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Show Captive Yank Printed Own "Barbed Wireles" Kven the'dlacomrbrtu 1ikii ctuSt hardships of a Gorman prison camp faltod to dishearten the American soWrer,andproot f)t this Is .thal,aT-: though handicapped by tho fact that he had no printing press tho lrre-picsslble lrre-picsslble Yank prisoner succeeded In gelling .out nnd Volnlcking riewspap-oV?.t(?i riewspap-oV?.t(?i tontatftiiffoti Wles'si" Tn4wrtliva!a. declatod Boon af-tVr'(hireUrthe af-tVr'(hireUrthe llrit edtfon of tho labojfcUsbr Jieaoll printed sheet and wlthjjtta JiMed Americans making their way toward hornp tho paper made no second appearance. Ono Boldler preserved the original copy, however, and qyerl rtof Its Interetslng pages nro reproduced In tho Juno number of tho New lied Cross magalno, In which also Prank Ward O'Malloy tells of the brief but Joyous career of 'tho greatest nows-papcr nows-papcr In captivity. "One has no doubt that In time tho 'Darbcd, Wireless' would have waxed more ambitions, perhaps even to tho extent of adding a colored supplement 'printed' In best, marmaW ado," wrltos Mr. O'Malloy. "But one November day when, things woro particularly par-ticularly dull within tho enclosure, n most mnryelnua message arrived In camp a ferw minutes nfer the clock had struck ono In tho afternoon. Tho nrmlBtlco bad been Blgnedl And nt equal Importance a paragraph of tl'o document Insisted that all Allied prlsonors were to bo liberated forthwith! forth-with! Thoro woro cheers a fow; but chiefly tho' great joy that surged through tho1 hearts of the' caged young eaglets of Itaslatt took tho form of bearbugs, wild cavortlngs, meaningless yelps, of song, a scram-bio scram-bio to pack, up oho'b pitifully scant belongings with a hurly burly of haste that Indicated that ov.ory Am-orlcat Am-orlcat mother'fl son In, camp, fully expected to board, tho ,1:30, ferry for New' Y6rk 'riioife,r98to.l.ome again." |