Beef dripping as an ingredient in chocolate _soufflé_, 133 Bennett, Mr. Arnold, his praises sung, 184 Berlin, all roads lead to, 16 _Berliner Tageblatt, Der_, its hectic effusions, 224 Bible, the, sacrilege upon, by a German officer, 125 Billiards as a form of athletics, 196 Bolshevism, the shadow of, 233; a German waiter on, 237 Bomenheim, Herr, formerly window-cleaner, eventually Commandant of Frankfort, 241 “Book of Common Prayer,” its inadequacy as a complete prison-library, 49 Boulogne, prisoners at, 262 Bout-Merveille, generosity of the inhabitants, 34 Bread, arrival of, at Mainz: mouldiness of, 102 Brooke, Rupert, 191 “Buckshees,” the, Milton Hayes’s operatic company at Mainz, 210 Bullecourt, capture of, 4 Bully-beef as an incentive to platitude, 104; its monotony, 129 Bureaucracy, its insidious influence among prisoners, 64; its inquisitiveness, 65; its confusion of literature with commerce, 66; German bureaucracy and food parcels, 109 Byron, Lord, Lieut. Stone’s resemblance to, 176 Cambrai, Headquarter orders concerning, 7 Cannan, Mr. Gilbert, his _Stucco House_ saved from fire, 10; Lieut. Stone’s mild admiration for, 184 Captivity, its irksomeness and psychology, 139-46 Carlton Hotel, a waiter at, now a German orderly in Mainz, 237; his political views, 237 Censor of letters, his natural modesty, 78 Cheshire Cheese, the, visions of, in captivity and after, 188 Chestnuts, their nutritive value as coffee, 27 Chocolate, its Shavian importance in event of an escape, 160; its market price in Germany, 229 Chocolate _soufflé_, novel recipe for, 132 Claustrophobia, its effect on prisoners, 47 Colonels, three British, attempt to escape from Mainz, 161; ignominious result of, 163 Commandant of Mainz, the, his arrogant pomposity, 121; his vindictiveness, 123; his cheap revenges, 123; his contempt for literature, 125; his punishments for attempted escapes, 164; his final error and fall, 242 Committees, their characteristic abuses, 209 _Continental Times_, the, its glib mendacity, 222; its pro-German propaganda, 223 Cooking in a prison camp, 129 Copenhagen, bread arrives from, 100 Corporal, scepticism of a section-, 2 Correspondence, abnormal, 14 Cox, Messrs., the accommodating bankers, 58 “Croft,” Col., as harbinger of food, 101 Crown Prince, the, his inflammatory portraits, 98 Cuff, Sergeant, in _The Moonstone_, 158 Dane, Miss Clemence, her fiction under fire, 9 Dickens, Charles, his extravagant characterisation reproduced in Col. “Westcott,” 69 Dictaphones, German use of, 30 Douai, prisoners march to, 23; illiterate melancholy of, 27; dictaphones at, 30 “Dowdon,” Aubrey, his astounding musical gifts, 198; his imperishable libretti, 201; stimulating his ambition, 202; to the rescue of the “Buckshees,” 212 Dowson, Ernest, 188 Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings, his inspiration of the modern soldier, 21 “Dried Veg,” nutritive solace of, 56 Dury, 24