Show RESERVISTS ESCAPE FROM DETENTION I BANGOR Me Feb 5 Two Two or three hours each night they slowly dug a tunnel underground taking tatting out a I handful of or dirt at a time and hiding it Then their toll completed they made their dash for freedom in the United States Twelve of them all German reservists made the attempt on a wild stormy night Seven were captured but four were swift and nd wary enough to reach the state of Maine and have arrived in Bangor free tree men after eighteen months of confinement In a a. British detention camp at Amherst Amherst Am- Am herst herat Nova Scotia Were Vere they happy It would be hard to find a word to de describe de- de scribe their absolute and complete joy at leaving a military prison The four successful ones are Gustav Hartwig George William Schroeder and Hans Neu They eluded eluded eluded elud elud- ed the officials who were sent after them survived the zero weather and andare andare andare are now on their way to New York City where they will stop at their old homes Hans Neu says he was taken froma neutral ship a Spanish bound from New York to Spain and placed in a citadel Contim Continually de devising devising de- de schemes for escape he was nearly successful when he lie obtained plumbers' plumbers trousers smudged his face and walked past the guards A Polish prisoner of war made an outcry and he was captured Neu is bitter against the Pole Neu then was taken to th tb the detention camp Hartwig was the leader of ot the successful successful suc suc- plot to escape At one side of their large was a toilet in inthe inthe inthe the rear of which was a a. Working at night one at a a. time when the guards were not too vigilant and drawing back the dirt which was stamped into the sand pil pile they finally finally finally final final- ly made a tunnel wide enough for a a. aman aman man to pass through I IOn On the night of January 17 a storm raged In Nova Scotia the guards were none too alert and one by one they b began began be be- gan their perilous Journey through the tunnel Slowly they made their way but surely From then on they had varying success British officers captured captured cap cap- s seven vell four reached here and the twelfth Is supposed to be in the Maine woods now |