Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1917 — FEIGNS BLINDNESS, IS FREE [ARTICLE]

FEIGNS BLINDNESS, IS FREE

French Professor in Military Prison Deceives Germans by Remarkable Will Power. Paris.—A professor of the Sarbon ne, the great. French university, recently obtained his release from a German military prison by a remarkable exercise of will power. He fell into the hands of the Germans in 1915. Deciding at ohce to get free in some way, he feigned blindness. From that time it was Impossible for the German military doctors or eye specialists to catch him off his guard. They subjected him to the severest known tests. He was tortured by scientific ways of verifying sightlessness, but never once departed from a fixed blank gaze. He was finally declared totally blind, and Included in a recent exchange of permanently disabled prisoners.