THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS. MoCONNELLSBURG. PA.
"Outwitting the Hun"
By
FROM A PRISON CAMP O'BRIEN WATCHES LAST FIGHT AND
FATAL FALL OF HIS CHUM, PAUL RANEY.
Synopsis. I'ut O'ltrlen, 11 resident of Monienco, III., lifter seeing
net-vice In the Ainerlciin flying corps on the Mexleun border In 1!)HJ,
jnliiH the Ilriil.sli Hoynl Flyliijj corps In Cumuli, mid after a brief train
lug period Is sent to France, lie Is unsigned to a squadron in active
service on tin? front. Ho engages in several hot fights with Germnn
flyers, from which lie emerges victorious. Finally, In a fight with four
German flyers, O'llrlcti Is shot down. Ho fulls 8,000 feet and, escaping
death by a miracle, awakes to find himself a prisoner in a Gorman
hospital, with a bullet hole In Ids mouth.
CHAPTER IV Continued.
When my "chummy enemy" first
iturti-d his conversation with me, the
German doctor In churgo reprimanded
him for talking to me, but lie paid no
attention to the doctor. Hhowlng that
mine real Americanism had soaked
Into his system while lie had been In
the U. S. A. I asked him one day whnt
he thought the German peoplo would
do after the war ; if he thought they
would mako Germany a republic, and
much to my surprise he said very bit
terly, "If I hnd my way nhout It, I
would make her a republic today ond
hang the d d kulser in the bar-
gain." And yet he wus considered on
excellent soldier. I concluded, how-
I . i . i i . ri
fVPr, mill lie mum nave neeu u uer-
man socialist, though he never told me
no. On one occasion I nsked lilin for
his mime, but he said that I would
pmlm'tly never see him again and It
diiln't matter what his naino was. I
dlil not know v-hether he meant that
the Ormnns would starve me out, or
Just what was on his mind, for at that
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i nine i urn nuru in; uiu inn ukuiu mi
dj'ln?. The first two or three days
I wns In the hospital I thought surely
he would be tip and gone long before
I wns, but blood poisoning set In
uliotit that time, and Just n few hours
Mure I left for C'oiirtral ho died.
One of those days, while my wound
was still very troublesome, I wns
fhen mi apple; whether It wns Just to
tormi'iit me, knowing that I could not
cat It, nr whether for some other ren
n, I do not know. 1 In t anyway a
UiTiniiii Hying olllcer there had several
In his pockets and gave me u nice one.
of course there was no thance of my
rutins It, so when the oflleer had gone
ami I discovered tills San Francisco
Mliiw looking at It rather longingly,
1 picked It up. intending to toss It
over iii him. Hut he shook his head
and snlil, "If this was San Francisco
I would take It, but I cannot take It
from ymi here." I wns never able to
understand Just why he refused tho
p;i!o, for he was usually sociable ami
a v I fellow to talk to, but appar
ently ho could not forget that I wns
ill en y. However, that did not stop
ne of the orderlies from eutlng the
apple.
One practice about the hospital Itn
ires(ii llt. particularly. That wns,
If n (ierniau soldier did not stand
"null chance of recovering sufficiently
t" take Ills place again In the war, the
'I'M'tiiin did not exert themselves to see
Mint ho pit well. Hut If a mini had
a fairly good chance of recovering and
"ley thought lie might lie of some fur
ther use, everything that medical skill
'"lllil Dossllilv iln was done for lilm.
' ilm't know whether tills was done
under orders or whether the doctors
'M followed their own inclinations
'uch cases.
My tooth had been badly Jarred up
fl"i the shot, ami I hoped Unit I might
hare a ehniico to mVe them llxed
l'lwi I reached Courtrat, the prison
where I was to bo taken. So I nsked
"w doctor if it would be possible for
" to have this work done there, but
'"very nitly told me that, although
""To Were several dentists at Cour-
ral. they were busy enough fixing the
''h f their own men without both
nhout mine. Ho also added that
' VVlMlhl
not have to worry about my
,IM,,i; that I wouldn't bo getting ho
"'"' rood that they would ne put out
"' rnmilsslon hv working overtime. I
inleil to tell him that from tho way
"" looked lie would not bo wear-
l:8 his
out very soon either.
v..
COUdlt lull illim-nveil iliirlnir tho
two days, and on the fourth day
' captivity I was well enough to
' " " brief message to my sqtiud-
""' lvl'wtlng tlmt I was a prisoner 6f
. "f ""d "feeling fine," aliliongh, ns a
'""lor of r,.t t ' .i..
' 119 nr?t;i mi lit,"
In my life. I nallzed, how-
' 'Hilt If lllO mnHVMf'i) muni mil Hit
'''''r'''l,,s n l relayed to my
; ' "''I1 I" Monience, III., mid I did not
to worev l.i i,.. .... i.
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v, ," , lmvu ,0 k""vv ,lmt 1 WllS
'hi ,
1 ''"'1 hopes hl: my message would
"fried over the lines and dropped
v "no of it,,, n ... .., '
'''t I i limn n.viOK iiiuccrx.
,r. 'Minesy which is usually
on b.,,1, H,,,,Si j re,.ftie,
.,. '"""'"tly we had waited In our
ioi news of our men who had
""I til Flit,,
fin....
-"in, nun i couki picture
Tin I 'i "'''"'"tlng on my fate.
,.' , 's """ of the saddest tilings
"'7"? with service in the It. F. O.
"" iloj't r,,f ,. .. . . .
fill ,i,l ,i " w""1 ""I'pcns to
'ivr fi ,,Miiiiii.,-n win.
You " ,,rc ve,'y 'Ici'rcsslng.
go out with your "lllglit" nnd
"HO n ii,uo ...... . ......
ml wi ' 1,,u K' 1 scntieren,
" 'n'ir forilintlon la l.p,,l, n i,n
iVri!!!, y W,M Vur way home alone.
'n . , y'm ,ire 11,0 Irst to land.
y, tl,n "incnlno shows In the
ll for ti u,l0,h'". nnd you patiently
ur, i, J, Nt t0 "I'Pcnr. Within nn
' I'HllltW ..II I .
in ... . '"i niivo Known un mivn
Uh1, . ''"Pliened H him.
ins way? Has he landed
'lll
""or Bir.ti-...,.,.
Did the
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LIEUTENANT
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When darkness comes you realize
that, at any rate, he won't bo back that
night, and you hopo for n telephone
cull from him telling of his where
abouts. If the night passes without sign or
word from him, ho Is reported as miss
ing and then you watch for his cas
ualty to appear In the war office lists.
Ono day, perhaps a month later, a
message Is dropped over the line by
the German flying corps with a list of
pilots captured or killed by the Huns,
and then, for the first time, you know
definitely why It was your comrade
failed to return the day he lust went
over the line with his squadron.
I was still musing over this melan
choly phase of the scout's life when
on orderly told me thpre was a beauti
ful buttle going on In the air, and he
volunteered to help me outside the
hospital that 1 might witness It, and
I readily accepted his assistance.
Thut afternoon I saw ono of the
gnmest fights I ever expect to witness.
There wero six of our machines
against perhaps sixteen Huns. From
the type of the Ilrllsh machines I knew
that they might possibly be from my
own aerodrome. Two of our machines
hud been apparently picked out by
six of the Huns and were bearing the
brunt of the fight. The contest seemed
to me to be so unequal that victory for
our men was hardly to be thought of,
and yet nt ono time they so completely
out maneuvered tho Huns that I
thought their superior skill might save
tlio day for them, despite the fact that
they were so hopelessly outnumbered.
One thing I wus sure of: they would
never give In.
Of course, It would hnve been a com
pnrutlvely simple matter for our men,
when they saw how tilings were going
against them, to have turned their
noses down, landed behind the Ger
man lines and given themselves up us
prisoners, but thut Is not tho way of
the It. F. C.
A buttle of this kind seldom lasts
many minutes, ulthough every second
seems like nn hour to thoso who par
ticipate in it, and even onlookers suf
fer more thrills In the course of the
struggle than they would ordinarily
experience in a lifetime. It Is appar
ent even to a novice that tho loser's
futc Is death.
Of course, the Germans around the
hospital wera all watching and rooting
for their comrades, but the Knglisb,
too, had one nyinpatlilzer in that group
who made no effort to stlilo bis ndmlru-
tlon ,for the bruvery his countrymen
were displaying.
The end came suddenly. Four ma
chines crashed to earth almost simul
taneously. It wus nn even break two
of theirs nnd two of ours. The others
.apparently returned to their respective
lines.
The wound In my mouth made It Im
possible for me to spenk, but by means
of a pencil nnd paper I requested one
of the German olllcers to find out for
mo who the Kngllsh olllcers were who
hud been shot down.
A little later he returned nnd handed
mo a photograph taken from the body
of one of the victims. It was a picture
of I'aul Ituney of Toronto, anil myself,
taken together I I'oorltaneyl Ho was
tho best friend I had and ono of the
best nnd gnmest men who ever fought
In France.
It wns ho, I learned long nfter, who,
when I was reported missing, had
checked over nil my belongings nnd
Rent them back to England with a
signed memorandum which Is now In
my possession. Poor fellow, ho little
rc ll.ed then that but n day or two
later he would bo engaged In his last
heroic buttle with me a helpless on
looker t
The sntno German officer who
brought me tho photograph also drew
a map for mo of tho exact spot where
Ituney was burled In Flanders. I
guarded It carefully nil through my
subsequent adventures and dually
turned It over to bis father nnd mother
when I visited them in Toronto to per
form tho hardest and saddest duty I
have ever been called upon to execute
to confirm to them In person the
tidings of poor I'a ill's (loath.
Tho other Itrltlsh pilot who fell wns
also from my squadron nnd n man I
knew well Lieutenant Keith of Aus
tralia. I had given him a picture of
myself only n few hours before I sturt
ed on my own disastrous lllglit. Ho
was one of the star pilots of our squad
ron and hud been In many a desperate
battlo before, but this time tho odds
were too great for lilin. He put up a
wonderful fight and ho gave as much
us he took.
The next two days passed without
Incident and I wns then taken to tho
Intelligence department of the Germnn
flying corps, which wns located about
an hour from the hospltnl. There I was
kept two days, during which time they
put a thousand nnd one questions to
me. While I wns there I turned over
to them the message I bnd written In
the hospital and asked them to have
one of their flyers drop It on our sldo
of the tine.
They asked me where I would like to
have It dropped, thinking perhaps I
jvotil rjjrl vem jr I rdrore a wn v b " t
PATj O'BRIEN
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2llout. A.O'Brlen, R.F.3. (sin.) Reported slsslng 17-8-i?
Paokei in Tronfc.
3 suits Pyjaunae.
1 Shirt.
4 Vests.
4 Pre. Pants.
3 Prs. Combination!.
1 Night Shirt.
9 Tooele.
1 Pr. Shorte.
1 Pr. Puttees
3 Prs. Breeohej.
1 Pr. Trouaere.
X Strap.
1 Suit olrlllan olothes.
1 Belt.
1 Tunlo.
1 American Tunis.
1 Pr. Ankle Roots.
1 British Warm Coat.
3 Pr. Goggle.
1 San Brpwne Belt
1 Cane.
1 Box Dent rl flee.
3 Blankets.
CQBisanllnj Ho.
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Photograph of Official Memorandum,
Belongings of Lieutenant O'Brien, Which Were Turned Over to Lieu,
tenant Raney When O'Brien Was Reported Missing on August 17, 1917.
when I smiled and shook my head, they
did not Insist upon un answer.
"I'll drop It over ," declared one
of them, miming my airdrome, which
revealed to mo that their flying corps
Is as efficient ns other branches of the
service In the mutter of obtaining valu
uble Information.
And right here I want to sny thnt the
more I ciime to know of the enemy, the
more keenly I realized what a difficult
tnsk we're going to hnve to lick him.
In till my subsequent experiences, tho
fact thut there Is a heap of fight left
In the Huns still wns thoroughly
brought homo to me. We fcliull win
tho wnr eventunlly, If we don't slow
up too soon, In the mistaken Ideu thnt
the Huns are ready to lie down.
The flying olllcers who questioned
me were extremely anxious to find out
all they could about tho part America
is going to play In tho wnr, but they
evidently enmo to tho conclusion that
America hadn't taken me very deeply
Into her coufldence, Judging from the
Information they got, or fulled to get,
from me.
At any rnte, they gave me up ns a
bnd Job, and I was ordered to the offi
cers' prison at Courtrul, Keiglum.
CHAPTER V.
The Prison Camp t Courtral.
From the Intelligence department I
was conveyed to the officers' prlsou
camp nt Courtral In au automobile. It
was about an hour's rldo. My escort
wns ono of the most famous flyers In
the world, barring none. Ho was later
killed In action, but I was told by an
English airman who witnessed his last
combat, that he fought a game batUe
nnd died a hero's death.
The prison, which hnd evidently
been a civil prison of some kind before
the wnr, wns located right In the heart
of Courtral. Tho first building we ap
proached was largo and In front of
the archway, which formed tho mnin
entrance, wns a sentry box. Hero we
were challenged by tho sentry, who
knocked on the door; tho guard turned
tho key In the lock and I wns admit
ted. We passed through tho urchwuy
nnd directly Into a courtynrd, on which
faced all of tho prison buildings, the
windows, of course, being heavily
burred. After I bud given my pedigree
my name, ago, address, etc. I was
shown to n cell with bars on the win
dows overlooking this courtynrd. I
was promptly told that at night we
wero to occupy these rooms, but I hnd
already surveyed the surroundings,
taken account of tho number of guards
and tho locked door outside, and con
cluded thnt my chances of getting
away from some other place could be
no worse than In that particular cell.
As I hnd no lint, my helmet being tho
only thing I bad worn over tho lines,
I was compelled either to go bnre
bended or wear tho red cap of the
Hnvnrlnn whom I had shot down on
thut memornblo day. It can bo Im
agined bow I looked attired in n Brit
ish uniform and a bright red cap.
Wherever I wns taken my outfit
aroused considerable curiosity among
tho Itelglana and German soldiers.
When I arrived at prison that day I
still wore this cap, and as I was taken
Into tho courtyard, my overcoat cover
Ing my uniform, all thnt tho Rrltlsh
olllcers, who happened to be sunning
themselves In the courtynrd, could see
wns the red cap. TI107 afterwards told
me they wondered who the "bug Hun"
wns with the bandage on his mouth.
This cop I managed to keep with me,
but was never allowed to wear It on
tho walks we took. I cither went bare
bended or borrowed 0 cup from some
other prisoner.
At certain hours each day the pris
oners were allowed to mingle In the
courtyard, and on the first occasion of
this kind I found that there were 11
officers Imprisoned there besides my
self. They pnfj perQ fntnrnrnfni vi'hn
A
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aLieut.
n.r.3.
S3 3quadron,
nying uorps.
Giving an Inventory of the Personal
could spenk all lnngunges. One of
them wns a mere boy who bnd been
boru In Jersey City, N. J., and had
spent nil his life la America until
the beginning of 191-1. Then ho moved
with his folks to Germany, nnd when
ho beenmo of nillltnry age the Huns
forced him Into the army. I think If
tho truth wero known ho would much
ruther hnvo been fighting for America
than against her.
I found thnt most of the prisoners
remained at Courtrul only two or
three days. From there they wero In
variably taken to prisons In the Inte
rior of Germany.
Whether It was because I wns an
American or becnuso I was a flyer, I
don t know, but this rule was not fol
lowed In my case. I remained there
two weeks.
During this period Courtral wns con
Rtnntly bombed by our airmen. Not a
single day or night passed without one
or more nlr raids. In the two weeks
I was there I counted 21 of them. Tho
town suffered a great deal of damage,
Evidently our peoplo wero aware that
the Germans had a lot of troops con
centrnted in this town and besides the
headquarters stuff wns stutloned there.
Tho knlser himself visited Courtral
while I wns In the prison, I was told by
ono of tho Interpreters, but ho didn't
call on me, nnd for obvious reasons I
couldn't call on him.
The courtyard was not a very pnpn
lar place during air raids. Several
times when our airmen raided that
section In the day'tlme I went out and
watched the machines and the shrnp
nel bursting all around; but tho Ger
mans did not crowd out there, for their
own antiaircraft guns were hammer
Ing away to keep our planes ns high
In tho sky ns possible, nnd shells wero
likely to full In tho prison yard any
moment. Of course I watched these
battles at my own risk. Many nights
from my prison window I watched
with peculiar Interest the air raids
carried on, and It was a wonderful
sight with tho German searchlights
playing on the sky, tho "flaming on
Ions" tired high nnd the burst of the
antiaircraft guns, but rather an un-
comfortnblo sensation when I realized
that perhnps the very next tutnuto a
bomb might be dropped on the building
In which I wns a prisoner. Dut per
haps all of this was better than no
excitement nt all, for prison llfo soon
been mo very monotonous.
Ono of the hardest things I bad to
endure throughout tho two weeks I
spent there was tho sight of tho Hun
macblues flying over Courtrul, know
ing thnt perhaps I never would have
another chnnoe to fly, nnd I used to sit
by tho hour wntchlng tho German ma
chines maneuvering over tho prison,
ns they hnd nn airdrome not far away
and every afternoon tho students or
I took them for students becuuse their
flying was very poor nppenred over
the town. One certain Hun seemed to
find particular satisfaction In flying
right down over tho prison nightly, for
my special discomfort and benefit, It
seemed, ns if he know an airman Im
prisoned there wns vainly longing to
try his wings nguln over their lines.
Hut I used to console myself by say
ing: "Never mind, old boy, there wns
never a bird whoso wings could not
be clipped If they get him Just right,
and your turn will come some day."
One night there was an exception
ally heavy nlr raid going on. A num
ber of German officers came Into my
room, nnd they all seemed very much
frightened. I Jokingly remarked thut
It would bo fine It our airmen hit tho
old prison the percentage would be
very satisfactory one English officer
and about ten German ones. They
didn't seem to appreciate the Joke,
however, and, Indeed, they were ap
parently too muah alarmed at what
was going on ovorhead to laugh even
at their own Jokes. Although these
night raids seem to take all the starch
going on, the officers wero usually as
bravo ns lions tho next day nnd spuko
contemptuously of the raid of tho
ulght before.
I saw thousands of soldiers In Cour
trul, nnd ulthough they did not Im
press mo ns huvlng very good or ubun
durit food, they wero fairly well
clothed. I do not mean to Imply that
conditions pointed to an eurly end of
tho wnr. On the contrary, from what
I was ablo to observe on thnt point,
unless tho Huns huve an absolute crop
falluro they enn, In my opinion, go on
for years I The Idea of our being able
to win tho war by starving them out
strikes mo as ridiculous. This Is a
war thnt must bo won by fighting, nnd
tho sooner we reulizo thut fuct tho
sooner It will be over.
Itlslng hour in tho prison wns seven
o'clock. ISroiikfust enme at eight This
consisted of a cup of coffee and noth
ing else. If the prisoner had tho fore
sight to save some bread from tho pre
vious day, he had broad for brenkfust
also, but that never huppened In my
cuse. Sometimes we hnd two cups of
coffee, that Is, near-coffee.
For lunch they gave us boiled sugar
beets or some other vegetable, and
once in a while some kind of pickled
meat, but that happened very seldom.
We nlso received a third of a loaf of
bread war breud. This war bread
was as heavy as a brick, black and
sour. It wus supposed to Inst us from
noon one dny to noon tho next. Ex
cept for some soup, this wus the whole
lunch menu.
Dinner came nt 8:30 p. m., when we
sometimes hnd a little Jum mnde out
of sttgur beets, nnd a preparation
culled tea, which you had to shuke vlg-
orously or It settled In the bottom of
the cup, nnd then about all you had
was hot water. This "teu" was a sad
blow to the Englishmen. If It hadn't
been called tea they wouldn't hnve felt
so bndly about It, perhaps, but It was
adding Insult to Injury to cull thnt
stuff "tea." which with them Is almost
a national Institution.
Sometimes with this men! they gave
us butter Instend of Jam, and once In
a while we hud some kind of cutined
meat.
This comprised the usunl run of eat
ables for the dny I enn cat more than
that for breukfust I In tho days thut
were to come I loomed that I wus to
fure considerably worse.
We were allowed to send out nnd
buy n few things, but ns most of the
prisoners were without funds tills wns
but un empty privilege. Onco I took
advantage of the privilege to send my
shoes to a I'.elglan shoemaker to be
half-soled. They charged mo 'JO
murks $51
Once In a while a IVIglnn Ladles'
Itellef society visited the prison and
brought us hiinillierclilefs, American
Roup which sells ut about $1.50 a'
bar In llelglum toothbrushes and
other little articles, nil of which were
American mnde, but whether they
wero supplied by tho American re
lief committee or not I don't know.
At any rate, these gifts wero mighty
useful and wero very much appre
ciated. Ono dny I offered a button off my
uniform to one of these Iielglnn ladles
ns a souvenir, but n Gorman guard
suw me nnd 1 wns never allowed to
go near the visitors afterwards.
The sanitary conditions In this
prison camp wero excellent ns u gen
eral proposition. Ono night, however,
I discovered that I hud been cap
tured by "cooties."
This wns a novel experience to mo
and one that I would hnve been very
willing to have missed, because In
tho flying corps our airdromes are a
number of miles buck of tho lines nnd
we hnvo good billets and our acquaint
ance with such things ns "cooties" nnd
other unwelcome visitors Is very lim
ited. When I discovered my condition, I
'rClWVtjfJlytlltr
Facsimile of the Check Given to Lieutenant O'Brien as a Joke by Lieutenant
Dlckton When They Were Fellow Prisoners at Courtral.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
NEW HONOR ACCORDED DAVID
Might with Entire Propriety Be Called
the First Bandmaster Recorded
In History.
Dnvld might well be cnlled tho first
bandmaster mentioned In history, f
he wns the first orchestral organizer
of which we hnve tiny record. Ills
band numbered two hundred, four
score nnd eight, nnd be thus led tho
first body of players. Ho no doubt
possessed a knowledge of Instrumen
tation nnd tone-color ' effect, for he
assigns bis subjects to special Instru
ments.
The fourth Psalm, "Ilenr mo when
I call, O God of my righteousness."
ho directs to be played by his chief
musician, who wns n player of the
harp nnd tho snckbttt. I'sulm fifth,
"Give car to my words, O Lord," he
assigns to tho chief musician, who
wns tho solo flutist of bis band.
Psalm sixth, "O Lord, rebuke me not
In thlno anger," the chief musician
or soloist on tho string Instrument,
who had n virtuoso's regnrd for ex
pression, Is called upon to perform,
and so on through tho Psnlms.
Dnvld without question hnd In Ms
hand nil of tho component parts of
the modern orchestra strings, wood
winds, brass and percussion. At the
dedlcntldn of Solomon's temple, Dnvld
nnd all the house of Dnvld "played
before the Lord with all mnnner of
Instruments mndo of fir wood, and
with harps nnd with psnltrles. with
trlmbels, castanets, cornets and cym
bals, and the sound of the trumpet
was heard In the land even as It Is
heard today." Popular as a composer
and popular as a conductor, Dnvld was
r,fnk..''","l.'"" - v J
made ft holler and roused the guard,
nnd right then I got another example
of German efficiency.
This guard Boomed to bo even more
pcrturbod about my complulnt than I
myself, evidently fearing thut he would
bo blamed for my condition.
Tho commundant was summoned
and I could see that ho was very an
gry. Someone undoubtedly got a se
vere reprimand for It.
I was taken out of my coll by a
guard with a rlflo and conducted about
a quarter of a mllo from tho prison
to an old factory building which had
been converted Into an eluborute fuml
gating plant. There I was given a
pickle bath in some kind of solution,
and while I was absorbing It my
clothes, bed clothes and whatever else
hnd been In my cell was being put
through another fumigating process.
While I wns waiting for my things
to dry It took perhaps half nn hour
I hnd a chnneo to observe about one
hundred other victims of "cooties"
Germnn soldiers who hud become in
fested In tho trenches. Wo were all
nude, of course, but apparently it wns
not difficult for them to recognize me
us a foreigner even without my uni
form on, for none of them made any
attempt to talk to me, although they
were very busy tulklng about me. 1 1
could not understand what they were
saying, but I knew I was the butt of
most of their Jokes and they made no
effort to conceal the fuct that I was
tho subjoct of conversation.
When I got back to my cell I found
thnt It had been thoroughly fumlgutcd,
nnd from that time on I had no further
trouble with "cooties" or other visi
tors of tho same kind.
As we wero not allowed to write
anything but prison cards, writing was
out of tho question ; and ns we had no
rending mutter to speak of, reading
was nil. We hud nothing to do to
pass away the time, so consequently
cards became our ouly diversion, for
we did, fortunutely, hnvo some of
these.
There wasn't very much money as a
rule In circulation, und I .think for once
In my life I held most of that, not due
to any particular ability on my pnrt
In the game, but I happened to huve
several hundred francs In my pockets
when shot down. Hut we held a lot
tery thut wus watched without quite
such Intense Interest as that The
drawing wus always held the day before
to learn w ho was the lucky man. There
was as much speculation ns to who
would win the prize as If It had been
the finest treasure In the world. The
grent prize wns one-third of a lont of
breud. Through some nrrungement,
which I never quite figured out, II
happened thnt niiiong tho eight or ten
officers wlio were there with 1110, there
wns nlwnys one-third of n loaf of
breud over. There wus Just ono wny
of getting that bread, nnd thut was to
draw lots. Consequently that wns whut
started the lottery. I believe If a muo
hnd ever been Inclined to client he
would have been sorely tempted In this
Instance, but tho gnmo was played ab
solutely square, and if 11 mini hnd been
caught cheating tho chances tiro that
ho would huve been shunned by the
rest of tho officers ns long as ho was
In prison. I wus fortunate enough tu
win the prize twice.
As he was traveling with oth
er prisoners toward a priton
camp In the heart of Germany,
O'Brien conceived the Idea of
leaping through the car window
In a desperate attempt to gain
his liberty. There was one
chance In a thousand that he
would escape death or re
capture. O'Brien took the
chance. Read about this thrill
Ing exploit In the next install
ment or
present tlmo the Instrumental body hns
existed In many forms bands com
posed entirely of bagpipes, orchestras
composed entirely of string Instnt
ments, bunds of oboe players, bands
entirely of brass, bands of brass nnd
wood-wind, hands of trumpets, hands
of bugles, bands of drums, nnd nil
sorts of combinations hnvo been made
by mil 11.
"The Female of the Species."
"I could never think of marrying,"
said old I'rlnco C , "for I know
what my fate would be. ICvery Rus
sian lives under his wife's slipper."
Iinrrlng nn occnslonnl outburst of
terrible Asiatic temper on tho pnrt of
pnterfanilllas usttnlly soon, nnd con
tritely repented of this Is a fact. The
Husslan woman Is nlwnys tho strong
er. Slio has n vltnllty nnd energy
which tho men seem tmnblo to cope
with. Tho stories of Tschnlkovsky's
erratic mnrrlngo ond terrific flight
llko tho -aversion,, founded on some
thing like fear, of Strlndbcrg for wom
en (Strlndberg being n type of Swede
thnt shows many Russian proclivities,
even as much Russian blood hns perco
lated Into certain parts of Sweden)
recelvo, ninny explanatory commen
taries, If ono hns known something of
the more Intimate aspect of Russian
existence. A. O. Tnlfree, In the At
lantic. Herd to Locste.
"norrowlng from Peter to pay Paul
Is bad business," said Mr. Dubwatte.
"So It Is." replied the Impecunious
citizen. "In my case I find It excep
tionally bnd buslnoss." "And why
should It ne worse ror ytm than for
anybody eleej" "I have tile dickens of
a time finding Peter." DmnUj;biia
i8s
HUES READY FOR
513
Japan Agrees to the Anerican
Proposal
PRESIDENT TO TELL PLANS
Chinese Troops Mobilized In Man
churia To Serve Under Japanese
Commander Ambauador
Francis Sa'.'e at Murmanik.
Washington. Joint nctlon between
Japan, the Entente Powers and Amer
ica in Siberia is assured.
'Japan has found acceptable the
Americsn proposal which primarily
looks to the aid of the Czechoslovaks,
now operating in Siberia, and aJter ex
changes between Toltlo Hnd Vv'.nhln;
ton which have cleared up all doubt
ful points and removed any possibil
ity of future misunderstanding, u com
plete agreement has been teachwd.
The plan of operation will te put in:o
execution at once.
Soon after It had been learned that
Japan had accepted the Amer.c.in p o-
'tosal, President Wilson walkf J to ti.e
Jtate, War and Navy building, where
ie conferred for hulf an hour with
Vctlng Secretary Polk and Secretary
D.iker in the War Secretary's office.
The President will soon Issue a
tatement explaining th plana of the
United SUtes for participation In the
xpeilltlon to give military aid to
lunula. It also was understood that
he statement would make clear that
die United States has only unselfish
notlves und Intends to stand firmly
eslde the Husslan people in their
'ght for a' democracy.
After the Japanese Government
ound It necessary to call upon the
State Department for explanation of
iiime feutures of the American pro
osaI the statement was withheld,
'resutnably, now that a satisfactory
iinlorstanillng has been reached the
tatement will be Issued.
Meanwhile the seal of confidence re
mains unbroken nnd It is the desire of
illicials that there shall be no specu'a
'lon In the pi ess that might prove em
jarusslng. Consequently, all thnt It Is rns-slbie
low to say is that in the beginning,
it least, the international agreement
1111st Hnd its expression in combined
:nUltnry activity und cable advices
lave recorded the gathering of small
::oilles of Kntente troops nt points in
China convenient for dispatch Into
Western Siberia.
Pao Kucl Chlng, the pvovlnrl il Gov
ernor nt Scl Lung King, has been e
lected to command tho considerable
'iody of Chinese troops which have
hcen gathered in Manchuria, and It Is
understood that already It has been
uranged that this force shall operate
n conjunction with Japanese troops
.'.nd that It will act under the direction
'' the Japanese commander-in-chief.
The State Department received me.i
sages from Ambassador Francis, dated
Tuly 31, saying he hail arrived at
Murmansk, with the Italian Atubnssa
lor, tho Dritlsh representative nnd the
i'recich Charge d'Aff.ilres. The other
i'hlei'4 of the diplomatic corps are
waiting nt Kandalaksiu to. iu..i
lions from their governments.
SCALPCRS MUST QUIT.
Notice Served By The Railroad Ad
ministration. Washington. Notice was perved on
ilcket scalpers by the Railroad Ad
ministration to quit business at once
under threat of prosecution. An ef
fort will-be made to stop the cut
rate sale of passenger tickets by other
than authorized ticket agents through
charges of conspiracy. Most tickets
are sold under agreement that they
shall not be transferred to another.
HELMETS AS SOUVENIRS.
American Soldiers Mailing German
Head Pieces To Relatives.
American Armies on the Aisne-
Marne Front. Every American post-
iilllco near where the fighting troops
are camped Is filled each day with
German helmets addressed to rela
tives nnd friends In the United State..
Officers and men, members of the Y.
M. V. A. nnd Red Cnws, nn:l. In fact.
everyone appears to bo sending f.el-
iiiets.
RICORD WAR EXPENSES.
July Disbursements Exceeded Billion
And A Half.
Washington. Additional govern
ment expenses reported to the Treas
ury raised tho total disbursements for
July to a new lii.-'h record of fl.fiOS,
2S2.000. Including i 1,25U,000,000 for or
dinary government war expenses and
,;U",0o0,000 In loans to Allies. The
government's walking fund now con
tains $1,507,000,000 net balance, or the
equivalent of about a month's ex
peases. Mobt of this huge sum Is de
posited In banUs throughout tho coun
try.
FOUR AVIATORS KILLED.
Fatalities At Dallas, San Diego, Fort
Sill And Champaign, III.
Dallas, Texas. Lieutenant Robinson
E. ntuwell, of Red Bluff, Cal was '
hilled while niRklng a crons country,
filght about nine mllea south of here.
Did'wrll's mnchlne caught fire when
about 2,010 feet In the air and de
scended lu flar.iea. At about 500 feet
the aviator leaped to avoid the Qre
"'1.
ME IHTO
ERIA