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Show i CHURCH COMMISSION BACK FROM EUROPE I NEW YORK, March 1. Bishop TV. R. Lambuth of Oakdale, Cal.; Bishop James Atkins and Dr. TV. TV. Pinson, both of , Nashville, Tenn.. the three members of ; the commission of the Methodist Episcopal Episco-pal church, South, which went to Europe Eu-rope with a commiss.on from the Methodise Metho-dise Episcopal church to study the reconstruction re-construction needs of France. Belgium and Italy and to make recommendations to the board of bishops, arrived here today, to-day, after ten weeks' absence. Bishop Lambuth said that important agreements had be-m re.acnod by the two commissions commis-sions as to recor.st.-uctiun work i'l Fu-rope. Fu-rope. but that details couid not be made public until subn-tted to the board of i bisnops early m i'iy. stone and thrown to the singer in the garden plot. "While this was going on four Sinn Feiners escaped from the Usk prison in Wales, and this caused tho authorities to double the guards of all the jails and postponed the releaso of do Valera. "The sentries about the rear of the prison were ' a grave menace to the plans, and the committee tried to, find girls iu tho neighborhood who could be employed to influence them. This attempt at-tempt was given up, however, and finally fi-nally a telegram was sent to Dublin for two handsome young women, both highly high-ly cultured university graduates, who arrayed themselves as shopgirls and crossed the channel. "The girls deliberately set out to flirt with the soldiers and soon came to know most of the guards, De Valera was informed by code, in a letter that February 3 was set for his escape and the procedure to be followed .was out- lined as fully as possible. This little codo had been arranged for just such an emergency before de Valera was imprisoned. Police Are Decoyed. "On the eve of February 3 four motor cars packed with Irishmen were sent wandering about the country near Lincoln, to serve as decoys for the police. po-lice. At 4 o 'clock the prisoners were brought in from their period of exercise. exer-cise. They then had a three-hour period pe-riod for wandering about the prison before they were locked up for the night. "In the dusk, shortly after 4 o'clock, the girls appeared and en ticed the guards from the rear pf the prison as far as possible. Then two Sinn Feiners quickly cut a path through the barbed wire. "At 5 o'clock de Valera, with Mc-Garry Mc-Garry and Millroy (the two Sinn Feiners Fein-ers who escaped with de Valera), sauntered saun-tered to the back gate. Their friends outside crept up and opened the gate with the false key while the sentries continued their flirtation with the girls. An automobile was waiting and de Valera was whisked away to London, Lon-don, while the police chased the decoy motors. "Where is de Valera now? I cannot state, but he will be here on time when he is wanted." |