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“Alcove,” the, its cosy comforts, 173;
protection of its own interests, 175-8;
a place of happy memories, 186-90;
Milton Hayes in retirement in, 207
Alhambra, the, the future home of Aubrey Dowdon, 201
Amiens, its luxuries, 150
Amusements in captivity, 193 et seq.
Anti-Northcliffe Times, the, 222
Architecture flourishes in the Alcove, 178
Armistice, the, in Mainz, 236 et seq.
“Arnold,” Capt., his bibulous escapade at Karlsruhe, 113
Arras to St. Quentin, attack upon, 3
Asceticism, its ethics considered, 53
Aspirin, German doctor’s sole prescription, 128
Authorship, as fostered by the Pitt League, 173, 178
Baden-Hessen, its native moderation, 117
Bapaume, 14
Barclay, Mrs. Florence, lengths resorted to by a prisoner to secure her Rosary, 50
“Barron,” Lieut., his capacity for sleep, 131;
his ingenuity as cook, 132;
his self-sacrifice in a good cause, 135;
his amiable companionship, 141;
a friend to the last, 260
Beauty chorus of the “Buckshees,” 214
Beef dripping as an ingredient in chocolate soufflÉ, 133
Bennett, Mr. Arnold, his praises sung, 184
Berlin, all roads lead to, 16
Berliner Tageblatt, Der, its hectic effusions, 224
Bible, the, sacrilege upon, by a German officer, 125
Billiards as a form of athletics, 196
Bolshevism, the shadow of, 233;
a German waiter on, 237
Bomenheim, Herr, formerly window-cleaner, eventually Commandant of Frankfort, 241
“Book of Common Prayer,” its inadequacy as a complete prison-library, 49
Boulogne, prisoners at, 262
Bout-Merveille, generosity of the inhabitants, 34
Bread, arrival of, at Mainz: mouldiness of, 102
Brooke, Rupert, 191
“Buckshees,” the, Milton Hayes’s operatic company at Mainz, 210
Bullecourt, capture of, 4
Bully-beef as an incentive to platitude, 104;
its monotony, 129
Bureaucracy, its insidious influence among prisoners, 64;
its inquisitiveness, 65;
its confusion of literature with commerce, 66;
German bureaucracy and food parcels, 109
Byron, Lord, Lieut. Stone’s resemblance to, 176
Cambrai, Headquarter orders concerning, 7
Cannan, Mr. Gilbert, his Stucco House saved from fire, 10;
Lieut. Stone’s mild admiration for, 184
Captivity, its irksomeness and psychology, 139-46
Carlton Hotel, a waiter at, now a German orderly in Mainz, 237;
his political views, 237
Censor of letters, his natural modesty, 78
Cheshire Cheese, the, visions of, in captivity and after, 188
Chestnuts, their nutritive value as coffee, 27
Chocolate, its Shavian importance in event of an escape, 160;
its market price in Germany, 229
Chocolate soufflÉ, novel recipe for, 132
Claustrophobia, its effect on prisoners, 47
Colonels, three British, attempt to escape from Mainz, 161;
ignominious result of, 163
Commandant of Mainz, the, his arrogant pomposity, 121;
his vindictiveness, 123;
his cheap revenges, 123;
his contempt for literature, 125;
his punishments for attempted escapes, 164;
his final error and fall, 242
Committees, their characteristic abuses, 209
Continental Times, the, its glib mendacity, 222;
its pro-German propaganda, 223
Cooking in a prison camp, 129
Copenhagen, bread arrives from, 100
Corporal, scepticism of a section-, 2
Correspondence, abnormal, 14
Cox, Messrs., the accommodating bankers, 58
“Croft,” Col., as harbinger of food, 101
Crown Prince, the, his inflammatory portraits, 98
Cuff, Sergeant, in The Moonstone, 158
Dane, Miss Clemence, her fiction under fire, 9
Dickens, Charles, his extravagant characterisation reproduced in Col. “Westcott,” 69
Dictaphones, German use of, 30
Douai, prisoners march to, 23;
illiterate melancholy of, 27;
dictaphones at, 30
“Dowdon,” Aubrey, his astounding musical gifts, 198;
his imperishable libretti, 201;
stimulating his ambition, 202;
to the rescue of the “Buckshees,” 212
Dowson, Ernest, 188
Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings, his inspiration of the modern soldier, 21
“Dried Veg,” nutritive solace of, 56
Dury, 24
Ecoust, capture of, 4
Education, the British dislike of, 68
Escapes, the romance of, 152;
various schemes for, 154;
the first attempt at, 158-62;
effect of, upon cowardly natures, 164;
punishment for attempts, 164;
Col. Wright’s splendid attempts, 167;
and their frustration, 169
“Evans,” Lieut., his knowledge of charts, 13;
his tactful reticence, 15;
his watchfulness, 15;
his unsuccessful quest for parcels, 106;
his enthusiasm for Col. “Westcott’s” oratory, 130;
his natural appetite, 134;
and
picturesque language, 134;
his cookery examination, 136
Field Service Regulations, their bearing upon capture, 18
Finland, its future in the herring trade, 84
Finnish language, the, its visionary path to a Priority Pass, 83
Flaubert, Gustave, 144;
his slow workmanship, 183
Foch, Marshal, effect of his offensive on the German mind, 232
Food, the lack of, 27, 31, 50, 51;
cost of, in Germany, 228
Food-parcels, their absorbing interest, 55, 100, 105
Football in captivity, 194
Frankfort, Central Command at, vindicates the integrity of literature, 126;
the effect of the armistice at, 240
Frankfurter Zeitung, Der, its journalistic continence, 93;
its popularity among prisoners, 223;
no fosterer of wild rumour, 238
French, German hatred of, 249
French language, the, difficulty of acquiring among prisoners, 64;
the British bureaucrat’s estimate of, 66
“Frobisher,” Capt., his military enthusiasm, 174;
his dislike of “the Huns,” 174;
his inappropriateness in the Alcove, 175;
the scheme for his removal, 176;
his antipathy to poetry, 177;
his final exit from the Alcove, 178
Future Career Society, the, its inauguration and methods, 63;
its bureaucratic administrators, 64-6;
its early popularity and subsequent failure, 67-8
Games in captivity, their scarcity, 193
German officers, their unshaved condition, 19;
their mean suspicions, 110;
their lack of humour, 112;
their duplicity, 121;
solitary example of wit among, 126;
degradation of, under revolution, 233
German people, the, psychology in war-time, 91;
its freedom from vindictiveness, 92;
its ignorance of the origin of the war, 96;
its despair at the result, 224;
after the armistice, 248;
German war-poetry considered, 94-6
German professor, a, upon the war and the national characteristics, 97, 238
German sentries, their courteous demeanour, 33;
their starved condition, 117;
their ubiquity at Mainz, 153;
neglect of duty, 162;
their passion for boxing, 168;
their visions in days to come, 191
Gibbs, Mr. Philip, his vivid journalism, 14
Girl on the Stairs, The, successful operetta at Mainz, 201
“Gladstone,” Lieut., as a musical composer, 213
Gomorrah, the dispensation of, 87
Gosse, Mr. Edmund, quoted, 149
Graves, Capt. Robert, his poems a perpetual comfort in the trenches, 9;
his admirable war-poetry, 94
Green Eye of the Little Yellow God, The, masterpiece of Lieut. T. Milton Hayes, M.C., 41, 42, 43
Guides, the trustworthiness of, in France, 11
Ham, 14
Hampstead, home, and beauty, 265
Hardy, Mr. Thomas, unwilling sacrifice of his works under fire, 9
Harrod’s Stores, its infallibility, 119
“Hawkins,” Private, his dangerous passion for cigarettes, 16;
his convenient flesh-wound, 17
“Hawkshaw, Silas P.,” Lieut. Milton Hayes’s great creation of, 217
Hayes, Lieut. T. Milton, M.C., his personal appearance, 41;
his study of popular taste, 41;
his masterpieces, 41;
his literary methods and artistic imagination, 42;
secret of his greatness, 43;
his exploitation of young love, 44;
his inevitable success after the war, 45;
his theories on the gratification of appetite, 54;
his genial presence in the Alcove, 179;
the Colossus of the Mainz Theatre, 198;
his smile, 198;
his childlike pleasure in his own wit, 199;
his temporary retirement, 205;
his restoration by Sanatogen, 205;
the victim of professional rivalry, 207;
founds the “Buckshees,” 210;
his managerial methods, 212;
his beauty chorus, 214;
his wonderful opera, 216;
himself alone the Arabian bird, 217;
the eternal gratitude of his friends, 221
Heine, Heinrich, his bridge at Mainz, 47
Hendecourt, capture of, 6
Hindenburg, German faith in, 20
Hockey in captivity, 195
Holzminden, a notoriously bad camp, 120
Housman, Mr. A. E., Lieut. Stone’s recitations from, 176
Hueffer, Mr. Ford Madox, confiscation of his Heaven by German officials, 111
Humour, German lack of, 112
Hunger, a prisoner’s purgatory, 31, 51, 52
“Huns,” German distaste for the term, 112
Ill-treatment of English officers in prison-camps, 120;
by incompetent German doctors, 128
Imprisonment, effect on the nerves, 138
Interpreters, German, their simple gullibility, 29;
their estimate of John Bull, 30
Irishmen, their vitality in a queue, 61
Jealousy, professional, of rival actors, 202;
its influence on captivity, 203;
its comparison with the hate of nations, 204;
it works like mischief, 208
John Bull, the London weekly, German interpreter’s witticism concerning, 30
Kaiser, the, his boasted resemblance to Attila, 113;
his continued popularity in Germany, 231;
his desertion, 232;
the scapegoat of his people, 252
Kantine, the, at Mainz, its uses and abuses, 55, 59, 60;
its supply of text-books, 67;
its consolations and diversions, 145;
its commercial subtlety, 147
Karlsruhe, prisoners arrive at, 33;
comparative comfort of, 37
Knave of Diamonds, The, Lieut. Milton Hayes’s strange theory concerning, 55
KÖln, the revolution at, 232
Lawn tennis in captivity, 195
Lens, alarming reports concerning, 14
“Leola, daughter of the Hesperides,” her appearance and its effect, 215
Lice, plague of, 31
Lille, apprehension regarding, 14
Lissauer, his cheap vehemence, 95
Literature, its military inconvenience, 8;
its military relation to book-keeping, 65;
its contemptuous ill-treatment by German officers,