The Escape of a Princess Pat

coctions of the

Coffee and Shadow Soup-Chestnu

n street cars and sent to the laager, where upon our arrival we were shoved into huts for

nd fifty grams, or a little more than half a pound, among five men. This allowed a piece about three by three by four inches to each man for the day's ration. The coffee consisted of aco

were twelve thousand men in the camp and eight hundred in the laager. The majority were Russian and French with a fairish sprinkling of Belgians. There were perhaps six hundred British in the entire camp. The various natio

recipe in my diary reads: "For eight hundred men, two hundred gal

ssued at this camp were in a decayed c

on it but we used to fish for it at that and considered ourselves lucky to get a piece. Oatmeal soup, another meal, consisted of two hundred gallons of water, two pounds of currants and fifty pounds of

This was the most nutritious of the lot. Unfortunately for us, the small portion of meat and most of the potatoes were g

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tin full of hot water that was too weak to run out, while the Frenchmen's spoons stood to attention in the thicker mess they found in the bottom. T

lons of water, fifty pounds of beans, and twenty pounds of potatoes; pork soup, two hundred gallons of water, ten pounds of pork and fifty pounds of potat

acorn coffee without sugar or milk and one and a half square inches of Limburger cheese. To quote fro

d fat in consequence. No Britisher was ever allowed near the cookhouse. The French had for the most part been there for some time, and, their country lying so close by; they were receiving parcels. W

m worked down in the town daily and could "square" the guard long enough to buy tobacco at twenty-five pfennigs-or