A CAPTIVE AT CARLSRUHE

BY THE SAME AUTHOR
BALLADS OF BATTLE

WORK-A-DAY WARRIORS

Each 3s. 6d. net.

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A CORNER OF CARLSRUHE CAMP

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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 thanmy 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 MISFORTUNEOF MY OWN KIN AND OF THE ALLIEDCOUNTRIES WHOSE VARIED COMPANIONSHIPHELPED TO LIGHTENMY MANY DAYS OF CAPTIVITY

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CONTENTS

PART I
CAUDRY—LE CATEAU—CARLSRUHE
I
PAGE
The first day—The search—Letters of divorcement—A readingof the Pickwickians—Fellows in misfortune—A sculptor—ASappho—The bell for the dead—Sedan—The vulture15
II
Carlsruhe camp—Crumbs from the rich man’s table—Teawith Colonel Turano—Shamrock for dinner!—First lettersand parcels—A Nazarite—Christmas at Carlsruhe—Sketchingthe Commandant29
III
Funeral of a prisoner of war at Carlsruhe—First freedom fora year—In the streets—A wreath from the Grand Duchessof Baden—The Rev. Mr. Flad—A lecture on Abyssinia—Ablack mood45
IV
Entertainment in exile—The camp theatre—“Asile deNuit”—Scene-painter, scene-shifter, poster-
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