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Our movements will be explained as manoeuvres.
And," added the general, "The English, having driven us back, will be willing to officially accept that explanation.
As manoeuvres, this night will go down into history. Return to the hotel," he commanded, "And in two months you can rejoin your regiment." On the morning after the invasion the New York Republic published a map of Great Britain that covered three columns and a wood-cut of Ford that was spread over five.
Beneath it was printed: "Lester Ford, our London correspondent, captured by the Germans; he escapes and is the first to warn the English people." On the same morning, In an editorial in The Times of London, appeared this paragraph: "The Germans were first seen by the Hon.
Arthur Herbert, the eldest son of Lord Cinaris; Mr.Patrick Headford Birrell--both of Balliol College, Oxford; and Mr.Lester Ford, the correspondent of the New York Republic. These gentlemen escaped from the landing party that tried to make them prisoners, and at great risk proceeded in their motor-car over roads infested by the Germans to all the coast towns of Norfolk, warning the authorities.
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