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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1918
Page
15
The text portrays a narrative of escape near the Holland frontier, encounters with locals, and surveillance fears amid wartime tension. It outlines hardships with primitive footwear, wooden clogs, and scarce leather, alongside scenes of travel, frontier crossings, and observations of Belgian life, hunger, and occupation-era dynamics.
A narrator details a night assault on a fortified Belgian Dutch border barrier. He constructs a makeshift ladder and tunnels under barbed wire to flee German control, enduring electric shocks, close guards, and hunger while seeking freedom in Holland.
An unnamed British officer recounts wandering a Dutch frontier near a fence with live wires, narrowly avoiding German patrols, and seeking aid from locals. He reaches a village after dark, is helped by Dutch families and a British consul, and reflects on narrowly escaping capture and the humane Dutch response.
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