The Prisoners of Mainz

by Alec Waugh

“Father,” I said, “I’ve got no change. You might give that taxi-driver ten shillings.”

INDEX

[A], [B], [C], [D], [E], [F], [G], [H], [I], [J], [K], [L], [M], [N], [O], [P], [Q], [R], [S], [T], [V], [W], [Z]

“Alcove,” the, its cosy comforts, [173];
protection of its own interests, [175-8];
a place of happy memories, [186-90];
Milton Hayes in retirement in, [207]
Alhambra, the, the future home of Aubrey Dowdon, [201]
Amiens, its luxuries, [150]
Amusements in captivity, [193] et seq.
Anti-Northcliffe Times, the, [222]
Architecture flourishes in the Alcove, [178]
Armistice, the, in Mainz, [236] et seq.
“Arnold,” Capt., his bibulous escapade at Karlsruhe, [113]
Arras to St. Quentin, attack upon, [3]
Asceticism, its ethics considered, [53]
Aspirin, German doctor’s sole prescription, [128]
Authorship, as fostered by the Pitt League, [173], [178]
Baden-Hessen, its native moderation, [117]
Bapaume, [14]
Barclay, Mrs. Florence, lengths resorted to by a prisoner to secure her Rosary, [50]
“Barron,” Lieut., his capacity for sleep, [131];
his ingenuity as cook, [132];
his self-sacrifice in a good cause, [135];
his amiable companionship, [141];
a friend to the last, [260]
Beauty chorus of the “Buckshees,” [214]
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]
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]
Green Eye of the Little Yellow God, The, masterpiece of Lieut. T. Milton Hayes, M.C., [41], [42], [43]
Guides, the trustworthiness of, in France, [11]
Ham, [14]
Hampstead, home, and beauty, [265]
Hardy, Mr. Thomas, unwilling sacrifice of his works under fire, [9]
Harrod’s Stores, its infallibility, [119]
“Hawkins,” Private, his dangerous passion for cigarettes, [16];
his convenient flesh-wound, [17]
“Hawkshaw, Silas P.,” Lieut. Milton Hayes’s great creation of, [217]
Hayes, Lieut. T. Milton, M.C., his personal appearance, [41];
his study of popular taste, [41];
his masterpieces, [41];
his literary methods and artistic imagination, [42];
secret of his greatness, [43];
his exploitation of young love, [44];
his inevitable success after the war, [45];
his theories on the gratification of appetite, [54];
his genial presence in the Alcove, [179];
the Colossus of the Mainz Theatre, [198];
his smile, [198];
his childlike pleasure in his own wit, [199];
his temporary retirement, [205];
his restoration by Sanatogen, [205];
the victim of professional rivalry, [207];
founds the “Buckshees,” [210];
his managerial methods, [212];
his beauty chorus, [214];
his wonderful opera, [216];
himself alone the Arabian bird, [217];
the eternal gratitude of his friends, [221]
Heine, Heinrich, his bridge at Mainz, [47]
Hendecourt, capture of, [6]
Hindenburg, German faith in, [20]
Hockey in captivity, [195]
Holzminden, a notoriously bad camp, [120]
Housman, Mr. A. E., Lieut. Stone’s recitations from, [176]
Hueffer, Mr. Ford Madox, confiscation of his Heaven by German officials, [111]
Humour, German lack of, [112]
Hunger, a prisoner’s purgatory, [31], [51], [52]
“Huns,” German distaste for the term, [112]
Ill-treatment of English officers in prison-camps, [120];
by incompetent German doctors, [128]
Imprisonment, effect on the nerves, [138]
Interpreters, German, their simple gullibility, [29];
their estimate of John Bull, [30]
Irishmen, their vitality in a queue, [61]
Jealousy, professional, of rival actors, [202];
its influence on captivity, [203];
its comparison with the hate of nations, [204];
it works like mischief, [208]
John Bull, the London weekly, German interpreter’s witticism concerning, [30]
Kaiser, the, his boasted resemblance to Attila, [113];
his continued popularity in Germany, [231];
his desertion, [232];
the scapegoat of his people, [252]
Kantine, the, at Mainz, its uses and abuses, [55], [59], [60];
its supply of text-books, [67];
its consolations and diversions, [145];
its commercial subtlety, [147]
Karlsruhe, prisoners arrive at, [33];
comparative comfort of, [37]
Knave of Diamonds, The, Lieut. Milton Hayes’s strange theory concerning, [55]
Köln, the revolution at, [232]
Lawn tennis in captivity, [195]
Lens, alarming reports concerning, [14]
“Leola, daughter of the Hesperides,” her appearance and its effect, [215]
Lice, plague of, [31]
Lille, apprehension regarding, [14]
Lissauer, his cheap vehemence, [95]
Literature, its military inconvenience, [8];
its military relation to book-keeping, [65];
its contemptuous ill-treatment by German officers, [126]
Liver paste, its popularity among prisoners, [60]
Longworth, Mr. F. Dames-, his epistolary courtesies, [235]
Loom of Youth, The, its length and breadth, [182];
its characteristic language, [182]
Lorna Doone as a study in the gratification of appetite, [55]
Louis Napoleon in La Débâcle, strange effect upon a hungry prisoner, [54]
Louvain, commissariat at, [34]
Lustige Blätter, its gory caricatures, [93]
Lyceum melodrama and the facts of war, [21]
Lyttelton, Canon the Hon. E., his repugnance to actuality, [174];
his helpful literary criticisms, [235]
Maconochie’s beef dripping, [108], [129]
Mainz, unpleasing prospect of, [45];
doleful arrival at, [46];
architectural features of, [46-47];
the Offizier Kriegsgefangenenlager at, [47];
“shades of the prison-house,” [48];
prisoners’ routine at, [48];
arrival of parcels at, [56];
bombardment of, [123];
inadequate medical service at, [127];
the impregnability of its citadel, [152-71];
revolutionists arrive at, [232];
the armistice at, [246]
Major, illicit process of a, [215]
Manicure, its practice in captivity, [150]
Marchiennes, [31];
commandant at, his strict attention to business, [32]
Mark, the value of, [58]
Maupassant, Guy de, [187]
Medical service, the German, total inadequacy at Mainz, [127]
Melancholia of captivity, [142]
Metz, prisoners entrain for, [256]
Monchy, M.G.C. at, [5], [14], [24]
Moore, Mr. George, effect of his prose upon a prisoner of war, [38];
his yearning for a new language, [82];
his support expected, [87];
his confessions, [189]
Nancy, prisoners at, [257]
Nichols, Mr. Robert, his fine war-poetry, [95]
Noreil, capture of, [4]
Offensive, the Great (March [21], 1918), [1-17]
Officers, English, their treatment as prisoners, [118]
Otto’s Grammars, illicit hoarding of, [67]
Oxford Book of English Verse, its preservation from the Germans, [10]
Pater, Walter, and the psychology of captivity, [144];
quoted, [149];
Lieut. Stone’s admiration for, [184];
quoted, [188]
Patriotism denounced by Lieut. Stone under the influence of Rhine wine, [178]
Paymaster, official activities of, [58], [61]
Peace, German passion for, [35], [36], [230]
Perambulation the sole diversion of the prisoner, [196]
Peronne, [14]
Pickwick Papers, Lieut. Milton Hayes upon, [54]
Pitt League, the, its foundation by Col. “Westcott,” [71];
its principle of combination, [72];
the origin of its name, [72];
its imperialistic sweep, [73], [74];
its military comprehensiveness, [74];
its success, [76];
its further development as the Pitt Escape League, [166];
its beneficent foundation of the “Alcove,” [173]
Porter, Mrs. Gene Stratton, efforts of a prisoner to secure her masterpiece, [50]
“Pows,” the, concert party at Mainz, [197];
the rousing of its ambition, [200]
Press, the British, its indefatigable propaganda, [29]
Priority Pass, the, its conception by Lieut. “Wilkins,” [77];
its philosophy, [78];
its deceptive working, [80]
Public School Education, its effect on the soul of youth, [148]
Punch, the gospel of Lieut. Milton Hayes, [213]
Queues, their origin and psychology, [58]
“Radcliffe,” Lieut., his mastery of the piano, [213]
“Ragging” the Commandant of Mainz, [123]
Railway travelling in Germany, its pestilent conditions, [34]
R.A.M.C., ingenious treatment of bread, [102]
Rations, poverty of, [50], [51]
Red Cross Prisoners of War Depôt, its efficiency and worth, [37], [38], [100], [110]
Reincourt, capture of, [6]
Respirator, the psychical qualities of a, [1]
Revolution, the, in Mainz, [232], [236]
Rhine wine, effect of, upon Lieut. Stone, [175], [185]
Richards, Mr. Grant, his publisher’s contracts, [183]
Richardson, Mr. H. H., Lieut. Stone’s enthusiasm for the works of, [184]
Romance, the Lyric Theatre success, Lieut. T. Milton Hayes’s analysis of, [44]
Routine of the Gefangenenlager, [48]
Russia, German theory about, [96]
Sanatogen, its effect on Lieut. Milton Hayes, [205]
Sassoon, Mr. Siegfried, his “In the Pink,” [95];
a poor compliment to, [223]
Satin-tasso as a resource in captivity, [146]
Sauerkraut, ubiquity of, [31], [50]
Scarlet Pimpernel, the, as an example to adventurous prisoners, [166]
Schopenhauer, Lieut. Stone expounds, [176]
Schoolmasters, their intellectual mediocrity, [69];
their stock defence, [148];
the long array of, in the Spectator, [235]
Scotsmen, their dilatoriness in queues, [61];
their assistance in Col. Wright’s attempt to escape, [168]
Secrecy, official regard for, [7]
Selfridge’s, its efficient service, [119]
Sentries, German, their unexpected affability, [33];
their starvation, [117]
Sergeant-Major, alcoholic dignity of an English, [23];
blindness of a German, [31]
Shakespeare, William, hastily misquoted by a subaltern, [9]
“Shivers,” the, theatrical company at Mainz, [200];
its beneficent competition, [200]
Shorthand, the British bureaucratic esteem for, [66]
Simplicissimus, its filthy cartoons, [93]
Squire, Mr. J. C., his “To a Bull-dog,” [95]
Starvation, phenomena of, [28], [51], [53], [117];
of Germany, [228]
St. Leger, the Rev. B. G. Bourchier’s army hut at, [5]
“Stone,” Lieut., his ready wit, [39];
his fortunate arrival at Mainz, [48];
his sufferings under the Priority Pass system, [80-2];
his opinion of botany as a science, [82];
his share in the vision of a new language, [83];
tackles Capt. Frobisher, [175];
his lecture on the “higher life,” [176];
his brilliant conversation, [184];
effects of Rhine wine upon, [175], [185];
his unrecited poems, [186]
Swedish drill, British distaste for, [194]
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, his poems as a covert for propaganda, [125]
Symons, Mr. Arthur, quoted, [28];
the women of his songs, [189]
“Tarrant,” Lieut., his endurance under control, [38];
his asceticism, [38];
his critical sallies, [40];
his self-imposed fast, [40];
providential arrival of, at Mainz, [48];
his invaluable library, [49];
his breakfast hour, [179];
his morning apparel, [180];
his literary exercises, [181];
his accuracy, [182];
his frank opinion of the author’s fiction, [235]
Tartarin re-embodied in Col. “Westcott,” [73]
Tatler, the, its coy picture-gallery, [5]
Tchecov, his short stories, [187]
Theatre, the, at Mainz, closed as a punishment for attempted escapes, [165];
its peaceful penetration, [172];
its excellent shows, [197]
Thurloe Place, the Good Samaritan of the P.O.W., [107], [109]
Torquennes, [24]
Treacle, its value in chocolate soufflé, [134]
Treatment of prisoners, [116] et seq.
Troubadour, Der, at Mainz, [254]
Verlaine, Paul, [188]
Vis-en-Artois, [24]
Vitry, prisoners’ reception at, [26]
War-poetry, good and bad, [94]
War and the politicians, [226] et seq.
Watts-Dunton, Mr. Theodore, compared with Lieut. Stone, [185]
Waugh, 2nd Lieut. Alec R., his dogmatic statements on men and matters, [1-267];
his abnormal correspondence, [14];
his dogged somnolence, [15];
his first meeting with Milton Hayes, [41];
his ambitions for a future career, and their reception by Authority, [64];
his apocalyptic vision of a new language, [83];
his imaginary acquisition of a Priority Pass, [86];
his chastened disillusionment, [90];
his recognition of his own good fortune, [92];
his selection as cook to the mess, [130];
his culinary prowess, [132-6];
his experiment on the school organ, [157];
his contented hours in the Alcove, [186];
his love of the years before he was born, [189];
his castigation by a body of bureaucrats, [209];
an unwarrantable compliment to, [223];
his apostacy as a rebel, [234];
German adjutant’s literary judgment of, [235];
his return home, [265]
Waugh, Mr. Arthur, his paternal benevolence, [266]
Waugh, Mrs. Arthur, her Scottish descent, [261]
Weather, the, effect upon a prisoner’s spirits, [50]
Webster, John, the favourite quotation of prisoners of war, [142]
Wells, Mr. H. G., Lieut. Stone discusses, [184]
“Westcott,” Col., his Dickensian qualities, [69];
his relation to the music-hall stage, [69];
his soldierly grip, [70];
his hatred of individualism, [70];
his bravery, [71];
his foundation of the Pitt League, [71];
his opening speech, [71];
his sense of humour, [72];
his likeness to Tartarin, [73];
his indomitable energy, [75];
his affection for his own scheme, [75];
as Prime Minister, [76];
his encouragement of honest ambition, [84];
his “dream within a dream,” [89];
the popularity of his speeches, [130];
his interest in attempted escapes, [155];
the Gallio of frivolous amusement, [193]
Whitest Man I know, The, eminent monologue by Lieut. T. Milton Hayes, M.C., [41]
“Wilkins,” Lieut., his ingenious conception of the Priority Pass, [79]
Woman, her ruling passion for self-advertisement, [170]
Wood-carving as a resource in captivity, [145]
“Wright,” Col., his valiant attempt to escape, [166];
his choice of daylight, [166];
his unfortunate intrusion upon a German amour, [169];
the result, [170];
his disappearance from Mainz, [171]
Zola, Émile, La Terre in the dugout, [10];
La Débâcle as an irritant to hunger, [53]

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