Show I FACE j YOUTHFUL BUT HAIR WHITE German Prison Makes l Old Ian Man Out of Young b Canadian Lon London on Nov 1 0 II He dropped into a a. chair at t the Ea Eagle le hut but In London Jondon Ills His face taco was youthful but his hair was I white On his hs shoulders was tho the in insignia In- In signia of or Princess Pats Pat's regiment Dropping Into the chair next him I toll fell Into talk with tho bo boyI boy I come from Regina he lie sal said My 1 name la Is I Harry r D Drope 1 hair I Is o Yes n my s rt whit no n te b L I I ut it oI o- o LOUt It was cuu fore foro I wa was taken a prisoner b by tho Germans i was AVIS captured on June 2 1916 G. G A bunch of ot us at tho the extreme end and of or a salient had decided to stick HUcl It U out They pretty well wiped uS u out I was knocked out from loss of or blood when tho they took us in wounded In-wounded wounded In two places from front shrapnel I spent two twenty months In East Enst Prussia There were Russians Rumanians Rumanians Ru- Ru Italians French Belgians British and Colon Colonials In the prison camp campo Wo o 0 were up at 4 a a. a m 01 m. m in III summer sum- sum mer and at t 3 In winter We c were given g substitute coffee turnip soup soap and half haIr a pound of ot war bread brend a cIa day and had hall to do du hard manual labor The rho Russians Russians Rus Rus- died like flies files from Crom hunger Tho The British and our boys bos would havo o tiled died too If it h had td d not been for the tho food w wo we received recel by parcel post Two T Russians and nd myself escaped last June One of ot the Russians was recaptured The other Russian and myself walked COO GOO miles and at last reached Moscow Moscow- Bread was vas twenty shillings a pound I was broke Dona Don Don- Don Don- a aId ld A A. A of ot Seville 0 O the thc y T Y M M. 1 C C. A. A secretary thore there took mo In and Kept me mo for tor days I could not so- so c c- curd curo a passport from tho the but by Ly L good Hood fortune I met Sir William WilHam Clark the tho head hend of or the British economic I mission lon who attached me to his hilS party Traveling lra by boat t and by box car car we finally i reached cached Murman urman the tho tho allied headquarters quarters On tho trip tho the Y M M. 1 C C. C.- C. A a again camo to my help hOlp On tho the box car with me was vas a a. Y r 1 M. M C C. C A A. secretary from I Brooklyn who ho shared his none nono to too loo 0 plentiful rations with me At Murm Mr Ir Bond tho the Y man there did al all 1 he could to help meThe me ate The Thc folks at home cannot real realise lle e what the Y M M. C. C A A. A means to the boy l os o's s over there the there tho Y the K of ot C. C C. C th tho 0 Jewish Welfare Board and anel the other o othe of or orthe f fl the tho seven SC welfare cHare organizations organisations which l at t President Wilson's Wilsons request have got gol- non together in the tho united war work campaign to raise ralso to enable cn- cn ablo able them to continue their activities Yes Yen I am going to carry carryon on having Hav hav- Having ing be boon on a prisoner of or war I cannot rejoin tho the Princess Pats but I am going goIng go- go Ing into the air force and do m my fighting fight fight- big ing In the tho air I am on m my way now to Minneapolis My Ir sweetheart is an American girl Sho She lives In lis |