H. G. DURNFORD.

King’s College,

Cambridge.

24th July 1920.

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
PROLOGUE[1]
I.A CAMP IN BEING[14]
II.NIEMEYER—AND PINPRICKS[32]
III.INTRODUCING THE MAIN MOTIF[49]
IV.ESCAPES[60]
V.ACCOMPLICES[71]
VI.IN THE TUNNEL[89]
VII.REPRISALS[101]
VIII.THE LAST LAP[118]
IX.THE ESCAPE AND THE SEQUEL[131]
X.CLOSING INCIDENTS[148]
XI.MAKING GOOD[164]

ILLUSTRATIONS AND PLANS

The track of the Holzminden Tunnel after being dug up[Frontispiece]
A street in Ypres
The Cloth Hall in 1917to face p.[2]
The Menin Gate of Ypres
The Battery in action N. of the Menin Road
The Menin Road”[5]
At the waggon-lines
View from Kaserne B, showing skating rink made in January 1918to face p.[30]
Karl Niemeyer”[36]
General plan of Holzminden Campp.[53]
Kaserne Bto face p.[54]
Scene of the Walter-Medlicott attempt
A dining-room at Holzminden”[61]
Section and ground-plan of staircase, chamber, and tunnel entrancep.[73]
Course of the tunnel”[93]
At the tunnel mouthto face p.[100]
Section of attic roofp.[112]
Orderlies digging out the tunnel between Kaserne B and the outer wallto face p.[142]
Group of recaptured officers in a room at Holzminden”[162]
Facsimile of the original permit-card copied by Lockheadto face p.[169]
Facsimile of the forged railway passportbetween pp.[174-5]
Map of N.W. Germany and frontiersp.[189]