Show byank AVIATOR MAKES miraculous ESCAPE FROM GERMAN PRISON CAMP tennessee boy swims the rhine to swiss zoll soil after days of tramping through enemy country seventy americans in concerted effort to escape from prison three get through swiss give them kindly welcome saturn somewhere re in n france seventy SO n the 11 german V prison rise camp mi bt Vil villinger villingen lingen germany made a croper ate te and ad reelected concerted attempt to ea escape eap P on a the 11 1 night gilt of sunday october 0 so 60 sau far thres three me men have cro crossed it the hard bordi r the first 1 Is aviator george wright picara of if till memphis plad tenn tell puryear swam new across the milan to soil early la in the morning of october 11 two do davs 1 later willis ot of boston a former lafayette escadrille liver fire oh ft ho we ans captured nt at verdun in au august amt 1917 and lieutenant edonard Er iss ithaca of 0 par forfa mouth month A 1 a escaped into let switzerland onh 01 a few do davs P bally bal ly li on october 9 the fit first 8 I 1 allied american n soldier to primas escape from a germin prison mrs camp lot into switzerland arrived at red cross headd m rte arte lu in little berne lie ile liia 1 frank aki ot of pe pa a polish i american america who nho unlisted listed a few dale daa america declared war nor was the brat american of officer flats to em e cape fre from germany jus on 0 june me SG while hilt patrolling near bear villa ne neue nee e nor fore fere about tour fear afla matios ot at race a en torch tarde role burcar engaged an really enemy iua chioe blue 0 1 o combat but th the fight carried him unaware a into at the got V lines puryear shot down dow n his all ad sary morally the b r of tre german machine seeing 0 one of hla him adversaries sea badly wounded rod believing himself I 1 in allied territory terri tori puryear descended intending to re moe a one a a or both of tile the aviators nn prime prisoners ers ners to an american hospital such descents des centa in allied territory to old aid a built andly y wounded md adversary ioury have bien a part pan of uie the knightly code do of the oft captured by germans germano grimn landing and before he could her burn his him machine piraeus w was as C cap 0 faced by german troops who were in a hiding the german pilot of tile mn am chine blue who whom he be had descended to carry to a hospital last insisted fail that he be hot at once for far shooting at a wounded on man the observer blosier of the get german III plane I 1 alter his capture Pur vess was less taken to a hospital which was vas also imi an intelligent intelligence ex examining post past lie he was kept ill there sm f for or three hours from the hospital I 1 puryear was taken sake to a ca caa tie 18 where he va was got examined by ma an intelligence of officer offices fires next der dav he be was m marched again as tons alone is ten kilometers behind the lines to another intelligence post where here he van an once more examined on the fol lowing day with w ith fifteen captured america of the twenty sixth it dirt I 1 1 slon and about am buo french idlers he was taken to leon laon at each stop step intelligence ecra rot calmun him on august 2 lieutenant puryear was 1 taken to gossett jastatt prison prince camp on august 5 he be escaped with ill aside andre co coa to acau a F french cis alator later august 6 and 7 they spent dart 1 in the woods ads at 5 a to on ca the morning of august 8 how hon ever they ran plump chand let into st a german Imms cc t ach they bay w wore take taken undid guard t to kelil I 1 where th ss were a gi gien a good meal a TO two guards led IS theio back to Ro where pat pup beor was imprisoned the bie ci dais s later when he was sea t transferred if id to puryear former served nine nice more daya day ot of the parties dav imposed on him for or living to escape make break for fee alb liberty Y on Au sinic 13 0 pur sa eap iu as cm tran on ft tred to 1 1 I jhc he the cai camp tor for all where he until august 19 he was us then aken to landshut lost on a closely guard eil ed kiflin filo oboth with a sion nuttier almo of roval reval plying flying corps aviators at karlsruhe the british and amda Auni luin u stion were vore the assault ameil I 1 1 cans wor were placed in a B camp which tind ad been pact usiel ns a a qu title camp and wheat they were ft ere galled typhus 0 i chol cholera slid and son smallpox flim matyear a a kept nt at I 1 laces froia august 21 to september 14 dallas lit hia toy stay he be plied for or a transfer to I 1 Il lingen wlate where a number of if am amerl rl can pilots pilot were confined he w ana re mold mod store lure on oa Sept elvic 1 13 albat nine ASI in jail nt at Vil villinger villingen lingen pur par car me waa released st six do dais imbe on las the night of sunday october 6 put pur year made hla second amal and ad mall successful ful aimin dittem attempt to demape patient had planned to escape with out one other the companion aviator willis have however asked aked him bias to postpone its attempt for so crall dava bova as B a doben dm america hud had bien planning to ma ea cape far r bome I 1 time mui and it waa arld that hit it if II fi near sair filled failed the g rol breakout might be slipped nipped in the bud pailor and lit ills companion agreed and preparations were are made ads for far th tie escape ladders w were are made ready reada win dows does mul and balls bais cut out and one american ta deade do it possible blu to short tile the string of 0 powerful electric lights which surrounded lit the prison camp od ad which alch burned all night eight to firment swaps y planned tor far bunda night and the americans agreed to brisk out at v aral plies places so as to keep the guards busy at 30 10 30 sunday right night the guard turned out the lights in the prison cassup ills was the signal for far nil 11 the mm man to make their final preparations at 10 40 the lights outside 1 I tattle the prison prime mis ennia I 1 is afre re sit short I 1 rt circuited by one 11 of in tile the A americans Is r ca al from thres three sides of tile the be barracks rocks tile the Am Ameil mallas can all av latora tion and pal morce made ad delta dash for IS liberty Is I 1 fired a on by guards 1 immediately I 1 ely the german guards guard bit blew their and ad micheal their guts guns surrounding the barracks was as a low settled wire fence fears and ad beyond that n deep ditch with lih bribed wits wire cu suld cat 1 in it still further we was a too ten foot feet fence Is with hh h h lacing facing inward long along the top 0 outside its this f ance ce ore ere the gu title w ath ibell rines awaiting perear X and ad their composite laid had to run thin gant id let arter after getting through the b barred arad win one of the barracks zhe the penalty of being caught in tile the w wire ire was waa demb death on only ay a few daa dais be ba fore in the tha general breakout a IS bus blan had bad local been caught in the its wire a and famously killed r limbed climbed a ovar nil 11 obstacles and put lit hia a ladder editor up against the fence As he leaped over at tile the fence firing bring ams his c corn patton panton had and tile hia foot on an the lover round of lit alie ladder as P junear mus went over at ones once outside the beis bagaas amle puryear uy found himself beenen wo two guards both shu shouted at id him to halt Strict iv according to orders they shouted ohrla ahrie times to him to stop top 81 siv shots shot nere fired brad in an all point put I 1 blank black at the guards guard how eer wore old men is and it their aim 1 iss was bad at fit the it time som they fired one guard was tafts 20 feet fee bioff off id the at other he 50 0 feel fact awni 3 just as ato alie second d volley valley a was fir fired it at him Po pun ear call stumbled and tell fell in n dit ditth 1 H he bell beli believed evea he would lit huce have been wounded or killed by these shots if he had not in fallen Is A AB had bad be been pre previously emely arranged puryear v w mund at a prearranged point for his companion NI ciui the latter did not net arrive after 15 minutes whiting puryear went alone while he waited suited puryear heard the guards fir alre SLI social ink score rounds he had now re cohered red r him hie strength and oil ande ads good pegi li rogies shut delit lie ile went sent 15 kila ol mateis test pular carefully care fulli hla his red LOTHE E POOR INDIAN RICH AND PATRIOTIC 10 lo la the P poor indian I 1 Is we no more poor lia instead call he be 1 IK SIR pa t lotic alu five ch ess far or fi 2000 2 COO 1 mahIr abed in n fil fourtly I 1 ty bonds gab burker park r maid lem of the die driben 1 r ba all ad th the ma frie erlb clustus 8 madia les cherokees a ad D d copeli lae new infested Ini ested some e 0 1 in liberty tionda head and anc ar beninga cl choss s emp P lies from the tood food boxes am bent h alini his from bottle berne he be A a us able bit to build himself up physics phra lally y BO that lie ile was able to live ou in ahe 2 raw lo 10 0 o filters cal carrots ralls and ad tu turnips roll which he dug out of the fields while I 1 lit hla will dav toward the th frontier the mst fitt day puryear spent 1 in tile the i in forest met suir g oer or W hs map up until cut he had memorized ll 11 every retail detail of it just bufore day any broke b risk he be met it two now men go ins ing to work r a lie he avoided fiscal them but later ter no ana asi tift to avoid a lone a ef chit if sun lun who pulsed passed him but who ho said nothing the next night light puryear year t took up long jociney it inalle b t kolad 85 lillo meters say awny tile the third day it refusal rained heavily all day ma and puryear picked out at a emals 11 0 barn rod climbed 1 a aled window and alums flums UK nee went sent up to the loft it th tha on owner rise or the barn and ad h tila 1 lit hired sit heads moved far fanu com hilo iery r y beat about 1 in the below be but did id nut at cons conr upstairs nira that hillst tile the tell rain lessened ad end ad pur ear continued if it his hia journey bourney in th the darene neiM as lie took the wrong ca mud ad a 4 mountain road which finally ended 1 ID is a t trail if aud it tha tann loomed meal alto gether F for I 1 three heart lie he stumbled u about a oa all a mountain auto top 1 jo sleet seat mail and snow I 1 his nd and face on brambles and I 1 a but little pr proff r afra in the brush and cuter timber I inelly he struck another load which he followed ill with the dawn he be again took refuge in tin ill rands all that day he be spent poring over hla his arale electrocuting ing to locate local him film telf sal by ib Y nightfall however hott ever he had deci decided do it upon his hia course that night he be struck a tributary of the rhino rhine and followed it to where it crowd crossed the main road lending to waldshut Wald WaId shut shat when inious he a truck the me annin in ro road ad P puryear f found B sign reading leading hc y asig T thirty rt R kilometers ll 11 e torm on oa the night ot at A it as eady october 9 param got gol within villas n few R of if Wald WillI chut elint in order to lie be sure an re of him hi a directions ha be climbed limb it to tile the top of a mountain 1 a nearby y from roia aich he could lit men bee trl trib 1 entering the rhine purism cd albo was am supplied w with ith a view of IN ft bid aid shut shot which h he carefully compared with the tow n below puryear id planned d to er cross the she rhine ot at the point where the current strikes the north chore and ad then to III aie emeth bank back 11 he figur figured sa I 1 upon be ir Is carried by tile the current a 0 a the swiss short shore six I 1 be hours he h carefully watched tile the 81 chore ter a tor for tile the appearance ot of sentries but no an one having baying pasted passed I 1 the lie spot he had via chosen he decided to make the attempt to swim 1 torres across cold plunge 1 in rhine he crawled to the IS iler edge took off nil elf his him clothes except him bia shirts ami sit sad ad ta t trousers a and 1 dip I try ped fund into the icy stream the adiong current carrent immediately him down donn stream a nt a torri terrific fic rate dangerous TanKe roua ile m ILI ripa and correnth cur curr easta abound in tills 1 uter half an hour boure a alternate sw amm III wing using rod bd floating tile the try icy water ter ingen big in to affect ill the 5 lanng g later I 1 thought I 1 it was not beat about all 11 OTA ever with mth we me said I 1 became diy daiy rod and sought hard to be able to the his bhore I 1 had bud left imen from the baiss side about thirty feet beet fr from the bank back my bund blind in t bombed bcd rock ck but before I 1 I 1 could old pull poll elf up the strung mccoig current breached me a back into the dp net water aguin I 1 was fast weaker and leister lor the che banks were reek rucky and and I 1 I 1 could not get a hand build hold anywhere I 1 feared that I 1 I 1 amield sam ba lost at the last baat moment I 1 finally 1 I fly f I 1 I 1 grasped sped a ritoji cling rock mck and hung on to lo it until I 1 recovered my strength in part then I 1 climbed up and out ot at the witter voter and ad fell down poe for several rl I 1 toy lay florl benl 1111 enl rod and trembling with the cold and I 1 had ben been barned ual far tic below halcut along the here ran a small ami it I 1 smacked knocked at the he Bs I 1 i i ing keeper a lubin maln ties the letter latter hev bea b hi learned that I 1 was vai an ames amen I 1 11 greeted me warmly took off my wt vet clotis clinical my trembling lia its ind ad gar me a stiff glues glass of ismaili as it maa it for far ile amash g iper I per routed his children out of bed a and ad the two kids and myself ute hot bet milk and bread fr from the sama minum him boi I 1 later I 1 was one taken to a military post ost tubers the swiss allies fitall sc I 1 roe me daiy diy ly clothing at zurich b halies 1 paid my hotel bill and ad gave se me a a civilian 8 outfit fr arom head to SO foot it I 1 cannot thack the swiss au an les rod and elvi liams too much for ethric kindnesses kindbe wes to mp me at rh inai der the swiss front frontier it er officer lit to r elmr so rid sm me and ad file then mean telephoned d d knor imis qually eni bussy Y at be beine |