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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1918
Page
3
A wartime diary extract follows a lone escape through Belgium from a British lieutenant. He scavenges for food and civilian clothes, hides a Bavarian hat, sheds his uniform, and dodges German patrols while recounting confrontations with locals, canal boat thefts, and near captures as he moves toward safety.
The narrator details grueling Belgian travel dodging ditches and mud, noting scarce horses, rubberless German trucks, and Belgians driven to use cows as beasts of burden. He recalls hunger from cabbage and turnips, the North Star guiding him, and a life of stealth from sunset to sunrise. A turning point comes when a kindly Belgian peasant feeds him and offers guidance to obtain a passport, risking German reprisals but promising help to reach Holland.
The narrator, in civilian clothes, plans careful travel toward a unnamed Belgian city after warning against exposure to German sentries. He avoids early detection, travels by night, and seeks safer river crossing, noting the first sighting of a boat as a key moment in his cautious journey.
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