| Show SOME ESCAPE BY BYWAY WAY OF HOLLAND I Boats for England Frequently Carry Passengers Returning Returning Returning Return Return- ing to Fight Again I TE TELL l THRILLING STORIES 1 1 Belgians I Going to Join Colors Colors Colors' Find Themselves in Similar Plight i ARIS JuI July 24 Scarcely a boat boa P PARIS JL leaves Holland for Cor England these thes days clays without its Us its contingent of or Bel Be- glans of military age ago who havo ha evaded c the registration of ot all male Belgians Belgian capable of at bearings arms now required b by tho the German Gorman authorities In Belgium Many lany of ot them aro are on their wa way to England to work In the munitions factories while those who ho at tho the begInning beginning beginning be be- ginning of ot the war were called to tho the colors and on account of or the speed with which the tho Invasion In of oC Belgium was accomplished were unable to re re- re to the call aro are en route to join Joli tho the Belgian army In Flanders Among the former orm 1 there thero are various groups wearing bits of at colored tape li In their buttonholes or pinned to their clothing some clothing somo purple some somo green some yellow ao so the tho representatives cs or of o othe the British munitions firms who are areto areto areto to employ them may recognize their mon men or their women as the case ma mabe may be for be-for for many of at these future workers worker In the manufacture of ot armament are aro women worn en Those who are arc going for tor soldiers are generally younger men in their early twenties for the most part part- Tho rhe They have hare lived through much and are arc so sobered sobered so- so berod and saddened b by what has passed in their country since last August The They talk to together In little groups In Inlow Inlow Inlow low voices glancing over their dera constantly unable to rid themselves themselves themselves them them- selves of at the fear of ot that continual surveillance to which the they have so long been subject Annexation Their talk Just now Is 18 all of at tho the proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed annexation of or Belgium by Ger Get Germany Getman Germany man many which the they are convinced is 18 Imminent imminent Im Im- im- im The They claim that this is a n. new r repressive measure on tho the part port of at tho the invaders that Invaders that Belgium once annexed and became thereby integral an part of oC I tho German Gorman Empire all Belgians of or military ago will bo be called upon to servo ser In tho the German arm army and on refusal re to- to do BO so will be treated as 08 German German German Ger Ger- man deserters For this reason tho they say 50 every ery Belgian of military age now remaining In the stricken country Is to tn nn hl hn- hn fore the the expected td annexation x ll can bo bo proclaimed On each boat also may ma bo found round generally ono one or more prisoners of oC war who whoP has hag escaped from ono of or tho the Gorman Gorman Gorman Gor Gor- man prison camps of at which a n few tew are arc not far tar from the Dutch border bordor Most of at aro are French whoso whose language being the same samo as that of or most Belgians Del Del- glans gians renders their flight through Belgium Belgium Bel lId gium glum less difficult But occasionally thero there are aro Englishmen loft left behind In Inthe Inthe Inthe the first retreat from Belgium and remaining remaining- In hiding ever since or escaped es escaped es- es directly from a military prison Once In a while thero there Is a Russian The Associated Press correspondent made tho the Journey with two such escaped Russians whose story stor of at their flight seemed almost Impossible of belief yet et etwas was borno borne out b by the detail with which It was as filled tilled respecting tho the country over which they had made mado their wa way Ifo flow r Escaped Both noth were ero still In the full tull uniform of oC Ru Russian private soldiers which the they had neither beon been able to change nor norto norto norto to disguise during their flight With their trousers thrust thrum into high boots and the conspicuous round khaki hats perched on tho the side of oC their heads they were unmistakable as far as the tho they could be seen The They spoke nothing but Hussian itus- itus eian sian Yet they told tho the Associated Press correspondent that when out with a a. party rt of ot other prisoners working working work work- ing In the fields they learned from some Homo of at their fellows who understood a German that they wore being employed but a ff few feN miles miles t from m. m tho the Dutch frontiers They decRied decided to escape If It possible The They discussed their plans under the very er noses of ot their guards Lan Landstrum strum men mon who could not understand under tand what hat was as being said The Tho remaining Russians agreed d to help them when evening o fell Cell and tho the prisoners were returned to their camp but these two were covered oretI with hay by their companions and left In inthe tho the field Presumably the they were not missed for Cor they got ot off safely sateh making their way b by night and hiding In haystacks haystacks hay hay- stacks by da day At 1 first tile tho thoy wont went without food entirely entire but finally ap approached approached ap- ap a peasant woman who was milking In a field and sho she gave them some milk without tho the exchange of or ofa ofa ora a word vord plainly Ignorant of ot what they were were doubtless doubtless thinking them German soldiers In ono one of or the many man new uniforms uniforms uni uni- forms torm adopted b by the Germans since Ince the beginning of ot war Th third night the thc they crossed the tho Dutch frontier without seeing u a sentry sun sen tr try Ultimately with Immense difficulties engendered b by their Ignorance of or any speech familiar to lo tho the Netherlands Netherlands Nether ether lands they succeeded In reaching The Hague whore where the they were taken In charge chargo b by the Russian legation and furnished with the tho necessary funds for fora rora a a. return to tho the realm of or the Czar Czor |
