onto Daily Star, December, 1916._

HOME ON LEAVE AFTER ESCAPE FROM THE HUNS

SGT. EDWARD EDWARDS TELLS GRAPHIC STORY OF 100 MILE FLIGHT.

WIFE HAD TO PROVE HUSBAND WAS ALIVE.

SENT HIS PHOTO AND LETTERS BEFORE WAR OFFICE WOULD BELIEVE IT.

No bands played and no Reception Committee extended the welcome
hand to Sergt. Edward Edwards when he stepped off the train at
the Union Station and walked to the home of his wife and family
one day last week, after two years and seven months' absence at
the front with a storehouse of thrilling experiences that rival
even the exploits of the Three Musketeers. That he was one of
only 49 left of the crack Princess Patricias who were mown down
at the Ypres Salient on May 8, 1915, was wounded twice, missing
and officially declared dead and escaped twice from German
prison camps in company with two companions are only incidents
in a long chapter of events which surpass in thrilling interest
Dumas' most daring fiction. Tom Brumley, another member of a
Toronto regiment, and Mervin Simmons, a Canadian from Trail,
B.C., were the two friends of the modern D'Artagan, but
unfortunately Brumley was recaptured by the Huns during the
first escape and Sergt. Edwards has not heard from him since.

Sergt. Edwards is now on ten weeks' furlough and is due to
report in England on May 10, when he expects to go into the
fighting again. "We went to the Ypres salient in May. I was one
of ten in my company to get through," said he.

TRIBUTE TO COL. BULLER

Here Sergt. Edwards paid a tribute to his late commanding
officer, Col. Buller, who was killed on the 2nd of June of this
year. "It was the Germans, too, who told us of our old Colonel's
death. They knew everything, it seemed, about our commanders and
could tell the regiment and division that we belonged to."

We were taken to Roulers, Belgium. After a brief stay there we
were taken to Giessen. There were 1,200 prisoners, mostly
Russian and French. The food we got was awful.

REFUSED TO WORK

"After a stay here of about six months I was sent with my two
friends, Brumley and Simmons, to a punishment camp for refusing
to work in a steel factory to make munitions. Three hundred
British and Canadians also refused in spite of threats, and
ill-treatment, and all were sent on to Celle Laager, th