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Show Yanks Reach London After Thrilling Dash From German Prison LONTKN. Nov. i Threa American avlatnra have Just arrived In t-ondon after having escaped from tha Ciermana They made thalr way to Holland after a thrilling Iwantv-fotir-day hlaa through OM.-upiad Heljlum. Tha man tramped at night and alept In tha daytime, ex-apt when they wera In Brussels Than, with civilian clothea cov.rinf their uniforms, thsy walked tha atreeta by daylight. Tha avlatora are Lieutenant R A. Anderaon of Honolulu, whoaa brother Uvea at IK Richmond street. I'lalnfleld. N. J.: John Dnnaldaon. eon of Oners I Donaldson of Waahlngton. I. f.. and T. E. Tlllinghaal of Waatarly. j R. I. They all eacaped from Kresnes, and wera Interviewed by tha United rrtaa on ihlr arrival hero. "I a. a a down ad at Arraa on Auajitat 17, aald Andaraon. 'Thy wara fiva to on agHlnat ma. After havlna: han wottndad thraa tlmaa. I fell l00 feet and w aa taken to tha hoapltal at Mum. "laOtar, I was taken to tha prlaon camp at FYaanaa." Tilllnahaat waa brought down nar i'amhral on 8eptemler SI. when thirty to fifty Hun planea attacked htm, ha aald. "Whan I waa aa pa rat ad from tha aquadroh. 1 coasted to tha ground and tha machine ram a to a halt In front of a Hun dugout, when tha an fine went dead. Tha FrMitea ram a out and shook handi. They aald I ouht to ha (lad to he otlt of lha war. That night I alept In a church and then waa removed to t rranea." DONALDSON AN ACC Ionaldeon. who ia an a a, oaina of -flclallv creiilled with brlnnlna; down fiva Hum and unofficially to hava destroyed de-stroyed nlna. waa attacked by threa Uarmana naar tambral. He pt am bar 1, at a height of S000 feat. . "I managed to down ona of them In threa nilnutea," ha aald, "but a bullet hit my angina and downad ma. I landed almoat aimultaneoueiy with tha Hun that I had downad. However, tha enemy machine want up In flames, burning; tha pilot allva, Tha Germans congratulated ma on my aaeapa. 1 waa taken to Conde, whera I met XJau-tanant XJau-tanant Oacar Jhfamial of New York on Hap tern bar 3. Mandal and t aeoaped from prlaon by jumping from wln-dow wln-dow on tha aarond floor. Wa andd In tha Btraet and quickly mixed with tha crowd. In that way wa got out of tha city and reached an unguarded German airdrome. After having difficulty diffi-culty In trying lo run out a plana, wa finally grew exaanarated and tora down tha tent. At dawn wa got tha plana In shape to fly. Just than a German 1 mechanic approached and dla-uvared i ua Ha raiaed a yell. Wa grabbed i him. and In tha tuasta ha at a b bad ma in tha hack. Mandel put htm out of cornmlsaton hv hitting him ovar tha head with a flashlight. Than wa ran ; for it. "We pa seed through aevan 1 1 nee of occupied trnchea and got Into a aheil hola before tha German first Una. where wa hid all day. During that day an English battery wiped out a Hun battery nearby. At ntfcht; wa advanced armaa No Man's land and raached a atraam whera we peIed off our clothea and wara Juat ready to diva whan a Hun pa trot repairing wlrea which the Kngliah battery had mauled, discovered discov-ered and captured ua. Wa wera taken to Kraanea, whera wa wara kept fourteen four-teen daya In tha solitary, on bread and water." FIVE IN RAHTY. At this point Amktrsnn took up the story of the eacapa. Thera were five of ua." he aald, "including "in-cluding an Kngliah corporal. We planned our eacapa for threa days. All of ua wara Imprlaonad gbova tha guard room, all on tha same floor, ao e managed man-aged to looaen tha heavy pad lock a on aldaon with a aaw cut a hola through tha roof. On the night of Heptember 24. while the guard played checkers downstalra. the five of ua climbed to the roof and alld down tha alda of tha building Into court. "Wa dim bad a wall Into garden and ao reached a canal and await. It. floating our bundlaa of clothea across by means of ft wooden plank. BELGIANS QAVC AID. "Than wa mada our way Into tha open country and reached a barracks whera a aentry halted ua, but wa got by whan wa ana wared 'Waa let' to hia challenge. After that wa kept to tha fields, traveling n'gtvta and aleaptng 1 daya In tha woudi and barna. At daybreak day-break on tha twenty-seventh we reached tha Franco-Belgian frontier. Tha Belgians wera fine. They aald the J j Americana had saved Belgium and , 'we'll aave you.' Belglana hid us at many points until wa finally reached 4 Hrueaela. Wa had already obtained clothea here and thera ao we covered up our uniforms with civilian stuff and walked lha atreeta of Brussels. j TWO LEAVE PATY. 1 "At daylight Mandel and tha rnrpor- i al left ua in Rruaaels. We haven't heard from either ona alnce. ! "Wa continued our flight and reached 1 Hacht on tK-totwr I. at midnight. .Suddenly .Sud-denly wa heard tha click of a aentry s rifle and turned around face to face wtlh another sentry. Wa uttered gui-teral gui-teral greetings and kept on going. On lha fourteenth of October wa reached tha Holland border, where wa spent a week recoiinoitertng to find a place to croee. This waa hard, becauae there waa electric wlra barriers charged with 6 (KM) volt a "Finally wa discovered an opening and crawled for four hours on our bcl-llea. bcl-llea. making all of J0 yarda in that time. Then wa waited until the German Ger-man aentriee were far apart. Jumped up and ran like hell to Holland, which waa half a mile away. We haaxd a shot and a yell, but didn't stop. We kept on until wa reached Weert. whera wa took a train for Rotterdam." |