LATE WAR NEWS

Southland Times, Issue 17484, 27 July 1915, Page 6

LATE WAR NEWS

nroßßircs bsutishtebs. TALE OP THU ESCAPE. SUSIES or HAIBBKEADTH ESCAPES. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright) AMSTERDAM, July 26. Received July 26, S.Rii p.m. pvko, the escaped Interned British prisoner, relates that he jienetrated to Berlin in September last, and after his arrest was kept in a small eell for sixteen weeks unit! Iris mind and spirit almost gave way. The police doctor refused to examine him when suffering from blood poisoning as the result of the food ho had to cat. He was afterwards removed to Ruhlebeu, where •’OO men slept in one hayloft. Pyke here r.ear'y died of pneumonia, hut he did not receive medio.:! attention. Ho stilfered repeated illnesses from February to done. Calk, who was a Nigerian official. suggested that they should escape. They spent three mouths in perfecting their plans, which, out of respect to the camp commandant's feelings they will not reveal. Toes escaped it: broad daylight on the afternoon of July passing through a cot dor. of sentries and four barbed wire fence- - . They spent the night in an adjoining sandpit ansi entered Berlin next morning and obtained the first .good meal for months. They purchased an outri ter a walking touv in the Hart: - , mountains and tramped the rest of the way across country at nighttime by tiie aid of a luminous compass, passing field - s>f barbed wire and dense forests. They were drenched to the skin every day i>y toe heavy rains, ami stole turnips, boots, and potatoes trom the fields. On one occasion they walked through a pov.-dcr factory, unchallenged by the sleepy Laadsturmers. When titty miles of the frontier they found themselves in liiv centre of cavalry. They lost themselves on the night of the 22nd in a peatbog, and while hiding the next day within a mile of the frontier an army guard surprised them. Then they turned out the Dutch frontier guard, who took them to be smugglers. OPEN-AIK SERVICE. A NATION’S SOITIi. and a new enoeand LONDON PRESS COMMENT LONDON, July 26. In ins a 1 Id res - the Bishop of London Bain that Russia, within a week, had flung aside vodka, and the nation had be-n unified under one leader. Russia would never In- conquered while the world lasts—not only because of her extent. but because of her solid people. Tin- leaders of Britain had called for universal military service, and only a rew England, an England which had come hack to her best self could save the world to-day. The Daily Telegraph states that the sermon prompts the question: What is the son! of Britain - .’ Are we emerging from our ordeal as nobly as France or Russia V We have been spared the unspeakable horrors that have befallen them; are we doing all we ought in order to mark our gratitude? England is slow to move, but the movement is palpable. There is no fear for the future.