germany after company on board that mechanical whale not their greatest achievement. It was the war.

no man of us even dreamt of the trick men after they had been evidently hope. handsome 6sh, I can assure you and the forcing of a way of escapie for the she was to play us. She made is lessly entombed that was the marvel. wonder, and, incidentally, transformed Ingenuity backed up by tireless tenacity, us into Jonahs. She took a header any resourcefulness that absolutely refused to

fathoms deep, as indeed, she was intended

own either defeat or despair, and such

The war has now entered an entirely new phase. It began in 1914, when the German nation, a confident and well-fed be in Paris in six weeks. The position people, thought that their army would to-day is that the destitute populations of Germany and Austria think that they appointment came in were in the fact. will bring the English, Americans, and that she elected to remain at the bottom French to their knees by the capture of far beyond her proper time. The Book Amiens and the Channel ports. In the tells us that. Jonah he was alone, too, It was a miracle of accomplishment. opinion of the Northcliffe newspapers, poor fellow-was in the belly of the fah which I entirely share, and it is a view three days and three nights. We did not held by a great many thinking Germans, exed his record, but ran it close. We such undoubted successes for German were in the belly of our whale, lying arms would in no way affect the ultimate fathoms deep, part of three days and situation. What, then, will be the psi- part of three nights. tion of the. German people? Will the riets spread? What will be the attitude vanished. of the soldiers whose sympathy with the sufferings of their wives and children at home is known to favour peace at any price? Will the German people by phy sically able to go on with the wart I be lieve not.

Then the smile on the mariner's face

to do, but where the surprise and dis practical appliances as probably only

Britons couid devise and bring into ope ration at the shortest notice, triumphed over difficulties that seemed insuperable. Yet another tribute the brains that has brought us a position of pre- eminence in the nautical world, and shall keep us there to all time. miracle of accomplishment was made pos-

But this. sible only by an act of daring which cost. one hero his life, and almost led to the sacrifice of another. Knowing as they "Such three days and three nights face from such a depth offered only the did that the chance of reaching the sur Seven months have elapsed since then

have never passed over my head before, slenderest chance of success, they deter seven months during which the British,

he said, slowly and roffectively. They mined to lead the forlorn hope. Lond American, and French blockade has at

aged myself and my fellow prisoners by anything save British hercism rise to last been put to effective use; seven

years, I reckon I'm told that I was such heights us that? months during which Holland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden have become so ex-bluffed by the Kaiser's grandiloquent war always been a good clinger in that re-offered in the span of rescue in the I have been too long in Germany to be about the last to abandon hope. I've

What a picture for brush or pen is hausted themselves by their aules to messages; nor are even his own people spect. It's a small ray that does not get dead of night, when these dazed prison- Germany that their own populations are bluffed by them. On February 21st, 1916, about my heart but this time it was on the verge of destitution and are there the Emperor spread his boastful report pretty pitch-dark. When the first night ers won once again their liberty. They fore unable to export, roven autumn that his brave Brandenburgers had prac. of imprisonment passed, and it appeared came forth in single file from the prison and winter months when nothing grows tically captured Verdun thereby open from our watches we had artificial light house Near the end of the procession except appetites.

ing the road to Paris, the road to Peace, enough to see the time that the dawn was a bronzed sailor, one whose coolness During these seven months Germany and the road to Food, "He can still force of a new day had come with sign of re- in the dragging hours of extremity had bas reverberated with victories all of his newspapers to fool the German lease, some of the company threatened done much to maintain the Hickering lits them foodless, all of them obtained with nation, Many of his people are still to chuck hope. But others of us put as of his comrades. He thrust out at arm's- out difficulty. Sho has either fooled being fooled, but hungry folk are not so bright a face on a black outlook as we length his oil skin, and followed with a Bolshevik Rumians or easily overcome easily duped as those who enjoy a good waterices and breadless situation would the only touch of lightness in the grita could, and gave them such cheer to a wonderfully nimble step, thus providing euningly deceived Italiane, but has dinner, a vivid memories of the bloody battle for Unless some miracle brings many allow Of course, too, we had to remem. tragedy. Calais, the 1916 Battle of the Somme, millions of tons of food into Germany ber that our air supply was running out. Who can attempt to gauge the depth of and the battle for Verdun,,gal and Austria in 1918, I share the view of "Speak of dropping sovereigns downfeeling of these newly-liberated men ? She has put off the final fight for food-many Germans that there will be trouble a well Every tick of my watch liknew Never did the stars seem so bright t

was as a lost sovereign, so far as air was them as they did ou that memorable the battle for Amiens and the Channel from within.-Daily Mail.

concerned. But those of us who were night; never, surely, was freedom more ports until her population insist on get

blessed with big batteries of optimism highly prized, and certainly never was ting food by victory or by peace. This

did our best to distribute the current, fresh, frosty air breathed with such spring offensive was eagerly talked of

and so the time dragged on. Then a gusto. Some little distance away godly in Germany all last autumn and winter. There was never any secret about it.

WITH FISTS AND BAYONET.

great thing happened. Two heroes came shelter was awaiting them, and from. forward and offered to risk all in an there they despatched hurried messages Its object, from the point of view of the Lance corporal A Wischusen, RE, attempt to win to the surface. All to loved ones at home, to relieve hearts German middle and lower classes, WAS who hails from Newport, has been award what a cost may be told later on, later a grateful little company beard read to provide the food that had failed toed the Distinguished Conduct Medal an

honour to them. How they did it and nearly broken by suspense. And a while come from Russia and Roumania. It was the result of his readiness with fists and but the thing was done, and the outer to them by ode of the survivors the to end the war.

bayonet during an exciting five minutes world was thus made aware of our termetrical version of the 124th Psalm in a tunnel. When working with tunrible plight, That much we realised when They needed no preacher to interpret to nel reconnaissance party he, with his we know of the presence of divers about them its beauty and its significance for officer, who was wounded in the

TO END

(To be continued.)

To end the war. That is the phrase party of the ender. When he was being taken for our salvage, and that

who leg met our craft What a relief1 W had they had been there; and they know

that been located, practical measures were

behind every German aspiration The view of the Hehenzollerng to end the war they wished to is by theatrical victory; they, and their about to pass the prisoners up the en splendid prospect made us take in a satellites, the Pan-Germans, are the only treacherously struck him full in the face fast failing but hone was burning trance of the tannel an enemy officer draught of new life Artificial light was people who hold that view at all. When He thereupon knocked this officer down brightly, so what did it matteri

make this statement I know what I bay oneled the next, and threw a third am talking about, because my views, aroon-top of a bomb, the rest meanwhile, not gathered from newspapers drilled who were being covered by his officer into disipline by the Gorgien General arrendering the surviving enemy off Staff, but from the remarks of thousands cer was then compelled to disclose the of Germans with whom I have conversed. positions of the mines,

Our ordeal as it turned out, was but

4 young thing as yet, however. We had till a long way to go. The day dragged through, and when we entered on the silence and uncertainty of the night wa

And as fierce floods

Before them all things drown, So had they brought Our soul to death quite down.

Even as a bird

Out of the fowler's snare Escapes away

Bo i pur soul set fre Broke to their nets, And thus escaped se