Produced by Jeannie Howse, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) * * * * * +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * [Illustration: "WITH HIS BUNDLE SAFELY ON HIS HEAD HE TOOK TO THE WATER" (_page 205_).] 13 DAYS THE CHRONICLE OF AN ESCAPE FROM A GERMAN PRISON BY CAPTAIN J.A.L. CAUNTER 1ST BN. THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR [Illustration] LONDON G. BELL AND SONS, LTD. 1918 CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION vii PART I CHAPTER I. CREFELD 1 II. THE MOVE TO SCHWARMSTEDT 45 III. SCHWARMSTEDT CAMP 65 PART II IV. MY ESCAPE FROM THE CAMP 87 V. CROSSING THE FIRST TWO RIVERS 108 VI. I MEET FOX AND BLANK 125 VII. THE CROSSING OF THE WESER 134 VIII. THE RAILWAY TRACK 155 IX. CROSSING THE RIVER HUNTE, AND THE TOWN OF "DOGS" 164 X. EXIT BLANK. SHEDS 175 XI. TWO DAYS OF THE EMS 184 XII. THE CROSSING OF THE RIVER 198 XIII. ACROSS THE FRONTIER 209 XIV. CONCLUSION 222 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE "With his bundle safely on his head he took to the water" _Title_ Fancy Portrait of "The Crab" 16 Section of a German Camp 96 "At last the two Women got up" 112 "Face to face with a Flapper on her way to bathe" 128 "Every dark corner seemed to contain a dog" 160