Summer Contest
For Boys
The Times is going to give away
to the two best hustlers
in Cordova
A Bicycle
AND
A Gold Watch
These two articles will be given away on July 30 to
the two boys having the largest number of votes to their
credit at 6 o’clock on that date. The boy having the
largest number of votes to his credit will be allowed his
choice of the articles.
The contest is open to all boys of 16 years and under.
All who wish to enter the contest must first leave their
names at the Times office.
All that is necessary is for the contestants to see
their friends and acquaintances and get them to sub
scribe for the Times.
This will entitle them to a specified number of votes,
which will be credited to them. Mail subscribers count
the same as those in Cordova .which is as follows:
New subscribers, one month. 50 votes
New subscribers, six months. 500 votes
New subscribers, one year.2000 votes
Weekly subscriptions count one-fifth the number of
votes as the daily.
Present subscribers who pay in advance will be en
titled to one-half the number of votes as new subscribers.
All subscriptions must be paid in advance, and in order
to get the votes the money must accompany the order.
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Six months (in advance) . 5.00
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period of.
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. ADDITIONAL NOTICE.
The Contest will be closed to entries at 6 o’clock the
afternoon of July 20. Any boys who yet wish to enter
the lists for a try for the watch may do so up to that time,
but thereafter the contest will be confined to the boys in
the running at that time.
Get busy. All it needs is a little hustling.
None of the boys yet have much of a start, and a good
1_Ui. ..rnnoinm tirill nut anv Vinat.lor in t.VlA lead.
i PRISONER TEEESi
OF RIS MINT
ESCAPES
PARIS, July 2. — (Correspondence
of the Associated Press.) — Sergeant
Detor, of the 228th French Infantry,
taken prisoner at the battle of Guise
during the retreat of the French army
from Charleroi, has Just given the de
tails of his final escape from Germany
after two unsuccessful attempts ,in
one of which he had himself burled
alive, and In the other recaptured by
ruse after he had gotten Into Dutch
territory.
After describing how he and his
comrades were taken to a prison In
Germany, Letor says he saw his first
chance when sent with a detachment
of French prisoners to clear a piece
of woods. Most of the work was
simply digging up stumps, and this
suggested an idea. “I will throw my
self into the excavation of one of the
stumps," I said to my comrades, "and
when the sentinel's back Is turned you
cover me with earth."
"The morning of April 9 I caught
the Bentinel off his guard blowing at
the fire, trying to make It burn, while
I was working beside a stump that
had just been uprooted. I slipped into
the hole face downward with a sack
under by chin and a clump of ferns
in front of my face to protect my
mouth and serve as a sort of breath
ing pad; a few seconds later I felt
the cold earth falling upon my feet
and legs. After the lower part of my
body had been covered, my comrades
threw roots and branches over my
head and shoulders to prevent me
fpnm nnffnpntimf
"I remained there until half past
eleven, the earth settling all the time
and weighing heavier and heavier
upon me. At a quarter past eleven
one of the German sentinels walked
straight over the earth that covered
me. That was the last I knew until
I felt an atrocious burning sensation
in one hand. I had lost consciousness
after the sentinel had walked over
me, with my left hand just sticking
out of the hole, but it was impossible
to support the sunlight and I had to
burrow again for a few moments.
“When 1 looked out again, my com
rades were marching off to their bar
racks; my opportunity had come. I
had to be quick for 300 yards away
the chief of the detachment of guards
was counting the prisoners; in a few
minutes my disappearance would be
known and the alarm given. 1 ran
to a marsh on the other side of the
road that passed along the wood; then
in order to put my pursuers off the
scent, I ran toward a mine in the di
rection opposite to that I was oldiged
to finally take. 1 showed myself to
peasants traveling near that mine,
then turning into a wood where 1
was concealed from view, I took the
opposite direction and made for Hol
land with the aid of a little pocket
"I’aBslng along beside a farm I saw
some of my comrades who were em
ployed there, and observed that there ,
was general agitation, from which I ^
knew that the alarm had been given. (
I then went toward the river Lippe,
crossed the bridge and went straight
through the town of Altern, conceal
ing my visage from many persons I
met by continually blowing my nose
with my handkerchief. Speed was
my principal preoccupation, silence
the second. I took off my shoes and (
made thirty miles through the woodB (
barefooted, over briars and branches
that brought the blood after the first ^
mile or two. I approached Borken,
near tha Dutch frontier, the next
morning at 5 o’clock, and as 1 neared
the village I put my shoes on again
and resolutely took the high road.
“The first man I met In crossing the
village of Borken was a gendarme, (
who simply gazed at me. A few hun
dred yards from the frontier I met
a boy on a bicycle, who inspired me
with more caution than any person 1
had met. I ran into a little wood and
concealed myself for half an hour.
When 1 came out another bicyclist
came up behind me, jumped to the ,
grounde and demanded, ‘Your papers.’
*1 am a Hollander,’ I replied. ‘I have j
no papers.’ A second bicyclist and a
police dog followed, with people
searching from all sides, and l was
soon on the way back to the camp of
Seunelager.
“Once returned to Sennelager, my
first idea was to prepare a new plan
of escape, together with Corporal
Brousset. Besides getting out of the
barracks, which was easy, we had
this time to get over lines of barbed
wire two and a half yards in height
in three lines, the second of which
had a sort of metallic trellis in the
middle, through which passed an elec
tric current of 10,000 volta. Brousset
went ahead on this occasion. We
crept ao closely to the ground as we
could until we got to the barbed wire.
Brousset cut the first line, end we
were approaching the electrified ob
stacle. Nippers were no use here, but
the trellis was fixed upon posts, leav
ing about a foot of spare underneath.
Brousset went first and I watched
him breathlessly until he drew his
foot safely under the wire on the
other side. Then I followed, still hold
ing my breath, until I also had gone
under the dangerous barrier.
“The most difficult work had not
been done; on the other side of the
three barbed wire lines were the silh
ouettes of two sentinels scarcely 20
yards away. When we got through
the barbed wire, were in plain view
of them and had nothing to do but
make a sprint for a clump of bushes
nearby. We succeeded In reaching
them without being observed. The
sentinels went away, and we took up
our journey toward the frontier. Three
peasants chased us in the morning for
an hour, until we finally threw them
off our track In a wood. Near Bele
feld two hunters set their dogs upon
us. For this eventuality we had pro
vided ourselves with pepper, which
proved effective. We avoided the vil
lage of Hheines by following a route
of the woods and marshes, and crossed
Metelen at midnight; then more
marshes that seemed interminable. It
took us two nights to get over them,
sleeping in the day time among the
bulrushes and eating meagerly of the
little provision that we had calculated
might keep us alive ten days.
“After nine days of privation and
exhaustion we arrived at Ahams to
ward midnight, close to the frontier
town of Breden. Again liberty was
within a few hundred yards of us
when we had the misfortune to run
straight into a German frontier cus
toms house. In our flight I stumbled
>ver u stone at the very instant a
mstoms officer fired at my back. I
ay motionless, and the officer, think
ng I had been hit. joined his com
•ades In the pursuit of Brousset. \s
loon as the officers had disappeared
got up and went to hide in bushes
tearby. At that moment I was on
Dutch territory, but unfortunately 1
lid not suspect it. I thought I was
lafe though until a half hour later
heard the steps of a patrol, then the
■ayB of a strong electric lamp searched
he bushes. The Germans, remember
nK where I had fallen, had come back
o look for men. Suddenly the rays
>f the electric lamp struck me full in
he face and almost blinded me. ‘Sur
ender or we’l! fire on you," cried one
if the subaltern officers. I rose and
idvanced towmrds him, and had only
nade about four yards between my
>ush and the patrol when the Ger
nans began to snicker. ‘It is unfor
unate for you, but you have Just
:ome out of Holland.’ The only thing
hat consoled me was that Brousset
tad not been taken. He was now in
afety.
“Again returned to the camp at
iennelager and again brought before
he court-martial. J was sentenced to
wenty days of close confinement in
n unlighted ceil, and afterwards sent
o the prison of Recklinghausen, where
he Germans thought 1 would find no
urther opportunity to escape. There
met Adjutant Bienvenu, of the 119th
nfantry, Messrs. Major Dumpt de Ba
uine, and two civilian prisoners,
liessrs. Van Calster and Yves Le
;uen. We all of us decided to attempt
o escape at the first opportunity, and
ve fixed Christmas as the most favor
ble time. We succeeded in breaking
iut of the barracks from the second
loor cell occupied by Van Calster, and
vlth the aid of a barrel got over the
ourtyard wall, not unperceived, how
ver, for immediately we were outside
here came the cry, 'Halt Wer Da!’
iome boys had seen us and given the
larm. In an instant all the sentinels
vere at our heels. At top speed we
vent through a street, a garden and
mother street, and how we got over
he icy soil so much better than our
lursuers 1 am unable to explain. After
ve had distanced the sentinels, a score
if boys gave us chase, but soon left
hem in the rear, and at nightfall had
id ourselves of all pursuers and had
he entire night to put distance be
wee nthem and ourselves. It was 3
I’clock in the morning on December
A that we arrived at a barrier of in
lumerable lines of barbed wire that
)roved to us that we were on the
Dutch frontier. We left the moat of
our trousers among those wires, but
we were finally safe. A farmer near
the frontier took ua in, freshened up
the fire In our honor, opened the cup
board* and gave us good cheer, and
on Christmas Kve we had the Joy of
listening to the Marseallalse played
by a musical society of the little Hol
land post of Winterswijk In our
honor."
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