INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE SEVEN ciose icgei^ as we could, wrncn one, and each time one of us feu, the Tfiat was the first and last cigarette yotrr* are caused our various diseases to spread sentries would yell, "Nicht krank!" 1 got in Germany, and you can believe "Barracks fi-B, Gruppe 3." rapidly. and give us the rifle butt. We had me when say that enjoyed "Where from I yelled. I I rations, When we were receiving our our choice of standing up and dying it. was not much to it, but There I "Boston. \there're you from?" the sentries would offer us an extra or falling down and being killed, and smoked it until there was not enough "The U. S. A. and Atlantic port3. ration if we would take a lash' from it was a fine choice to have to make. See you later." left to hold tn my mouth, and then I their belts. We were so hungry that The cars finally pulled in, and as it used what was left and mixed with So, the next morning, I went over to many and many a man would go up usual, the windows were smashed, the the bark that we made cigarettes out his barracks and asked for the Yank. and take a swat in any part of his of. doors open, and the compartments just Incidentally, tr is bark was great They pointed him out to me, where lit body from the heavy leather belts packed with snow. When we saw this, •tuff. of I do not know what kind was lying on the floor. I went over to with brass tongue and buckle, just we knew we were going to get worse tree it was from, but it served the and laid down with him, and we had or get a little more "shadow" soup treatment, even, than we had been purpose. Whenever a fellow wanted quite a talk. I will not give his name barley coffee or mud bread. getting, and many of us wanted to die. to smoke and lit one of these bark here for certain reasons. One morning the sentries picked out It had not been unusual for some of cigarettes, a few puffs were enough. He had received several wounds at ten men from our barracks, of which the men to tell the Germans to shoot 39S" the time he was taken prisoner. He I was one, and drilled us over a field them too, and it seems as though it V. had been in the Canadian service for near the kuche. There was a large was always a man who wanted to live two years. We used to talk about tank in the field and we had to pump who did get it and went west. New York and Boston and the different water into it. It was very cold, ond However, all of us nearly got killed places we knew in both towns, and we were weak and sick, so we would when we reached Wittenberg. When we also talked a lot about the rotten fall one after another, not caring the train stopped there, we saw a big treatment we were receiving, and tried EX'GUNNER AND CHIEF PETTYSOFFfCEf^r^-NAVY. whether we ever got up or not. Fritz wagonload of sliced bread on the station to cook up some plan of escape. But would smash those who fell with his MEMBER OF THE FOREIGN LEGION OF FRANCE platform and we all stared at it. every one we could think of had been rifle butt. We asked for gloves, because CAPTAIN GUN TURRET, FRENCH BATTLESHIP tASSAM) We stood it as long as we could, and used by some one else, and either had our hands were freezing, but all then we made a rush for it. But when WINNER OF THE CROIX DE GUERRE failed, or the Huns had fixed it so the we got was "Nichts." we got nearer, we saw that there were plan could not be tried again. We tCapjniffc Wl br Rdbr and Brioon Co. Thrau^i Spatial Amogcmcm Wih the George Mmhtw Adtim S«vicft After we had been there for about four sentries guarding it and four doped out some pretty wild schemes at One fellow had uu idea that was an hour and a half, one of our men women issuing it out to the German that. Altogether, we became great better than that, though. He hai been became very sick, so that I thought soldiers. They would not give us any, pals, and were together as much as in jail in Portsmouth, England, for he was going to die, and when he fell of course. possible at Dulmen. The day I left three months, for beating up a constable, over, I reported it to a sentry. The the camp, he gave me a ring made So we stood'around and watched th€ and he had had a pretty rough sentry came over, saw him lying in Huns eat it, while they and the women from a shell, and told me to get it safely time. So he wrote a pal of his that the snow, yelled, "Schwein, nicht laughed at us, and pretended thai back to the States, but some one stole he had been captured by the Germans, krank!" grabbed him by the shoulder, they were starving and would groan it at Brandenburg. but that everything was going and pulled him all the way across the and rub their stomachs and say. One day while I was in his barracks along pretty well. In fact, he said, field to the office of the camp commander. "Nichts zu essen," to each other, and an Englishman stepped out of the door the only other trip he had ever been Then he was placed in the for some reason or other, and though then grab a big hunk of bread and on, where he had a better time, was guard house, where he remained for he did not say a word to Fritz, in two eat it. What we did not say to them the three months' vacation he had two days. The next thing we knew, was very little indeed. We were certainly minutes he was (lead, in cold blood. spent in Portsmouth two years before, the Russians had been ordered to wild if any men ever were. We never knew why they killed him. which lie thought the friend would remember. make a box, fcnd were being marched Then some of us said we were going At Swinemunde and Neustrelitz, I He said that trip was better to the guard house to put him in it must admit that the Germans had us to get some of that bread if wt than this one, so the friend could and bury him. pretty badly buffaloed, but at Dulmen wont west for it. So we started a ii.mire out for himself how pleasant Another thing at Neustrelitz, that the prisoners were entirely different. fight, and while they were attending to one was. Everybody thought this was pretty hard to stand, was the pretty The First and Last Cigarette. Dulmen was the receiving camp for was a great idea, but unfortunately some of us, the others grabbed and hid habit the Huns had of coming up 3 fOM the whole western front, and the prisoners all the bread they could. They rousted not all of us had been in jail, so we He did not want to smoke again for to the barbed wire and teasing us as there got to be pretty tough us back into th& cars and we were could not all use it. Which was just some time afterward, and lik* as not, though we were wild animals in a eggs, as far as Fritz was concerned, Just starting to divide up the br^ad as well, we thought, because the Germans he did not^want to eat either. They cage. Sometimes there would be before they had been in camp many when they caught us with it and took would be suspicious if all of us were therefore very valuable. crowds of people lined along the wire days. They thought nothing of picking it away. We were wilder than evei Gunner compared this vacation with oth3rs. It is very hard to get matches in throwing things at us, and spitting, a fight with a sentry and giving then, but we could not do anything. A few of the men did not have anybody the camps, and when any prisoner and having a great time generally. It him a good battle, even though he was It got colder after we left Wittenbercr, they could write to, and some did does get hold of one, it is made to last was harder than ever when a family armed with rifle and bayonet. We snow blew into the cars not know their friends' addresses, so and the a long time. Here is how we make a party would arrive, with vater and soon learned that unless his pals are the windows and doors until through match last. Some one gives up the they would write letters to friends of A Narrative of the War mutter, and maybe grosvater and around a German will not stand by his we were afraid to sleep for fear ol the other men, and siyn it with the sleeve of his coat, and the match is grosmutter, and all the little Boche arguments with his fists. In other freezing. It was the worst night 1 friend's nickname. carefully lit, and the coat sleeve kinder, because, as you probably So entirely hewSo words, if he can outtalk you, he \fill have ever seen, and the coal bunkers burned to a crisp. Then we take a As soon as a man had finished his know, the Germans take food with beat you up, but if he cannot, it is a on the Yarrowdale seemed like a palace button from our coats—the buttons letter, he had to go out to the center big— them whenever they go on a party, case of "Here comes Heinie going compared to the compartments, are brass with two holes in them— of the camp, where they had built a no matter what kind, and they would back." be we could at least move around •cause pass a shoestring through the holes, So thrilling— raised platform. There the sentries stand there and stare at us like the The Russian prisoners at Dulmen in the while in the train we could ship, knot the ends, and with the button in took the letters, and the men formed boobs they were, eating all the timo were certainly a miserable looking not move at all, and were packed so the center of the string, buzz it around around the square. There were officers —and we so hungry that we could That It Will Hold You bunch. They spent most of their time close tliat we could not even stretch as you have seen boys do, with the on the platform reading the letters. have eaten ourselves, almost. After wandering around the Russian barracks, our logs and arms. Some' of the men string over both hands, moving the Spellbound! We thought they read them they had stared a while, they would hunting for rotten potato peelings did die, but not in my compartment, hands together and apart until the there in the open, before us, so that begin to feel more at home, and then and other garbage, which they though most of us were frost-bitten button revolves very fast. we would know they were not tampering would start the throwing and spiiting would eat. When they saw Fritz about the face. We then put a piece of flint against with the letters, anil we thought and the "schweinhund" sangerfest, and throw out his swill, they would dive SYNOPSIS. We thought that night would never the crisped cloth, and buzz the button the heaven would fall if they were they would have a great time generally. right through the barbed wire one against it until a spark makes the end, but day came finally, and though getting so unkultured a:' that. Probably, when they got home, after another, and their hands and CHAPTER I—Albert N. Depew, author crisp glow, and from this we would it seemed to get colder and colder, we Finally, al! the men had finished they would strike off a medal for face and clothes were always torn of the story, enlists in the United States did not mind it so much. At about light our bark cigarettes. I do not navy, serving four years and attaining their letters and turned them over to themselves in honor of the visit. from it. It was unhealthy to stand the rank of chief petty officer, first-class think any man in the world could inhale eleven that morning, we arrived at a the officers, who read them. And then Then, too, there were always Hun between the Russians and their garbage gunner. one of these bark cigarettes: place called Minden and saw a prison we saw why the sentry laughed. soldiers on leave or off duty, who made prey—they were so speedy that CHAPTER II—The great war starts camp there—just a stockade near the some of us tried and went right to The officers tore up every one of the it a point to pay us a visit, and though nothing stopped them. soon after he is honorably discharged sleep. tracks with the boys out in the open. from the navy and he sails for France letters. They were anxious that we One morning, just after barley-coffee I do not think they were as bad as the with a determination to enlist. We waved to them, and they waved would see them do it, so none of us civvies, especially the women, they time, I came out of the barracks CHAPTER XXI. back and gave a cheer-oh or two. We CHAPTER III—He joins the Foreign would have any hope that our friends and saw an Australian arguing with were bad enough. Legion and is assigned to the dreadnaught felt sorry for them, because we knew the sentry. I was not only curious, would get word. We had one bucket in each barracks, Cassard where his marksmanship wins A Visit From Mr. Gerard. we were not going to that camp, and him high honors. and as these buckets were used for but anxious to be a good citizen, as But we said to ourselves that, if it La'te that night we arrived at Dulmen, from what little we saw, we knew we they say, so I went up and slung an CHAPTER IV—Depew is detached from was information they wanted, they had both washing and drinking, they were Westphalia. We were rousted could not be going to a worse place his ship and sent with a regiment of the ear at them. The Australian had asked always dirty. We boiled the water as much as was good for them, which Legion to Flanders where he soon finds out of the carriages, mustered on the than they were in. I shall never forget Fritz what had been done with the himself in the front line trenches. when we washed the clothes, to get was none at all, because I do not think platform, counted, then drilled through Minden, because it was here that I flag that the Huns were going to fly one letter in the bunch had a single rid of the cooties, and that left a CHAPTER V-He is detailed to the artillery the streets. In spite of the lateness, received the only cigarette I had while from the Eiffel tower in Paris. and makes the acquaintance of the settling in it that looked just like red word of truth in it. But we were all the streets were pretty well filled with "76's the wonderful French guns that I was in Germany. That was too deep for Fritz, so the lead. We had to get the water from very angry and pretty low after that, have saved the day for the allies on many people, and they zig-zagged us through Minden is quite a railway center, I Australian answered it himself. "Doift he a battlefield. Before seeing any action, a hydrant outside of the barracks, and because it showed the Huns still had all the streets they could, so that all the Is ordered back to his regiment in guess, and when we pulled into- the you know, Fritz? Well, we have no for a while we drank it. But' after plenty of kultur left, after all, and we front line trenches. the people would have a chance to see depot, we saw many troops going to blankets, you know." several of the boys had gone west knew there was rough sledding ahead the crazy men, as they called us. Most CHAPTER VI—Depew goes "over the the front or coming back. As at all Still the sentry did not get it. So and we could not figure out why, a of us. Also, some of the men were top" and "gets" his first German in a bayonet of the people were women, and as soon Important German railway stations, the Australian carefully explained to fight. man told us he thought the water was sore because they had wasted their as they saw us coming, they began there was a Red Cross booth on the me—so that Fritz cduld hear—that the poisoned, and a Russian doctor, who time thinking up different ways of tipping CHAPTER VII—His company takes pari singing the "Watch on the Rhine" or platform, with German girls handing Germans had no blankets and were in anothy raid on the German tre'#3hes was a prisoner, slipped us word about their friends off to the real state some other German song, and it was and shortly afterward assists in stopping out barley coffee and other things to using the flag to wrap their cold feet of affairs, and all for nothing. Why it also. So, after that, very few of a fierce charge of the Huns, who are funny to see windows opening and fat the German soldiers. I saw a large mowed down as they cross No Man's in. us drank water from the hydrant. I they should worry about time, I could fraus, with night-caps on, sticking Land. shanty on the platform, with a Red This started a fight, of course—the was scared stiff at first, because I had not see. Time was the only thing we their heads out of the windows. They Cross painted over the door. I saw German idea of a fight, that is. The CHAPTER VIII—Sent to Dixmude with had some of the water, but after that had plenty of, and I for one, thought would give us a quick once-over, and dispatches, Depew is caught In a Zeppelin the girlg giving barley coffee to the sentry, being a very brave man for a I did not touch hydrant water. we were going to have still more of it. raid, but escapes unhurt. pipe up like a boatswain: "Schweinhund—Vaterland—Wacht soldiers, and I thought I would have German, blew his whistle very loudly, Going back to the barracks we tried It was a good thing for us that am Rhein" CHAPTER IX—He is shot through the a try at it and at least be polite and sentries came from all directions. to sing "Pack Up Your Troubles," but there was always plenty of snow In thigh in a brush with the Germans and —all kinds of things and all mixed up. enough to give the girls a chance of So we beat it to the Australian's barracks, is sent to a hospital, where he quickly there was not much pep in it. We Germany, and even luckier that the So we gave them "Tipperary" and recovers. refusing me. I was refused all right, and there I found the second were not downhearted, though at Huns did not shoot us for eating it. "Pack Up Your Troubles," and but they were so nasty about it that I American in the camp. He was a barber CHAPTER X—Ordered back to sea duty) least, we said we were not. It was about the only thing they did showed them how to sing. Our guards Depew rejoins the Cassard, which makes put down my head and let something named Stimson, from one of the not deprive us of—it was not verboten. several trips to the Dardanelles as a convoy. had no ear for music and tried to stop slip. I do not. remember just what it Western states. He had heard I was The Cassard is almost battered to CHAPTER XX. I thought I knew what tough cooties us, but though they knocked several pieces by the Turkish batteries. was, but it was not very complimentary, there as well as the Boston man in the were, in the trenches, but they were men down, we did not stop until we I guess. Anyhow, I did not think Canadian service, but he had been CHAPTER XI—The Cassard takes part Kultur—the Real Stuff. regular mollycoddles compared to* the had finished the song. Then, after we many hot engagements in the memorable anyone near there understood English, too sick to look us up, and in fact did Gallipoli campaign. Neustrelitz was mainly for Russian pets we had in the prison camps. After had admitted to each other that we but evidently some one heard me not care what happened, he was so prisoners, and there were neither British we boiled our clothes we would be were not downhearted, we shut up. CHAPTER XII—Depew is a member of who did, for I got an awful boot that miserable. He had been wounded several a landing party which sees fierce fighting nor French soldiers interned there free from them for not more than two We would have done so, anyway, because landed me ten or twelve feet away. times, and died in a day or two. In the trenches at Gallipoli. —only sailors of the merchant marine hours, and then they would come by this time we were on the outskirts I fell on my hands and knees, and I never knew how he came to be in CHAPTER XIII—After an unsuccessful such as the men I was with. The back, with re-enforcements, thirsting of the town, and we needed all about a yard away I saw a cigarette trench raid, Depew tries to rescue two the Australian service. Russians were given far worse treatment for vengeance. wounded men in No Man's Land, but both the breath we had. The road we were stub. I dived for it like a man falling Those two and myself were the only die before he can reach the trenches. than any other prisoners. This The camp at Neustrelitz was surrounded on was jusfone long sheet of ice, and on a football, and when I came up Americans I knew of in this prison was for two reasons, as near as I could by big dogs, which were kept we could hardly walk more than four CHAPTER XIV—Depew wins the Croix that stub was safely in my pocket. camp—whether in Canadian, Australian de Guerre for bravery in passing through make out. One was that the Russian just outside the barbed wire. We had steps w^hout slipping and falling. My a terrific artillery fire to summon aid to And it stayed there until I reached or French service. The other would stand most anything, whereas them going all the time. Every once shoes had 'wooden soles, and it was his comrades in an advanced post. Dulmen and had a chance to light it two had been captured in uniform, so the British and French could only be in a while, some fellow would make just one bang after another, with the behind the barracks. If any of the CHAPTER XV-On his twelfth trip to there was no chance of their being goaded to a certain point, and beyond an awful racket, and the next thing the Dardanelles, he is wounded in a naval ice and myself trying to see which other men had smelled real tobacco, released. engagement and, after recovering in a that lay trouble. The other reason we knew, there was Fritz coming like could iiit the hardest. Every time we they would probably have murdered hospital at Brest, he is discharged from Dulmen was very near the Dutch was that the Russians sent German a shot, with musket at his hip, just fell—smash! came a rifle over the service and sails for New York on the me. and I could not have blamed them border and as it was quite easy to get steamer Georgic. prisoners to Siberia, or at least, so the as they carry them in a charge, and back. for it. out of the camp attempts at escape Huns thought, and Fritz hates the CHAPTER XVI—The Georgic is captured blowing whistles at each other until I was getting pretty tired, so I said were frequent. Most of those who ran by the German raider Moewe. Depew, cold. So, hating the Russians, and they were blue in the face. Whenover to some of the fellows that I was going with other survivors, is taken aboard realizing that they were used to being away were brought back, though. The they thought some one was escaping, to sit down and rest, and they said the Moewe. under-dogs, Fritz picked on them they ran twice as fast as I they would also. So we dropped out Germans were so easy on those who CHAPTER XVII—Transferred to the and bullied them in a way that the tried to run away that I almost thought Tarrowdale, which was captured later by and waited until the guards behind ever saw them run, except when the the Moewe, Depew and other prisoners rest of us would not have stood. We had just about caught up with us, and they were encouraging them. One suffer terrible hardships until they arrive Foreign Legion was on their heels would have rushed them and gono then we would go on. We did this chap was doing his ten days in the In Germany. at Dixmude. west with bayonets first. guardhouse for the sixth time while several times until they got on to us, CHAPTER XVIII—At Swinemunde, they When they got up to the dogs, they The barracks were made of spruce, and we could not do it any more. I was there—that is, he had just about are placed in a prison camp where they would first talk to them and then kick suffer terribly from eold, hunger and mistreatment and were about ninety feet long and Up the road a piece I fell again, and completed his period of detention. He at the hands of the guards. them, and after that, they would rest twenty-five feet wide, and you can this time I did not care what happened, claimed that the sixth time he had their rifles on the wire and yell CHAPTER XIX—The prisoners are take it from me that as carpenters, so I just sat there in the really got across the border and was transferred to Neustrelitz, but get no better "Zuruck!" at us. We all enjoye this whoever made them were fine farmery. treatment there than at Swinemunde. middle of the n*d until Fritz came up. arrested in a little town by the Dutch innocent pastime very much, and we There were cracks in them that Instead of giving me Che bayonet, be authorities and turned over to the Germans. Chapter XX—After several weeks at were glad they had the dogs. Neustrelitz, they are transferred once you could drive an automobile through. made me take off my shoes—that, is, That is against the law in more to Dulmen, Westphalia, experiencing There were some things the Huns When we were there, each barracks he took them off of me with a knife most countries, but he swore it was the more of the same brand of German Kultur did that you just could not explain. while making the journey. had a stove in the center, a good stove through the strings—and I had to walk truth. I am not so sure, myself. He For instance, one of the Russians and a big one, but at first it was of the rest of the way in my bare feet. got away for the seventh time while CHAPTER XXI—Mr. Gerard, the American walked out of the kuche, as we were ambassador, visits Dulmen and when no use to us, because the Germans It was about four miles altogether I was at Dulmen and was not returned. he finds Depew there, tells him he will passing, and we heard a bang! and would not give us coal or wood for it. from the station to the camp. Ten days in the guardhouse is not endeavor to secure'his release. the Russian keeled over and went But after shivering for a while, we began When we got near the camp, all the such a light punishment after all, because CHAPTER XXII—Within a short time. west. Now, we had not done anything ripping the boards out of the barracks, boys came out of the barracks and water three times a day is all Depew is transferred to another camp at Brandenburg, known to prisoners as ''The and the other Russians said he had and taking the dividing boards lined up along the barbed wire, and the prisoner received during that time, Hell Hole of Germany. behaved himself, worked hard and had from the benches that we used for yelled us a welcome. We asked them but it is pretty mild compared to some CHAPTER XXIII—Ambassador Gerard never had any trouble. They just if they were downhearted, and they of the things the Huns do. leaves Germany, with the breaking of killed him, and that is all there was to Later, they gave each of us a mattress said no, And we said we were not either. diplomatic relations by the United States, One morning I thought for sure I but the Spanish ambassador visits the it. But not one* of us could figure We could hardly see them, but filled with wood shavings, and a was going cafard. I was just fed up camp at Brandenburg and arranges for out why. they began yelling again when we got blanket that was about as warm as a on the whole business and sick of doing Depew's release. He finally reaches Rorschach, Switzerland, and is free. After we had been at Neustrelitz nearer, and asked us, "Is there anyone pane of glass. The mattresses were nothing but suffer. So I strolled for three weeks, they drilled us out of there from Queenstown?" and then XXIV—In placed on the ground in the barracks, along, sticking my head into barracks CHAPTER Switzerland Depew food gets the first refkl he has tasted the camp to a railway station, and Hull, and Portsmouth, and Dover, and which were very damp, and after three doors, sometimes trying to hav^a talk, in months. After bi Showered wllh atlor stood us in the suow for l'our Iicurs Toronto and a lot of other places. or four days, the shavings would begin We Had Our Choice of Standing Up other times trying to pick a nfht. It tentions he sa!ls America and arrives safely in 'ork. waiting for the train. We were exhausted Dying, or Failing Down and Being I did not pay much attention4 until to rot and the mattresses te smell. and was all one to me: I just wanted something and bezant fylline. one I heard, "Any Americans there?" and Tn order to keep warm we slept as to do. I found what I wanted, Killed. .»* all right r. it by (u U,' AH wt'*? a