Show YOUNG CHUR CHILlS ESCAPE HOW liow HE MANAGED TO THE BOERS london dec 27 mr winston spencer churchill cabled cable olp and the tho morning post today an account of his escape from the captivity of the tile boers afar having baving been made a prisoner in id ilie lie reconnaissance ot of an arm wed ran at L estcourt the dispatch ami Is haded lourenzo marquez Nf arquez dec 31 21 says on thu dec 12 the s secretary ot of war informed tide that there thero was I 1 little ittle chance ot of my nty release I 1 therefore resolved to empe anh and the same night I 1 left the sate school prison in pre pretoria torja by climbing tho the wall when the sent pent rys hack back was turned momentarily I 1 walked through the streets ol 01 the tho town without disguise meeting many burghers but was wag not challenged in tho tile cread I 1 got through the pickets 11 ot f the town guards and stuck to the N iagoda bay railroad I 1 walked along it evading the watchers by the bridges an ana cu lverts and w waited gilted for a train beyond the first station the 1110 goods train from pretoria lao bad had ar rived before I 1 reached the place and was moving at full speed I 1 boarded it with great difficulty and bid bm under oal coal sacks I 1 jumped from the tho train trat n before dawn and was sheltered during the day in a small wood in company with a huge vulture who displayed a i lively interest in me mo I 1 walked on at dusk there was no more trains that night the danger of meeting the gabris of the line continued but I 1 was WAO obliged to follow it as I 1 had no compass or map I 1 had to make wide detours to avoid bridges stations and huts buts and so my progress waa was very ery slow chocolate is not a satisfying food the outlook was gloomy my but I 1 per covered with goda h help elp for five days my food supply was very kus I 1 was lying up b by y daylight and balking by night meanwhile my escape e had boon been discovered and my description telegram tele telegraph gral h od everywhere all trains were search ed d and every eye was on the watch fur or me four times the wrong peo bla were arrested the sixth day I 1 managed to board a train beyond mid fid where there was dire direct ef service to delagoa in the evening I 1 concealed myself la a railway truck und under or a great pile of sacks I 1 had a small store of rood good ater water I 1 remained ned hidden I 1 so chancing recovery te covery the boers sea searched relied the in at at but did not after some bi deep enough ty tr hours of misery I 1 came safely here I 1 fim arn very weak but am free 1 I have f lost t many pounds in weight but am arft hyolit t in heart hearl I 1 shall avail myself of 1 every opportunity henceforth to urge ee earn earnestly mAly the g and IIA prosecution cuttO a of the war |