Show 0 U aw I 1 er bin r tj iff HUN lieutenant I 1 PAT OTRIE N 11 by I 1 at t alva AIT 0 hia SYNOPSIS I l fat 0 biln tells or of hie his burpoe in writing the lory story of lit adventures 1 II 11 II T alm ilm ft ct hl his ent enl in t the he etoyal I 1 iring lyane t c cpr hie his training in Lanai L lt nada lOi anil and ti it ans anisef t i lo 10 1 k ranc rance lur fur active duty is I 1 y 11 ill nehf lights in which he brought down two fermun air illana and nd I 1 in final tight right in whick he wa brought rought b down wounded Is tie a get man line lines and wai was mad mail i a r ot of war cliant it IV V discovers that german flomp ta aft tt barbarously neglected i the lh f fatally wounded woun deil tind and disotel their ener alf air io to restoring those wl ul a might be at returned ir tied to the tiring line lines witnesses dealia ln in tight ot of his hi bt best celium 1 beut alt V ane jie is 1 a fleer cers prison 1 at camp carom t A i 0 planning hk his ellave uy by great as etta ac lur 1 im to uv save o 0 bids af a F w vi 7 ire clon oi of bread broad VI he ile connerat conn ecat a map or germany and lut I 1 alt an hour latr later la Is fru put it on a train toun t oun I 1 for a prison camp fn Geri nany lie ste leaps 1 ti U a window while the me rain train is traveling at a alto rte ot of fd 30 nille aa an hour 11 VII lor nine day days he crawl through Ger germany duriac he ai day traveling trav rUne at t marar wit nent i guided by the tho star tan and 1 st l on raw vegetables lie Is boors ai milea miles before reaching rea chlof lux tambura capthi V ill k tor or nine day days more mor he rug X 1 s 0 on n abr in a w ak en ed e condition 0 n dl tio a vt u g h L a ze in ln the th e direction dire c t io a ot c t CHATTER IX ils II endure endures terrible D ps swims river rivers while delirious rom from hunger living like a hunted animal and nd on the day after lumping the train he ho crosses into belgium CHAPTER X experiences in belgium lurn I 1 think that one of the worst I 1 had to contend with in aar my journea journ through belgium vae vas the number of mall small datche di tchi 1 they intercepted me at every halt ha 1 t mile or 1 more frequently the canals and aar hie tile big rivera rivers I 1 clotild swim of course I 1 got soaked to the atkin every time I X lid did it but I 1 wae was becoming hardened to that these little ditt lies however were too narrow to ewin nd too wide to jump they had hall perhaps two feet of I 1 ta 14 u ulu maw tat IM UL will it AHN altin lelm a case of alltia all tig some nortie f thain ho biml ill t I 1 udd lin jumped it if I 1 had bato in ayt 0 t clune but yelth paid in fn tho he h arned ibfred condition in ilitch I 1 0 Us it was wit almost out of tile question on one nil lit I 1 ame to a ditch dout bollt or I 1 lne late feet wide I 1 thought I 1 ne aaa troi iK enrigh noich noi ih tf to jump it on I 1 it mall arth trying as the I 1 pitr woding jing thale diches ill hei ai a i vt x 1 ic taking a long ion run I 1 cunil ell rs hard us u I 1 could hut but I 1 it by imir four or he inches 11 und and funded tn in nix it tn ano 0 feet of watt r un on I 1 tit ce of mud ettler getting ettl nR out of that in ili S is vas max quite a n job ilse lie waiter was uns too dirty and anti too to enable in a to wasi off oft ill atil allu I 1 ath ith latch I 1 viti uni ii vere I 1 ind and it u van on too wet apt to scrape off ox I 1 ju jut at had to malt until it dried arlt tl und and scrape it orf thin 4 40 1 4 I 1 0 P 91 I 1 d tv 5 na 1 S 4 I 1 A 11 al 1 ifa jj bur ing HI his uniform at night I 1 in a ninny many sections of belgium tb rtuh 1 I hall to two 1 I larkre 1 arent of of and marshy and rather than maste tho the woe In in looking for beter under fooling chich I 1 might not hie h te found 1 uil used to pole atilt through th the nud mud apart front the of this method of gratcl 1 ing and the tine I 1 made there 11 as an n ad d feat I 1 danger att atme me in the fact that the squish squash I 1 noise noble which I 1 made might easily be overheard by Beil eli lans and anti trans find and ove my desay nobody would cross cros a 8 swamp or marsh la in that purt part of the cw ew atry he ana trying to ret get avay from somebody ond anti I 1 realized I 1 i a idt k jr ovit 1 avam not 1 ra t is HI i air II 11 it was a cip marton night in itil ili binn to me it ilo tikey atri n ji f ordinary w lit tehI to ather pulling tt a wacon agon U dpn I 1 first oh ob berred the tile atlon I 1 thought it was it donke and ox or bull ant cloder to ito ine that cow cos acre cre being used for the purpose I 1 rom that I 1 aas abla to ofis observe erve thero must be very few horses left in belgium 1 a except thole conned liy by the germans 0 cows and donkeys ere are now slow borms 9 unit 1 nul mul altogether Al I 1 flit ut nearly elloit weeks week l wandering through belgium and in a all nit that time I 1 dint t believe I 1 saw more than halt a it 1 zan horses in the poes slon of the native atlon I 1 one of 0 the scarcest thinea things la in oer ger apparently 1 im rubber for I 1 no hotl tl that their motor or lorrie forrie lizi unlike like P PS two hid no hares instead bettry iron bonds were employ 3 I 1 rould could hear bear them come rumbling rum blInK along hie the tune stone i 1 toad for gitlen before they reached ren clied the where here I 1 to 1 au li I 1 it filing I 1 puts tin thase s military 4 in belgium for the first time with their ill hovy avy cobblestone that looked im ris if they would lust last for ceu turl I 1 ral iced at onie once why ally it unis wn that the mans hail bean cefole a me to pinki take suh a advance into belgium nt tit tho start of aly hinr I 1 noticed that the ili tl I 1 dogs 1 to t it considerable con ext exit nt to i ull their cliffs anti I 1 thought rt artilian ilian theses chait 11 1 I linie hate ptole one of those due dog it neild have been a ery sery rood good for izilor in and night it if the nrose help me ine wit ut in it fight but I 1 lind find no any ny of reding h tt it and ho the animal bould provably prot ably have stain eil to death I 1 could live on eatables which bich I 1 could aham upon flailing in tuo tile field 4 hut but a dog coulden cou kint t and so I 1 gae up hie tile idea the knock of making fire with mith two pieces of dry wood I 1 lind hall often reed read about but I 1 had luver put it to a test ant for various reasons I 1 concluded that it would Us mi afe for nio rue to build R orp clr even if I 1 bad had matches ma tchee la III the first place there was no absolute need for it I 1 lidit have anything to cook nor utensils lle to cook it la in even it I 1 had alle the air fetting getting to ira be rather cool nt at night I 1 was usually on the go at tit that time and didn dian t notice it IQ in the th daytime when I 1 was wa resting or leeping sleeping the sun was wa Uisu usually ally out to have bor owed ma martelles telles froni from a glan peasant would have been fene fens ible but when I 1 us A 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the daytime I 1 had bad aly two to borri about keep an ambled Bled nuil arld get a ua much sleep as its I 1 tin tilt eab bilge that I 1 got in I 1 belgium cons itel af the neull i heeds that the 1 tt MintH had not cut all tl e strength had concentrated in these little leads and anti they would be ilk its bitter as ai would tine line to be to di before lie firc I 1 could ever eat cabbage aboin and the ap alik 4 to oil bill I 1 sug marir ir ibe i be ta p lly ally itka r beet I 1 it ii 1 rather it remarkable thing that today even it oniell of raw or conked 4 make roe rue rick und unit et a f few ear short i buths I 1 ago my iny life depended depend ell illon thell isalt alter after night slight as a I 1 searched for f fond 0 nt I 1 nna agnns in laix that I 1 I 1 1 n 1 4 1 tt ouie ome sonie tonn toes or dery vegetables ege tables blitch I 1 really liked but math ith abi ext lon if of once I 1 found soine hilr 1 o 0 neier so fortunate I 1 ate bo with I 1 of the catry tie tl night I 1 time anie upon won it t that 11 a t I 1 nus as sick for to daas dai thereafter r but I 1 cairies se ertil Iu buin ulles lies etuy etli tile and to chii cht on ui it as 1 I led all il IHK ing of cairo I 1 kept stay taca au joltn oi tn all the time fur for fruit treo tres s lut but a it mut oa too lute late in ili the mr for fault HH as oil that I 1 a maa able to find were mere to pear I 1 sot got out of a tree that mas one of roy any red letter biti but I 1 v ti i never able table to rel beitat tat it la in the brouke brooks and ponds that 1 pushed I 1 often noticed flah fish of different kindi kind ahat was mas cither either in the early morning just before I 1 turned in tor for the day or on nights when allen the uter seemed os on clear in spot spots as in the daytime it occurred to me that it would be it matter to ris rig it n hook book and line anil and catch some fish but lit I 1 had bad no means of cooman coob ss then and it wbk as useless to fish tor for the sak aak of it Contin 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