w/J-V^ pr/Tv^^i S"*^ 3** r^'/'^ir^ ",'«sh'' ?. »-f INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE SEVEN storehouse wall. Then 1 woultl "stick goT the signal book and destroyed ft. the first line fell, and some of the aboard sliip during an engagement. another one. Also, he saved the lives of two of his second, the boys of the third line came My head rang for days after we left The others, from the Cassard were men. running up, and in the scramble that the Dardanelles. red-hot, too, and they went at We gave dry clothes and brandy and I followed many of the chaps in the The Turks were getting abetter idea Turks in great style. There Was coffee to this Limeys we rescued,- and firgj^w.. lines were bayoneted by their of our range now and the shells were nothing to complain about in the way though they had just come through comrades. I was in the third line, but falling pretty close to us, but finally they fought, but I wished that we had something pretty tough, they were I was lricky enough to pull up in time we tore in with the 14-inch navals calm and cool and started talking right had a few more boys from the Foreign and did not fall in. Tou could not look and ripped up three of their batteries. Legion with us. I think we would have away about what ship they would down into that trench after you had In the lull that followed we made good gone clear on through to Constantinople. probably be assigned to next. seen It once, it was too sickening. time and reached our front line positions Our casualties were sent back to the at Sedd-el-Bahr during the afternoon. But the Turks were not as bad as CHAPTER XII. ship. One boat was sunk by a shell Fritz. They were just as good or better and all the men lost. The next morning we made our first as fighters, and a whole lot whiter. A Pal Crucified. We remained where we were, attack. I had had a bad night of it, xjS* Often, when we were frying in the When we got to "V" Beach on my scratching out shallow trenches for Alberts thinking about Murray, and when the next trip the weather was really fine, trenches and not a drop of water was ourselves, finding what natural cover time came there never was a chap to be had, something would land on but It did not please us mucji, for as there was and otherwise getting ready more glad to charge and get a chance the ground near us and there would be for the night, which was near. It at the enemy with the bayonet than a water bottle, full. Sometimes they began to rain and we could hardly I was. almost bombarded us with bottlel. keep any fires going, because we had We attacked according to a program. Then, too, they would not fire on the to shelter them from the shore side, so EX-GUNNER AND CHIEF PEfT^OFFfeE^Jr^NAVY Time cards were issued to the officer Red Cross, as the Germans do they the enemy could not spot us, and the of each section, so that we would work MEMBER OF THE FOREIGN LEGION OF FRANCE would hold their fire many times when wind was from the sea. It was certainly exactly with the barrage. To be ahead CAPTAIN GUN TURRET, FRENCH BATTLESHIP CASSAFkD we were out picking up our wounded. miserable that night. of, or behind the time card, would WINNER OF THE CROIX DE GUERRE JSeveral times they dragged our wounded Every once in a while we would mean walking into our own barrage. as close as they could to the barbed $epyri#i.»llbyMyud Briton Co. Throutfi %ifi»l Amngemcnt With t}* George Manhcw Adamt Sorvic* stand by to repel an attack, whether it The time of attack is called zero— wire that we might find them easier. was a real one or not, and we were that is, the minute when you leave At Cape Helles every one \v~us widt After Murray died I got to thinking under fire all the time. It seemed as the trench. Some of the Anzacs said it awake. We were ail on the Ioo'.:ou a lot more than I used to, and though if morning would never come. The meant when your feet got the coldest, lor sabs and you could not find on I did not have any hunch exactly, still sand was full of fleas—great big boys but I do not think they suffered very nam napping. Anything at all passe1 I felt as though I might get it, too, —and they were as bad as any much with trouble in the feet—not for a periscope—tins, barrels, spars which was something I had never cooties I had ever had at Dixmude. when they were advancing, anyway. D:\id horses generally float in tlv thought much about before. I used to The morning came at last, and 1 The time card might read something wnter with one foot sticking up. an think about my grandmother, too, was detailed with a fatigue party like this: First wave, zero, advance, we gave the alarm many a time whir when I had time, and about Brown. to the beach where we had landed rapid walk, barrage 25 in 10 seconds, it was only some old nag on his way t. I used to wonder what Brown was stores. When we got down to the take first trench, 0:20 second wave, Davy's locker. doing and wish we were together. But docks I missed Murray and asked same as the first, pass first trench, :i the Cassard the Old Man posiea I could remember my grandmother where he was. They said he had been 0:23 take second trench, 0:35. The x"j .. :ird of 50 francs for the f.i's-'i i-~ smiling, and that helped some. I guess missing from his post not more than third wave is ordered to take the third \vhi sighted a periscope. This wr.o I was lonely, to tell the truth. I did an hour from the time we left. trench, and so on, for as many lines M. i, but believe rue he wcuJiir.d not know the other garbies very well, I left my fatigue party, without nv-'nn as the enemy is entrenched. The other trouble making the and the only one left that 1 was orders, and joined in the hunt for •?r waves might be instructed to occupy •'or *\vry man on the ship would really very friendly with got his soon Murray. There were men searching Hill 7, 12:08, or dig in behind rock see it at the same time. E.ie. to Where the GOLIATH was wrecked. afterward, though not as bad as Murray. sMMHT all along the docks and on the shore 12:45. Here, zero is understood, the man l'elt sure he would be the man it Where the MAJESTIC was wrecked. And then there was no one that to each side. Finally I saw a bunch Where the CASSARP engaged, the 0'i_t the reward. The 14-pounders wer first figures standing for minutes and I was really chummy with. That would of men collect around a storehouse VfERFT KAISERLICHE and the MARINE. the others for seconds. It might take loaded and ready for action on a &<:•. not have bothered me at all before at the farther end of the docks on the several hours to carry out the program, end's notice. But the reward v.fc Murray died. soon as we got in range the enemy shore side. I ran up to them. but everything is laid out to never claimed. The other lad I spoke of as having batteries opened up on us and the There was poor old Murray. They Gunner Depew an exact schedule. During our eighth trick off Cay been chummy with was Phillippe shell fire, was heavier than any we were just taking him down. He had I was in the sixth line of the third I-Ielles I was amidships in the g.'iliwhen Pierre. He was about eighteen and had been in before, though not more been crucified against the wall of the wave of attack and zero was 4:30 I heard our two 14-po'und ers effective. We drew in on a bright came from Bordeaux. He was a very a. m. Whistles were to be the signal off almost at the same time. Ever cheerful fellow and he and Murray morning, about half past five or six, for zero and we were to walk to the body ran for his station. Going with our convoy, the troopship Champagne, and I used to be together a lot. He A Narrative of the War first line Turkish trench. As we came the main deck to my turret a man toi ahead of us and going slowly, felt almost as bad about Murray as out our barrage fire would be bursting me it was a sub on the port bow, bu soupding all the way. I did, and you could see that it 50 yards ahead of us and would I only caught a glimpse of the littl So entirely new— At this part of the shore there Is a changed him a great deal. too. But he whirlpool where her periscope snl. lift 25 yards every 10 seconds. Our dock about a mile and a half long, was still cheerful most of the time. So big— stunt was to take advantage of it merged. I do not know why she 11 running back into the country and not let loose a torpedo at us. Ta without walking into it. terminating in a road. The Champagne So thrilling— CHAPTER XIII. officers said she was trying to mr.kc No one man can see all of an attack, was making for this dock, the entrance to the Dardanelles am Which may extend over miles of sounding as she went. Suddenly, when Limeys, Anzacs and Poilus. That It Will Hold You came up blind among our ships an. ground, but during the three weeks she was within 500 yards of the shore, One night, while we were expecting was scared off by our guns, but I was in the trenches on the Gallipoli I saw her swing around and steer in Spellbound! an attack, the word was passed down thought we had just escapcd by tli peninsula we made four grand attacks a crazy fashion. We began asking the line to have the wire cutters ready •skin of our teeth. Later on our d. and many minor ones, so I know in a each other what was the matter with and to use bayonets only for the first stroyers claimed to have sighted he, general way what they are like. Each her, but we learned afterwards that part of the attack, for we were to try off Gaba Tepe. wave is organized like the others. SYNOPSIS. her rudder had been torn off, though and take the first enemy trench b3 At noon we were at mess when on: First come three lines of what you we never found out how, nor do I think surprise. The first trench was only of the boys yelled, "She's hit," and wv might call grenadiers, though they are CHAPTER I—Albert N. Depew, author anyone ever knew. about eighty yards away. Our big guns not picked for size as the old king's of the story, enlists in the United States all rushed on deck. There was tlu Then she went aground, with her opened up and at zero we climbed out navy, serving four years and attaining British ship, Triumph, torpedoed ant. grenadiers used to be. They are deployed the rank of chief petty officer, first-class stern toward the shore and listed over and followed the curtain of fire too gunner. in skirmish formation, which listing away over to starboard. Sh* to port. Tou Could see different articles closely, it seemed to me. was ready to turn over in a few minutes. means that every man is three yards CHAPTER II—The great war starts rolling out and down the side. But the barrage stopped too soon, from the next. They were armed only soon after he is honorably discharged One battleship is not supposed Then her back broke. The quarterdeck from the navy and he sails for Franc* as it does sometimes, and there were to go to the assistance of another one With grenades, but, you can take it with a determination to enlist. was crowded with men half plenty of Turks left. We were half that has been torpedoed, because the from me, that is enough! Behind them dressed, with life belts on, jumping CHAPTER Ill-He joins the Foreign way across when they saw us, and come two lines, also in skirmish formation, chances are the sub is still in the Legion and is assigned to the dreadnaugnt over the side or climbing down. There they began banging away at us very Cassard where his marksmanship wins neighborhood laying for the second and armed with machine guns was an explosion and a cloud of black him high honors. hard. They pounded at us as we came ship with another torpedo. But one and grenade rifles. The first men on smoke broke over us, and for a while on until we were given the order to CHAPTER IV—Depew is detached from of the British trawlers went to the the left carry machine guns, then come his ship and sent with a regiment of the I thought I was blinded. retire, almost as we were on them— assistance of the Triumph to pick up three rifle grenadiers, and then another Legion to Flanders where he soon finds All the time the shells were raining what was left of us. himself in the front line trenches. the crew. machine gun and so on down the In on us and on the Champagne. As we turned and started back the length of the line. After these come We could see the crew jumping into He Had Been Crucified. CHAPTER V—He Is detailed to the artillery When I could see again I saw the men and makes the acquaintance of the Turks rushed out to counter-attack us, two lines of riflemen with fixed bayonets. the water. Then we breezed out "75's the wonderful French guns that on the Champagne climbing down the storehouse. There was a bayonet the first of them busy with bombs. toward the horizon, full speed ahead. have saved the day for the allies on many starboard or shore side. One chap was through each arm, one through each a battlefield. Before seeing any action, he Then I tripped over something and Then come the trench cieaners, or AU about the Triumph was a cloud of Is ordered back to his regiment in the going down hand over hand along a foot and one through his stomach. rolled around a while and then saw moppers-up, as we call them. They front line trenches. black smoke, but when we looked stanchion, when another fellow above One of the garbles fainted when he it was Phillippe Pierre. His left leg were some gang, believe me. Imagine through the glass we could see she was CHAPTER VI—Depew goes "over the him let go and slid right down on him. had to pull one of the bayonets out was dangling, cloth and flesh and all a team of rugby players spread out In top" and "gets" his first German In a bayonet going down. Then our guns began to The first man fell about thirty feet, They had hacked off his right hand fight. shot away and the leg hanging to the two lines—only with hundreds of men bombard the Turkish positions and I landing in the water with his neck at the wrist and taken his identification rest of him by a shred. Two or three on the team instead of eleven, and CHAPTER VII—His company takes part had to get busy. When I saw the doubled under him. Our lifeboats and disc. I lay this to the German In another raid on the German treaties each man a husky, capable of handling of our men who were on their way Triumph again she was bottom up. and shortly afterward assists In stopping launches were out picking up survivors. officers more than the Turks. a baby grand piano singlehanded. back to our trenches tripped over me a tierce charge of the Huns, who are She must have floated upside down I do not know just what I did after mowed down as they (cross No Man's as I tried to get up, and then a shell for almostTialf an hour, then she went These fellows were armed Those who got safely over the side this. But it changed me all around with everything you could think of. exploded near by and I thought I had down as though there was somebody started to swim ashore, but when they CHAPTER VIII—Sent to Dlxmude with and I was not like my usual self during and a whole lot more that you coulc1 got It sure, but it was only the rocks on the^ottom pulling her. dispatches, Depew is caught in a Zeppelin had gone only a little way they found the rest of the time. raid, but escapes unhurt. not dream about In a nightmare. 1: thrown up by the explosion. When she went our Old Man banged they could wade in. When the watex It was still raining when we started used to remind me of a trial I saw Finally I was able to stand up. So CHAPTER IX—He is shot through the his telephone on the bridge rail and was only up to their waists they came thigh in a brush with the Germans and on our way to the front line. Along I slung my rifle over one shoulder in New York once, where the police is sent to a hospital, where he quickly swore at the Huns and Turks and upon barbed wire entanglements and the road were numbers of troops and got Phillippe Pierre up on th recovers. had raided a yeggmen's flop and had broke bis telescope lens to bits. About not a man got ashore that way but scoffing and among them Indian troops other, with his body from the waist all their weapons in the courtroom as CHAPTER X—Ordered back to sea duty, fifty from the Triumph were lost. was scratched and clawed and mangled on sentry duty. They looked like a up hanging over my back, so that Depew rejoins the Cassard, which makes exhibits. It was decided that the place was horribly. Some of them that 1 several trips to the Dardanelles as a convoy. bunch of frozen turnips, cool and uncomfortable. I could hold his wounded leg on, and The moppers-up were heeled with The Cassard Is almost battered to too hot for us with that sub running saw afterwards were just shredded We were close enough to pieces by the Turkish batteries. started back. There was only one or sticks, clubs, shillelahs, black-jacks, loose, and when they reported that along the sides of their bodies like make the roar of the cannonading two of our men left between the two-handed cleavers, axes, trench CHAPTER XI—The Cassard takes part afternoon that she was making her coconuts. A great many of them, seem intolerably loud and could see in many hot engagements in the memorable trenches. Our machine guns were at knives, poniards, up-to-date toma•hawks, way south from Gaba Tepe to Cape though, were killed by shrapnel while Gallipoli campaign. the bursting shells, particularly those it hard and the Turks were firing and brass knuckles, slung shots— Helles all of the fleet but the Majestic they were in the water. CHAPTER XII—Depew is a member of fro~i the British ships. bombing at full speed. anything that was ever invented for got under way, and the Majestic was On board the Cassard our guns had a landing party which sees fierce fighting Then we came across some Turkish in the trenches at Gallipoli. I had not gone more than two or crashing a man with, I guess, except the only ship left off the cape. been busy all the time, and It was not prisoneis who were sheltering in an three paces when I came across They said the Majestic was then the firearms. These knock-down, drag-out CHAPTER XIII—After an unsuccessful long before we put one enemy battery old barn, I guess It was, and we trench raid, Depew tries to rescue two another of our men, wounded in several artists follow the riflemen very closely. oldest of the ships in that campaign, out of commission. We had suffered wounded men in No Man's Land, but both stopped for shelter and rest. They places and groaning away at a but she was the pride of the British Their job was to take care of all the die before he can reach the trenches. a bit, too, but not enough to told us that their troops were very great rate. Phillippe Pierre was not fleet just the same. She was torpedoed worry us. There were about 3,000 men Turks who could not escape and would CHAPTER XIV—Depew wins the Croix tired from long fighting, but that they saying a word, but the other chap off Cape Helles later on, when there not surrender. de Guerre for bravery in passing through on the Champagne, I think, and at had plenty of men. They said a couple a terrific artillery fire .to summon aid to did enough for the two of them. One were a number of men-of-war off the least a third were killed or drowned, There are lots of men in any army his comrades in an advanced post. of shells had dropped about a hundred wounded man was all I could manage, cape. The sea was crowded with men and the casualties must have been who will not surrender, but I think yards from the barn just before CHAPTER XV—On his twelfth trip to with my rifle and pack, over the rough swimming and drowning. I saw a lifeboat almost two-thirds. The ship was just probably there were more Turks of the Dardanelles, he is wounded in a naval we came, so we knew the batteries engagement and, after recovering in a crowded with men and other men a mass of wreckage. that gameness than men in most other ground and the barbed wire I had to were trying to get our range and we hospital at Brest, he is discharged from go through. So I told this fellow, in the water hanging onto her, and They called for a landing party from armies. I have heard that it is a part service and sails for New York on the did not stay any longer, but vwent steamer Georgic. there were so many hanging on that the Cassard, and officers asked for of their religion that a man, if he whose name I cannot remember—I away from there and on our road'. they started to pull her under. Of dies fighting, goes to a very specially never did know him very well—that I volunteers for trench duty. I was not CHAPTER XVI—The Georgic is captured About 500 yards farther on we came by the German raider Moewe. Depew, their own accord the men in the water very keen about going, because I had fancy heaven, with plenty to eat and would come back for him, and went to ruins, and when we went inside with other survivors, is taken aboard let go to save those in the boat. Most been in trenches at Dixmude, and I smoke. And I suppose if he surrenders on. I almost fell several times, but the Moewe. we found 50 or 60 of our boys cooking of them were drowned. knew how pleasant they were—not, they believe he will be put In managed to get through safely and CHAPTER XVII—Transferred to the and sleeping and not giving a thought The Majestic listed so that the men but I volunteered, and so did Murray. the black gang, stoking for eternity rolled over our parapet with Phillippe Yarrowdale, which was captured later by to the shells or shrapnel. The-mules the Moewe, Depew and other prisoners could not stand on deck, and' the sides We went ashore in our boats under a down below. It was awfully hot at the Pierre. They started the lad back in suffer terrible hardships until they arrive outside were banging away at the hay, were covered with men hanging on heavy fire. There were 12 men killed Dardanelles and I guess the Turks a stretcher right away. When I saw In Germany. as though there never had been a war to ropes and not knowing whether in the lifeboat in which I was. I escaped did not want it any hotter, for very him again he gave me a little box as CHAPTER XVIII—At Swinemunde, they in theiworld. There was no shell made to jump into the sea or not. We lowered without a scratch. few of, them ever surrendered, and the are placed in a prison camp where they a souvenir, but I have lost it. that could budge them away from suffer terribly from cold, hunger and mistreatment We were mustered up on shore and all our lifeboats and steam, trench cleaners had a lot to do. Their The Turks had not got very far with at the hands of the guards. that hay unless it hit them. launches, and so did the other ships. volunteers were called for, for sentry job is really important, for it Is dangerous their counter-attack, because we were Theft along came a cart making a CHAPTER XIX—The prisoners are duty. Murray volunteered. If he had We picked up a number of the crew to have groups of the enemy alive able to get our barrage going in time transferred to Neustrelitz, but get no better lot of racket. One of the fellows in it and were pretty close to the Majestic only gone on with the rest of us he and kicking around in their trenches treatment there than at Swinemunde to check them. But they were still out had half of his face shot away and when she went down like a rock. As mi£ht have come through. After a after you have passed. Almost every in front of their trenches when I Chapter XX—After several weeks at was all baiidaged up, but he was trying short wait we were given the order to she went down she turned over and prisoner we took was wounded. Neustrelitz, they are transferred once started back after the other garby. tossing and laugh just the same more to Dulmen, Westphalia, experiencing a garby ran along her side to the ram advance. The. firing became heavier The one thing I do not like to have I was not exactly afraid as I crawled more of the same brand of German Kultur as the rest were doing. They were at her bow and got on it without even about this time, so we went at the people ask me is, "How does it feel to while making the journey. along searching for the other man, Anzacs, and were pretty badly shot up. double. We had not got very far before being wet. A boat picked Win up off kill a man?" and I think the other but I was very thirsty and nervous CHAPTER XXI—Mr. Gerard, the American The'word "Anzac," as you probably the ram, which stufck out of the water we had a fine little surprise party ambassador, visits Dulmen and when boys feel the same way about it. It for fear our barrage would Ubegin he finds Depew there, tells him he will know, is made from the Initials of the handed us. after the ship had ceased to settle. is not a thing you like to talk about again or the machine guns cut loose. endeavor to secure his release. Australian and New Zealand army She had torpedo nets on her sides, The front line was running over or think about either. But this time, After what seemed along time I came CHAPTER XXII—Within a short time, corps. They had a regular town, called what appeared to be good, solid and many of ue crew were unable to at beach, when we got past the "V" upon a wounded man, but he was not Depew is transferred to another camp at Anzac, on the peninsula. At Suvla get clear of the nets and went down ground, when they broke through and Brandenburg, known to prisoners as "The first and second Turk trenches and the one I was after. I thought about Hell Hole of Germany.* bay and around Gaba Tepe the Anzacs fell into trenches 30 to 40 feet deep. with her. Quite a lot were caught were at work on the third, I do not "a bird In the hand," etc., and was Just got further into the Turkish lines than below decks and had no possible These trenches had been dug, covered CHAPTER XXIII—Ambassador Gerard mind saying that I was glad whenever starting to pick this chap up when leaves Germany, with the breaking of any other unit in the allied armies. over with %-inch boards and then chance to escape. There was a big a shell burst almost on us and diplomatic relations by the United States, I slipped my bayonet into a Turk and They were wonderful fighters. with dirt, and'were regular man-traps. but the Spanish ambassador visits the explosion as she went under—probably knocked me two or three feet away. camp at Brandenburg and arranges for more glad when I saw another one Sharp stakes were sticking out of the By this time the Turks were making the boilers bursting. Thousands of It is a wonder it did not kill both Depew's release. He finally reaches coming. I guess I saw red all right. an attack, and all you could see to parapet and parados, and at the bottom Rorschach, Switzerland, and Is free. troops on shore and thousands of of us, but neither of us was hurt. I Each time I thought, "Maybe you are were more stakes and rocks and the front was one long line of smoke sailors on the ships saw the final xxrv-ln CHAPTER Switzerland De­ thought tho. fire. v^uld set hci-vlcr the one who did poor old Murray." barbed wire. and spouting earth. Then our guns pew gets the first remjbod he has tasted plunge, and it was a sight to remember. In months. After b^Kwowered with attentions'he And I could see Murray as he looked started and the noise was deafening. When the ship started to go, the We were advancing with bayonets sails ai^Kjor America and when they took him down Jfrom the It was worse, than in the. turrets arrives safely in niHwk. 'fjecLand arms_»i thg. carrj^ so. wH Old rushed, back t& his cabin, (To be continued next week) 3^