Chapter I: Front Matter

MY THREE YEARS
_In a_
GERMAN PRISON

BY
HON. HENRI BELAND, M.D., M.P.

Illustrated with photographs specially secured
in Belgium and Germany

TORONTO
WILLIAM BRIGGS
1919

PRINTED IN
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TO MY OLD MOTHER

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I IT IS WAR 1

II THE GERMAN TAVERN-KEEPER AND THE BRABANÇONNE 9

III “THANK YOU” 13

IV DOING HOSPITAL WORK 14

V THE CAPTURE OF ANTWERP 25

VI THE EXODUS 33

VII A DAY OF ANGUISH 39

VIII THE GERMANS ARE HERE 46

IX A GERMAN HOST 53

X THE WORD OF A GERMAN 59

XI BRITISH CITIZENS 64

XII MATTERS BECOME COMPLICATED 69

XIII A DESOLATE MAJOR 77

XIV IN GERMANY 87

XV THE STADTVOGTEI 91

XVI LIFE IN PRISON 98

XVII MEALS À LA CARTE 105

XVIII ACTING JAIL PHYSICIAN 116

XIX INTERESTING PRISONERS 127

XX MACLINKS AND KIRKPATRICK 137

XXI A SWISS AND A BELGIAN 144

XXII SENSATIONAL ESCAPES 160

XXIII HOPE DEFERRED 170

XXIV A COLLOQUY 176

XXV INCIDENTS AND OBSERVATIONS 185

XXVI TALK OF EXCHANGE 195

XXVII TOWARDS LIBERTY 203

XXVIII SOME RECOLLECTIONS 213

XXIX OTHER REMINISCENCES 224

XXX AN ALSATIAN NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER 242

XXXI IN HOLLAND AND IN ENGLAND 252

XXXII THE MILITARISTS AND THE MILITARIZED 268

ILLUSTRATIONS

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The Author _Frontispiece_

The Digue at Middelkerke 12

Madame Beland at Starrenhof 38

Feeding Poor Boys at Capellen 56

Group of German Officers 68

A Sample of German Perfidy (letter) 80

Dr. Beland and Fellow-prisoners 144

Ludendorf and Von Buelow 256

MY THREE YEARS IN A GERMAN PRISON