sident Lincoln_, took me
out of the boat. I told him my captain had gone down with the ship,
whereupon he steamed away, taking me prisoner to Germany. We passed to
the north of the Shetlands into the North Sea, the Skaggerak, the
Cattegat, and the Sound into the Baltic. Proceeding to Kiel, we passed
down the canal through Heligoland Bight to Wilhelmshaven.

"On the way to the Shetlands, we fell in with two American destroyers,
the _Smith_ and the _Warrington_, who dropped twenty-two depth bombs on
us. We were submerged to a depth of sixty meters and weathered the
storm, although five bombs were very close and shook us up considerably.
The information I had been able to collect was, I considered, of enough
importance to warrant my trying to escape. Accordingly in Danish waters
I attempted to jump from the deck of the submarine but was caught and
ordered below.

MADE A PRISONER OF WAR.

"The German navy authorities took me from Wilhelmshaven to Karlsruhe,
where I was turned over to the army. Here I met officers of all the
Allied armies, and with them I attempted several escapes, all of which
were unsuccessful. After three weeks at Karlsruhe I was sent to the
American and Russian officers' camp at Villinen. On the way I attempted
to escape from the train by jumping out of the window. With the train
making about forty miles an hour, I landed on the opposite railroad
track and was so severely wounded by the fall that I could not get away
from my guard. They followed me, firing continuously. When they
recaptured me they struck me on the head and body with their guns until
one broke his rifle. It snapped in two at the small of the stock as he
struck me with the butt on the back of the head.

PLACED IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT.

"I was given two weeks' solitary confinement for this attempt to escape,
but continued trying, for I was determined to get my information back to
the navy. Finally, on the night of October 6th, assisted by several army
officers, I was able to effect an escape by short-circuiting all
lighting circuits in the prison camps and cutting through barbed wire
fences surrounding the camp. This had to be done in the face of a heavy
rifle fire from the guards. But it was difficult for them to see in the
darkness, so I escaped unscathed. In company with an American officer in
the French army, I made my way for seven days and nights over mountains
to the Rhine, which to the south of Baden forms the boundary bet