Daily British Whig (1850), 10 Sep 1921, p. 10

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Related by Member WAR Iommi ---sSehool-Inspector-J- Russeil-8tuart, who recently . returned "with Mrs, Stuart from a trip to Belgium and Holland, had the pleasure of hear- ing a wonderful story from a mem- ber of the British colony in Brussels, who took a prominent part in some of the stirring events during the great war. Mr. M is a well known and highly respected member of the Brit- ish colony in Brussels, He was chiefly instrumental in securing' the escape into Holland of 215 British war prisoners, Since the war he has been decorated by King George and the British ambassador publicly ac- knowledged the great value of his services, The-story here given is, of course, even when in the form of direct narration, written out from recollections of his conversation with a few intimate friends whom he sur- prised by breaking the reserve he had previously shown with reference to his personal experience. All that he said cannot discreetly be repeated, but what is given may prove inter- esting as coming almost directly from a chief actor in some stirring events. His activities were not confined to releasing war prisoners and the rest may be told some day. With omis- sions, then, here is his story: "I had lived in Brussels for many years before the war and my com- mand of French is good enough to escape suspicion of my British ori- gin. I can gpeak German, too, though not so well, Mrs. M, is proficient in both languages. When a German oc- cupation of Brussels became a cer- tainty we decided to take the risk of remaining and do what we could for the allied cause. My first attempt was to assist in the escape of some French soldiers taken in the first onset at Mons. These were the first prisoners of war to reach Brussels. They were erowded into railway car- riages so that' there was no space even to sit down and had been given neither food nor drink for thirty-six hours. I found the train halted be- low the Midi station, The German gudrds were placed only on one side where a large crowd had gathered. was regarded as a sufficient protec- tion. Along with a number of Bel- glans whom I had admitted to my TENDER, ACHING FFET CAN BE MADE HAPPY You can go home tonight and gain instant relief from the nervous . strain of aching, tender feet. A warm, thick-lather bath, with ~ Blue-juy Foot Soap--thén a brisk massage with the cooling, soothing hates" Foot Relief, then a slight hd | ebating of Blue-jay Foot Powder, jelightful and deodorant. " Your feet will feel young again! You'll wonder why you ever per- mitted yourself to endure the old- time torture. You'll become a per- manent user of Blue-jay Foot Treat- ment, for sale at all druggists. ~ Write for free booklet -- "The Proper Care of the Feet"--to Bauer % Black, Limited, Toronto. Blue-jay Foot Treatment .. Keepa feet feeling fine RAILWAY AGENCY FOR ALL scheme, I made my way up the slope, keeping out of sight as much as pos- sible. When near enough to address the French men in a low tone I point- od out the possibility of some escap- ing, suggesting that they slip out of the windows as unobtusively as pos- sible, coming only one at a time, As each man slid to the bottom of the embankment oné of the sympathetic crowd gave him an overcoat to cover his uniform, and taking off his cap he guletly mixed with the ¢rowd and was conducted to the shelter of neighboring streets, This went on until someone gave the game away. At the first movement of the Boche troops we scattered for safety. They contented {themselves with firing ostentatiously down the yard and the incident ended. We had, however, secured two or three score of French soldiers, who, since in civilian clothe they could not be distinguished from Belgians, we easlly forwarded to France. Pane Large Numbers Released. Large numbers of the French were successfully releaséd at different times with comparative ease but the British offered a different problem. Few of them knew anything of the country, its ways or its language. It was necessary, therefore, not only to release them, clothe and fged them, but also to conceal them and organize secret and safe ways of conducting them beyond the frontier, the only possible route for them being over the Dutch border. As time went on our difficulties increased because the German frontier guard and their sys- tem of espionage became more effic- 3USE: 2 . sa We saav etn. vas smes sess AlOr 1 ro) Yo! oR 0 vans JE Nov. 12{Dee. N. Y., Cherbourg, Shiapton t 13001 4l0Ct. 25 -«-....Aquitania ares rege 6. Bl canine A, GIBRALT. PA OVNIK, MEDITERRANEAN CRUISES FROM NEW YORK Gibraltar, Algiers, "WN. ¥, PLY 'and HAMBOURG ) Trioet obec. 18 ......8axonia DU vias wean sawn is ORlabria fent. German guards, chiefly land- wehr troops, policed every town and spies in civil garb were numerous, particularly in Brussels. We dared not take many into our confidence; a large sectioh of the people were un- sympathetic or actively disloyal especially the Flemish. Many were T Check Your BOWEL TROUBLES By Using DR. FOWLER'S Extract of WILD STRAWBERRY When you are troubled with diar- rhoea, dysentery, colic, cramps and pains in the stomach, cholera, cholera morbus, summer complaint, , bloody fluxes, Or any looseness of the bowels be: sure and obtain a bottle of "Dr. Fowler's" and see how quickly it gives you relief. This rful rem- edy has been on the market for the past 76 years and we wish to warn you against accepting a substitute, which may be dangerous to your et. 22|Dec. T . | Nov. 18)Jan. 10 : From Halifax, Dec. 15. 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It was difficult sometimes to keep them secluded safely or to have them to conduct themselves discretly when en route for the frontier. Oh one occasion a party of seventeen British, who had secured a supply of whiskey, became boisterous and uncontrol- lable, Declaring that they weren't going to be shut up for fear of any b--y Bosches, they marched out, formed fours in correct style, and proceeded up the street singing, "It's a long way to Tipperary." By some miracle they escaped other observa- tion than the laughter and applause of the people on the street, and the special providence which is said 'to care for fools and drunkards led them to one of the few drinking places which they could safely enter. The proprietor, a loyal Walloon, siz- ed. up the situation correctly, got them into a retired room and when they were partially sobered, sent me word. I was able to conduct them in small parties to another safe rs- fuge. Met Miss Cavell. "Such experiences were enough to turn ones hair gray and you will rea- lize that our life was full of danger and anxiety. Quite early I drifted into association with Miss Cavell, who was doing work in the same line, Miss Cavell was a noble spirit who ger to help an escaped prisoner. In some respects, however, she was a source of anxiety, Except in loyalty and courage she was not a safe con- spirator. She seemed unable to rea- lize what the Bosche was capable of doing and was sometimes indiscrete. A careless word or unguarded act was enough to arouse darigerous cur- fosity. Her execution was a brutal murder, She was not technically a spy and her splendid charity to Ger- man and allied soldiers alike, as wel] as her sex, ought to have saved her life at least. But it was characteris- tic of German psychology that her reputation ensured her death, since they thought that to make an ex- ample of a woman like Nurse Cavell would terrorize the rest of us. "At length M. and his wife fell under suspicion. This was re- vealed by police visits to their home and M. discovered that he was fol- lowed about by plain clothes guards." Some of these he led a merry dance in and out of street cars and taxis and through shops with more than one exit or by the numerous narrow crooked streets and lanes with which Brussels abounds, When carrying parcels of food or clothing, which bad often to be delivered personally, he had sometimes. to submit to em- ba'rassing examinations when it was hard to maintain an innocent appear- ance, Finally he was arrested and taken to Villefort prison ir the neighbor- hood of Brussels. where as many as 4,000 Belgian suspects, of whom 400 were women, were sometimes intern- ed at one time. Here he remained for nine months, until released the day before the armistice, 'When brought to trial be was condemned to be shot, but a Belgian official of rank saved his life by determined éfforts and some bribing, and his sentence was commuted to five years imprisonment, an exalted German of- flcer proving venal. He was then kept in solitary confinement for ten weeks in a cel] two and a half paces long by three feet wide. During this time he was subjected to every species of abuse, both physical and mental, to extract information which would betray his associates and their methods. His description of one oc- casion is typical. He says: "One morning I was taken before a German major who received me with great assumed friendliness, He addressed me in perfect English as follows: "Do you love your wife?" My reply was: "Need I say that I do?" "Well," he said, "this tele- came in this morning. Read it." The telegram apparently came from a physician whom I knew in our quarter of the city. It stated that my wife was dangerously {ll and that she had pleaded with him to arrange that I should be permitted to see her. The physician pledged his honor that the visit was urgent if 1 wished to see her again. After 1 had read it the officer, with every te of friendly asolicitude, sald: "I am sorry for your afflic- tion Mr. M, and I shal] exert myself to secura your temporary release. I can do this and make it permanent, but only on condition that you maka frank donfession of your activities those of your associates." The telegram was cunning construct- {ed with every appearance of being but I now smelled a large t| sized rodent and after looking him the eye steadily for some time, "Yery clever, my friend, but it won't work." He glared at me and shout- ed to the guards, "Get rid of this fel- low," which they did by kicking and <---- never spared effort or shunned dan- | A THE DAILY BRITIS ~~ | striking me with their rififie buits {all the way back to my cell I learned afterwards that this trick wags attempted with my wife also. i -- 1 Bread and Water Diet, tended to break me down, rather painful even in recollection. { included a bread and water diet, un- eatable food, 'or, for days I would get nothing. to drink. cell was tried, and only those who stand its terrors, One day my arms ered, tried to trap me, mitted without much pressure that he had been bribed to do so, gave me a plausibly written letter professing that something incriminating would be secured in reply. And so the weary business dragged on until the officials apparently gave up the el- fort to move me and at the end of ten weeks I was treated as an ordin- ary prisoner, though I found that I had still to be wary. The remaining months of my con- finement were chiefly irksome be- cause of the monotony of the dull round of prison life, though this was occasionally relieved by incidents sometimes alarming and oecasionally amusing. I had made a rearrange- ment of my cel] which was not ap- proved by the methodical German mind. disgusting German profanity and my head was banged against the wall. Reckless of consequences I knocked s+=.~uard down and I was summoned e the commandant, a pompous wiuve who seemed to have made Hin- denburg his model in appearance and manner, After hearing the charge he roared at me, "It is well for you this man was not in uniform or you would be shot, I sentence. you to seven years." I laughed. "What do you mean, sir, by laughing," he sput- tered. I replied that for him to give me an added seven years sentence was too much for my self-control since I was sure there wouldn't be a German in Belgium in six months. He ordered me off without further comment and I was surprised when my guards, who had stood with rigid respect in the awful presence, roar- | ed with laughter when we reached | the corridor and slapped me on the | back with shouts of 'Gut, gut man." they were delighted to see me check a German officer. "One day all were ordered out into the large salles or into the cour's outside, when a Dutch commission made a perfunctory inspection of the prison. This was mysterious at the time but I afterwards learned that an Inspection had been requested by some of the entbassies. These Dutch officials never questioned a prisoner and their inspection was very super- ficial. Evidently they were expect ed to apply a coat of whitewash and they certainly were the men for the job, -- Germans Gave Up, "For some weeks before the end, an accumulation of incidents convine- ed us that the Germans knew their game was up. All bullying stopped; the guards were ingratiating and the officers we saw were plainly worried. There were several neisy mutinies among the, troops and finally their conversations revealed that they ex- pected to leave in a few days. Day and night we heard the rumble of heavy trucks and guns on the street, all moving east. On the Friday be- fore the armistice the troops, hear- ing of the German insurrection against their officers in Brussels, mutinied, and we were released, "A few. days ago I revisited the prison to show it to a party of friends. I learned that a grhesome discovery had just been made.' The body of one of the German female warders was discovered under the paved floor of the women's prison, Tt is believed that she was killed and buried by women prisoners whom she abused. She was not the only one to meet with retribution, When the prisoners were released several of the traitors who had betrayed them found swift punishment. I learned of one 'who was left in a cellar with a piece of rope. Sometime after- wards it was found that in imitation of his master Judas he had hanged himself. PAINFUL NEURALGIA TORTURING SCIATICA Both come From the Same Cause-- Thin, Watery Blood. " Most people think of neuralgia as a pain in the head or face, but neu- ralgia may affect any nerve in the body, Different naines are given to it when it affects certain mnervas. Thus neuralgid of the sciatic nerves is called sciatica, but the character of the pain and the nature of the dis- ease are the same. The pain in neu- ralgia is caused by starved nerves. The blood which carries nourish- 'ment to the nerves has become thin and impure and no longer does so, and the pain you feel'is the cry of the amerves for their natural food. You may ease the pains of neuralgia with hot applications, but real relief from the trouble comes hy enriching and puritying the blood. For this purpose Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are 5 gly recommended. 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This year's drought is no doubt the result of the great prohibi- tion wave which was willed by the majority of the people who voted, The pen has long been recognized as mightier than the sword. Now the firemen have proven themselves mightier than the police of Boston town by overcoming a maniac whom the cops could not master. At the next Labor picnic & contest might be held to decide the girl wear- ing the least amount of clothing. That would be a great drawing card. -- I: Mayor Nickle is not Kingston's member at Ottawa after the federal elections, it i; a pretty safe guess that he will be Kingston's mayor fr the third consecutive year. Labor is going to have a good desl to say in the coming elections, but in Kingston it is not strong enough to swing a campaign of its own that would have a fifty-fifty chance of winning. 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