THE ESCAPING CLUB

by

THE JAMES A. McCANN COMPANY
Publishers           New York

Copyright 1922 by
THE JAMES A. McCANN COMPANY

All Rights Reserved



PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.

TO
MY MOTHER

WHO, BY ENCOURAGEMENT AND DIRECT
ASSISTANCE, WAS LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR
MY ESCAPE FROM GERMANY, I DEDICATE THIS
BOOK, WHICH WAS WRITTEN AT HER REQUEST.

PART I
CHAP.		PAGE
I.	Capture	3
II.	Gutersloh and Clausthal	12
III.	The First Evasion	21
IV.	What Happened to Kicq	26
V.	The Frontier	35
VI.	Paying the Piper	48
VII.	Removal to a Strafe Camp	56
VIII.	Fort 9, Ingolstadt	67
IX.	Captors and Captives	87
X.	Attempts to Escape	103
XI.	An Escape with Medlicott	127
XII.	Short Rations and Many Riots	139
XIII.	A Tunnel Scheme	149
XIV.	The Bojah Case	163
XV.	The Last of Fort 9	172
XVI.	We Escape	182
XVII.	Through Bavaria by Night	199
XVIII.	Through Wurtemberg to the Frontier	213
XIX.	Freedom	230
PART II
I.	Arabs, Turks, and Germans	241
II.	One more Run	257
III.	To Afion via Constantinople	284
IV.	The Round Tour Concluded	300