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r.lADE FIUETUIINEL
How Prisoners Used War Bread
. Doled Out to Them.
Avenue by Which Captive Allies Had,
Hoped to Escape Was Really a
Perfect Piece of Work Even
Germans Admired It
There Is certainly more tragedy
than comedy In the cruel disappoint
ment of unhappy prisoners thwarted
to a promising and almost successful
effort to escape; nevertheless, the gal
lant gayety that has marked so many
of the allied fighting men does not fail
them wholly even In such circum
stances. Lance Corporal Charles W.
Baker, who recently recounted his
prison experiences In the Metropolitan
Magazine, wastes no pathos on him
self or . on his fellow sufferers when
they failed to get safe away through
their Ingenious tunnel, and can even
see a funny 6lde to the affair.
Some of the other prisoners had be- j
gun the tunnel and had worked upon i
it daily for a month before they let ,
him Into the secret, which finally be
came known to several hundred of the
aptlvcs. i
It opened from the last hut at the
end of the back row and was headed
for the only clump of bushes anywhere
near the camp. The soil was so sandy
that It was Impossible to make a tun
nel In the ordinary way; a long time
passed before the boys hit on a plan.
After our own packages had begun to
come and we had white bread to eat,
says the corporal, some genius had a
happy thought of using the war bread
for bricks. The war bread Is as tough
and as hard as rubber and of about
the size and shape of a small stone
block that you use for paving streets.
We kept the bread burled until night
Then we piled it up In a kind of crate,
and'when the sentries were out of
sight we rushed it over to the tunnel. It
was the most beautiful tunnel you ever
saw. The sides were built up like
Lrick walls, and the roof was a perfect
arch. The 6and that we took out was
the same color as the sand of the
camp, and as the ground was almost
always wet you couldn't tell the dif
ference. We would take it out m small
tlnfals and scatter It all over the place.
Of course it was slow work making
the tunnel, for we had to accumulate
war bread, and so to amuse ourselves
we fixed it all ;np. We stuck pictures
from newspapers on the wail, and we
even ran a wire down from the cook
house and lighted It all ud with elec
tricity, A hundred and twenty yards had
been built out of the hundred and
fifty that the runnel had to go when a
miserable Frenchman, to curry favor
with his captors, betrayed the secret
The other French prisoners concerned
were wild vith rage and shame; and
when the whole camp was lined up for
Investigation and punishment the
French non-commissioned officers
stepped forward and begged "for the
honor of the French army" to be al
lowed to take not only their own share
of punishment but that of all the oth
ers. But of course, says Corporal Baker,
the British wouldn't have that and the
non-commissioned British officers gave,
themselves up. It was a regular bow
ing and scraping, YYou-flrst-my-dear-Alphonse"
sort of proceeding. A few
of the men were given five months In
solitary, but most of them got off pret
ty easy, because the German officers
were so much amused. They thought
they had taken away every conceivable
thing that could be used for runnel
building, but they never thought of the
warbread. German officers came from
miles round to see the tunnel. They
wouldn't let us destroy It butjrept It
as a curiosity. Even the general of
division near by came In to see-It
He said It was the finest piece of sap
ping he had ever seen. Youth's Com
panion. .
Couldnt Recall It
Before sentencing the prisoner the
lodge read a long record of his crlm
Eliding dating fiwra rly
youth. Then the prisoner asked:
"May I Inquire your lordship's
naroer
"What do you want to know my
name forr sternly asked the Judge.
"Well," replied the prisoner, "since
your lordship so accurately described
my early life, I ' bot conclude that
you and I have been friends at some
time. I f11 10 recall you at the mo
ment though." Stray Stories.
Flying as a Game.
Flylnf Is a game for the young and
daring and not the staid and decorous.
One brilliant French pilot declared :
-Flying Is a great gay thing. In III
accord with a stodgy prudence and the
homely, sober virtues. The thrill and
throb of It must strike some chord at
. in thA airman's makeup or be !
and It will ever be divorced." '
Young Aviators.
- Some of Britain's best flyers are no
more than eigfcK-en years old. Trm
Pa more thaa treaty-five.
Regulation Clothes
HEADQUARTERS
O. D. Uniforms and
Overcoats
READY TO PUT ON
and wear out of the store
We are catfltting scores of
S. A. T. C. and S. N. T. C. men
Everything, regardless of arm
istice and peace negotiations
Uniform making gave us a great opportu
nity to show the superiority of Society
Brand clothes. "Government specifications
fixed the rules for all the makers and all
started on even basis. Then we were able
to show, in spite of Government restric
tions, the distinction of Society Brand.
Society Brand style begins where other
makes leave off.
Society Brand style came to the front as it
did in civilian clothes. Inton thesii uni
forms is hand-tailored the exceptional style
which distinguishes them the trimmer
lines, the smarter carriage and the smoother
looking fit. Remember, personal appear
ance counts for a lot in the selection of men
for promotion. Society Brand uniforms are
ready, for officers or its auxiliaries Amy,
Navy, Marines, Y. M. C. A. and Red Cross.
.LEATHER AND CANVAS PUTTEES,
HATS, CORDS, PILLOWS, SHIRTS,
OVERSFAS COATS. COM FY KITS
INSIGNIA, SHOES, ETC.
Mayer
PERSONALS
'21. returned Sun-
day from her home in Woodlake.
where she has been for the part three
Frances Anderson, '21. spent Sat
urday rod Sunday at her home !n
Wahoo. .
Ruth Anderson, ex-'19, i Kuest
at the Alpha Phi house.
Katharine Sturdevant, ex-'U spent
Sunday at the Alpha Phi boua
Lieut. Haroia rei".
'! tioned at Camp Funstoiv spent the
I . i at riin Till Oliitr i
week-en a tb v
hFrence Ebberson of Oakland and
Mildred Shirley of Hunboldt were
weekend vlstior. at the Chi Omega
house. Miss Shirley Is waiting her
call from Washington to go Into
nurses' training.
DAILY DIARY RHYMES
By
Gayle Vincent Crubb
"ARMISTICE"
Come on. pardner, thump yoi'r bead,
ivm'f vo jow Hie news, yon Cuss?
Get up on your feet and fill your lungs
For the day belongs to us.
The Kaiser and his twobit soa
ml im&A
Eli Shire, Pres.
Have flown the Royal Coop;
The guy who said the Yanks were
bunk,
Was finally made to stoop.
He has left the halls of sauerkraut
To wander out at night,
Discredited by his Vaterland, .
A lamp without a light.
And Peace? We have it, thank the
Lord;
We've bent the German will
With kulture dying a gruesome death,
I can't but feel a thrill
That out there where the flghtln' was
Were Americans keen as a sword,
WTio did their bit and did It brown
To throttle, the German horde.
So I'm atartln' to lay, some stuff away,
If the moment be early or late,
That when they come back 111 be
primed to the ears.
And raiin' to celebrate.
Well, wake up Pardner and pinch
your skin,
I've never seen such a cuss.
Get up on your feet and fill ycur lungs
For the day belongs to us."
The federal government played no
favorites In New York, when the order
cutting down sugar for candy and es
tablishing a deadline for "boote" was
sect out.
I
HAND GRENADES
Have you heard that the war If
over? We've hoard a rumor to that
effect.
Say, it's great to have an eight
o'clock class after you have been cel
ebrating the ending of the war, from
two bells until dawn.
To hear some lovely maidens talk,
one would think that the A. E. V
would be home tomorrow.
They say that anticipation Is greater
than realization. It is not. If you
have ever stood for two long hours,
while the chilling braazes whistled
about you, waiting for a parade, you
would know that the Joys of anticipa
tions are few and far between.
Someone has said that since the war
is now over, we should no longer have
to pay war-tax on our movie tickets.
We wonder if this person now takes a
second lump of sugar in his coffee?
Alonzo Simpson says: "Now well
have to buy firecrackers twice a year
for our kids."
China is to get a loan of $50,000,000
from the Unlled States. Ttre world
rule Just now is when In doubt of
where to get anything, ask the United
States.
