Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1916 — NEAR DEATH MANY TIMES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEAR DEATH MANY TIMES

Arrested and rearrested, sentenced to be shot time and again as a spy, Albert K. Dawson, the kaiser’s wai photographer, returned to this country recently. Three times Mr. Dawson waited to be executed by Serbian soldiers, who held him prisoner on suspicion of his being a spy. Seventy times he was arrested. In his official capacity he has traveled over a great part of the warring fronts, but described the conditions existing in Serbia as being most appalling. Serbian soldiers refused to bring with them their Austrian prisoners owing to lack of food. Signs of war, disease and desolation met him at every turn. The above picture of Mr. Dawson shows him in the mountains of Serbia wearing a Bulgarian sheepskin coat, made in the mountains, while campaigning with the Bulgarians in their great drive against Serbia.