The tunnellers of Holzminden (with a side-issue) (1920) (14594219677)

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Title: The tunnellers of Holzminden (with a side-issue)

Year: 1920 (1920s)

Authors: Durnford, Hugh George Edmund

Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, German Holzminden

Publisher: Cambridge : The University press

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ccused being many and rolling-stock beingvaluable, the Court came to Holzminden to judge them.On the morning of the trial a lawyer came to representthe prisoners, and a representative of the Netherlandsminister at Berlin also came to act in their interests.All the prisoners were tried together and were sentencedto six months imprisonment on a combined charge ofmutiny and damage to property, the punishment to becarried out in a fortress. As it happened, and althoughthe trial took place so early as 27th September, thissentence was never carried out. Whether this was dueto the military situation or to some other cause is notknown. The signing of the Armistice removed finallyall possibility of the imprisonment ever being carriedinto effect. It was unfortunate that while the Holzminden tunnelwas under construction another tunnel was in progressat Clausthal, where the twin brother Niemeyer wasCommandant. It is now known that the tunnel therewould have been completed in about a week from the

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a •d c oDC -4-> go u •av oa,o Ih o CLOSING INCIDENTS 163 date on which the Holzminden escape took place. ThePoldhu had been busy between the camps, but, noexact synchronisation being possible, it remained simplyto go full steam ahead in each camp and trust to luck.As was anticipated, the Holzminden escape led to a veryserious search at Clausthal, and the tunnel was discoveredjust as it was approaching completion. The tunnel ofHolzminden was, however, so much the bigger affairthat there was a rough justice in this award ofFortune. 11- CHAPTER XI MAKING GOOD The officers Lager at Stralsund lay on an island, orrather on a twin pair of islands, called Greater andSmaller Danholm, separated from the mainland by anarrow strip of water over which a permanent ferry pliesto and fro. On the further side of these islands andseparated from them again by a wider channel, perhapstwo-thirds of the width of the Solent at its narrowestpoint, lay the pleasant shores of Rilgen. The blue seaand the

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