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Show BUY SEIZED BY FREfUCH IS HELD IS II SPY Salt Lake. Sept. 1. After being arrested ar-rested In France as a German spy and subjected to other inconveniences incident to the European war, Lewis I LAnne Prices of Drinks, Ida., a Mormon Mor-mon missionary, arrived in Salt Lake yesterday and declared that the Stars and Stripes never before looked half so Rood. Mr. Driggs, who was on a mission in Germany and Switzerland for almost al-most three years, was in Basel. I Switzerland when war was declared I August In an attempt to reach America, he left his trunk in Switzer land, gathered a few belongings in a suitcase and started to ParU "ii I foot The following day he crossed the French border and during Hi" afternoon boarded seven different trains en route to Paris. But fate ! was aeainst him. The railway sei v ice was continually interrupted and In was able to proceed only a few miles on each train when the) wei I stopped by the military authorities. On the last train between Troves and i Paris a party of French army officers offi-cers noticed the pasters of German hotels on his suitcase and Driggs was subjected to a search Having lived in Germany and Switzerland for so long, Driggs spoke German flu nti , This, with the finding of German lit I erature and maps on whlcb his route home was marked, was considered siiUieient evidence fur lil arr-'sl as a spy. Passports Useless. Driggs was taken before various French army officers at RomiUy H' explained bis movements and produc ed bis passports, but withtut effect After considerable argument, be was placed In an automobile and taken to the headquarters of that division ot I the army at Saville, twenty-five miles from RomiUy, and turned over to the general in charge of a large body ot the mobilised forces. There he was placed overnight In nn lnclosure with a large number of war prisoners, fed tn bread and water and Riven a straw-pallet straw-pallet to sleep on The following day he. succeeded in convincing the officers that he was an American citizen on his way home and was placed on a train for Paris On tb" trip to Paris he changed trains ten times Seventy hours were required to make a nine-hour trip. Upon arrival at Paris. Iiru-L.- pre sented his ca6e before the chief ot police and was grained permission to irine the rli on a specified train and date He sttod in line at the railway station In Paris twelve hours to get a ticket, but finally reached Dieppe and secured passage across the channel chan-nel to England. In Paris. .Mr DriggB said, the ma-I ma-I jority of the shops were clostd, the j railway stations being the only busy I places. In England, be declared ! practical! all of the business houses were open and traffic moving with I little interruption. Swiss Peaceful. According to Mr. Driggs. all the l residents of Switzerland seemed to desire was absolute neutrality and al thtugh the greater portion of the population pop-ulation are of German descent and the German language is spoken extensively, ex-tensively, everything is being dont to preserve peace On the same train into Salt Lake with Mr. Driggs came two other mla slonaries from the war zone, Henry W Hansen of 828 South Second Bast street and John H. Reeve of 729 Linden Lin-den avenue, Salt Lake. They also had thrilling experiences in getting to America, but had not such as Driggs Among other Salt Lakers caught In the European war zone heard from yesterday were Miss Gratia Flanders, Miss Kate Nelson and Miss Osterburg. According to a telegram received by Mflss Nelson's mother, Mrs. Agnes Nelson of 060 East South Temple street, from Miss Flanders yesterday, the party arrived in New York yes terday morning and will reach Salt Lake the latter part of the week. |