My Escape from Donington Hall. By Gunther Pliischow. Translated by
Pauline de Chary. (Lane. 6s. net.)—The author, a naval airman, escaped from Kiaochow during the siege, of which he gives a brief and confused account. He made his way across America and, posing as a Swiss, took passage on an Italian steamer from New York to Naples. He was caught, with other pseudo-Swiss, at Gibraltar and sent to successive prison-camps in England, where, he admits, he was very well treated. He escaped with a comrade in July, 1915, by hiding in the park and climbing over the barbed wire on a stormy night. His comrade was taken a day or two later. Pliisehow disguised himself as a common seaman and hung about the East End and the docks at Tilbury till he could slip on board of a Dutch steamer. He seems to be a man of resource, though his narrative, like most popular German war-books, is childish and hysterical in tone.
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