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Title: 13 days, the chronicle of an escape from a German prison
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Caunter, John Alan Lyde, 1889-
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
Publisher: London : G. Bell and sons, ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tures and I gavehim an account of mine in exchange. Again our luck was well to the fore. Onexamining our supplies of food, etc., I found 128 13 DAYS that Fox had lost nearly all his biscuits andchocolate in the crossing of the Aller, whichthey had had to negotiate by swimming araft across. This had got swamped, as itsbuoyancy was poor, naturally with disastrousconsequences to much of the perishable foodthey had taken with them. I had got a good number, and so wouldbe able to supply them and in exchangethey gave me other things. My compass was a good one, theirs poor;whereas my map was exceedingly bad andtheirs quite good. We found that we had both the sameideas of the route to be taken towards thefrontier. The Germans had captured threeother lots of escapers in the district aroundOsnabruck. Forest guards were active in the woodsin this district, and this had decided both ofus on our line before we met. Another fact which made us the more surewhich route we should follow was the nature
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I MEET FOX AND BLANK 129 of the ground as shown by the maps. Thecountry which we eventually traversed isshown as marshy, and we had both decidedthat the great drought in Germany thissummer would have dried this up to a verylarge extent, and we hoped that the Germansmight not have taken this fact into con-sideration in allocating guards, so that thisdistrict would be more lightly watched thanothers. As a matter of fact the mapsexaggerate the marshes, and I should thinkthat even after really wet weather it wouldbe possible to follow the same line. The one disadvantage to this joining-upof parties lay in its greater visibility and theloss of its elasticity, owing to the fact that wewere now three whereas two is the idealnumber. It is naturally more difficult forthree to dive into hiding immediately onsighting a German than it is for one or two. However, the pros easily outweighed thecons. While we were thus talking we gotrather a scare. A man on a horse came 130 13 DAYS along the road an

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