PART II
CHAPTER IV[ToC]
MY ESCAPE FROM THE CAMP
It may be wondered why it is that so few British officers have succeeded in escaping from prison camps in Germany.
The Germans do not get very worried over the loss of a few private soldiers in that way, but they are very careful to prevent our officers from having too many chances of escape.
The men are taken out to work in the fields and woods, and as the Germans have by no means too many men to spare, they cannot send a very large escort with them. Consequently it not unfrequently happens that men are able to slip away into thick cover without the Boches seeing them or knowing of their absence until they count up their charges, maybe some hours later.