Wi m. •wwrjHBSPH' 53gS«j^3PVrn»J7T- INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS Rjri -if- f*1 PAGE SEVEN tne at ana It was awful to see the men when Limey group Neustrelitz mere was a pair ul wooae^ aitms serve soldiers, ana rougnuecKs generally. bar* two large Zeppelin sheds. The leading to the top of the poop decfc, we got back to the barracks. Some of We could see the spit experts 1 at racks were just about like those and Joyce and Hill lifted it and got the boys from the Georgic, not much —the spit snipers, deployed to the Swinemunde—at least, they wer no over twelve years old, were almost it over the side with a rope to it. The front, almost. better. Along the sides of the roo.:.* crazy, but even the older men were two of them got down into the water As we went ashore, the bombardment were long shelves or benches, and all right, but Joyce let out a yell because crying, many of them. It was nothing began, and we were not only every three feet were boards set in but torture all the time. They opened the water was so cold, and a under fire of spit, if you could call it grooves. The shelves were what we all the windows and doors in the barracks, German patrol boat heard him and that, but also of rocks and bottles and had to sleep on, and the boards in the flashed a searchlight. They picked up and then we could not heat the sticks and most anything that could grooves divided them up so that only room with our bodies. iWhen we started Joyce right away, but Barney was be thrown. a certain number of men could use to move around, to keep warm, they making good headway and was almost All this time, "lest you forget," we each bench. fired r. few shots at us. I do not free when they dragged him in. They had no shoes, and no clothing—only The following morning we nearly know whether they hit anyone or.not beat them up on the patrol boat, and what had once been our underwear. dropped dead when the Huns pulled we had got so that we did not pay any when they put them back on the It is all right to be a Coney Island in a large wagon full of clothing. We attention to things like that. But it Yarrowdale Badewitz beat them up snowbird and pose around in your thought we never would have anything stopped us, and we had to stand still. some more and put them in irons. bathing suit in the drifts, because you to wear but our underclothes. The Huns thought we would take the Then he began to shoot at their feet are in good condition, and last but not They issued to each man a pair of rifles from the sentries and use them, with his revolver, and he had a sailor least, because you do not have to do Albert Depew: trousers,. thin model, a thin coat too. stand by to hand him another revolver it. Figure out the other side of it about like the seersucker coats some I never saw a yellower" bunch of when the first one was empty. for yourself. people in my life. I do not mean people. people wear in the summer, an overcoat Then he would gash their faces with They marched us into afield where EX'GUNNER AND CHIEF PETTY^OFFfCEf^U.^-NAVjr about as warm as if it had been I wish I could publish what I the barrel of the revolver and shcut, there was nothing much but guns and made of cigarette papers, a skull cap really mean. MEMBERv OF THE FOREIGN LEGION OF FRANCE ^ZC^ "I'm Badewitz. I'm the man who ammunition and sriow, and set us up We had stoves in the barracks, but and a pair of shoes, which were a fooled the English," and shoot at them CAPTAIN GUN TURRET, FRENCH BATTLESHIP CASSAP.D in something like skirmish formation. day's labor to carry around. Not one no coal or wood to burn. There were some more. We stood there for some time, and WINNER OF THE CROIX DE GUERRE of us received socks, shirts or underwear. many boxes piled up there, but they All the while the sailors were cele* then we saw a lot of Huns with tho fccpyritf*. 1913. by My and Briton Co., Through Spcckl Arrangement With the George Matthew Adam Service belonged to the Germans. We would brating, drinking and eating, and yelling, new long rifles coming toward us, Then we went through the KKagei The toe was cut from the right shoe have burned them if we could, but as usual, and the whistles on all yelling just as they did in battle, and .'sick and Cattegiit, which are nurrow of the pair I received, and as my the Germans made us carry them the German ships were blowing, and we thought sure we were being used .-•trips of water leading to the Baltic. wounds were in the right thigh and across the road. They weighed about they were having a great fest. After for practice targets. It is a good 'id we were only a mile from shore my leg had stiffened up considerably 150 pounds apiece, and we were so about thirty hours we left, being escorted thing they halted and stopped yelling 'Itii vess.cl.-5 all about us. It would and got very sore, I got pretty anxious, weak that it was all two men could do by a mine-layer and a minesweeper. when they did, or we would have !i:ive been an easy thing for me txnal to budge them. And we had to carry because there was nothing but I asked a German garby if started for them to fight it out, for what our .ship was a: :d wlicw.'lC slush underfoot, and I w7as afraid I them they would not let us roll them. that was the whole German navy, and we were not the kind that likes to be aboard, but they had six enfrio: might lose my leg. So I thought that We were so cold and hungry that even he looked surprised and did not know butchered with hands in the air, and my neck all the time to keep if I went to the commander and made that exercise did not warm us. I was kidding him, and said no. Then we would have been glad for a chance it I never war.ted to do air.'-worse a kick I might get a good shoe. I hesitated About 2:30 the whistle blew again, I said, "So the English got all the rest, to get a few of them before they got in my life than jum}.lizard about it at first, but finally made and the Huns picked out a few men did they?" and he handed me one in ns. But they did halt, and then surrounded or signal. Bur. I would up my mind and went to see him. and took them down the road. We the mouth with his bayonet hilt, so I us, and drilled us away been shot down before I had I told him that it was slushy outside, could not figure out why, but they quit kidding him. through swamps and woods and shallow than started to do either, EO and that the water ran through the came back about three o'clock, all of We saw rows and rows of mines, water or slush. The women followed, y:i y(-d with the wheel. hole in my shoe and made it bad for them with bread in their arms. They and the German sailors pointed out too, and there were plenty of Wo were Hearing one of the Djn--h my whole leg, which was wounded. were chewing away on it when they what they said were H. M. SS. Lion bricks and spit left. Women as weli islands in the Baltic when we He examined the shoe, and looked at had a chance. Whenever the sentries and Nomad, but I do not know whether as men are the same the world over, &j h1od a tug. She be!" in to sr.it:k3 the open toe for some time, and I were not looking they would bite at it they were the same ones that were they say. I wonder? You can just up and blow her siren. The sailors got thought he was going to put up an like a fish going after a worm. Each in the Jutland battle or not. Finally picture the women of, say, Rockland, very excited and ran around in crazy argument, but would give in finally. man carried five loaves. we landed at Swinemunde just as the Mo., following a crowd of German styie, and Ikulewitz began shouting Then he asked me what I wanted. I When they got in the barracks the prisoners that way, can't ymt? Not! bells were ringing the old year out more orders than tl ej could get away thought that was plain enough to see, sentries made them put the bread and the new year in. We were a fine But of course the women of Rockland with. The sentries left me. and ran but I said just as easily as I could down on the floor, and then, with are pretty crude—no kultur at all— bunch of blackbirds to hand the kaiser Gunner Depew with the rest of the Fritzies to the that I wanted a shoe without a hole their bayonets, the sentries cut each and Gott never commissioned President for a New Year's present, believe me. boat deck and started to lower one of in the toe. loaf once down the center lengthwise They mustered us up on deck, and Wilson to take the lid off the the lifeboats. But Badewitz was right "So the water runs into it, does it?" and four times across, which meant strafe pot for him. each of us got a cup of water for our on their heels and kicked the whole he said. "Well, my advice to you is to ten men to a loaf about the size of an They drilled us along the docks, and bunch around in great shape, roaring get a knife, cut a hole in the heel and ordinary ten-cent loaf in this country A Narrative of the War !t looked as though the whole German like a bull all the time. let the water out." All the other now. They gave each of us a piece navy was tied up at Swinemunde. swine in the room laughed very loud I left the wheel and ran to the eiu. a little lai'ger than a safety-match So entirely new— We saw many of the ships we had at this, and I guess this Fritz thought of the bridge, to jump overboard. But box. heard about, among them being the the minute I let go of the wheel the he was a great comedian. But somehow The bread was hard and dark, and So big— famous Yulcan, the mother-ship for or other, it did not strike me so vessel fell oil! of tiie course, mid they I really think they made it from trees. submarines. There were many sailors funny that I just had to laugh, and I noticed it, and Badewitz sent five of It So thrilling- had just exactly the same smell loafing along the docks, and they them up on the bridge and three was able, after quite a struggle, to that the dirt around trees has. gave the women a hand with their keep from even snickering. It was a others to the side with their revolvers We filed past the sentries single file Thai It Will Hold You days' work. They were no better with harder struggle than that to keep to shoot me if I should reach the water. to get our ration of this mud, and a brick, but they had more ammunition I think if I had had any rope to from doing something else, though! there was no chance of getting in line Spellbound! when it came to spitting. One of them Our meals were just about the same lash the wheel with I could have got twice, for we had to keep on filing tripped a young boy by the name of as at Swinemunde—the bread was away and they would not have known until we were out in the road, and Kelly, and as you would never doubt, it. just as muddy, the barley coffee just stand there in the snow to eat it. We Kelly picked up a rock and crashed as rank, and the soup just as cabbageless. SYNOPSIS. When the five sailors reached the could not go back in the barracks until the sailor wtth it. He was then bayoneted bridge one of them jumped for the The second morning after every man had been served. twice in ihe left leg. We began we had had our barley coffee, one of cord and gave our siren five long Our meals were like this: A can of CHAPTER I—Albert N. Depew, author singing then, our popular favorite, of the story, enlists In the United States the sentries came to our barracks, blasts in answer to the tug. The tug barley coffee in the morning cabbage navy, serving four years and attaining "Pack up your troubles," etc., and which was number 7-B, and gave each the rank of chief petty officer, flrst-class was about to launch a torpedo, and soup, so called, at noon a tenth of a when they hoard us, how the swine gunner. of us an envelope and a sheet of writing we whistled just in time. One of our loaf of bread at 3 p. m. That was .stared! men was looking from the fiddley, and paper. Then he told us to write CHAPTER II—The great war starts our menu day in and day out, the soon after he Is honorably discharged Then they drilled us past the German he saw the Huns making for the lifeboats, kaiser's birthday, Lincoln's, May day, from the navy and he sails for France soldiers' quarters. The men were so he got two or three others or any other time. with a determination to enlist. at rifle practice, and I guess all of us GFMClElrfN and they all yelled together, "Don't This cabbage soup was a great idea. CHAPTER III—He joins the Foreign thought how handy we would be as Legion and is assigned to the dreadnaught let them get away!" thinking that We called it shadow soup, because the liAaeR targets. But when we got near them, Cassard where his marksmanship wins they would get the boat over and boys claimed they made it by hanging him high honors. they quit practicing and crowded leave the ship, and trying to yell loud a cabbage over a barrel of water and CHAPTER IV—Depew Is detached from ar^vnd us yelling: "'Raus! Zuruck!" enough for the tug to hear them. letting the shadow fall on the water. his ship and sent with a regiment of the inally we got to the top of the Legion to Flanders where he soon finds Badewitz took this manvanvi two or We pretended, too, that if you found himself in the front line trenches. hid, and were halted near the barracks any cabbage in it, you could take your three others, whether they were the A Cup of Water for Our New Year's while an ofHcer read the martial CHAPTER V—He is detailed to the artillery ones who yelled or not, and beat them dish back for a second helping. But and makes the acquaintance of the law of Germany to us. At least Dinner. up and put them in irons. I thought I never saw anybody get more than "75's the wonderful French guns that we thought maybe that was it. have saved the day for the allies on many one dishful. All it was, was just there was going to be a mutiny we we New Year's spree. Then saw a battlefield. Before seeing any action, he Finally they let us into the barracks, spoiled water. aboard, but it did not come off, and is ordered back to his regiment in the were in for it, and all hope gone, but and the first thing we saw was front line trenches. We tried to go to sleep that night, I am not sure what the Huns were so we were glad to be released from our a great pile of hay. That looked good but there were so many sentries excited about. CHAPTER VI—Depew goes "over the hole, because we had been prisoners to us, and we made a rush and dived top" and "gets" his first German In a bayonet around us—and those of us who were The other four sailors who came up fight. since December 10—three days on the into it. But the Huns told us to take not sick were wounded—that I do not on the bridge did not touch me, but Moewe and eighteen on the Yarrowdale—and the hay and throw it in the middle of CHAPTER VII—His company takes part just kept me covered with their revolvers. in another raid on the Oerman treyches the coal was not any softer the road. They had to use force before That was the way with them and shortly afterward assists In stopping than when we first'sat on it. we would do it. Finally we gave a fierce charge of the Huns, who are —they would not touch us unless mot^ed down as they cross No Man's So we began singing, "Pack up your in, however, and started to carry it Badewitz was there or they had bayonets. troubles in your old kit bag and smile, out. Some of the young boys were The old bull himself came up CHAPTER VIII—Sent to Dlxmude with boys, smile. What's the use of worrying? crying, and I do not blame them on the bridge after he had beaten up dispatches, Depew Is caught in a Zeppelin It's never worth while," and so much. raid, but escapes unhurt. a few men, threw me around quite a forth. They made us shut up, but not But one of the boys tried to hide bit and kicked me down from the CHAPTER IX—He Is shot through the before we asked ourselves if we were some of the hay behind a box and was thigh in a brush with the Germans and bridge and slammed me into the coal is sent to a hospital, where he quickly downhearted, and everybody yelled caught doing it, a&d two sentries bunkers. I felt pretty sore, as you recovers. "No!" clouted him from one end of the barracks can imagine, and disappointed and CHAPTER X—Ordered back to sea duty, And that is how we gave our regards to the other. His nose was pretty low generally. Depew rejoins the Cassard, which makes several trips to the Dardanelles as a convoy. to Swinemunde. broken and his face mashed to a jelly. After a while we heard the anchor The Cassard is almost battered to But there was nothing we could do, pieces by the Turkish batteries. chains rattling through on their way CHAPTER XVIII. so we just wandered up and down the He Chalked on the Door. to get wet, and we pulled up. Then CHAPTER XI—The Cassard takes part barracks, about as we did between many hot engagements In the memorable every German ship in the Baltic came "Pack Up Your Troubles." Gallipoll campaign. decks on the Moewe, trying to keep to anybody we wanted to, after which up to look us over, I guess. They warm. he chalked on the door in big letters: We arrived at Swinemunde, on the CHAPTER XII—Depew is a member of opened up the hatch covers, and the a landing party which sees fierce fighting east bank, and after we had had our While this marathon was on we KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGER Hun garbles and gold-stripes came In the trenches at Gallipoll. drink of water and had been rousted heard a whistle blown very loudly, and told us it was the return address. aboard and looked down at us, and CHAPTER XIII—After an unsuccessful back into the bunkers, Badewitz went and when we looked out we saw a spit all they could on us, and called We were all surprised, and asked each trench raid, Depew tries to rescue two wagon piled up with old tin cans. across to the west side in a launch wounded men in No Man's Land, but both us all the different kinds of swine in other where we were, because we had die before he can reach the trenches. with Joyce and Hill and a guard of Then we were told to form single file, creation. They had them lined up thought we were in Neustrelitz. After walk out to the wagon and each get a sailors. They were to be shot the CHAPTER XIV—Depew wins the Croix and filing past the hatchways—all of a while, we learned that it means de Guerre for bravery In passing through next morning, with some others, at a can for himself. Each man had to them giving us the once over in turn. "Prisoner-of-War-Camp." At first, a terrific artillery fire to summon aid to public shooting-fest. The rest of us take the first can he laid his hanefs his comrades in an advanced post. Maybe they sold tickets for this show though, many of us thought it was wrapped ourselves in lumps of coal as on, and many of us got rusty ones with —it would be like the Huns. the name of the town, and we got to CHAPTER XV-On his twelfth trip to best we could and tried to sleep. holes in them. So that about half an the Dardanelles, he Is wounded In a naval At first we were milling around trying calling it the Brewery, because the engagement and, after recovering in a hour later, when we received barley In the morning crowds of Germans to get out from under the hatch name ended in lager. Whatever beer hospital at Brest, he Is discharged from coffee, and all we had to drink it from came aboard us and were turned service and sails for New York on the openings and the shower of spit, but was brewed there was not for us steamer Georgic. was the cans, lots of the men had to loose on the boxes in the hold. It some Limey officer sang out, "Britishers though. drink theirs almost in one gulp or lose was a sight to see them rip off the CHAPTER XVI—The Georgic is cap­ all! Don't give way!" and we I noticed that all the time be was tured by the German raider Mo Moewe. De- half of It. covers and gobble the salami and other stood still and let them spit their ?he writing the word and giving us the ew, with other survivors, is taken aboard They Tied Me, Face to the Fence. The barracks were very dirty and stuff that we carried. Table manners Moewe. damned German lungs out before we stationery, the sentry was laughing smelled horribly, and the men were are not needed when there is'no would move for them, and some Cornishmen and having a great time with his own CHAPTER XVII—Transferred to the think a man of us really slept. After still not even half clothed. We all Tarrowdale, which was captured later by table, I guess, but if you had seen began singing their song little self, but I figured he was just a while I asked a sentry if I could go the Moewe, Depew and other prisoners looked filthy and smelled that way, them, you would say these Germans about Trelawney. So we made out acting German, and that nothing was suffer terrible hardships until they arrive outside for a minute, but for some reason and where the coal dust had rubbed In Germany. did not even have trough manners. I that we did not know such a thing as important about it. he would not let me. I had different off, we were very pale. And all of us have seen hogs that were more finicky. a German ever lived. We were all tickled to death to get CHAPTER XVIII—At Swinemunde, they ideas about it, so I stood were starved looking. are placed In a prison camp where they We got better acquainted with German a chance to let our people know where around near the door, and when he suffer terribly from eold, hunger and mistreatment About eleven o'clock that morning While they were at it, hand to hand we spitting later on, and believe me, at the hands of the guards. were, and each man thought a turned his back out I went and around the whistle blew again, and we came with the chow, giving and receiving they are great little spitters, not much long time about what he would say, the corner of the barracks. CHAPTER XIX—The prisoners are out and were given an aluminum terrible punishment, we prisoners who he to, on distance or accuracy, but quick in transferred to Neustrelitz, but get no better and would write before he But one of the sentries there saw spoon and a dish apiece. Then we treatment there than at Swinemunde. were mustered on deck, counted, action and well supplied with ammunition. ever started to write. Each man wanted me and blew his whistle, and a guard cheered up and saw corned beef and kicked onto tugs and transferred to to Chapter XX—After several weeks at Spitting on prisoners is the say all he could in the small of eight came up from somewhere and cabbage for ourselves. An hour later Neustrelitz, they are transferred once was the west bank, where the mob favorite indoor and outdoor sport for grabbed me. Ittried to explain, but It space he had, and we ,wanted to let more to Dulmen, Westphalia, experiencing the) drilled us through the snow to waiting for us. My wounds, as yon more of the same brand of German Kultur Germans, men and^women alike. our friends know how badly they were* while making the Journey. bad racket they made. Somehow a German can imagine, were in a pretty When the show was over, they the kuche. When we got there we treating us without saying it in so cannot do anything shipshape state by this CHAPTER XXI—Mr. Gerard, the American time, and were getting stood in line until at least half-past many words, because we knew the rousted us up on deck and put us to ambassador, visits Dulmen and when and neatly, but always has to have a more painful every minute, so that I twelve, and then the Germans shouted: Huns would censor the letters, and it he finds Depew there, tells him he will work throwing the salt pork and canned lot of noise, and running around, and found I was endeavor to secure his release. getting ugly and anxious "Nichts zu essen." But we did would go hard with anyone who complained goods into two German mine-layers. general confusion. Four-footed swine for an if argument. I knew that I not know what that meant, so we just much. So most of the men CHAPTER XXII—Within a short time. While we were at it, a Danish are more orderly in their habits than this way Depew Is transferred to another camp at stayed I would probably hung around there and waited. Then said they were having a great time patrol boat cajge out and tied alongside Brandenburg, known to prisoners as The the Huns. they started shouting, "Zuruck! Zuruck!" never come out alive, for there is and were treated very well, and spread Hell Hole of Germany. us, and some of heTjgpfflcers came When they came up, we were rousted every chance yon could want to pick and drove us back to the barracks. it on so thick that their friends would aboard and saw us. They knew we CHAPTER XXIII-Ambassador Gerard from the cars and drilled up the a quarrel while you are a prisoner figure they were lying because they leaves Germany, with the breaking of were prisoners-of-war, and they knew road to the camp. When we got near diplomatic relations by the United States, that will mean freedom for you—but Later we heard the words "nichts nun but the Spanish ambassador visits the that "a vessel carrying prisoners-ofwar the German barracks we ivere halted (To be continued next week) only the freedom of going west, which zu essen!" so often that we thought camp at Brandenburg and arranges for must not remain in neutral waters and counted again, and made to stand Depew's release. He finally reaches probably they meant "no eats." We I was not anxious to try. Rorschach, Switzerl rland, and Is free. for over twenty-four hours, but there for at least an hour after they Abstracts and titles to all property When we got near the west bank, had our reasons for thinking so, too. they did not say anything about it. had finished counting us, 'shivering CHAPTER Switzerland Dehe on the tugs, we could see that we were Those words, and "zuruck" and in KoochichingCounty furnished by pew gets the first has tasted That night two men named Barney like leaves. At last they placed us in up against a "'raus," were practically all we did battle with our arms tied. the Koochiching County Abstract Co., /In months. After Showered with at-. Hill and Joyce, the latter a gunner barracks, and those who could went tentions he sails America and Over half the crowd was women and hear, except, of course, various kinds Officia 1 Abstractors, International rk. arrives safely In from the Mount Temple, sneaked up to sleep., children, I should say, and the rest of schweinbnndp Falls, on Minn. \f it dfeck and aft to the poop deck. There were abont forty barracks In were laborers and old civvies, and re­