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A CAPTIVE AT CARLSRUHE
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[Illustration: A CORNER OF CARLSRUHE CAMP]
A CAPTIVE AT CARLSRUHE AND OTHER GERMAN PRISON CAMPS
BY JOSEPH LEE
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR
“Now you shall have no worse prison than my chamber, nor jailer than
myself”
LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY. MCMXX
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WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BECCLES, ENGLAND
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TO
ALL MY FELLOWS IN MISFORTUNE OF MY OWN KIN AND OF THE ALLIED COUNTRIES
WHOSE VARIED COMPANIONSHIP HELPED TO LIGHTEN MY MANY DAYS OF CAPTIVITY
CONTENTS
PART I CAUDRY--LE CATEAU--CARLSRUHE
I
PAGE
The first day--The search--Letters of divorcement--A reading
of the Pickwickians--Fellows in misfortune--A sculptor--A
Sappho--The bell for the dead--Sedan--The vulture 15
II
Carlsruhe camp--Crumbs from the rich man’s table--Tea with
Colonel Turano--Shamrock for dinner!--First letters and
parcels--A Nazarite--Christmas at Carlsruhe--Sketching the
Commandant 29
III
Funeral of a prisoner of war at Carlsruhe--First freedom for
a year--In the streets--A wreath from the Grand Duchess of
Baden--The Rev. Mr. Flad--A lecture on Abyssinia--A black
mood 45
IV
Entertainment in exile--The camp theatre--“Asile de
Nuit”--Scene-painter, scene-shifter, poster-artist, actor,
prompter, “noises-off,” and playwright--“A Chelsea Christmas
Eve”--“A Venetian Vignette”--A nightingale “off”--“How
he Lied to her Husband”--“The Rising of the Moon”--“The
Homeland” 59
V
Victims of the cruiser _Wolf_--Suicide of a Japanese
captain--“In the dark and among the ice”--A bottle
message--Clinging to office--The Debating Society--The vines
and vineyards of France--“Happy in all things--saving these
bonds!”--A straining of the Entente--A “stirring time”--A
voluntary fast! 80
VI
Air raids--British airmen brought down--Dust to dust--An
inimitable imitator--Songs from Coimbra--A German
bombardment--March, 1918--The bath attendant--Our
orderlies--Gustav--Imprisonment “for revolt” 96
VII
Carlsruhe at its kindliest--The chestnut trees--Aspen and
poplar--The new hut--“Torrents of Spring!”--Linguistic
efforts--A surprise to Mother--A dinner with the
Italians--The last day in Carlsruhe 113