Ecoust, capture of, 4 Education, the British dislike of, 68 Escapes, the romance of, 152; various schemes for, 154; the first attempt at, 158-62; effect of, upon cowardly natures, 164; punishment for attempts, 164; Col. Wright’s splendid attempts, 167; and their frustration, 169 “Evans,” Lieut., his knowledge of charts, 13; his tactful reticence, 15; his watchfulness, 15; his unsuccessful quest for parcels, 106; his enthusiasm for Col. “Westcott’s” oratory, 130; his natural appetite, 134; and picturesque language, 134; his cookery examination, 136 Field Service Regulations, their bearing upon capture, 18 Finland, its future in the herring trade, 84 Finnish language, the, its visionary path to a Priority Pass, 83 Flaubert, Gustave, 144; his slow workmanship, 183 Foch, Marshal, effect of his offensive on the German mind, 232 Food, the lack of, 27, 31, 50, 51; cost of, in Germany, 228 Food-parcels, their absorbing interest, 55, 100, 105 Football in captivity, 194 Frankfort, Central Command at, vindicates the integrity of literature, 126; the effect of the armistice at, 240 _Frankfurter Zeitung, Der_, its journalistic continence, 93; its popularity among prisoners, 223; no fosterer of wild rumour, 238 French, German hatred of, 249 French language, the, difficulty of acquiring among prisoners, 64; the British bureaucrat’s estimate of, 66 “Frobisher,” Capt., his military enthusiasm, 174; his dislike of “the Huns,” 174; his inappropriateness in the Alcove, 175; the scheme for his removal, 176; his antipathy to poetry, 177; his final exit from the Alcove, 178 Future Career Society, the, its inauguration and methods, 63; its bureaucratic administrators, 64-6; its early popularity and subsequent failure, 67-8 Games in captivity, their scarcity, 193 German officers, their unshaved condition, 19; their mean suspicions, 110; their lack of humour, 112; their duplicity, 121; solitary example of wit among, 126; degradation of, under revolution, 233 German people, the, psychology in war-time, 91; its freedom from vindictiveness, 92; its ignorance of the origin of the war, 96; its despair at the result, 224; after the armistice, 248; German war-poetry considered, 94-6 German professor, a, upon the war and the national characteristics, 97, 238 German sentries, their courteous demeanour, 33; their starved condition, 117; their ubiquity at Mainz, 153; neglect of duty, 162; their passion for boxing, 168; their visions in days to come, 191 Gibbs, Mr. Philip, his vivid journalism, 14 _Girl on the Stairs, The_, successful operetta at Mainz, 201 “Gladstone,” Lieut., as a musical composer, 213 Gomorrah, the dispensation of, 87 Gosse, Mr. Edmund, quoted, 149 Graves, Capt. Robert, his poems a perpetual comfort in the trenches, 9; his admirable war-poetry, 94