LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Kapitänleutnant Gunther Plüschow[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
Facsimile of Notice in the Daily Chronicle after the Escape[204]
Facsimile of Notice circulated in the Press a Week after the Escape[208]
Gunther Plüschow in the Disguise of a Dock-Labourer, in which he escaped[230]

MY ESCAPE FROM DONINGTON HALL

MY ESCAPE FROM DONINGTON HALL

CHAPTER I

THE JOYS AND SORROWS OF A FLYING-MAN

IT was in the month of August of the year 1913 when I arrived in my native town, Schwerin. I had stayed several weeks in England, where I had devoted days to the visit of museums and the beautiful art collections, as well as to excursions in the vicinity of the capital. At that time I did not foresee how useful the latter would prove to me two years hence.