My impression is that he's in the army and hopes to get himself captured by his friends.

Yet he may desert and take a chance of getting into Germany through Holland.

About the only clew there is, is the intimation that he's related to the prisoner.

He may look like him.

We've been trying to get in communication with Dieppe, where this transport is expected to dock to-morrow, but the wires seem to be shot into a tangle again.
"Do you think you could make Dieppe before morning--eighty to ninety miles ?" "Yes, sir.