Show r THE HUN ally DY lieutenant PAT JEN 11 by fat air 0 lorfn 8 SYNOPSIS cloap CHAPTER T ER I introductory put rat 0 brien tell tells of hr his purpose in wrilen w rt tins the lory story of e big til adventure adventures CHAPTER II balls of his hi in ur the koyal royat bluins corp corps his hi training in and hr his bransfor trAns for to dirance lor sot ac live UVO duty 11 lii ill describes fights in shiell h 1 brought down two airplanes and nd I 1 Is almal tight in hi he wa ll 11 s brought down woun wound d 11 1 within the O 0 gar e r inan line a and wan waa mad ad a prisoner 0 of war IV that german ital tail staff neglected the tally wounded oti oded and devoted their ener trier kl e 4 to estar trig those ito v tu might inight be b returned arned to the he ili 1 n line nes witnesses dealt 1 in sigh abt t of nt 1 lili i I 1 anist belt churn beut cut ltv i gut vack to tny my cell celt 1 lound that ki I 1 it t I 1 had ad been thoroughly und and fro from hi tit it timo time tin I 1 b id 14 no lurther trouble with or other 11 tor lots of the same kin elal I 1 AN we were not allowed to li gritu an thing but prison vilson arda ards writing waa was out of the quntion aul awl an wo had bad no reading l matter to speak of reading uni n ril we had nothing to do to asa ago awny away the time fo ro arde became our only diversion for ne e did lid fortunately have some of these there very much money as al rule in circulation and I 1 think for in my life I 1 held moat most of that not due to any particular ability on my iny part an the game but I 1 hap happened peLkA to have several hundred francs in my whan shot down clovin but we held a lot lery that waa wits watched without quite euch puch intense interest as u that the drawing waa its always held the tile day before to learn who was the lucky mao mail there waa was an much speculation as to who would win the prize as if it it had been the finest fluent tr tren ensure nure in the world the brent great prie prize was one third of a loaf of bread through some arrangement which I 1 lifter quite figur out it happ ned that mong among the eight or ten who vere ere there with me there wua was always tie third of a loaf of bread over there was as juet just one way may of getting that brend bread and that was to draw lot lots con const that was what start til the tile lott gottry lot try I 1 believe bellese if a man had bad ever bun In clintI to cahnt he would have bekin tempted in title instance bli lilt the came game was blaed ab at rol ol inquire and it a wan had tm b il caught cheating the chances are hist that he would baity beatri shu tintA by the rest of the officers ua us long as be lie was tn in I 1 rison I 1 mas fortunate adough to win min theorize the prize twice I 1 one man inan and aud I 1 think ho he tas aa the eater in the carlip tinn pou acia it on three successive dab but it war hii well for jilin that ua his luck ficon teil him on tle the fourth dav clay tor or lie probably boull sout I 1 have been handled r roughly by the rest of the he crowd who ure cre gro ing hut but WP wo bundled tho th drawing ours nad and knew there was nothing not liing crool til about it so be waa was spared lilie f were all arv t buy pears and bang mall small and ery cry hard they wiro asid us its the staats in n many a game 1 nut but the interest in these little gaims tins as to a kt k en us as if it ilk ahr 0 had hail tit inan n pah a of money instead of two or three A half star ed pan jo xo inan man N as a eat estr r PU so 4 hoheit r in all the th betting ae as lowag to hia tits own on n rations by the most scheming and ine ing I 1 eser did in my life I 1 managed to I 1 hoard two tuo elects of bread 11 li pared at the time firn fi rn my ray dally daily ru eions hut but I 1 maa preparing foe the day lily n I 1 should escape I 1 C I 1 ever should I 1 it not a sacrifice casally mado rither either but instead of eating bread I 1 ate at pears until I 1 got on ona piece of bread alual and when I 1 could forc fore nisel to etick stick to the pear let araan I 1 saed the mothr piece irom r ahat laye days allo allowance nance and in days tu to one come I 1 had aiu e to ertelt myself fully sor for the foresight AN whenever a new prisoner prison r came in and his ahrman hosts tind had satisfied its to hie tits life hl bl tory aud ua taken down all the leguil that la is ill all ae would ehe ghe them he lie ras imn ironical ledl dl attly surrounded by his hi fellow prisoners who wet for any bit of or information ho he could possibly caio them nud as a a rule he lie IMIS clad glad to tell us because bec if lie had beca lu fit the hands of the tile hues mrs for any length of time he be had seen v ery few tf officer officers the conditions of this I 1 arlson alson were veto bad enouch hea a num man was in normally good health but it war barbarous to subject a wounded soldier to the hardships ind and discomforts of the place Ilo however never thit 4 was the tile fate of a poor private we clib discovered covered there one day in terrific pain suffering fering euf from shrapnel in his fits etoi ston nuch lach and bak alt of ua officers asked to have him sent to a ho patni but the doctors curtly refu refused qed saying it was wits against ordia so the poor creature m mant cat on suffering from day lily to day and vas was v as still there N when I 1 left another victim of german cruelty at one time in this prison camp thero were a french marine a I 1 rench flying ofil officer two B 1 igean soldiers sold lere anti of the united king hing lorn lont one from canada two 1111 11 1 1 4 couple from froin scotland one from froin U nice ales a man fron t l uth mith africa one frodi algeria ant a it new zealander Zea tander lifter bling from my aan own m squadron it a roan man dumn I 1 thought had bad beca bw n tilled 01 dul 1 he lie was wax equally when hers brought lit tha the prison to flaat me na flaire la in addition taire wira cil cal numan and myself from the U 8 A it was uns quite a cosmopolitan group and a as ono one typical irishman bald said sure and we have every nation notion thava worth mentioning including the lit darn dam germane germans with us whites of course this was not translated tran elated to the der fler mane mans nor was it even spoken in their hearing gr we probably boull not have had quite ro cosmopolitan a bunch IP ipach ach man in 14 the prison mas ready to ubold bf rr relve tile country in nry areli ment that could possibly be started and it goes m without saying that I 1 never took a back mat in any of them with lay my praise for america with the ana dinn dian and chinaman mailman cli ch lining to in on my bide side but they were friendly arguments we me were all in the same boat and that was no place tor for quarreling claar i avery other rooming morning the weather we were taken to a inree large swim ming pool and were allowed td to hao n bath there wire two poola 1 ewe bi for the lerman and one for the men Althou although kh w me were ofil cers we had to uni te tile 1061 0 coupled by the men while we were in swim ming in ing a german guard with a rifle cromli 0 his knece knees sat at at bah corner of the pool and watched us closely n we me dressed ind find 11 interpreters Interpret cra aa d us on bit 4 of these tripi trips eo so at no time timp could we me talk without their knowing what was gulu on whenever we were taken out of the prism for any e they flaye paraded us through the roost most crowded streets evidently to bhe ghe the luce lace an idea that they were retting lota lots of PrIson prisoners ern the german so eol diera we passed on these theme s made no effort to hide their guilles flin lle and sneers the belgian people were apparently very curious to eee see us BOJ and they us ud d to turn turm out li ii large numbers whenever the word wai passed that we a were out at times the german geman guardi K bardi would strike the women and children who crowded too close to us one day I 1 smiled and spoke to a pretty girl and find when she a it german made a run for her luckily she lie stepped into the house before lie reached ci ht hr h r or I 1 un am afraid my salu 1 estloa would have resulted seriously for her and I 1 would have been pon erless to how assisted her wherever we passed parsed a belgian home ol 01 other building which vi litch had been wrecked by bombs by our finnen g lardi made us stop a moment or two while they ene ertag remarks among themselves one V 0 tho the moat most Inter citing airs I 1 hae base rt ef my imprisonment at Coir trat Is 1 at i photograph of a group of us its taken in the prison ourt vard nip picture wai wag made by one of c the guarda who bold sold copies of it to those thore of us who wire able to pay his price ceone one mark colece As we me faced the camera I 1 suppose we me nil all tried to look our happiest but the majority of ua us I 1 am afraid were mere too eick ick at hyi to t raise a kniffi 11 nen en for this cc aslon one of ilan euarda guards Is hawn in the picture belits benkoil 41 at the tile toole I 1 uni am standing directly behind him hlin attired in my lily flying tunic which athly allo allowed Nied roe me to acar lilt file he time I 1 as in prison 9 0 n as its tx tho the usual custom with prisoners of tj a r three of the off leens shown in th the picture in the foreground ura ure clad in I 1 st shirts arts through nil all my aubri quent udeal turcs I 1 was max atilt to retain a print of thia inhere ding picture and anti although when I 1 gaze nt fit it now it lily semes to my gratification at my lily ulal muto mate it filim me with r bertt artt to that m allott ft how prisoner priNo ners were not so all of tham by tills I 1 time aro undoubtedly tating their lu arti up in the prison campi of interior gerior germany ioor poor fellows fellow st I 1 Ie despite spite the scanty fun fure and ilse re frictions wo etire s t re liuda in lib prison we ald did dinnage on one occasion to or arrange it 0 figular banquet ahe plan gitig which aich was as rit helped to pass PURS the biall were eight of us ue v decided that the tile principal thing w we to make the a sue ct 33 1 was as potatoes and I 1 concel conceived red a plan to get them avery caher after zon they took us tor for a walk mulk in the tile country anil anti it occurred to ine me that it would be a comparatively simple for us to pretend to be tirl 11 a d bit down when hen me carce curce to tile first potato it worked out nicely we came to the birst potato patch blat tl at afternoon we told our guards that we e wanted to riot a bit nud N we e were ere Al lomed to sit down in the tile courna of the next the 4 ach of ue us managed to m t a u potato or t two 0 celas ielli I 1 got six NN han lien we rot got back to the prison I 1 managed to etc ecil al a linn full of sugar which M lilt some apples that tie me wire cre allowed to purchase nse e eab ly fly concerted conier ted into a sort of jarn we now had potatoes po Pota tots and jini jim but no bread it happ happney ned that the run who had charge of the potatoes wai a ireat musician it was not very difficult to prevail upon him to play us goine some 1 and while title he wint crit out to got his zither I 1 atrit into the bread pantry und and stole a loaf of bread most of us had some butter from the day lifors it fore and u e used it to fry try our potatoes by bribing one ct of the guards he bought some eggs for us they mst 25 cinas arteca but we me were to make this banquet a buace w no matter hat fiat it co oat 3 t th ta N klar an done by the arlson va 1 I wa ot course we me iua to bribe when the weal as ready to carve it consisted ot of scrambled aggi tried potatoes ee drtad jsu and of beer w m aich me w e were allow e el d to li buy that was the of 0 Au aubut luft alln I 1 I 1 ki kisan c ti that it was wag to be the last real meal that I 1 waa was to eat pat for many we I 1 have enjoyed it even more than I 1 did but it was certainly very rood good we lind cooked enough for eight but while we me were still till eating another joined us ile wua was un an inglish officer who had just been brought tn in on a stretcher cr for kor seven seten dus he told us he h bad bail lain in a hole mounded wounded and he lie aar we almost famished and we were makhty glad ind to hare share our banquet with him we on each roan man for a speech and slid one might lime base thought that we me were at a first clas club meeting A tew rew daye days after that our party was wag broken up end anti somo of the tile men I 1 suppose I 1 hall shall never neer ste again agala oue out ot of the gnirs of my ture lure 14 1 it check riven ghen me during banquet by james jamen heny dickxon ot of the royal irish bu ku el si leere leers a fellow pilon pil on r it waa mas for 0 ind find wae was mje m je payable to tho order of e mr pat 0 brien nd ad aleut poor jim to scratch out the london and courteal Coart ral or on the te date late line but lie its value at a Is just as treat great A mun lit n he lie guve gave it to me he had hail no idea that I 1 would have an opportunity so eoon soon afterward aft emard to cash it in person although I 1 ain quite suro sure that whatever tin financial uncial acer ri verges es I 1 may be des tined to meet my avint will never be great enough to induce inc me to amlize on that check thare re was as one subject that was talked about in ahn prison whenever conversation lagged and arid I 1 suppose it ie Is the saine in other tons too what were the tile chances of escape lvery man seemed to have bole a differ 11 ent idea and one way may I 1 suppose was about us as impracticable as another couo oue of oa us ever expected to jet et a chance to put our ideas into execl execution tion but it was w as inhere biting speculation and anyway one can never tell tel what op might present themselves one suggestion was as that we vie disguise ourselves as no women omen orrien 1 would stand a better chance disguised ra a dorset declared clard de another referring to the fact that my height U 1 I am elx six feet two inched would make me more conspicuous as a woman than as a man another bux that we steal a german gotha a type of airplane used for long instance distance bombing it 15 these mac machinas mach liua hints which are us I 1 for bombing london ahey are manned 1 y three men one sitting I 1 in a front w with ith a machine a chine gun the pilot behind him film and an obb arver sitting in tio tao rear with mith another machine gun ve fig ared that at a 11 pinch per hap even or eight of us could main our escape in a a machine they have two motors of very sery hah hi h boix hot power fly very ery high and make wonderful speed hut but we a had no chance to put this thin idea to the to tast or 1 worked out another plan by which I 1 thought I 1 inight hue a chonle it if I 1 could ever eier git ga into oue of the german airdromes I 1 would conceal myself I 1 in n one of the harmers watt wait until ono one of the german i started out and us as he lie d uluas along the round ground I 1 would rush rull out bahout it at the top 11 f my toy voice and point excitedly ut at lila fits m aliel heis he Is this I 1 would cause the pilot to tup stop end an d ret g et out to see what waa mas wrong by that time I 1 would mould be up to him and find as he ile d our to inspect the machine I 1 could knock him jilin be easel 1 esq jakup into the inadi lne and I 1 e oer 1 vr the th lints before the huns could make inake up their winds just what bat had happeney it was aug a fine tine dream but my chance as not to come til thit it way there were mere dozens of f other othe r ways hah we mo d one 0 roan man would bt for endeavoring to ani his is way may right through th lines 11 another thu ht the neet lafeat plan would be to S ev in im boine iris rl er tl lit tit c crossed tossed tb thac lines the tile iata of hadit mating ws way A Y to holland a 0 tit u trat country occurred to cetrone cv ev trone crone but b t thi one great obstacle in that 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