. The escape of a Princess Pat; being the full account of the capture and fifteen months imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricias Canadian light infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland. erision at some desperate man, or in akindlier mood and in warning. The word was thatwe were to be inoculated with the germs of consump-tion. I understand that it appeared also in thepapers at home. It seemed horrible beyond wordsto us. The idea appeared crazy but was equally ona par with the events we witnessed daily. Myself,I planned to take no chances; if it were humanlypo
. The escape of a Princess Pat; being the full account of the capture and fifteen months imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricias Canadian light infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland. erision at some desperate man, or in akindlier mood and in warning. The word was thatwe were to be inoculated with the germs of consump-tion. I understand that it appeared also in thepapers at home. It seemed horrible beyond wordsto us. The idea appeared crazy but was equally ona par with the events we witnessed daily. Myself,I planned to take no chances; if it were humanlypossible. We were all ordered to parade for the inocula-tion. I hid myself with a few others and so escapedthe operation. Nothing was said so I could onlysuppose that they failed to check us up as it was notin keeping with the German character as we hadcome to know it to miss any opportunity of cor-rective punishment even though the inoculation hadbeen for our own good. It is true that some of the men so inoculated fellprey to consumption. On the other hand one ofthem had had a well defined case of it before, andit was almost certain that the living conditions pre-vailing amongst us would insure the appearance of 98. FELLOW PRISONERS AT CEISSEX. LEFT TO KIGIIT: A CHESHIREREGIMENT MAN, A SIBERIAN RUSSIAN, AN EAST YORKSHIRELIGHT INFANTRYMAN AND A GORDON HIGHLANDER.
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