Kids Group:Eric - A Message in Code
Share this exciting true story from a prisoner of war camp in China during the second worald war with your Sunday School, Bible Study and Kids group.
Boys and girls of European families were also in the camps.
Eric Liddell was responsible for keeping law and order in the camp but all the people loved him because he was so kind and encouraging.
The war lasted for years and Eric helped everyone cope with discouragement.
He sometimes had news of the world outside the camp. How he knew was a secret.
This is what was discovered later.
Fourteen months before the end of the war two men in the camp escaped with a worker who came to empty the toilets.
These men managed to get past the electrified wire in black, tight fitting Chinese clothes and crawling through a Chinese cemetery in the pitch darkness they fled making their way to South China.
They hid in caves in terrible conditions of cold and hunger.
It took them months to get back to the camp with a radio without being discovered.
From their hiding place they sent news into the camp, writing it in code on a tiny piece of silk.
It was rolled up tightly, sealed in rubber film and hidden like a capsule up the nose of the worker who helped the men escape.
In an old fashioned Chinese manner the man would blow his nose when the guards were out of sight.
Afterwards a priest who was also a prisoner of war would get the capsule, decode the news and tell everyone.
David says, “That’s how we knew when the war was finally over.
After the war we learned of the men’s bravery.”
By David J Mitchell
This is what was discovered later.
Fourteen months before the end of the war two men in the camp escaped with a worker who came to empty the toilets.
These men managed to get past the electrified wire in black, tight fitting Chinese clothes and crawling through a Chinese cemetery in the pitch darkness they fled making their way to South China.
They hid in caves in terrible conditions of cold and hunger.
It took them months to get back to the camp with a radio without being discovered.
From their hiding place they sent news into the camp, writing it in code on a tiny piece of silk.
It was rolled up tightly, sealed in rubber film and hidden like a capsule up the nose of the worker who helped the men escape.
In an old fashioned Chinese manner the man would blow his nose when the guards were out of sight.
Afterwards a priest who was also a prisoner of war would get the capsule, decode the news and tell everyone.
David says, “That’s how we knew when the war was finally over.
After the war we learned of the men’s bravery.”
By David J Mitchell
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