PAGE SEVEN SS3HJ S1TVJ qVNOIXVNHgXNI But he led our charge when we ran Deen next to a Domoer, wno naa just he was not where he wouid nave to £uuu meuus ui uiiue uauieu oawau for the woods. We carried some ma-, lit a fuse and did not think it was and Guillaume, with Balbau's seventeen-year-old obey the kaiser or any other German. chine guns with us as we went, and burning fast enough, so he blew on it. son then two men who And this nurse had saved his life. the gunners would run a piece, set up, it burned fast enough after that, and had taken refuge in a barn and had So I do not see that there is any fire while we opened up for them, and there he was. been discovered and blinded then two argument about it. He broke that run on again. Some troops came out There was a Belgian in one of the other men whom I had never seen before. girl's wrists because he wanted to of a trench still farther to the right other wards, whom I got to know pretty that Is all there is to it. Now, I say and helped us, and we drove the Germans well, and he would often come over "It was awful to see the way the this German doctor was a dirty cur out of the woods and occupied it and visit me. He asked many questions women were crying—'Shoot me too, and a scoundrel. But I say that he is ourselves. about Dixmude, for he had had shoot me with my husband." a fair sample of most of the Germans From there, we had the Germans in relatives there, though he had lost "The men were lined up on the edge I have met. And it is Germans of this our old trench almost directly from track of them. He often tried to describe of the hollow, which runs from the kind that we are fighting—not merely the rear, and we simply cleaned them the house they had lived in, so high road to the bottom of the village. the kaiser. out. I think all the vows were kept that I might tell him whether it was One of them was leaning on the shoulders It is like going to college. I have that day, or else the men who made still standing or not, but I could not of an old priest, and he was crying, never been there, but I have heard them died first. remember the place he spoke of. During 'I am too young—I can't face I was shot through the thigh some some people say it did not do a man our talks, he told me about many death bravely.' Albert /IDepe: time or other after the captain got any good to go. But I have never itrocities. Some of the things he told "I couldn't bear the sight any longer. back. It felt just like a needle-prick heard a man who went there say that. :ne I had heard before, and some of I turned my back to the road and covered at first, and then for a while my leg Probably you have not been over there, them I heard of afterward. Here are my eyes. I heard the volley and was numb. A couple of hours after we and maybe you think we are not fighting some things that he either saw or the bodies falling. Then some one took our trench back, I started out for the German people, but only the heard of from victims: EX'GUNNER AND CHIEF PETTYOFFfCER7~U.^-NAVY. cried, 'Look, they're all down.' But a the rear and hospital. The wound had kaiser and his fiunieys. He said that when the Germans entered MEMBER. OF THE FOREIGN LEGION OF FRANCE few escaped." been hurting for some time. They carried Well, nobody had better tell me that. the town of St. Quentin, they This Belgian had escaped by hiding CAPTAIN GUN TURRET, FRENCH BATTLESHIP CASSAKD the captain out on a stretcher Because I have been there, and I have Started firing into the windows as they —he could not remember how many WINNER OF THE CROIX DE GUERRE about the same time, but he died on seen this. And I know. passed along. First, after they had occupied days—in an old cart filled with manure the way from loss of blood. Fr»sh the town, they bayoneted every tCopyrifo 1911. W Rcfy and Brinon Co. Thrautfi Special Amngemas With the George Matthew Adyra Sctvice and rubbish. He had chewed old hides troops came up to relieve us, b'lt our 'vorkingman they could find. Then CHAPTER X. for food, had swam across the river, CHAPTER I men refused to go, and though oificially they took about half of the children and hid in a mud bank for almost a they were not there in the ironoh, that they could find, and killed them Hell at Gallipoli. week longer, and finally got to France. Up for Repairs. they stayed until they took the captain After I was discharged from the hos» vith their musket butts. After this, i.i,..' j.'.i,".iffer I had been at Dixf' He took it very hard when we talked away. Then, back to billets—not pital, I was ordered to report to my hey marched the remainder of the chiliren three weeks, made about Dixmude, and I told him that bullets, this time. I believe that wo received ship at Brest for sea duty. and the women to the square, the face of a very heavy the old church was just shot to pieces. an army citation for that piece The boys aboard the Cassard gave [where they had lined up a row of male iw\ -f.pt aia always stood at the He asked about a painting called the of work, but I do not know, as I war me a hearty welcome, especially Murray, citizens against a wall. The women "Adoration of the Magi," and one o? parapet wh^n we were goinji ever, anc who had come back after two in the hospital for a short time afterward. and children were told that if they made the sign of the cross and shouted the other prisoners told us it had beeii weeks in the trenches at Dixmude. I I do not remember much about moved, they would all be shot. Another saved and transported to Germany. li ''For God and France." Then we woulc was glad to see them, too, for after all, going to the hospital except that the file of men was brought up, and that is true, and they do not destroy they were garbies, and I always feel ambulance made an awful racket going made to kneel in front of the other it meanwhile, we will get it back, don't more at home with them than with soldiers. over the stone-paved streets of Etaplos, men against the wall. worry! Then, it was pretty rough stuff 'and that the bearer who picked up one The women and children began to My wound was just a clean gunshot at Dixmude, and after resting up at end of my stretcher, had eyes like dead beg for the lives of the men, and many wound and not very serious, so, although the hospital, I was keen on going to fish floating on water also, that there it was not completely healed, sea again. were some civvies standing around tht they let me go after three weeks. But The Cassard was in dry dock for repairs entrance as we were being carried in. before I went, I saw something that after her last voyage to the Dardanelles The first thing they do in the hospital no man of us will ever forget. Some as convoy to the troopship is to take off your old dirty bandages of them took vows just like the men Dupleix. Everything was being rushed and slide your stretcher under a of the legion I have told about. to get her out as soon as possible, and big electric magnet. A doctor comes One of the patients was a German crews were working day and night. in and places his hand over your doctor, who had been picked up in No There were other ships there too—«uperdreadnaughts, wound, and they let down the magnet Gunner Depew Man's Land, very seriously wounded. and dreadnaughts, over his hand and turn on the juice. He was given the same treatment as and battleships, and armored cruisers, If the shell fragment or bullet in you any of us, that is, the very best, but all being overhauled. is more than seven centimeters deep, finally, the doctors gave him up. They We received and placed guns of you cannot feel the pain. The first thought he would die slowly, and that A Narrative of the War newer design, filled the magazines with doctor reports to the chief how deep it might take several weeks. the highest explosives known to naval your wound is, and where it is situated, But there was a nurse there, who use, and generally made ready for a So entirely new— and then a nurse comes up to took special interest in his case, and & hard job. Our magazines were filled you, where you lie, with your clothes So big— she stayed up day and night for some with shells for our big 12 and 14-inch still on, and asks you to take the time and finally brought him through. guns. A 14-inch shell can tear a hole "pressure." So thrilling— The case was very well known, and through the heaviest armor plate at Then they lift you on a four-wheeled everybody said she had performed a 12,000 yards, and will do more damage cart, and roll you to the operating theater. miracle. He got better slowly. That It Will Hold You than you would think. They take off your clothes there. Then a few weeks later, when he When we had coaled and had got I remember I liked to look at the Spellbound! was out of danger and was able to our stores aboard, we dressed for action—or nurses and surgeons they looked so walk, and it was only a question of rather, undressed. The decks good in their clean white clothes. time before he would be released from were clear hatch covers bolted and Then they stick hollow needles into SYNOPSIS. the hospital, this nurse was transferred davits folded down furniture, chests, you, which hurt a good deal, and you to another hospital. Everybody tables, chairs were sent ashore, and inflammable take the pressure. After a while, they CHAPTER I—Albert N. Depew, author knew her and liked her, and when she gear, like our rope hammocks, begin cutting away the bruised and of the story, enlists in the United States For God and France. went around to say good-by, all the went overboard. You could navy, serving four years and attaining maybe rotten flesh, removing the old the rank of chief petty officer, first-class men»were sorry and gave her little not find a single wooden chair or table cloth, pieces of dirt, and so forth, and go over. Our officers always led us, gunner. presents, and wanted her to write to in the ward room. scraping away the splinters of bone. but I have never seen a German officer CHAPTER II—The great war starts Women and Children Begged for thai them. She was going to get a nurse When the ship is cleared for action, You think for sure you are going to lead a charge. They always were behind soon' after he Is honorably discharged Lives of thai Men. she knew in the other hospital to turn a shell bursting inside cannot find bleed to death. The blood rushes from the navy and he sails for France their men, driving instead of leading. with a determination to enlist. her letters into English, so that she much to set afire, and if one bursts on through you like lightning, and if you I do not believe they are as brave gf gi$m were knocked In the head srttK could write to me. I gave her a ring deck, there Is nothing to burn but the get a sight of yourself, you can feel CHAPTER III—He joins the Foreign as they are said to be. gun t&tts before they stopped. Legion and is assigned to the dreadnaught I had made from a piece of shell case, wooden deck, and that is covered with yourself turning pale. Then they hurry Well, we went over this time, and Then ttye Germans fired at the double -Cassard where his marksmanship wins but I guess she had hundreds of them steel plate. you to your bed, and cover you over him high honors. the machine guns were certainly going rank of men. After three volleys, there Finally, we had roll call—all men at that. with blankets and hot-water bottles. it strong. We were pretty sore about were eighty-four dead and twenty from CHAPTER IV—Depew is detached But this German doctor would not present. Then we set saU for the of They raise your bed on chairs, so the his ship and sent with a regiment the the chaplain and the Swiss and all wounded. Most of the wounded they Legion to Flanders where he soon say good-by to her. That would not Dardanelles as escort to the Dupleix, blood will run up toward your head, that, and we put up an awful fight, but then killed with axes, but somehow, himself in the front line trenches. have made me sore, but it made this which had on board territorial and and after a while, your eyes open and we could not make it and had to come three or four escaped by hiding under CHAPTER V—He is detailed to the artillery French girl feel very bad, and she began provincial French troops—Gascons, the doctor says, "Oui, oui, il vivra," the bodies of others and playing dead, back. Only one company reached the and makes the acquaintance of the to cry. One of the French officers Parisians, Normans, Indo-Chinese, meaning that you still had some time "75's", the wonderful French guns that though the officers walked up and Boche trenches and not a man of it have saved the day for the allies on many saw her and found out about the doctor, Spahis, Turcos—all kinds. When we to spend before finally going west. down firing their revolvers Into the came back who had not been wounded a battlefield. Before seeing any action, he and the officer went up and spoke messed, we had to squat down on the The treatment we got in the hospital is ordered back to his regiment In the piles of bodies. on the way and did not reach the front line trenches. to the German. Then the French officer steel mess deck and eat from metal was great. We received cigarettes, tobacco, trench. They were just wiped out. The next day the Germans went left, and the German called to plates. matches, magazines, and clean CHAPTER VI—Depew goes "over the The captain was missing, too. We through the wine cellars, and shot all top" and "gets" his first German In a bayonet the nurse and she went over to him clothes. The men do not talk about There had been a notice posted before thought he was done for, but about the inhabitants they found hiding fight. and stopped crying. we left that the Zeppelins had begun their wounds much, and everybody two o'clock in the morning, he came there. A lot of people, who had taken CHAPTER VII—His company takes part They talked for a little while, and tries to be happy and show it. The sea raids, and we kept a Hve eye back. He simply fell over into the refuge in a factory over night, decided in another raid on the German trenches food was fine, and there was lots of it. then she pfat out her hands as if she out for them. The news proved to be and shortly afterward assists in stopping trench, all in. He had been wounded to come out with a white flag. They a fierce charge of the Huns, who are was going to leave. He put out his a fake, though, and we did not see a I do not think there were any doctors four times, and had lain in a shell were allowed to think that the white mowed down as they cross No Man's in the world better than ours, and single cigar while we were out. Land. crater full of water for several hours. flag would be respected, but no sooner they were always trying to make We made the trip to the Dardanelles He would not go back for treatment faere they all out than they were seized CHAPTER Vni—Sent to Dixmude with things easy for us. They did not rip without sighting an enemy craft, keeping dispatches, Depew is caught in a Zeppelin then, and when daylight came, it was a«d the women publicly violated in the raid, but escapes unhurt. the dressings off your wounds like in close touch with the Dupleix, too late, because we were practically square, after which the men were shot. some of the butchers do in some of our and busy every minute preparing for CHAPTER IX—He is shot through the cut off by artillery fire behind the front A paralytic was shot as he sat in his a thigh in brush with the Germans and dispensaries that I know of, but took action, a line trenches. arm-chair, and a boy of fourteen was is sent to hospital, where he quickly them off carefully. Everything was recovers. mm, I ttas made gun captain and^ivsa When daylight came, the artillery taken by the legs and pulled apart. SW. ifa very clean and sanitary, and some of fire opened up right on us, and the charge of the starboard b3$ turret, CHAPTER X—Ordered back to sea duty, 7 At one place, a man was tied by the the hospitals had sun parlors, which Depew rejoins the Cassard, which makes mounting two 14-inch guns. I had my Germans had advanced their lines into arms to the ceiling of his room and set several trips to the Dardanelles as a convoy. were well used, you can be sure. some trenches formerly held by us and men at gun practice daily, and by the The Cassard is almost battered to afire. His trunk was completely carbonized, pieces by the Turkish batteries. Some of the men made toys and hardly forty-five yards away. We received time we neared the Dardanelles, after but his head and arms were fancy articles, such as button hooks five days, they were in pretty fair bombs and shells right in our CHAPTER XI—The Cassard takes part unbumed. At the same place, the in many hot engagements in the memorable and paper knives. They made the shape. faces. -A Tunisian in our company got body of a fifteen-year-old boy was Gallipoli campaign. handles from empty shell cases, or crazy, and ran back over the parados. found, pierced by more than twenty It was about 5 a. m. when we dtewnear CHAPTER XII—Depew is a member of shrapnel, or pieces of Zeppelins, or He ran a few yards, then stopped and bayonet thrusts. Other dead were Cape Helles and took stations a landing party fierce fighting which sees anything else picked up along the looked back at us. I think he was in the trenches at Gallipoli. found with their hands still in the air, for action. The Dupleix was in front front. coming to his senses, and would &ave leaning up against walls. of As. The batteries on the cape: CHAPTER XIII—After an unsuccessful When they are getting well, the men trench raid, Depew tries to rescue two started back to us. Then the spot opened up on us, and in a few minutes At another place the Germans wounded men In No Man's Land, but both learn harness making, mechanical where he had been was empty, and a shelled the town for a day, and then later those at Kum Kaleh joined' die before he can reach the trenches. drawing, telegraphy, gardening, poultry second later his body from the chest in. entered and sacked it. The women CHAPTER XIV—Depew wins the Croix raising, typewriting, bookkeeping down fell not three yards from the and children were turned loose, without As the Dupleix made for "V" beach de Guerre for bravery in passing through and the men teach the nurses how to parados. I do not know where the a terrific artillery fire to summon aid to being allowed to take anything and prepared to land her troops, we his comrades in an advanced post. make canes out of shell cases, and top part went. That same shell cut a with them, and forced to leave the swung broadside on, raking their batteries rings of aluminum, and slippers and CHAPTER XV—On his twelfth trip to groove in the low hilltop before it exploded. town. Nearly five hundred men were as we did so, and received a the Dardanelles, he is wounded in a naval gloves out of blankets. He had been hit by a big deported to Germany. Three, who shell, which entered through a gun engagement and, after recovering in a shell, and absolutely cut in two. I The nurses certainly work hard. hospital at Brest, he is discharged from were almost exhausted by hunger, tried port in the after turret and explode service and sails for New York on the have seen this happen to four men, but They always have more to do than to escape. They were bayoneted and Some bags of powder stored there, steamer Georgic. they ought to, but they never complain, this was the only one in France. clubbed to death. Twelve men, who (where they should never have been), is CHAPTER XVI—The Georgic captured and are always cheerful and ready to About seven o'clock, we received reenforcements, had taken refuge in a farm, were tied by the German raider Moewe. Depew, were fired and the roof of the turret Is play games when they have the time, with other survivors, taken aboard and poured fresh troops together and shot in a mass. Another was just lifted off. It landed on deck, the Moewe. or read to some polio. And their work over and retook the trench. No sooner group of six were tied together and tilted up against the side of the tur* CHAPTER XVII—Transferred to the is pretty dirty too: I would not like had we entered it, however, than the shot, after the Germans had put out ret. ^.1.-..*..— Takrowdale, which was captured later by Wrists And Then He Twisted Her and to have to do it. They say there were Germans turned their artillery on us, the Moewe, Depew and other prisoners their eyes and tortured them with On deck the rain of fire was simply suffer terrible hardships until they arrive lots of French society ladies working Broke Them. not even waiting .for their own troops bayonets. Three others were brought terrific. Steel flew in all direction^,. in Germany. as nurses, but you never heard much to retire safely. They killed numbers before their wives and children afid hands, too, and took hold of hers. And It was smash, crash, slam-hang all CHAPTER XVIII—At Swinemunde, they about society, or any talk about Lord of their own men in this way. But the sabered. then he twisted her wrists and broke the time, and I do not mind saying I are placed in a prison camp where they Helpus, or Count Whosis, or pink teas fire was so heavy that, when they counter-attacked, suffer terribly from cold, hunger and mistreatment The Belgian told me he was at Namur them. We heard the snap. never thought we would come out at the hands of the guards. or anything like that from these we had to retire again, When the Germans began shelling pf it There were men in that ward who nurses. and this time they kept after us and It. The bombardment lasted the whole CHAPTER XIX—The prisoners are had not been on foot since the day Some of the heavy armor plate tpr transferred to Neustrelitz, but get no better few shells landed near hospital, drove us beyond the trench we had A our of August 21 and 22, 1914. They centered they came to the hospital, and one of forward was shot away and after treatment there than at Swinemunde. while I was there, but no patient originally occupied. their fire on the prison, the hospital, them was supposed to be dying, but it the old G&ssard looked more like a Chapter XX—After several weeks at was hit. They, knocked a shrine of Our We left them there, with our artillery and the railway station. They is an absolute fact that when we heard Neustrelits, they ate transferred once monitor than anything else to me. As Lady to splinters, though, and bowled more to Dulmea, Westphalia, experiencing taking care of them, and our machine entered the town at four o'clock in the her scream, there was not man left a we drew nearer the shore they began more of the same brand of German Kultur over a big crucifix. The kitchen was guns trying to enfilade them, and afternoon of August 23. During the In bed. while making the journey. using shrapnel on us and In no time near by, and it was just the chefs luck moved to the right. There was a first twenty-four hours, they behaved I need not tell you what we did to at all our funnels were shot full of CHAPTER XXI—Mr. Gerard, the American that he had walked over to our ward bunch of trees there, about like a small themselves, but on the 24th they began the German. They did not need to ambassador, visits Dulmen and when boles and a sieve was watertight compared to see pal of his, when a shell landed a he finds Depew there, tells him he will woods, and as we passed the Germans firing at anyone they pleased, and set shoot film, after we got through with to them. endeavor to secure his release. plumb in the center of the kitchen, fire to different houses on five of the concealed in it opened fire on us, and him. They did shoot what was left of Naturally we were not just taking and all you could see all over the barracks CHAPTER XXII—Within a short time. we retired to some reserve trenches. principal squares. him, to make sure, though. all this punishment without any comeback. Depew is transferred to another camp at was stew. We were pretty much scattered by this Then they ordered every one to leave Now, I have heard people say that Brandenburg, known to prisoners as The Our guns were at it fast and That was a regular eatless day for. Hell Hole of Germany. time, and badly cut up. We reformed his house, and those who did not were it is not the Germans we are fighting, from the way the fire slackened fn us, until they rigged up bogies and got there, and were joined by other of our shot. The .others, about four hundred CHAPTER XXIII—Ambassador Gerard but the kaiser and his system. Well, certain places we knew we were making some more dixies, and mixed up some troops, in small groups—what was left leaves Germany, with the breaking of in all, were drawn up in front of the it may be true that some of the Boche it effective. My guns did for two diplomatic relations by the United States, cornmeal. for us. The chef made up of squads and platoons and singly. church, close to the river bank. The soldiers would not do these things if but the Spanish ambassador visits the enemy pieces that I know of, and perhans for it the next day, though. The chef Our captain had got it a fifth time, camp at Brandenburg and .arranges for Belgian said he could never forget how they did not have to: myself, I am not several others. Depew's release. He Anally reaches was a great little guy. He was a meanwhile, but he would not leave us, they all looked. so sure. Rorschach, Switzerland, and is free. (To be continued next week) "blesse" himself, and I guess his stomach as he was the ranking officer. He had ,fI can remember just how it was," But you take this doctor. Here he CHAPTER Switzerland Defood XXIV- sympathized with ours. a scalp wound, but the others were in hesaid. "There were eight men, whom Truly Republican. pew gets the first he has tasted was, an educated man, who had been There was a Frenchman in the bed in months. After "lowered with ator his arms and shoulders. He could not I knew very well, standing in a row That country is republican where trained all his life to help people who tentions he sails America and move his hands at all-. next to me who had the whole side of ork. ............ with several nriests. Next came,.two honesty and merit are recognized and were in Daln. and not to cause it. And arrives safely in his face torn off. He told me he had rewarded. r*. if lRr¥ V" I* ki An "A ,'a JW ft