v.-pe* T,+ "Lp !SSSSiiSKSSBl®S r-- w*f INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE SEVEN sototoq oers or tne names by that time, but a i/iey were piaying cricKet^-stanum^ rear in case any or our troops position had his head taken clean off around On a lawn with paddles in their try to signal us. When I looked working party got them, along with of his shbulders, and the rest him hands, half asleep. The Limeys are through a little gully at the top of others, so it was all right. landed near my feet and squirmed a the hole, toward the other trench, all My clothes were a mess, as I have certainly cool under fire, though, and little, like a chicken that had just been I I think that because the Anzacs did said, and I wasf so tired I thought I killed. It was awful to see the body $ so well at sGallipoli people have not could sleep for a week, but I could without any head move around that not stand it in my clothes any longer. given enough, credit to the British way, and we could hardly make ourselves regulars and R. N. D.'s, who werei It was absolutely against regulations, touch it for some time. Then but I took off all my clothes—the there too, and did jtheir share of the we rolled* it to the other side of the work, and did it as well as any men blood had soaked Into the skin—and hole. wrapped myself in nothing but air could.' Then, to one side of us, there was A After a while this officer started on and went right to sleep. I did not a more violent explosion than any yet. his way again, and as he cut across sleep very well, but woke up every The earth spouted up and fell on us, the road a French officer came up. once id a while and thought I was in and big clouds of black smoke, sliding The Limey wore a monocle, which the hole again. along the ground, covered, our shell During the night they brought ttf) caused the French officer to stare at hole and hung there for some time. him a minute before he saluted. After water, but I was asleep and did not One of our sergeants, from the regular the Englishman had passed him the know it. They did not wake me, French infantry, said it was a shell but two' men saved by share, Frenchman took a large French penny from a Turkish 155-mm. howitzer. though usually In a case like that It out of his pocket, screwed it into his That was only the first one. The eye and turned toward us so that we was everybody for himself and let the worst thing about them was the smoke EX-GUNNER AND CHIEF PETTY^CFFfCERrlJr^-NAVy, last man go dry. You could not blame could see it, but the Limey could not. —people who think Pittsburgh is MEMBEK OF THE FOREIGN LEGION OF FRANCE That was not the right thing to do, them, either, so I thought it was smoky ought to see about fifty of those CAPTAIN GUN TURRET, FRENCH BATTLESHiP CASSAB.D *^7 especially before enlisted men, so our pretty decent of these two to save my big howitzer shells bursting, one after officers did not laugh, but the men did, WINNER OF THE CROIX DE GUERRE share for me. I believe tjjey must another. have had a hard time keeping the and so loud that Limey turned around £nri0fcMltyM^r and Brim Co, Thrau0 Special Amngcmcni Wihthe George Maohew Adam Soviet We could not tell what the rest of others off of it, to say nothing of themselves, and caught sight of the Frenchman. our line was doing or how we were -ij aie other chap into He started back toward him and I for there really was not more standing the awful fire, but we felt one of two holes made by the shell. than enough for one good drink all thought sure there would be a fight, sure they were not having any worse I Some pieces of the shell had stuck or that, more likely, the Limey would around. It tasted better than anything time than we were. In a few minutes into the (lirt in the hole and they were report him. Our officers should have I have ever drunk. Go dry for 24 we heard the good old "75s" start {-•till hot. Also, there was a sort of hours in the hottest weather you' can placed the Frenchman under arrest, pounding, and it was like hearing an gns there that hung around for several at that. find, do a night's work like that, and old friend's voice over the telephone, minutes, but it was not very bad. The Frenchman expected trouble, come to in the morning with a tin and everybody in our shell hole The man began talking to me, and cup full of muddy water being handed too, for he pulled up very straight and cheered, though no one could hear us All I Could See Was Barbed Wire and he said it was an honor to lie on the stiff, bat he left the penny in his eye. jto you, and you will know what I and we could barely hear each other. Smoke. field of battle with a leg shot off and The Limey came up to him, halted a mean. Still we knew that if the "75s" got dead men piled all about you, and few paces off and, without saying I could see was barbed wire and At Gaba Tepe there were steep little going in their usual style they would some not dead but groaning. He told a word, took the monocle out of his hills with quarries in between them, smoke and two or three corpses. I do for an enemy battery or -two, and me I would soon be able to hear the eye, twibbled it three or four feet in began to shiver a little, and I was and most of the prisoners we took that looked good to us. The "75s" grcanin,:, though I had not saH I the air and caught it in his other eye afraid I would get shell shock, too. were caught in the quarries. We made the noise worse, but it was already minded it, or anything about it. Then found lots of dead Turks under piles when it came down. So I began to think about Murray and about as bad as it could be, ho said again .what an honor it was, "Do that, you blighter,", he said and how he looked when they took him of rock, where our guns had battered and a thousand guns more or less and asked if I had a drink for him. faced about and was on his way down off the wall. But that did not stop the the walls of the quarries down on would not have made it any harder I had not had any water all daj, anu the road. They had it on the Frenchman shivering, so I thought about my grandmother them. to stand. I told him so, but he kept on asking after that. and how she looked the last We were fighting about this part of One of our men shouted in the sergeant's for it all tlie same. Some of the Turkish This Phillippe Pierre, of whom I time I saw her. I was thinking about the country one time when we saw ear that the men in line ahead bombers must have sneaked up her, I guess, and not keeping a very have spoken, told me a story about three motor trucks disappear over the of us and to the right were trying to pretty close to our lines, for when two Limey officers that I hardly believed, good lookout, when a man rolled over side of a hill going across country. give us a message of some kind. The looked out of the hole toward otr yet Phillippe swore it was the the edge and almost fell on me. He The detachment from the Cassard was sergeant stuck his head above the lines, and a shell burst near them: truth. He had been in America before was from the other trenches. I carried sent over on the run and we er.me parapet and had a look. But I stayed Gunner Depew I could see a Turk coming toward us. the war, and he said he had seen one him into the dugout and then went out upon the Turks from those trucks and where I was—the sergeant could see We played dead then, but I had mv of the officers that the story is about again and stood my watch until the several others just after they had got for himself and me, too, as far as I bayonet ready for him in case he had relief came. We were doing half-hour jnany times in New York. out and were starting ahead on foot. was concerned. seen us and decided to.come up to tluhole. He said there were two Limey officers shifts. We captured that whole bunch—I do He shouted at us that the men in A Narrative of the War Evidently he had not, for whei going along the road arguing When I got into the dugout again not know how many in all. They were the other trench were trying to signal CIJL- he got near the hole he steered to the man was coming to. He was just about the German shells which the reinforcements on their way to a part something, but he could not make it about as near shell shock as I had side and went around. 'Turks were using. One of the officers of their line that we were battering So entirely new— out because the clouds of smoke would been—by this time I was shivering said they were no good because they The other gnrby was cheerful wl:an very hard, and by capturing them we roll between them and break up the only once in a while, when I did not So big— be was not asking for water, but you did not burst. Just about that time helped the Anzacs a great deal, for words'. So he laid down again in the watch myself. He said four men had a shell came along and they picked could see he was going fast. So v.*e sat they were able to get through for a bottom of the hole. But after a while So thrilling— been sliced up trying to get to us before themselves up quite a distance from big gain. he looked over the parapet and saw he came that they had lost where they had been standing. Another We held that position, though they a man just leaving their trench, evidently II men out of their 32, including the That It Will Hold You shell whizzed by and landed fiat rained shells on us so hard all that '••aa.. with a message for us, and he sergeant-major in command and two on the side of the road.** The officer day and night that we thought they had not gone five steps before he was Spellbound! corporals that they were almost out walked over, dtig it out of the ground, were placing a barrage for a raid, and blown to pieces, and the lad who followed of ammunition that the trenches on and took away the detonator and fuse stood to arms until almost noon the him got his, too, so they stopped both sides of them had been blown in —to prove that they did not explode! next day. But our guns gave back trying then. and that they were likely to go to SYNOPSIS. The only thing that would make shell for shell, and pounded the Turkish And all the time the "75s" were pieces at any moment. He said they me believe that story i# that Phillippe trenches and broke shrapnel over sefiding theirs to the Turks not far all thought the Turks would attack CHAPTER I—Albert N. Depew, author Pierre said they were Limey officers. them until they had all they could of the story, enlists in the United States over our heads to 900 yards behind behind their barrage, for he said the No one but a Limey would remember do to stay in them. navy, serving four years and attaining us, and the howitzers were dropping curtain of fire did not extend more the rank of chief petty officer, first-class such an argument after being Finally, our guns placed shell after gunner. their 240-pound bits of iron in every than a hundred yards in front of their knocked galley west by a shell concussion. shell on the enemy's communication vacant space and some that were not trench. What they wanted us to do CHAPTER II—The great war starts I do not doubt that a Limey trenches, and they .could neither bring Is soon after he honorably discharged vacant. It was just one big roar and was to relay a man back with the would do it if it could be done, though. up reinforcements nor retire. So we from the navy and he flails for France, screech and growl all at once, like news and either get the word to advance with, a determination to enlist. went over and cleaned them out and turning the whole dog pound loose or retire or await reinforcements, CHAPTER XIV. took the trench. But thep, our guns CHAPTER III—He joins the Foreign on a piece of meat. they did not care which—only Legldn and is assigned to the dreadnaught had to stop because we were in range, Cassard where his marksmanship wins The concussions felt like one long to be ordered to do something. There The Croix de Guerre. him'high honors. and the Turks brought up reinforcements string of boxes on the eaf, and our was not a commissioned officer left When we had been on the shore from other parts of the line and CHAPTER IV—Depew Is detached from throats were so dry that it hurt to with either of the detachments, you for about three weeks we found ourselves his ship and sent with a regiment of the we were driven back after holding swallow, which always makes your see, and you might say we were up Legion to Flanders where ne soon finds one morning somewhere near their trench all afternoon. It was himself in the front line trenches. ears feel better after a strong concussion. In the air—only we were really as far Sedd-el-Bahr under the heaviest fire about fifty-fifty, though, for when they One after another of our boys CHAPTER V—He is detailed to the artlllenr In the ground as we could get I ever experienced. Our guns and the reinforced one part of the line some and makes the acquaintance of the was slipping to the ground and digging The man thought there were other Turks' were at it full blast, and the "76's the wonderful French guns that of our troops would break-through in have saved the day for the allies on many his fists into his ears, and the re^t of of our lines not far behind us, but we noise was worse than deafening. another part. a battlefield. Before seeing any action, he them sat on the parapet fire step with knew better so then he said he did A section of my company was lying is ordered back to his regiment in the That night there was a terrible rainstorm. front line trenches. their heads between their knees and not see how any one could get back out in a shell hole near the communication I guess it was really a cloudburst. their arms wrapped around their from there to our nearest lines. I trench with nothing to do CHAPTER VI—Depew goes "over the We had all the water we top" and "gets" his first German in bayonet heads. did not see either. Then we all figured but wait for a shell to find them. We wanted then, and more, too. A great fight. Our sergeant came to me after a we were forgotten and would not were stiff and thirsty and uncomfortable,-and many men and mules were drowned, CHAPTER VII—His company takes part I Picked Him Up and Started Back. while and began acting just like rome out of there alive, and you can had not slept for two nights. both of our troops and the Turkish. In another raid on the Qerman treaties people do at a show, only he shouted believe me or not, but I did not much and shortly afterward assists In stopping In that time we had been under constant Trenches were washed in and most of there In the hole and he died. Shortly a fierce charge of the Huns, who are care. Anything would be better than Instead of: whispered in my ear. When fire and had stood off several the works ruined." There were: several mowed down as they cross No Man's afterward the five slackened a little just staying there in that awful noise Laqtt. Turkish bodies washed into our trench, and I got out. and started toward our raiding parties and small attacks from people are looking at one show they with nothing to do, and no water. CHAPTER Vni—Sent to Dlxmude with and two ^mtrtes came over together, lines. Bui 1 remembered about iht enemy trenches. always want to tell you how good some Our sergeant said he would not ask dispatches, Depew Is caught In a Zeppelin though whether they were Turkish or raid, but escapes unhurt. other wounded man I had passed We had no sooner got used to the other show is, and that was the way any man to attempt to carry the message^ French or British I do not know. when I was carrying Phllllppe Pierre, shell hole and were making ourselves with the sergeant. because he said it was not only CHAPTER IX—He is shot through the A few days after the rain stopped thigh in a brush with the Germans and so I began hunting for him, and after "You should see what they did to as comfortable as possible In it when certain death, but absolutely useless. Is sent to a hospital, where he quickly I was going along the road to the a long time I found him. He was still along came a shell of what must have us at St. Elol," he said. "They just recovers. And he began to show that he was docks at "V" beach when I saw some alive. His chest was all smashed in baptized us with the big fellows. They been the Jack Johnson size, and we near shell shock himself. CHAPTER X—Ordered back to sea duty, examples of the freakishness of shells. and he was badly cut up around the were swamped. We had to dig three did not know when to stop. When you Depew rejoins the Cassard, which makes Then I began to shiver again, and I There was a long string of mules going several trips to the Dardanelles as a convoy. neck and shoulders. I picked him up see shelling that is shelling, you will of the men out, and though one of thought to myself that anything would The Cassard is almost battered to back to the trenches with water and started back, but ran into some them was badly wounded we could not know it, my son." pieces by the Turkish batteries. be better than sitting in this hole waiting and supplies of various kinds. We barbed wire and had to go around. "Well, if this is not shelling, what send him back to the hospital. In to go "cafard," so I decided to volunteer. CHAPTER XI—The Cassard takes part drew up to one side to let them pass. I was pretty tired by this time and fact, the shelling was so heavy that the devil is it? Are they trying to a many hot engagements in the memorable I did not think there was any Galllpoll campaign. Two or three mules away from us awfully thirsty, and I thought If 1 did kid us or are you, mon vieux?" which none of us ever expected to come out chance to get through, but It seemed was an old-timer with only one ear, not rest a little bit I could never make is a French expression that means CHAPTER XII—Depew is a member of of it alive. as if 1 just had to do something, no a landing party which sees fierce fighting and that very gray, loaded to the gunwales It. I was so tired and nervous that something like "old timer." So, it was like keeping your own matter what. I had never felt that in the trenches at Galllpoll. with bags of water. He had had I did not care much whether I did death watch, with the shells tuning "My son, when you see dugouts way before, and had never been CHAPTER XIII—After an unsuccessful his troubles, that old boy, but they get back or not, and the wounded up for the dirge. It was Impossible to caved in, roads pushed all over the anxious to "go west" with a shell for trench raid, Depew tries to rescue two were just about over, for there was a garby was groaning all the time. wounded men lnNo Man's Land, but both listen to'the shells. If you kept your map, guns wrecked, bodies twisted up company, but I have felt that way die before he can reach the trenches. flash and the next Instant you could So when I thought the shells were mind on the noise for any length of in knots and forty men killed by one since then several times, I can tell not see a thing left of Old Missouri. coming pretty thick again I got Into a CHAPTER XIV—Depew wins the Croix time it' would split your eardrums, I shell—then you will know you are you. de Guerre for bravery In passing through He just vanished. But two of the shell hole and it was the same one am sure. So all we could do was to seeing shelling.'* a terrific artillery fire to summon aid to The man was telling us that some water bags' were not even touched, I had left not long before. The dead his comrades in an advanced pott. lay low in the shell hole and wait for Then one of our men sat up straight time before they had seen the Turks and another one had only a little hole garby was there just as I had left him. something to happen. against the parapet and stared at us CHAPTER XV—On his twelfth trip to bringing up ammunition from some in it. There they lay on the ground, The wounded one was bleeding all the Dardanelles, he is wounded In a naval Then they began using shrapnel on and began to shake all over, but we storehouses, but they did not come engagement and, after recovering In a just as though you had taken the mule over, and my clothes were just soaked us, and one of our machine gunners, could not get him to say anything or hospital at Brest, he Is discharged from anywhere near. He said their sergeant out from under them. The mules next service and sails for New York on the with, blood from the three men, but who got up from his knees to change move. So we knew he had shell shock. wanted our messenger to tell them steamer Georgic. him, fore ind aft, were knocked down mpst of all from him. There was some And another man watched him for a that, too. He would say a few words by the concussion but unharmed but CHAPTER XVI—The Georgic Is captured of my own blood on me, too, for when while, and then he began to shake, very fast, then he would shiver again, by the. German raider Moewe. Depew, the third mule behind had one ear I was knocked down by the shell my with other survivors, is taken aboard too. The sergeant said that If we and his jaws would clip together and cut to shreds, and the man behind the Moewe. nose bled and kept bleeding for a long stayed there much longer we would he would try to raise his hand, but him was badly shot up and stunned. time, but, of course, that was nothing not be fit to repel an attack, so he CHAPTER XVII—Transferred to the could not. Yarrowdale, which was captured later by A little farther on a shell had struck compared to the bleeding of the ordered us into the two dugouts we Then our sergeant asked the name the Moewe, Depew and other prisoners the road and plowed a furrow two or others. suffer terrible hardships until they arrive had made in the hole, and only himself of the other sergeant, and when the in Germany. three feet wide, and just as Straight The worst of all was that he kept and another man stayed outside on man told him he said the man was groaning for water, and it made me as an arrow for three of four yards CHAPTER XVIII—At Swlneihunde,l:hey watch. senior to himself and therefore in are placed in a prison camp where they it then turned off at almost a thirstier than I had been, even. But The men in the dugout kept asking command and would have to be obeyed. suffer terribly from cold, hunger and mistreatment right angle and continued for a yard there was not a drop of water anywhere, at the hands of the guards. each other when the bombardment He seemed to cheer up a lot after or two more before it burst and made and I knew, there was no use would end, and why we were not reinforced, he said this and did not shiver any CHAPTER XIX—The prisoners are searching- any bodies for flasks. So a big hole. That Turk gunner must transferred to Neustrelits, but'get no better and what was happening, and more, so I thought I would volunteer treatment there than at Swinemunde. have put a lot of English on that shell we just had to stick it out. Pretty whether the Turks would attack us. I then, so I said to him, "Well, mon when he fired It. He got somebody's Chapter XX—After several weeks at soon the wounded man quit groaqlng was easy to see why we were not rein vieux, do you think we are seeing real Neustrelits, they are transferred once number with that shot, too, and the and was quiet, and I knew he was forced—no body of men could have shelling now?" And then I was going more to Dulmen, Westphalia, experiencing lad paid pretty high, for there was more of the same brand of German Kultur going to die too. It made" me mad to got to us from the reserve trenches. to say I would go, but he looked at while making the journey. blood around the hole, not quite dry think that I had not beeni.of any use The communication trenches were me in a funny way for a second and American when we got to it. CHAPTER XXI—Mr. Gerard, the in carrying these tyro men around, quite a distance from us and mere then said,, "Well, my son, suppose you -3 ambassador, visits Dulmen and when Coming back along the same-road we but if I had gone^ on with either of battered up at that. Some of the men he go and find out" finds'Depew, there, tdls him he will halted to let another convoy' of mules endeavor to secure his release. them it would have been just the same said we had been forgotten! and that I thought he was kidding me at first go past, and an officer of'the Royal —they would have died and probably the rest of our troops had .either retired CHAPTER XXII—Within a short time. but then I saw he meant it I thought Depew is transferred to another camp at naval division came up and began I woul* have got it, too. When I figured or advanced and that we and two things about it—one was that anything Brandenburg, known to prisoners as "The talking to our officers. He was telling it out this Way I tfolt worrying the men in the trench who had tried was better than staying there, Hall Hole of Germany. them how he and his jnen had landed about, it, only I wished the fife would to signal us were the only detainments and the other was that the old dugout CHAPTER XXIII—Ambassador Gerard at "X" beach, and how they had to let up. left there. leaves Germany, with the breaking of was a pretty fair place after all. But 1 diplomatic relations by the United States, wade ashore through barbed wire. So the other man dled,andthere Pretty soon another mail and I I did not say anything to the sergeant but the Spanish ambassador visits the "And, you know,** he said in' a surprised were two of them in the hble.fllreajl camp at Brandenburg and arranges for relieved the two men who were outside or the other men—just went Deftew's He release. finally reaches way, as if he himself could the numbers on their identification on watch, and as he went down out of the dugout. The sergeant and is Rorschach, Switzerland, and free. hardly believe it, "the beggars were disks when shells burst nearenough into the dugout the sergeant shouted another man went with me and boosted CHAPTER XXIV-ta Switzerland Depsw actually'firing on us!" That is just so that I could see them, and after a to its that he thought the Turks were me over the back wall of the hole. gets the first iSMinnil ha has tasted like the Limeys, though. Their idea His Head Taken Clean Off His Shoulders. while got back to our^Dea asd rolled months. After beKfihowered with attentions afraid tp .attack, fie also ordered one I lay flat on the ground for a minute to is he sails ni^^for Amerlc* and npt to appear excited about anyt|Un*At%anv .• •. In. I could not m•wttber.' the JMUft- of ns to keen a live eye toward -our get my bearings, and then started off. •wires lilBmrt safely In time* bgt to tfctss though (To be continued next week) Jk