mm* \i-" «A 1 IV W^PPF "?SS S? «-T ~TS-* ^77,4 INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE SEVEN GefSians, most tnem were women DUE 01 We had just got into tne car nua thought they were going to cnarge ana and children. Almost every one were about to start when the burgomaster we figured their barrage would lift of the mutilated men was too old for himself came running out. He ^jj and we could see them come over. military service. The others had been ordered us to leave the car there and We received orders to stand to with killed, I guess. said he would direct us where to go. fixed bayonets. Then the man at the But the Belgians were not the only He insisted that we go on foot, but I /h periscope shouted, "They come!" ones who had suffered from German could not understand when he tried A battery directly behind us went kultur. Many French wounded were to explain why. into action first and then they all tortured by the Huns, and we were We soon saw the probable reason joined In and inside of five minutes constantly finding the mutilated bodies for the burgomaster's refusal to ride about eight hundred guns were raising in the car. All around for about a Cain with Fritz. The Boches were mile the roads were heavily mined and caught square in No Man's Land and small red flags on iron staves were our rifles and machine guns simply stuck between the cobblestones, as mowed thetn down. Many of them warnings not to put in much time came half way across, then dropped around those places. Also, there were Albert their guns and ran for our trenches notices stuck up all around warning to give themselves up. They could not RDepe people of the mines and forbidding have got back to their own trenches. heavy carts to pass. When we got It was a shame to waste a shell on off the road I breathed again! these poor fish. If they had been civTies After a great deal of questioning Ave EX'GUNNER AND CHIEF PETTYOFFl the law would prevent you from finally reached our destination and hitting them—you know the kind. MEMBEPv OF THE FOREIGN LEGION OF FRANCE made our report to the local commandant. They could hardly drag themselves We told him all we could and in CAPTAIN GUN TURRET, FRENCH BATTLESHiP tASSAKD along. turn received various information WINNER OF THE CROIX DE GUERRE That is the way they look when you from him. We were then taken over ¥cpyntf«. 1918. by Rc3|y and Briaon Ca. Through Spwi«l Arrangement With the George Manhcw Adam Service have got them. But when they have to the hotel. Here we read a few willi half of our ofiTcers, and then have got you—kicks, cuffs, bayonet jabs— Paris newspapers, that were several to jrive up the trench. Every man in there is nothing they will not do to weeks old, until about eight, when we the bunch was sore as a boil when we add to your misery. They seem to had dinner, and a fine dinner it was, got back. think that it boosts their own courage. too. An artillery fire like ours was great After we had eaten all we could, and VII. CHAPTER fun for the gunners, but it was not The Bombers Were Fishing In Their wished for more room in the hold, we much fun for Fritz or for us in the Bag and Throwing. w?ent out into the garden and yarned Stopping the Huns at Dixmude. trenches. We got under cover almost a while with some gendarmes, and to get pretty thick around there, and I was standing in a communication as much as Fritz and held thumbs for then went to bed. We had a big room when I could not stand it any longer trench that connected one of cur frontline the gunners to get through in a hurry. on the third floor front. We had just I rushed out into the bay of the lire trenches with a crater caused by Then the fire died down and it was turned in, and were all set for a good the explosion of a mine. All around trench and right up against the parapet, so quiet it made you jump. night's rest, when there was an explosion where it was safer. rne men of the third line were coming We thought our parapet was busted of a different kind from any I Hundreds of star shells were being 7" up, climbing around, digging, hammering, up a good deal, but when we looked had heard before, and we and the bed shifting planks, moving sandbars sent up by both sides and the field through the periscope we saw what rocked about, like a canoe in the wake and the trenches were as bright as np and down, bringing up new timbers, had happened to Fritz' trenches and, a stern-wheeler. of We Were Constantly Finding the Mutl. day. All up and down the trenches reels of barbed wire, ladders, eases of believe me, they were practically There were seven more explosions, lated Bodies of Our Troops. tunmunition, machine guns, trench our men were dodging about, keeping ruined. and then they stopped, though we out of the way of the bombs that mortars—all the things that make an of our troops. It was thought that the Out in No Man's Land it looked like could hear the rattle of a machine gun army look like a general store on legs. were being thrown in our faces. It Woolworth's five-and-ten everywhere Germans often mutilated a dead body at some distance away. Bartel said it did not seem as if there was any place The noise of the guns was just deafening. as an example to the living. were gray uniforms, with tincups and must be the forts, and after some argument where it was possible to get cover. Our own shells passed not far The Germans bad absolutely no respect accouterments that belonged to the I agreed with him. He said that Most of the time I was picking dirt out bove our heads, so close were the whatever for the Red Cross. For Germans before our artillery and machine the Germans must have tried an advance of my eyes thai explosions had driven •nemy trenches, and the explosions instance, they captured a wagon load' guns got to them. Gunner Depew under cover of a bombardment, into them. were so near ard so violent that when Our stretcher bearers .were busy, ed with forty French wounded, and and that as soon as the forts got into If you went into a dugout the men you rested your rifle butt on something shot every one of them. I saw the carrying the wounded back to first-aid action the Germans breezed. We were :oiid, like a rock, you could feel it already in there would shout, "Don't dressing station, for, of course, we had dead bodies. not worried much, so we did not get stick in a bunch—spread out!" While li.ike and hum every time a shell When the Germans came to Dixmude suffered too. From there the blesses out of bed. A Narrative of the War you were in a dugout you kept expecting landed.' were shipped to the clearing station. they got all the men and women A few minutes later we heard footsteps to be buried alive and when you Our first line was just on the outskirts and children and made them march, The dead lay in the trenches all day on the roof, and then a woman of the town, in trenches that went outside you thought the Boches So entirely new— before them with their hands in the and at night they were carried out in a window across the street, asking were aiming at you direct—and there bad been won and lost by both sides air. Those who did not were knocked by working parties to "Stiff park," as a gendarme whether it was safe to go So big— many times. Our second line was in was no place at all where you felt down. After a while some of them saw I called it. back to bed. Then I got up and took safe. the streets and the third line was what they were going to get, and being A man with anything on his mind a look into the street. There were a lot So thrilling- But the fire bay looked better than almost at the south end of the town. as game sports as I ever heard of, tried ought not to go to the front-lin^ of people standing around talking, but the other places to me. I had not been The Huns were hard at it, shelling to fight. They were finished off at trenches. He will be crazy inside of it was not interesting enough to keep Thai It Will Hold You there more than a few minutes when the battered remains of Dixmude, and a month. The best way is not to once, of course. a tired man up, so into the hay. a big one dropped in and that bay was 0 the right stretcher bearers w^re The former burgomaster had been care whether it rains or snows: therp Spellbound! It seemed about the middle of the just one mess. Out of the 24 men in shot and finished off with an ax, •vorking in lines so close that they are plenty of important things to night when Bartel called me, but he the bay only eight escaped. looked like two parades passing each though he had not resisted, because he worry about. said it was time to get out and get to When the stretcher bearers got there other. But the bearers from the company wanted to save the lives of his citizens. SYNOPSIS. work. We found he had made a poor they did not have much to do in the They told me of one case, in Dixmude, near me had not returned from CHAPTER VIII. guess, for when we were half dressed way of rescue—it was more pallbearer's where a man came out of his the emergency dressing station and CHAPTER I—Albert N. Depew, author he looked at his watch and it was only work. of the story, enlists in the United States the wounded were piling up, waiting house, trying to carry his father, a On Runner Service. a quarter past seven, but we decided navy, serving four years and attaining A stretcher bearer was picking up man of eighty, to the square, where for them. One night a man named Bartel and the rank of chief petty officer, first-class to stay up, since we were that far one of the boys, when a grenade landed gunner. they were ordered to report. The old A company of the 2me Legion Etran* I were detailed for runner service and along, and then go down and cruise for alongside of him and you could not gere had just come up to take their man could not raise his hands, so they were instructed to go to Dixmude and CHAPTER II—The great war starts a breakfast. find a fragment of either of them. soon after he is honorably discharged dragged his son away from him, stations in the crater, under the parapet deliver certain dispatches to a man When we got downstairs and found from the navy and he sails for France That made twe that landed within of sandbags. A shell landed among knocked the old man in the head with with a determination to enlist. whom I will call the burgomaster and some of the hotel people it took them twelve feet of me yet I was not even an ax, and left him there to die. Those them just before they entered the crater report to the branch staff headquarters a long time to get it through our heads CHAPTER III—He joins the Foreign scratched. and sent almost a whole squad who were spared were made to dig the Legion and is assigned to the dreadnaught that had been secretly located in that there had been some real excitement Cassard where his marksmanship wins When I got so that I could move I graves for the others. west, besides weunding several others. another part of town. We were to him high honors. during the night. The explosions went over to waere the captain was There was a doctor there in Dixmude, Almost before they occupied the travel in an automobile and keep a were those of bombs dropped by a standing, looking through a periscope CHAPTER IV—Depew is detached from crater the wires were laid and reached who certainly deserves a military sharp watch as we went, for Dixmude Zeppelin, which had sailed over the his ship and sent with a regiment of the over the parapet. I was very nervous cross if any man ever did. He Legion to Flanders where he soon finds back to us, and the order came for us was being contested hotly at that time city. himself in the front line trenches. and excited and was afraid to speak was called from his house by the Germans to remain where we were until further and German patrols were in the neighborhood. The first bomb had fallen less than to him, but somehow I thought I at 5:30 one morning. He left his orders. CHAPTER V—He is detailed to the artillery No one knew exactly where two hundred yards from where we and makes the acquaintance of the ought to ask for orders. But I wife, who had had a baby two days Then we got the complete orders. they would break out next. "75's", the wonderful French guns that (Slept. No wonder the bed rocked! It could not say a word. Finally a before, in the house. He was taken to VVe were to make no noise but were all have saved the day for the allies on many So we started out from the thirdline had struck a narrow three-story house shell whizzed ever our heads—-Just a battlefield. Before seeing any action, he the square, lined up against a wall to be ready in ten minutes. We put trenches, but very shortly one of around the corner from the hotel, and is ordered back to his regiment in the missed us, it see'neel like, and I broke with three other big men of the town. front line trenches. on goggles and respirators. In ten our outposts stopped us. Bartel carried had blown it to bits. Ten people had out: "What did you see? What's all Then he saw his wife and baby being minutes the bombers were to leave the the dispatches and drove the car been killed outright, and a number CHAPTER VI—Depew goes "over the of the news?" and so on. I guess I top" and "gets" his first German In a bayonet trenches. Three mines were to explode carried to the square on a mattress by too, so it was up to me to explain died later. The bomb tore a fine hole fight. chattered like a monkey. and then we were to take and four Germans. He begged to be allowed things to the sentries. They were and hurled pieces of itself several hundred Then he yelled: "You're the gunner CHAPTER VII—His company takes part ho/d a certain portion of the enemy to kiss his wife good-by, and convinced after a bit of arguing. Just yards. The street itself was in anotha- raid on the German trenches officer. You're just in time—I've located trenches not far off. We were all they granted him permission. As he as we were leaving a message came and shoruy afterward assists in stopping filled with rocks, and a number of their mortar batteries." a fierce charge of the Huns, who are ready to start up the ladders when stepped away, there was a rattle and over the phone from our commander, houses were down, and others wrecked. mowed down as they cross No Man's I surely wished I was the gunner they moved Nig's section over to ours the other men went West. They shot Land. telling them to hold us when we came. When we got out Into the street officer. I would have enjoyed it more and he sneaked up to me and whispered him, too, but though he was riddled It was lucky they stopped us, for otherwise and talked with some army men we CHAPTER VIII—Sent to Dixmude with if I could have got back at Fritz behind his hand, "Be a sport, with bullets he lived, somehow, and dispatches, Depew Is caught In a Zeppelin we would have been out of found that even they were surprised somehow. But I was not the gunner raid, but escapes unhurt. Doc make it fifty-fifty and gimme a begged the German officer to let him reach by the time his message came. by the force of the explosion.. officer and told him so. I had to accompany his wife to the prison chance." The commander told me, over the telephone, CHAPTER IX—He is shot through the We learned that the Zepp had sailed shout at him quite a while before he thigh in a brush with the Germans and I did not have any idea what he where they were taking her. This was that if a French flag flew over not more than five hundred feet above is sent to a hospital, where he quickly would believe me. Then he wanted meant and he had to get back to his granted too, but on the way, they recovers. the town the coast would be clear if a the town. Its motor had been stopped me to find the gunner officer, but I squad. Then the bombers came up to heard the sound of firing. The soldiers Belgian, that our forces were either just before the first bomb was let go, CHAPTER X—Ordered back to sea duty, did not know where to find him. If I the ladders, masked and with loaded yelled, "Die Franzosen!" and dropped Depew rejoins the Cassard, which makes in control or were about to take over and it had slid along perfectly silent could have got to our guns I guess I several trips to the Dardanelles as a convoy. sacks on their left arms. "One minute the mattress and ran. But it was only the place but that Germans patrols and with all lights out. The purr that The Cassard is almost battered to would have had another medal for now," said the officers, getting on some of their own butchers at work. pieces by the Turkish batteries. were near. After this we started we had thought was machine guns, working overtime, but I missed the their own ladders and drawing their Doctor Laurent carried his wife and again. CHAPTER XI—The Cassard takes part after the eighth explosion, was the chance there. revolvers—though most of the officers in many hot engagements in the memorable baby to an old aqueduct that was being When we had passed the last post starting of the motor, as the Zepp got About this time another bomb came Gallipoli campaign. of the Legion charged with rifle and rebuilt by the creek. There they lived, we kept a sharp lookout for the flag out of range of the guns that were being over and clouted out the best friend bayonet like their men. CHAPTER XII—Depew is a member of for three days and three nights, on the* on the pole of the old fish market, for set for the attack. I had in my company. Before the a fierce landing party which sees fighting Then—Boom! Slam! Bang!—and by this we would get our bearings— few herbs and the water that DoctorLaurent in the trenches at Gallipoli. war he had been one of the finest singers The last bomb had struck in a large the mines went off. sneaked out and got at sight. and perhaps, if it should be a German in the Paris opera houses. When square. It tore a hole in the coblestone CHAPTER XIII—After an unsuccessful "Allez!" and then the parapet was Doctor Laurent says that when the* flag, a timely warning. But after we trench raid, Depew tries to rescue two he was with us he used to say that pavement about thirty feet filled with bayonets and men scrambling wounded men in No Man's Land, but both Germans killed and crucified the civil-^ were down the road a bit and had got square and- five feet deep. Every window die before he can reach the trenches. the only difference between him and and crawling and falling and getting ians at Dixmude, they first robbed., clear we saw a Belgian flag whipping on the square was smashed. The Caruso was $2,500 a night. up again. The smoke drifted back CHAPTER XIV—Depew wins the Croix them of their watches, pocketbooks,_* around in a good, strong breeze. But A poilu and I dragged him into a fronts of the houses were riddled with de Guerre for bravery in passing through on us, and then our own machine guns rings and other things. There was a while that showed that our troops or a terrific artillery fire to summon aid to various sized holes. A11 the crockery dugout, but it was too late. One side began ahead of us. his comrades in an advanced post. Madame Tilmans there, who had had: the British were about to take over of his face was blown off the whole and china and mirrors in the house Up toward the front the bombers three thousand francs stolen from: herand the place it also indicated that the CHAPTER XV—On his twelfth trip "lo were in fragments. right side of him was stripped off the Dardanelles, he is wounded in a naval were fishing in their bags and throwing, Germans were somewhere near by. was misused besides. Not much more than an hour before engagement and, after recovering in a and four fingers of the right hand just like boys after a rat along hospital at Brest, he is discharged from Which was not so cheerful. These were just a ffcfy few of thl the Zepp came, we had been sitting in were gone. the docks. The black smoke from the service and sails for New Tork on the As we went through the suburbs things that happened at just one place a room at the house of the local military steamer Georgic. I stuck my head out of the dugout "Jack Johnsons" rolled over us and along the canal which runs on the where the Germans got to work with commandant, right under a big and there was the captain discussing CHAPTER XVI—The Georgic is cap­ probably there was gas, too, but you edge of the town we found that all their "kultur." So you can picture the glass-dome skylight. This house was M01 tured by the German raider Moewe. Depew, the matter with himself, cursing the could not tell. the houses were battered up. We with other survivors, Is taken aboard Belgians agreeing on a German peace, now a very pretty ruin, and it was just Germans from here to Helgoland and The front lines had taken their the Moewe. tried to hail several heads that stuck while there is a Belgian alive to argue as well that we left when we did. You putting in a word for the bombs every trenches and gone on and you could themselves out of the spaces between CHAPTER XVII—Transferred to the about it. They will remember the Germans could not even find a splinter of the once in a while. All up and down the see them, when you stood on a parapet, Yarrowdale, which was captured later by buildings and stuck themselves back men a long time, I think. But they big round table. The next time I sit the Moewe, Depew and other prisoners trenches you could hear our running about like hounds through suffer terrible hardships until they arrive just as quickly, but we could not get need not worry: there are a lot of us under a glass skylight in Dixmude, I cursing the Germans in all kinds of the enemy communication trenches, in Germany. an answer. Finally we got hold of who will not forget, either. want a lad with a live eye for Zeppelins languages. Believe me, I did my bit bombing out dugouts, disarming prisoners—very x.-.(To CHAPTER XVIII—At Swinemunde, they a man who came out from a little on guard outside. and I could hear somebody else using be continued next week) are placed in a prison camp where they seary-looking in their cafe. suffer terribly from cold, hunger and mistreatment Something about the branch headquarters good old United States cuss words, a:asks and The wounded goggles. at the hands of the guards. He told us that the Germans had ruins made us think of breakfast, too. It certainly did not make me feel v«rc coining back slowly. Then we been through the town and had shot CHAPTER XIX—The prisoners are which we had forgotten, so back any better, but it gave me something ji'H fi'ipy »vith our wor'r io rfigouta transferred to Neustrelitz, but get no better it up considerably, killing and wound to the hotel. Then we started back to to do. I think that was why aJl of treatment there than at Swinemunde. and communication trenches and fire ing a few inhabitants, but that shortly our lines. We were ordered to keep us cursed so much then, though we bays, with bayonets and bombs, digging Chapter XX—After several weeks at Afterward a small force of Belgian to the main road all the way back, ov were pretty handy with language at Neustrelitz, they are transferred once the Boches out and sending them cavalry had arrived and driven the more to Dulmen, "Westphalia, experiencing we would be shot on sight, and to report any time. But when you are under "west." And every once in a while a more of the same brand of German Kultur Boches out. The Germans were expected to headquarters immediately on while making the journey. heavy fire like that and cannot give Fritz on one side would step out and either to return or begin a bombardment our return. I thought if the sight of it back as good as you get, you go I yell "Kamerad," while, like as not, on CHAPTER XXI—Mr. Gerard, the American at any moment and all the me was so distasteful to anybody, I ambassador, visits Dulmen and when crazy unless you have something to do. the other side, his pal would pot you inhabitants who sported cellars were he finds Depew there, tells him he will would not take the chance of offending, Cussing is the best thing we could with a revolver when you started to endeavor to secure his release. hiding in them. The rest were trying being anxious to be polite in such think of. pick him up, thinking he was wounded. 2 to get out of town with their belongings CHAPTER XXII—Within a short time, cases. So we stuck to the main road* Up the trench the third bay was Then we stood aside at the entrance t? 1 txs Depew is transferred to another camp at as best tliey could. Fritz did not give us any trouble and simply smashed in and the^Germans Brandenburg, known to prisoners as "The to a dugout and some Boches crane /On reaching our objective we made Hell Hole of Germany." we were back by five, with all hands were placing bomb after bomb right HUNGER, out in single file, shouting "Kamerad" straight, for the Hotel de Ville, where out to greet us when we hove in sight, CHAPTER XXIII—Ambassador Gerard in it and in ours. The captain yelled we were admitted and after a short leaves Germany, with the breaking of For three years America lias and a regular prodigal son welcome on out that he was going up to the next diplomatic relations by the United States, for all they were worth. One of them wait taken to the burgomaster. We tap, for we were later than they had fought starvation Belgium in but the Spanish ambassador visits the bay to examine it, but no more had had his mask and face blown off yet camp at Brandenburg and arranges for him as to news, for we had expected us, and they had made up questioned, he got there than he had his head Depew's release. He finally reaches Eat less he Was trying to talk, with the tears Wm you wheat been instructed to pick up any infor- ^eir minds that some accident had Rorschach, Switzerland, and is free. taken clean off his shoulders. and rolling down over the raw flesh. He meat fats sugar mation he might have as to conditions, happened.' At daybreak our trenches were all XXIV-r-In CHAPTER Switzerland Deood we that may stili send died five minutes later. But we did not get much, for he could While I was around Dixmude, I saw pew gets the first he has tasted pounded in and most of our dugouts in £bssd ship loads? in months. After Showered with atfor One night, "while I was lying back in not get about because of the Germans, many living men and women and chilwho were filled up. Then Fritz opened up tentlons he sails America and the trench trying not to think of anyll-iin7 had made it a policy, to terrorize greg wlo. had been mutilated by the arrives,, §afe,ly in with his arffllerv fire richt on u«, W"- ^0rk' 1 iv J## s»yW and tro tn .sleen thp hnmhst hccrnn the neople of the town. J, abwitjis-,-.— :S r&on stiMi Si