Show to CAPTIVE YANK ESCAPES AND C SWIMS RHINE RHINEr I I r Lieutenant on Tr Trails Transport port Gives I-I I Himself U Up to U-Boat U Ca Captain tain Now York Nov ov 10 E Victory Isaacs U U. S S. S N an officer on the American transport President Lincoln Lincoln Lincoln Lin Lin- coln sunk unk b by a n German submarine on May fay a 31 31 who Is credited by other survivorS survivorS' sur sur- survivor orS vl with having surrendered ered himself himself him him- self to tho the boat U-boat commander er in order to save sa his captain from m capture returned re returned re- re turned today to the United States after aCter escaping from a German prison camp and swimming tho the Rhino lIe He mad made his lils wa way to England b by way of or Switzerland and embarked there thero on a British liner HUT Lieutenant Isaacs who Is an Annapolis Annap Annap- olis graduate whose homo home Is la In Cresco In la declined to discuss his experiences stating statin that ho he was obliged first to re report report re re- port to tho the na navy department It Jl was learned however howe from other I passengers that with twelve twel other American and British prisoners ho broke broko away from the tho German detention camp at Villingen Baden Daden on October C G CAfter GAfter G. G After climbing over the electrically electrically- charged wires that guarded their camp the they separated and on October 1 13 Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- I tenant Isaacs reached the thc Rhino Rhine FindIng Finding Find Find- Ing no other othor Va way to cross croiS that rl river er ho lie hoI I plunged ed in and swam it and by traveling trav tray lIng eling at night managed tu to reach the Swiss Ins s frontier or Of the other ther twelve t prisoners who made mado tho the dash for or liberty libert Lieutenant tHU CS said auld ho had heard three besides himself had reached Switzerland When tho the President Lincoln was sunk tho submarine went alongside tho the boats and demanded that the captain captain captain cap cap- tain or another officer of high rank he turner turned over o to them Tho The ships ship's of officers or of- leers had removed ell their epaulettes and the Germans exasperated when whenn n an n of officer officer or- or did not nut immediately surrender threatened to hold an nn entire boatload Th Then n Lieutenant Is Isaacs acs gave save himself up remarking that It was as the fortunes of or war I Questioned today m con concerning his I treatment he lie replied that tho only i treatment given gl him b by tho the Germans that even en resembled decency was on tho the submarine submarino and that was nothing for them to bo be o proud of lie Ile said I the Germans were then overbearing and arrogant believing they wore wor winning winning win win- i ning the war and holding tho the United States and the tho allies In contempt After Arter landing he added the treatment he re received received re re- II was almost unbearable Tho food rood was scant scanty and of oC poor quality and his captors delighted in III en vending ln I their anger amer on him and other othe prisoners |