FRENCH OFFICER RECOUNTS THRILLING
ESCAPE FROM INTERNED CAMP
Lieutenant Auguste d'Hareourt of
the French aviation corps escaped
front Holland to France, eluding of
ficers who were to he court-in.irt'ui’ed
if he got away.
He worked 15 whole nights sawing
off two prison bars. Finally be ser
vered them, slid down a rope in the
darkness, concealed himself in a ga
rage, rode by night on a bicycle to a
seaport, crawled exactly like a rat into
the hold of the ship and then was free!
The vivid details in the January At
lantic make the reader hold Ids breath
They seemed almost incrediable-—fur
more like Action than facts from real
life. He gives the most amazing nar
rative of the war that has come from
Holland, where 30,000 Belgians from
Antwerp, many English and French
soldiers, aviators and submarine crews
must remain until the dove of peace
Ales over the bloody battleAelds of
Europe.
It was the Frenchmans third sensa
tional attempt to gain freedom. By
the use of a duplicate pass giving him
permission to leave a fort for a few
hours, which he saved and dated
ahead, he made his Arst trial. lie
showed the pass to the guard, walked
out and was not missed for five hours
The next day he was caught in a
house where he had found temporary
refuge.
He was then sent to the Island of
Irk,, where the utch government in
terns "dangerous" olMn-rs of the allies.
The sympathy of tin island is with
the Germans, so rv t\ inhabitant is
a guard. But Lieutenant d'llarcourt
and his comrade-- decided lo mak, an
other attempt lo escape, The> were
going to work tin it way to liberty by
digging a tunnel from a point under
the lleutentant’s room which would
come out in a near-by cemetary in a
little building used as a morgue.
For three long weeks, six men work
ed in shifts without being missed from
the rest of the prisoners. The great
est problem of all was to Ami a place
for the d'irt. This they hid away
under other parts of the building.
They experienced every possible dif
ficulty from water , ventilation, and
cave ins. (inly' by means of a bellows
1 hitch- I to a rubber tube about SO feet
long were they able to proceed. A
comrade in their room worked the de
i vice and when he was forced to stop
or, account of the approach of a guard,
th men in the tunnel nearly suffo
cated.
In his magazine account entitled
| "Interned in Holland,” I.ieutenant
id’Harcourt says in part:
"The earth was hard and cold and
often mixed with large stones that we
had great difficulty in digging out and
carrying off. Rvery few moments a
stream of water came rushing 'in. We
were in mud and water all the time;
we crawled along in slime, as we could
only work wpen stretched out fiat,now
on our backs, next face down, some
limes on our sides, and almost always
in a cramped position. Rader sucli
conditions, we were lucky if we could
advance 10 centimeters 'in 21 hours.
'Tin fatigue brought on by ttiis
Wearing work could not compare with
Hie nervous strain that Wo were kept
undi r by our anxiety to quit the rest
less vigilance of om guards so as not
to compromise !he success of out en
t rprise by any indiscreet act.
In order to avc/nl arousing the slight
est suspicion, we had decided to leave
the door of my room wide open. Cou
ttsson and I took turns watching.
When the time came for shifting gangs
we rinsed lie door for about 10 min
utes, but, as it could not lie locked,
this period was a erit'ieul one and full
of excitement.
We had to move quickly and with
out speaking to one another. As soon
as we had hung up our working
clothes in the closet and tail on our
everyday suits,, one of us who was not
on duty in the tunnel cleaned up the
J dirt left by the workmen and tlirew
back into the hole the earth that the
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men had brought uj> on their shoes or
that had stuck to their clothes. Be
sides, every morning, at day break, it
was absolutely necessary to wash out
the rooms thoroughly, so as not t< •'
leave any trace of our operations.
Hid Tunnel Opening.
The opening of the tunnel was hid
den by a large chest on which the bed
rested. After working three months
like dogs we had dug 12 metres of
tunnel (about 40 feet) and scarcely two
meters of earth separated us from
freedom. After much difficulty we had
arranged for a boat and studied the
best route to be taken. We were pre
paring to leave when an indiscreet re
mark or act by somebody on the is’aml
caused General Onnen to telephone
Colonel Vreenburg that there must be
a tunnel under the Frenchman's room.
I was taken out and put in another
room, and movng the furniture disclos
ed the whole plot.
As a result of the work I fell serious
ly ill with intlnmntlon of the liver, due
to poisoning contracted in the tunnel,
and tlie military authorities sent me
to military hospital at Utrecht.
The room that 1 occupied at the j
hospital was on the second floor of an .
old, very high building. My windows, j
heavily barred, looked on a garden 2n i
fiit below. \ steel grating locked by
a chain and padlock, had been erected
before my door. This the officer in!
charge of me personallj locked; h
also kept the key. Mv guard, besides
this officer,consisted of a non-commis
sioned officer, a corporal and 12 men.
Meanwhile 1 had got a rope and a
saw, both absolutely necessary, and I
began to saw file bars. I could work
only at night. It took me 15 nights
working ail night long to saw the bars
in two. 1 worked in the dark with tie
' shut (era drawn down ovu the window j
through which I u.is to escape I !
tried to lessen the noise that the saw j
made io Idling into the iron by giving:
two or three rasps, then stopping and j
beginning again after a moment.
When it was time for me to stop
work I cleaned the bars and covered up
the cracks by sticking pieces of black
paper on them and rubbing the whole
over with coni.
At !) o'clock the sentinels ordered to
sit directly under my mom at night
went to the guard room to report.
Thera was none there in (he daytime.
By acting quickly I should have time
to reach the garden before they went
on duty. An officer left my room just
before nine.
A Fateful Moment.
I turned down the lamp, ran to the
window and glanced outside; not a
soul was in sight. T pulled the bars
aside, arranged the rope, opened the
shutters, and slipped through the small
opening that 1 had made. It was a
tight squeeze, and in struggling
through 1 tore my trousers badly. 1
slipped down the rope. In the room
below the doctor was reading his paper
with his back turned to the window;
he started to turn round, saw nothing,
and went on with his reading.
Leaving the rope where it was, I ran
to the edge of the roof, which was
much too high for me to risk leaping
to the ground. There was a small fir
| tree two meters away from the roof;
l jumped for it and grasped a branch,
which broke under my weight and let
me down gently to the ground.
Across the officers’ garden I ran,
climbed over the hospital wall, and
found myself in the street near a good
old soul who stood glued to the spot
with fear. 1 continued to rush on and
I did not resume my ordinary gait till I
had turned twice to the left. I had
wrapped up one of my hands, which
was bleeding, in my handkerchief, and
held up my torn trousers with the
other.
Concealed in a Garage.
A kind KVTerdor hid me In his
j garage four days. During the day
time 1 hid in a tool chest; nt night
I slept in an automobile. Two weeks
later, after the police thought I had
left the city, I rode out of Utrecht
on a bicycle at nightfall. * * • I was
able to go aboard a boat without be
ing seen. 1 was first hid in a sort
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which I climbed through a trapdoor;
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and very thorough search just before
having the dutch coast for good, it
was necessary to take every possible
preen ution.
1 did not consider that they had
taken sufficient precautions, and as I
felt beneath my feet, a metallic plate,
I unbolted it and discovered a hole
into which I got with great difficulty,
and there I remained for five hours,
astride th cylinder Inside of which
th«* screw-shaft revolved.
Toward half past seven in the eve
ning i could tell, by the rock'ing of th<
vess.j, that we were at sea, so I
came out of my hole, where T was
beginning to suffer eortsid< i ildy from
lack "f both space and air. A littb
later they came to tell me that ;i 1'
dang' i was over; 1 was safe at last.
< Mi my arrival at London on the fol
lowing il.i> i had same trouble with j
the police. This was quickly straight- j
i-ind out as soon ns 1 called at the
consulate general anil the embassy.
A few clays *alcr I returned to Paris
Pin Southampton and Havre.
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iii hi* monthly report as to the gon
, i i oni.itions m Ids district, Dep
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i Lrw.n that the greatest CX -
•iiieril on th< upper river is tlx*
sc a 11 1t> of wood fol* f 11 I and the J
i old weather. The ext remedy t ..Id j
■d» ll diminislie I the woodpiles greatly |
and the r-si.l.iits there are finding!
it diffiru't to replenish tin in.
The deputy also reports that then*
at. lots of cadibcm in that vicinity
this wiat. i and tin- natives are liv
ing well. Wolves arc more numerous
than in several seasons also, but the
fur catch is considerably smaller.
Almost all furs brought in to Hugh*
this \iar are of a high grade, how
ever, and are bringing fair piVes.
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