1 %-'i! "HT vXfteXftgfS&tM i* SfeaawSSiilESSS!.* «to4ias ,ffPF*ir 3Pf .. yw 'j- -w v,'-"' -''V: :, '-." ". v' INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE SEVEN this engagement 1 have seen pictures poneu missing, ou uxree oi ua ncut and next morning weighed anchor an'i would not let me. He said tney were of sailors from the Werft who were over and two stayed there. It seems short of gunners—the terrific shelling started back, after clearing for action. prisoners at interment camps. very strange to me that both of my I was still pretty blue about Murray, had killed off dozens of them—and as When we arrived at Brest the pals should be crucified and if I re but very much relieved as to the he knew I coula point a gun he had wounded were taken from the ship in superstitious I do not know what I safety of my own skin, and I figured ordered them over the telephone to stretchers and after we had been rested would think about it. It made me that after the Dardanelles and my last get me to the beach as fast as possible. for about fifteen minutes on the sick and kept me from recovering as day there they had not made the right He spotted the two warehouses dock put into ambulances and rushed fast as I would" have done otherwise. bullet for me yet. The rest of us felt I have spoken of for me and said it to the hospital. On the way those who Both Brown and Murray were good about the same way and we were singing was up to us to put them out of commission. could leaned out of the ambulance and pals and very good men in a fight. all the time. The gun was a 14-inch naval, had a great time with the people along I often think of them both and about and that looked good to me, so I the streets, many of whom they knew, the things we did together, but lately bucked up a lot. The warehouses were CHAPTER XV. for the Cassard was a Brest ship. And I have tried not to think about theru about 10 or 11 miles away, I should of course the women and children much because it is very sad to think Je Suis BI esse. judge, and about 30 or 40 yards apart. yelled, "Vive la France!" and were what torture they must have had to As usual, when we got to Brest there I felt very weak, as I have said, glad to see the boys again, even stand. They were both of great credit was rush work day and night on the and shivered every once in a while, though they were badly done up. to this country. Cassard to get her out and supplies of so I did not think I could do much Some of our men were bandaged The American consul visited me all kinds were loaded for our next gunning worth whistling at. But they all over the face and head and it was Albert ADepi quite often and I got to calling him visit to the Turks. The French garbles loaded the old 14-inch and made ready, funny when they had to tell their Sherlock because he asked so many were always keen for the trip and wre got the range and all was set. names to old friends of theirs, who questions. We played lots of games back to Brest—they were sure of loading The officer told me to let her ride. EX'GUNNER AND CHIEF PETT^OPFfciKrUrS^NAVr. did not recognize them. As soon as together, mostly with dice, and had a is for up on tobacco and other things So I said to myself, "This one MEMBER, OF THE FOREIGN LEGION OF FRANCE one of the Brest people recognized a great time generally. After I became they needed. boy. Let's go from you, Murray, old friend off he would go to get cigarettes CAPTAIN GUN TURRET,. rtENCH BATTLESHIP tASSAPJ) convalescent he argued with me that My twelfth trip to the Dardanelles here." and other things for him and some of I had seen enough, and though I really WINNER OF THE CROIX DE GUERRE So I sent that one along and she was different from the others. The them almost beat us to the hospital. did think so—however much I disliked Sp*cm1Arrangement landed direct and the warehouse went Cassard was doing patrol work at the by 1911. Rcily and Brinon Co. Through With ihs George Maahcw Adams Soviet I do not know, of course, just what what I had seen—he got my discharge time in the neighborhood of Cape set my course r«»r —nere thntjr:. the surgeons did to me, but I heard from the service on account of physical Helles. Those of us who had served '•'re com minuets tion trenches were, that they had my eyeball out on my inability to discharge the usual on the Peninsula before were thanking iie right, and I just stood up and rnu cheek for almost two hours. At any duties. After I had been at the hospital our stars for the snap we were :'or I fijrirefi that p.s the shells wen rate they saved it The thigh wounds for a little over a month I was having—just cruising around waiting frilling so thick unci it was opei were not dangerous in themselves and discharged from it, after a little party for somethinig to happen. P'ouu'l 1. would not have any bette: if it had not been for the rough treatment in my ward with everyone taking part We had not been there very long before nnce if I crawled. they got later on they would be and all the horns blowing and all the something unexpected did happen, I tripper! several times and wenf quite healed by this time, I am sure. records except my favorite dirge for we ran into two enemy cruisers— '*vu. nnd each time thought I \vss I really think I got a little extra attention played one after another. which I afterwards heard were the Iiiwhen 1 got it in the thig1" in the hospital in many ways, Sherlock arranged everything for Werft and Kaiserliche Marine—one on :.t I-'-rmude it felt a good deal as for the French were at all times anxious me—my passage to New York, clothing, I the starboard and one on the port. fh:t:gn I had tripped over a rope to show thfir friendliness to etc. I ran up to St. Nazaire and How they had managed to sneak up Aiii.! one time when I fell a shell e: America. Every time my meals were saw my grandmother, loafed around •o near us I do not know. They ""ided near, me-and I began to sluve served there was a little American a while and also visited Lyons. opened up on us at not much more and I could not go on for flag on the platter and always a large After a short time I returned to tli an a thousand yards and gave us a ag nine. All this time I d: no American flag draped over the bed. I Brest and got my passage on the iiot time from the start, though with •J.ink I would get through, but Inula had everything I wanted given to me Georgic for New York. I had three any kind of gunnery they should have when I reached what had been ihcoimminication at once and when I was able to, all trunks with me full of things I had done for us thoroughly. trench I felt I 'ir,r. the cigarettes I could smoke, which picked up around Europe and had We came right back at them and done the worst part of it, and 1 l'».•!.'«.» were not many. been keeping with my grandmother. were getting in some pretty good sh#ts. to wish very hard that I wor.Iu Among my belongings were several While I was still in bed in the hospital I was in the 14-inch gun turret, starboard through—T was not at all crazy abov I received the Croix de Guerre, things I should like to show by photographs bow—my old hangout—and we going west. in this book, but no one but were letting them have it about four Gunner Depew The mcuth of the communion tie mermaids can see them now, for down shots every five minutes and scoring trench had been battered in and tl to the locker of Davy Jones they wrent. iieavily. trenches it joined with were al: tViie I 6o not know how long we had been up. There were rifles sticking ov CHAPTER XVI. Ighting when part of our range finder of them in several places, and A Narrative of the War was carried away. It was so hot, thought probably the men had bee: Captured by the Moewe. though, and we were so hard at it that buried alive in them. But it was to. So entirely new— When the tugs had cast off and after such a little tiling like that did noi late then, if they had been ennght, a while we had dropped our pilot, I bother us. It is hot in any gun turret, I climbed over the blocked entrant So big— said to myself: "Now we are off, and yut I have always noticed that it is the communication trench and atari So I Sent That One Along, and She it's the States for me—end of the hotter there in the Dardanelles than back along it. It led up through a sort So thrilling- Landed Direct. line—far as we go—IF—" But the in any other place. The sweat would of gully, and I thought it was a bad "if" did not look very big to me, simply cake up on us, until our faces place to dif a communication trench up in fire and smoke. I felt good then, Thai It Will Hold You though I could see it with the naked were just covered with a film of powdery in, because it gave the Turks soraething and I laid the wires on the other warehouse eye all right. stuff. Spellbound! like the side of a hill to shoot at. and let her go. But she was too I got up about four o'clock the next But the range finder was carried high and I made a clean miss. Then Every onee in a while I would have morning, which was Sunday, December away, and although it looked bad for I was mad, because I had sent that cO climb in and out of a shell hols, 10, 1916—a date I do not think I us I was feeling so good that I volunteered one over for myself. So I got the cross SYNOPSIS. and parts of them were blocked where will ever forget. to go on deck and get another wires on the warehouse again and, a shell had caved in the walls. In one As soon as I was dressed I went one. I got outside the turret CHAPTER I—Albert N. Depew, author I said to myself, "This is not for anybody, place I saw corpses all torn to pieces, of the story, enlists in the United States down to the forecastle peak and from just for luck, because I sure door and across the deck, got the necessary so I knew the Turks had found the navy, serving four years and attaining there into the paint locker, where I the rank of chief petty officer, first-claaa parts and was coming back have had plenty of it today." range and had got to this trench in gunner. found some rope. Then back again on Then the juice came through the with them when I received two machine-gun great shape. At another place I found deck, and made myself a hammock, CHAPTER II—The great war starts wires and into the charge, and away bullets in the right thigh lots of blood and equipment but no soon after he Is honorably discharged which I rigged up on the boat deck, One went clear through bone and al! she went, and up went the second bodies, and I figured that reinforcements from the navy and he sails for France figuring that I would have a nice sun with a determination to enlist. warehouse. That made two directs out and drilled a hole on the other side, had been caught at this spot bath, as the weather had at last of three, and I guess it hurt the Turks while the other came within an inch and that they had retired, taking their CHAPTER III—He joins the Foreign turned clear. Legion and is assigned to the dreadnaught some to lose all their ammunition. of going through. The peculiar thing casualties with them. Cassard where his marksmanship wins is that these two were in a line above As soon as I had the hammock The officer kissed me before I could him high honors. The Turks still had the range, and I Received the Croix de Guerre. strung I went down to the baker and duck and slapped me on the back and rhe wound I got at Dixmude. The line they were sending a shell into the CHAPTER IV—DepeW is detached from I keeled over. I was just all in. is almost as straight as you could had a nice chat with him—and stole a his ship and sent with a regiment of the trench every once in a while, and I which I had won at the Dardanelles. Legion to Flanders where he soon finds draw it with a ruler. few hot buns, which was what I was They brought me to with rum, and was knocked down again, though the himself in the front line trenches. The presentation was made by Lieutenant Of course it knocked me down and really after—and away to the galley they said I was singing when I came shell was so far away that it knocked Barbey. He pinned an American CHAPTER V—He is detailed to the artillery for breakfast. I was almost exactly I hit my head a pretty hard crack on to. When they tried to sing, to show me down with force of habit more and makes the acquaintance of the flag on my breast, a French flag amidships, sitting on an old orange "75's", the wonderful French guns that me what song it was, I figured it was than anything else. I felt dizzy and benehth it and beneath that the war have saved the day for the allies on many box. I had not been there long when "Sweet Adeline" they meant. But I shivered a lot, and kept trying to think a battlefield. Before seeing any action, he cross. He kissed me on both cheeks, Old Chips, the ship's carpenter, stuck do not believe I came to, singing, because is ordered back to his regiment In the of Murray or ahything else but myself. of course, which was taking advantage front line trenches. his head in the door and sang out, I never sang "Sweet Adeline" So finally I got to the top of the of a cripple. But it is the usual thing "Ship on the starboard bwv." I did CHAPTER VI—Depew goes "over the before, that I know of, or any other little hill over which the gully ran, with the French, as you know—I mean top" and "gets" his first German in a bayonet not pay any attention to him, because song when anybody was in range. But and on the other side I felt almost fight. the kissing, not the meanness to ships on the starboard bow were I heard it lots of times, so maybe safe. Just down from the crest of the cripples. CHAPTER VII—His company takes part no novelty to me, or on the port did sing it at that. hill was one of our artillery positions, in another raid on the German treaties When he had pinned the medal on either. Chips was not crazy about and shortly afterward assists in stopping Then I went to sleep feeling fine. with the good old "75s" giving it to the a fierce charge of the Huns, who are he said he thanked me from the bottom looking at her, either, for he came in Turks as fast as they could. I told The next morning the detachment mowed down as they cross No Man's of his heart for the French people, and sat on another box and began Land. the artillery officers what had happened, from the Cassard was withdrawn, and and also thanked all the Americans scoffing. He said he thought she was I saw some of the men who had been had a drink of water and CHAPTER VIII—Sent to Dixmude with who had come over from their own a tramp and that she flew the British dispatches, Depew is caught in a Zeppelin thought I would take a nap. But when in the two trenches, but I was not raid, but escapes unhurt. land to help a country with which flag astern. they telephoned the message back to near enough to speak to them. So I most of them were not connected. He I ate all I could get hold of and went CHAPTER IX—He is shot through the division headquarters the man at the do not know how they got out. thigh in a brush with the Germans and said it was a war in which many nations out on deck. I stepped out of the galley receiver said something to the officer is sent to a hospital, where he quickly You never saw a happier bunch in were taking part, but in which just in time to see the fun. The recovers. and he told me to stay there and be your life than we were when we piled N. there were just two ideas, freedom ship was just opposite us when away CHAPTER X—Ordered back to sea duty, ready. I thought sure he would send into the lifeboats and started for the and despotism, and a lot more things went our wireless and some of the Depew rejoins the Cassard, which makes rae back to where I came from and Cassard. The old ship looked pretty several trips to the Dardanelles as a convoy. that I cannot remember. He finished boats on the starboard side, and then, The Cassard is almost battered to I knew I never could make it again, good to us, you can bet, and we said by saying that he wished he could decorate pieces by the Turkish batteries. boom boom! and we heard the report but I did not say anything. if we never put our hoofs on that place all of us. of the guns. I heard the shrapnel CHAPTER XI—The Cassard takes part When I looked around I saw that again it would be soon enough. Of course it was great stuff for me whizzing around us just as I had many many hot engagements in the memorable our real position was to the right of We were shelled on our way out to Gallipoli campaign. ana I thought I was the real thing a time before. I jumped back in the where the artillery was, and that there the Cassard, and one boat was overturned, CHAPTER XII—Depew is a member of sure enough, but I could not help galley and Chips and the cook were were three lines of trenches with a landing party which sees fierce fighting but the men were rescued. thinking of the remark I have heard shaking so hard they made the pans In the trenches at Gallipoli. French infantry in them. So the Two men in the launch I was in were here in the States—"I thank you and rattle. trenches I had come from were more CHAPTER XIII—After an unsuccessful wounded. But we did not pay any the whole family thanks you." And it When the firing stopped I went up trench raid, Depew tries to rescue two like outposts than anything el so, *anu attention to that shelling—the Turks wounded men in No Man's Land, but both was hard not to laugh. Also it seemed to the boat deck. I had on all of my wore: cut off. I felt pretty sure, then, die before he can reach the trenches. might just as well have been blowing funny to me, because I did not rightly clothing, but instead of shoes I was that the boys in them would never peas at us through a soda straw for CHAPTER XIV—Depew wins the Croix know just what they were giving me wearing a pair of wooden clogs. The I Was Able to Cra« on to the Turret come back alive, because as soon as de Guerre for bravery in passing through all we cared. the medal for—though it was for one men and boys were crazy—rushing Door. a terrific artillery fire to summon aid to -heir Are 1«t up the Turks would advane**, I noticed that when we came near his comrades in an advanced post. o? two things—and I do not know tc around the deck and knocking each an-*, to .keep them back our gun^ the Cassard the other boats held up the steel deck, but I was able to cra^: this day. But I thought it would not other down, and everybody getting in CHAPTER XV—On his twelfth trip to uulrt l:«ve to wipe out our men, and and let our launch get into the lead, on to the turret door. Just fc* :t the Dardanelles, he is wounded in a naval lit- polite to ask, so I let it go at that ir I.ej did not, the Turks would. At everybody else's way. We lowered our engagement and, after recovering in a and that we circled around the Cassard's about to enter the gun was fired. TW hospital at Brest, he is discharged from There were twelve other naval officers 1 glad 1 had come out, but Jacob's ladders, but some of the men bows and came up. on the star* service and sails for New Tork on the particular charge happened to be defective. who were present and they and I reo-embered what the artillery and boys were already in the water. steamer Georgic. board side, which was unusual. But The shell split and caused a all the other people did a lot of cheering Why they jumped I do not know. officer had said and 1 figured 1 won: I did not think anything of it until I CHAPTER XVI—The Georgic is captured back fire and the cordite, fire and gas and vived me to a fare-you-well. by the German raider Moewe. Depew, Then the German raider Moewe have to go back and stay with then, came over the side. There were the came through the breech, which the with other survivors, is taken aboard It was great stuff, altogether, and 1 headed right in toward us and I or bring them back. Either way there the Moewe. side boys lined up, and the Old Man explosion had opened. should have liked to get a medal every thought she was going to ram us, but was not one chance in a hundred that was there, with the ship's steward It must have been a piece of cordite CHAPTER XVII—Transferred to the day. she backed water about thirty yards any of us would make it. Because beside him. Yarrowdale, which was captured later by which did it, but whatever it was, it One day I received a letter from a the Moewe, Depew and other prisoners away. She lowered a lifeboat and it when I got through it was really just He took the log book from the steward hit me in the right eye and blinded it suffer terrible hardships until they arrive man who had been in my company in made for the Georgic, passing our a miracle and nobody would have in Germany. and showed it tc me, and there The ball of the eye was saved by the the Foreign Legion and with whom I men in the water as they came and thought it could happen. was my name on it. Now when you French surgeons and looks normal, but CHAPTER XVIII—At Swinemunde, they had been pretty chummy. His letter crashing them on the head with boat- Then the officer told me to go back are placed in a prison camp where they are punished for anything you are it pains me greatly sometimes and was partly in French and partly in suffer te'rribly from cold, hunger and mistreatment to the beach, where our naval guns logged, but I could not figure out what hooks they tell me it will always be sightless. when they could reach them. at the hands of the guards. English. It was all about who had were, and that I was detailed to them. I had done to get punished for, so I kegs I noticed that there were red in been killed and who had been wounded. CHAPTER XIX—The prisoners are Maybe you do not think I was glad? was very much surprised. But the transferred to Neustrelitz, but get no better I was unconscious immediately from the German boat. He also mentioned Murray's But there was rough work still ahead treatment there than at Swinemunde. Old Man slapped me on the back and the blow and from the quantity of gas When the lifeboat reached the Jacob's death, which he had heard about, and of me, because when I got behind the everybody cheered, and then I saw It which I must have swallowed. This ladders I went over to the port Chapter XX—After several weeks at about my receiving the Croix de third line I saw a wide open field that Neustrelitz, they are transferred once was not punishment, but just the opposite. side of the Georgic and then the Germans gas did me a great deal of damage Guerre. I was wishing he had said more to Dulmen, Westphalia, experiencing was light gray from the shell smoke more of the same brand of German Kultur and gives me dizzy spells often to this came over the side and hoisted something about Brown, whom I had hanging over it, and I could see the while making the journey. When people ask me what I have up the kegs. The Germans were day. I do not know what happened not heard from and who I knew wonld flashes where the big ones were doing de received my decoration for (Croix armed with bayonets and revolvers. CHAPTER XXI—Mr. Gerard, the American during the rest of the engagement, as visit me if he had the chance. ambassador, visits Dulmen and when their work, and I had to go through Guerre), I tell them I do not rightly Some of them went down into the engine I did not regain consciousness until he finds Depew there, tells him he will But two or three days later I got that field. a fact. do know, and that is I not room and opened the sea cocks. endeavor to secure 'his release. three days later at sea. But I heard another letter from the same man and I fell time and again, sometimes know whether it was for going back About this time some of the Limeys in the hospital that the French superdreadnaught CHAPTER XXII—Within a short time, when I opened it out tumbled a photograph "J[ when I thought a shell was near, and or for from those trenches destroying came up from the poop deck and I Depew is transferred to another camp at Jeanne d'Arc and the At first all I saw was that it Brandenburg, known to prisoners as "The sometimes when I had no reason for the storehouses. So I always tell them was told them to stay where I and light cruiser Normandy were in it as Hell Hole of Germany. was the photograph of a man crucified it—only I was thirsty again, and was I got it for working overtime. That that the Germans would take us over well as ourselves, though not at the with bayonets, but when I looked at a?* CHAPTER XXIII—Ambassador Gerard shivering all the time, and was so is what the Limeys say, or if they in lifeboats. Another squad of Ger-~ time I was wounded, and that we had leaves Germany, with the breaking of it closely I saw it was Brown. I weak I could not have choked a goldfish. have the Victoria cross they say they diplomatic relations by the United States, mans hoisted eight of the dynamite all been pretty well battered. The fainted then, just like a girl. but the Spanish ambassador visits the I do not remember hardly anything for careless. got it being very Ask kegs on their shoulders and down into Cassard lost 96 men in the engagement camp at Brandenburg and arranges for When I came to I could hardly make about going through that field, one of them and see. No. 5 hold with them. Depew's release. He finally reaches and had 48 wounded. Some of myself, think about it. Two of my Rorschach, Switzerland, and is free. and you might say the next thing I All of us were certainly glad to be saw Mean time the Germans us up our turrets were twisted into all manner pals gone! It hurt me so much to knew was when I was overtaken by CHAPTER XXIV. Switzerland Dehe iboard the Cassard again, and if any on the boat deck and came up after of shapes and part of our bow think*of it that" I crushed the letter pew gets the first has tasted a dispatch runner, and got in a tin place ever looked like home to me it us. And over went the Limeys. But was carried away. One of our lieutenants In months. After Showered with at~!or up In my hand, but later on I could tub at the side of a motorcycle and tentions he sails America and was the old ship. Our casualties were I waited and one or two more waited was killed in the engagement of Arrives safely in read parts it It said they had fork. was taken to the guns. very high and we were therefore ordered With me. When the Germans came ud I was told that both the Werft and found Brown this way near Dixmude I felt ready for a Rip Van Winkle to put back to Brest. We haa kit the Kaiserliche Marine were sunk in about fr^o days after he had been re- nnn then, but the officer in command a great little celebration that nieht. (To be continued next week)