Identifier: captiveatcarlsru00leej (find matches)
Title: A captive at Carlsruhe and other German prison camps, with numerous illustrations by the author
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Lee, Joseph
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London J. Lane
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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he arc-lamp at the gate, at the very moment when three Captains courageously made an effort to pass through the buUding used as an office, which gives on to the garden, from whence access to the road would have been comparatively easy. A further diversion was created by a Lieutenant falling down in the court as if in a fit, though this was nothing but a feint. The office was occupied by Germans, however, and, softly and politely closing the door behind them, the trio turned back. Captain Brown, by reason of his great stature —he was six feet six inches— was readily recognized, and next morning the three officers were brought up for attempting to escape, and sentenced to three days confinement in the Tower. Imprisonment in this old strong place, by the way, was not looked upon as a very grievous punishment. In fact, but for the disability of being deprived of the daily walk, it was an improvement on our ordinary condition. The prisoner had a room, a bed, a table, and a chair to himself; a lamp, which
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THE LATE LIEUT. W. !.. ROBINSON, V.C. (A FELLOW-PRISONEN AT BEESKOW LAGER) THE ALARM BELL 161 he could keep burning long after lights out, and meals sent up to him by a member of his mess punctually at the appointed times. Then, as librarian, I allowed certain latitudes in the supply of literature. To Captain Brown, as appropriate to his position, I sent Tighe Hopkins Dungeons of Old Paris; then, relenting, and remembering that he was a Scot and an Edinburgh man, I followed this up immediately by Stevensons The Master of Ballantrae. Another bid for freedom was made by Captain E,., to whom for the purpose I lent a red neckerchief and a civilian cap, which had somehow escaped the authoritative eye and got through to me. R.s scheme was to secrete himself under a table covered with a blanket, at which a quartette was playing a belated game of Bridge in the court under one of the lamps and in close proximity to the barbed fence, cut the wire, and lie hid in the shrubbery until such time as he might find op

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