4 -J- ^-xrr^i *'*y *z* it**w?fpt'2g*w v*,l fr ,' -l« ,* •r INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE SEVEN barracks in one corner of the room, cause at first we did not fcr. they BRMDEM&URG and not far from the stove. Kate was were crazy. When we had tlu down, "THE-HEU-ffOil eroffimtfr olty SyJtem the only patient able to be on his feet, however, they were scratched and bitten so I thought he would have to be my and pounded from head to foot. chief cook and bottle washer for a Both of them bled from the nose all while and, besides, there was something that night, and toward morning one -1 about him that,,made him look of them became sane for a few minutes pretty valuable. I had not recognized and then died. The ot ier was his whistling yet, so Slim looked to be taken away by the Germ:i is, still the right name for him. crazy. "Slim, what's that big cupboard Another time an Australian came for?" into our barracks and very eriously A OUff BARRACK "How'd I know? Nuthin' in it." told us that he had a drag mth the HOSPITAL UHUAFD RIL3MH SAHRACK5 "Slim, that would make a fine box German officers and that he tad been Every barracks surrounded by for coal or wood, wouldn't it"?" to dinner with them, and had had turkv.v, barbed Wire fence "Urn. VThar de coal an' wood:" potatoes- cotlee, bu.'t- *, egg?, Albert RDep f* CeffffM DARPACffS •'t :ke ohser-vn- t- "Tnn/] nl! th. luxuries O OF?/C£JiS'H£AC:\ :i\r:y£FJ(Kcfe6er:fybox te& C£!l£7£fil£$ or/i?AYE3 S// around iaka PX/So//£R5' BAXRKCKi =r +++H1 U-boats." So I smoked out the uuui and began looking around. the gull to coi'lKiw .. i. EX'GUNNER AND CHIEF PE TTV^OF fC ERrUrSr-NAVY^v Sketch of Brandenburg Prison Camp Drawn From Memory by Gunner If you look at the sketch I have we .could not possibly believe that it Depew. 1 MEMBER, OF THE FOREIGN LEG!GN OP FRANCE made, it will not take you long to see had really happened. Finally, one tASSAKD CAPTAIN GUN TURRET, FRENCH BATTLESHIP that next to us was a vacated Russian fellow could not stand it any longer. and what he had said to them. We Germans' word, had been inoculated barracks. And it did not take me WINNER OF THE CROIX DE GUERRE He was nothing but skin and bones, knew Mr. Gerard had got the Germans and had died within nine hours. Which much longer to see it, too. Back to but he grabbed a dividing board and tConrifc 1918. by RdBy and Briuon Co. Through Special Arrangement With the George Matthew Adams Soviet to make conditions better in some of shows how foolish it is to believe a the hospital and Slim. 1 had quite a talk with a sentry in there were just two wallops: the the worst hell-holes in Germany and German. None of us had any doubt "Slim, what barracks are next to board hit the Australian's head and •ont of a barracks. It must have the men were always glad when he but what the serum was poisonous. us?" the head hit the floor. Then half a ted three-quarters of an hour. He came around. They felt they had something The second day that we were in the "Russian burrucks, only dey ain't dozen more pounced onto him and 1 cot know what I was cal ing him, regular camp the Germans strung better to look forward to and dere now. Been sick." hI gave him a real licking. When he I did not know what he v:ns callst? some relief from the awful misery. barbed wire all around our barracl:s. "And you mean to tell me you don't came to he had forgotten all about me. I coukl have handled him all Mr. Gerard was passing through the They told us we had a case of black know where to get wood?" the wonderful dinner he did not have. ^iit, but another sentry came up on French barracks and a man I knew typhus among us. This was nothing "Sick men been in dem burrucks." Not long after this the Russian doctors blir.d side and grabbed me and the there told him there was an American more nor less than a bluff, for not one "Sick men here, aren't there? Let's proved to the Germans that there v.-'is over. there. The Germans did not want him of us had typhus, but they put up the go." was no black typhus in our barracks dragged mo to the commander "'try to see me, but he put up an argument wire, nevertheless, and we were not That did the trick. The black boy and we were allowed the freedom of the camp and he instructed them to allowed to go out. with the commanding officer and they would watch from the hospital windows the camp except that we could not -e ine a bath. So they took me to finally said he could interview me. I One day when I was loafing around until he saw the coast was clear, visit the Russian barracks. That was L/ :ihhouse, where I was stripped our barracks door and not having anything never was so glad to see anyone as then we would slip into the barracks no hardship to me nor to the rest of k:: lied. AH the time they were particularly important to do, I I was to see him. The picture is still next door, and he would watch again. us, except one chap from the Cambrian Mpping me I was thinking what a with me of him coming in the door. packed a nice hard snowball and landed When there was no sentry near rssgee Range, who had a special pal among it was on me, because I had been it neatly behind the ear of a little We talked for about an hour and a enough to hear us, crash! and out the Russians that he wanted to see. r»king for excitement and had got sentry not far away. When he looked half, I guess, and then he got up to would come a dividing board from the And, of course, when it was verboten, ere than I wanted, so I laughed and go and he said I would hear from him around he did not blow his whistle but bunks. When we had an armful Huns thought I was crazv sure. he wanted to see him all the more. began hunting for the thrower. This In about three weeks. Just think what japiece, and had broken them up to the I was dumped into a vat of hot water A day or two after the order I was was strange in a German sentry and I good news that was to me! iright lengths, all we needed was a llttle and at the same time my clothes were standing outside the barracks door They let me out of the guardhouse thought he must be pretty good stuff. more watching, and then back to Iv.ri a boiling, which was good for when I saw this fellow come out with and I celebrated by doing all the damage When he looked around, however, all the hospital and the big cupboard. them. a dividing board in his hand. I thought he saw was a man staggering around to German sentries that I could Later on, our men told me they used Then I was forced into my wet he was going to smash somebody with Gunner Depew do. The men in the camps went wild as if he were drunk. The man was to watch the smoke that poured from clothes and marched back to the barracks. it, so I stood by. But he stooped over the one who had done the throwing, all when they learned that Ambassador the hospital chimney all the time and This bath and the stroll and jammed one end of the board Gerard was there, for they said he was right, but the sentry could not be sure wonder where on earth we got the through the snow in wet clothes just against the threshold of the door, of it, for surely no man would stay the only man in Germany they could wood. about did for me. Nowadays, when I scratched the ground with the farther out in the open and invite accidents tell their troubles to. The reason was We got the same kind of food in the A Narrative of the War sit in a draft for a second and catch end of the board and measured again. that he was strong for the men, no like that. But still, who had done it? hospital that was served in the other cold, I wonder that I am still alive to He kept this up, length by length, in So I just kept staggering around, matter what nationality, and put his barracks, and I would not have had So entirely new~ catch it. Having gone through I ixmude the direction of the Russian barracks. and the sentry came up to me and heart into the work. I am one of any more than I used to, except that and the Dardanelles and ho The sentry in the yard stopped and those who cannot say enough good looked me over pretty hard. Then 1 sometimes some of the twenty-six patients So big— sinking of the Georgic and four stared at him, but the fellow kept Ger­ thought for the first time that things things about him. Like many others, could not eat their share, and man prison camps and a few other right on, paying no attention to anybody. might go hard on me, but I figured if it had not been for Mr. Gerard I So thrilling— then, of course, it was mine. One day, things—I shall probably trip over a Pretty soon he was right by the that if I quit the play acting it would would be kaput by now. though, we all had extra rations. hole in a church carpet and break my sentry's feet aod I thought any minute be all over. So I staggered right up A few days after this I was slow Two Russian doctors came to visit That It Will Hold You neck. That would be my luck. the sentry would give him the butt,, to the sentry and looked at him drunkenly, again as we were marching to the us each day, and once they were foolish ThOre were all the diseases you can but he just stared a while and let him expecting every moment to get bread house and the guard at the door Spellbound! enough, or kind enough, to ask if think of in this camp, including blaci pass. That lad measured the whole one from the bayonet. tripped me. When I fell I hurt my we had received our rations—we had cholera and typhus and somebody was distance to the Russian barracks, went But he was so surprised that all he wounds, which made me hot. Now I received them earlier than usual and always dying. We had to make cofiius inside, stayed a while and calmly could do was stare. So I stared back, had decided, on thinking it over, that they were finished at the time. Of SYNOPSIS. from any wood we could find.' Sc it strolled back with the board under his pretending that I saw two of him, and the best thing to do was to be good, course, I said no, so they ordered the was not long before we were using the arm. When he reached our barracks otherwise acting foolish. Then I guess since I was expecting to be released, Russian in the kitchen to deliver CHAPTER I—Albert N. Depew, author dividing boards from our bunks, pieces he realized for the first time that the again he told us he had found a vino and I thought it would be tough luck twenty-eight rations to us, which was of story, enlists in the United States the of flooring and, in fact, the walls of mine. What he had found was something navy, serving four years and attaining chances of anybody being drunk in to be killed just before I was to be not quite three loaves of bread. We the rank of chief petty officer, first-class the barracks. The officers were quartered not so uausual—a boneheaded that camp were small—at least for the released. But I had been in the American gunner. were that much ahead that day, but it in corrugated iron barracks, so prisoners. He was rubbing his ear German. navy and any garby of the U. S. A. would not work when I tried the trick CHAPTER II—The great war starts they had to borrow wood from us for was a all the time, but finally the thought There lot of bamboo near the would have done what I did. It must again. soon after he Is honorably discharged from the navy and he sails for France their coffins. We would make the box seeped through the ivory and he began Russian barracks and the Russians, be the training we get, for when a One day a German doctor came to with a determination to enlist. and put the body in it, give it as much to laugh. I laughed, too, and the first made baskets out of it and turned dirty trick is pulled off on us we get the hospital barracks. He would not thing you know he had me doing it CHAPTER III—He joins the Foreign service as we conld, in the way of them in to the Germans. For this they very nervous around the hands and are touch anything while he was there— Legion and is assigned to the dreadnaught prayers and hymns, and put it away in again—that is, the imitation. One got all the good jobs in the kitchen not always able to control them. not even open the door. All of the Cassard where his marksmanship wins snowball was enough, I figured. him high honors. a hole near the barracks. There was and had a fine chance to get more to So I went for the sentry and walloped patients had little cards attached to so much of it that a single death I used to talk to him quite often eat. But they were treated like dogs— CHAPTER IV—Depew Is detached from their beds—charts of their condition. him in the jaw. Then I received passed unnoticed. after that. We had no particular his ship and sent with a regiment of the that is, all except the few Cossacks his bayonet through the fleshy part of When the German wanted to see these Legion to Flanders where he soon finds One morning the German sentries love for each other, but he was. gamer that were in the bunch. The Huns himself in the front line trenches. the forearm. Most bayonet wounds charts the Russian doctors had to hold came to our barracks—they never than the other sentries, and he did not knew that a Cossack never forgets and them for him. that we got were in the arm. But CHAPTER V—He is detailed to the artillery came singly—and told us that an officer call me schweinhund every time he saw will get revenge for the slightest mistreatment, and makes the acquaintance of the those arms were in front of our faces I was having a great time at the "75's", the wonderful French guns that me, so we got on very well together. was going to review the prisoners even if It means his death, at the time. The sentries did not aim hospital, wrecking the barracks next have saved the day for the allies on many and ordered us to muster up, which we His name must have been Schwartz, I I have seen sentries turn aside from a battlefield. Before seeing any action, he for our arms, you can bet on that. A door each day for wood, along with is ordered back to his regiment in the guess,' but it sounded like "Swatts" to did. I was the last man out of the barracks the beat they were walking and get out wound of the kind I got would be nothing Kate, and getting a little more food front line trenches. me, so Swatts he was, and I was and on account of my wounds I of the way when they saw a Cossack more than a white streak if properly sometimes, and was always nice and CHAPTER VI—Depew goes "over the was slower than the rest. "Chink" to him, as everybody else coming. There were very few Cossacks attended to, but I received absolutely warm. I thought myself quite a pet. top" and "gets" his first German in a bayonet called me that. there, however. I do not think You understand I had had no medical fight. no attention for It and it was Compared to what I had been up One day he asked me if I could treatment except crepe-paper bandages they let themselves get captured very along time in healing. At that, I was against, it seemed like real comfort. CHAPTER VII—His company takes part speak French, and I said yes. Italian often. and water my wounds had been In another raid on the German trenches lucky another bayonet stroke just But the more food I got, the more I and shortly afterward assists in stopping yes. Russian yes. No matter what opened by swimming from the Georgic We had roll call every morning, of grazed my stomach. wanted. And it was food that brought a fierce charge of the Huns, who are language he might have mentioned I course, and were always mustered in to the Moewe and they had been put mowed down as they cross No Man's me down, after all. I had been at Dulmen for three Land. would have said yes, because I could in terrible shape in the coal bunkers. front of our barracks, the middle of weeks when we were transferred to Across from us was a barracks in smell something in the wind, and I the line being right at the barracks CHAPTER VIII—Sent to Dixmude with On account of the poor food and lack Brandenburg, Havel, which is known which there were English officers, and dispatches, Depew is caught in a Zeppelin was curious. Then he told me that if door. Sometimes when the cold got of treatment they had not even started somehow it seemed to me that they as "the hell-hole of Germany" to the raid, but escapes' unhurt. thqpa, I went to the hospital and worked to heal. Incidentally, the only cloth too much for the men nearest must have had a drag. Every once in prisoners. It certainly is not too CHAPTER IX—He is shot through the there, I might get better meals and bandages that any of us had were what the door would duck into the barracks. strong a name for it, either. a while 1 saw what looked like vegetables thigh in a brush with the Germans and would not have to go so far for them, As they left the ranks the is sent to a hospital, where he quickly we would tear from our clothes and I and bags of something that was On the way we changed trains at recovers. and that my knowing all the languages other men would close up and this have seen men pick up an old dirty a dead ringer for brown flour. So I Osnabruck and from the station platform I said I did would help me a great kept the line even, with the center still rag that someone else had had around CHAPTER X—Ordered back to sea duty, told Slim, or Kate, as I was calling him I saw German soldiers open up Depew rejoins the Cassard, which makes ways toward getting the job. opposite the barracks door. Finally his wound for a long time and bandage by then, and with him on guard, I with machine guns on the women and several trips to the Dardanelles as a convoy. Evidently he had been told to get a almost all of the men would be in the The Cassard is almost battered to his own wounds with it. sneaked out. children who were rioting for food. pieces by the Turkish batteries. man for the place, because he appointed barracks and by the time the roll was So it was all I could do to drag myself After two or three false starts, I got me to it then and there. He over not one remained outside. This CHAPTER XI—The Cassard takes part along. The officer noticed that I over our barbed wire and their barbed CHAPTER XXII. in many hot engagements in the memorable put me to work right away. We went seemed to peeve the German officers was out of line and immediately asked wire, and in through a window. Gallipoli campaign. over to one of the barracks, where a a great deal, but they did not punish: my name and nationality. When he There I saw carrots! And graham a "The Hell Hole of Germany" CHAPTER XII—Depew is member of case of sickness had been reported, us for it until we had been doing i£, a heard "American" he could not say flour! landing party which sees fierce fighting On arriving at Brandenburg we were and found that the invalid was a big In the trenches at Gallipoli. for some time. enough things about us and called me I took all I could carry, to divide up marched the three or four miles northwest Barbadoes negro named Jim, a fireman For several days I had noticed that all the swine names he could think of. with Kate, and then started eating, CHAPTER XIII—After an unsuccessful to the camp. While we were being from the Voltaire. At one time trench raid, Depew tries to rescue two someone else answered for two men. I was pretty thin at this time and so as not to waste anything. It was marched through the streets a wounded men in No Man's Land, but both Jim must have weighed 250 pounds, who had disappeared at least I had getting thinner, so I figured I might certainly some feast—the only thing die beforo he can reach the trenches. woman walked alongside of us for but by this time he was about two besides mud bread and barley coffee not seen them for some time. I did iust as well have it out before I quite a way, talking to the boys in CHAPTER XIV—Depew wins the Croix pounds lighter than a straw hat, but not think much about it, or ask any starved. Besides, I thought, he ought and "shadow" soup that I had to eat de Guerre for bravery in passing through English and asking them about the still black and full of pep. Light as a terrific artillery fire to summon aid to questions, and I did not hear anyone in Germany. Then I started back to to know that we are not used to being war. She said she did not believe his comrades in an advanced post. he was, I was no "white hope," and it the hospital. I got over their barbed else talk about it, but I was pretty bawled out by German swine in this anything the German papers printed. was all I could do to carry him to the ', CHAPTER XV—On his twelfth trip to sure the two men, a Russian and a •ountry. wire all right, and Kate gave me the She said she was an Englishwoman the Dardanelles, he is wounded in a naval hospital. Swatts kept right along behind Britisher, had escaped. But they were go-ahead for our entanglements, but engagement and, after recovering in a So I told him so. And I said that he from Liverpool and that at the outbreak me, and every time I would stop hospital at Brest, he is discharged from just as I was going over them a sentry marked present at roll call and all hould not bawl Americans out, because service and sails for New York on the of the war not being able to, to rest, he would poke me with a accounted for. Everything went along steamer Georgic. America was neutral. He then nabbed me. At firlfc I thought Kate get out of Germany, she and her children broom—the only broom I saw in Germany—and had turned traitor, because we had very well until one day when the name said that as America supplied food and had been put in prison and that CHAPTER XVI—The Georgic is captured laugh and point to his ear. had a little argument a short time Colore. 'Toi:taIne" got by without being answered. by the German raider Moewe. Depew, munitions to the allies she was no better every day for over a week they had Then I thought it was a frame-up with other survivors, is taken aboard Fontaine was a French fiftman than the rest. the Moewe. put her through the third degree that and that he was getting even with me, But later on I figured that he would from the Cambrian Range and Then I said"Do you remember the her children had been separated from but I was ir* for it then, and the best CHAPTER XVII—Transferred to the not have done a trick like that, and that was the first time he h'ad not been Deutschland? When she entered Baltimore Tarrowdale, which was captured later by her and that she did not know where I coufa do was to go through with it. besides, he knew I was bringing him present. We saw what was coming the Moewe, Depew and other prisoners and New London she got all the they were. But I was all in when we reached the suffer terrible hardships until they arrive something to eat. So the sentry must and we began to get pretty sore at cargo she wanted, didn't she?" in Germany. She walked along with us for several hospital. The first thing I saw when have sneaked up without Kate seeing Fontaine for not telling us. so we could "Yes." blocks until a sentry heard her say we got in the door was another negro, CHAPTER XVIII—At Swinemunde, they him. Who got the carrots and graham answer for him and keep the escape "Well, if you send over your merchant are piaced in a. prison camp where they something not very complimentary to also from Barbadoes, and as tall and covered. suffer terribly from cold, hunger and mistreatment flour that I was carrying I do not marine they will get the same." the Germans and chased her away. thin as Jim had once been short and at the hands of the guards. know. The sentries booted me all the The minute they found our count For that answer he gave me ten days When we arrived at the camp we were fat. This black boy. and I made a I CHAPTER XIX—The prisoners are way back to my old barracks. one short they blew the whistles and in the guardhouse. He did not like to put into the receiving barracks and great team, but I never knew what transferred to Neustrelitz, but get no better a squad of sentries came up as aa be reminded that their merchant marine treatment there than at Swinemunde. y.1 kept there six days. The condition jf his- name was. I always called him extra guard. They counted us again, CHAPTER XXIII. had to dive under to keep away these barracks was not such that you Kate, because night and day he was Chapter XX—After several weeks at but by sneaking back of the line and Neustrelitz, they are transferred once from the Limeys. could describe it. The floors were actually whistling the old song, "Kate, Kate, more to Dulmen, Westphalia, experiencing Despair—and Freedom. closing up again we made the count I admit I was pretty flip to this,officer, nothing but filth. Very few of Meet Me at the Garden gate," or words more of the same brand of German Rultur While I was working at the hospital all right except for one man—Fontaine. while making the journey. but who would not be when a the bunks remained the rest had been to that effect. I have waked up many conditions at my old barracks We would have tried to cover slick German swine officer bawled him CHAPTER XXI—Mr. Gerard, the American torn down—for fuel, I suppose. a night and heard that whistle just jhad been getting worse and worse. up for him, except that they had already ambassador, visits Dulmen and when out? The day we were transferred to the about at the same place as when I had he finds Depew there, tells him he will Very few of the men were absolutely discovered his absence. Now, It was while I was in the guardhouse endeavor to secure his release. fallen asleep. It would not have been regular prison barracks four hundred |right in the head, I guess, and almost we thought, they will nab Fontaine that Mr. Gerard, the American ambassador, Russians and Belgians were buried. so bad if he had known all of it. CHAPTER XXII—'Within a short time, all had given up hope of ever getting but will not discover the escape of the visited the camp. He came to I took Swatts' broom and cleaned Depew is transferred to another camp at Most of them had died from cholera, jout alive. Though they put up a good others. Brandenburg, known to prisoners as "The this camp about every six months, as lip, and then asked where the coal or typhoid and inoculations. We heard Hell Hole of Germany. iront to the Huns, they really did not But evidently they suspected something, a rule. Even in the German prison wood was. This got a great laugh. It from the prisoners there before us that care a great deal what happened to for soon they ore it over a CHAPTER XXIII—Ambassador Gerard camps the men had somehow got information was quite humorous to the men who the Germans had come through thecamps leaves Germany, with the breaking of ,ihem. The only thing to think about petty officer from H. M. S. Nomad, about Mr. Gerard's efforts to with word that there was an had shivered there for weeks, maybe, diplomatic relations by the United States, !was the minute they were living in. who had not been with us before, and but the Spanish ambassador visits tvrcamp improve the terrible surroundings in but to me it ..was about as funny as a epidemic of black typhus and cholero at Brandenburg and arranges for The day I caine back tw6 English forced him to call the roll from the which the men lived. Some of the men r.*ry for help. I got wood though, before-1 Depew's release. He finally reaches and tlir/c the only thing for .{he men to men, who had suddenly gone mud mustering papers, while they watched Rorschach, Switzerland, and is free. at Dulmen had been confined in ^various,other had been there long. do wns to take the,serum treatment to commenced to fight each other. It \va.'the the men as they answered. Then they camps and they told me that There was a great big cupboard XXIV—In CHAPTER Switzerland Depew avoid \*!tr-hinsr these diseases. Most of most terrible fight have eve: discovered that two more besides Fontaine real gets the first food he has tasted when Mr. Gerard visited these camps hfit locked more like a small house, the fMildred men had died from In 1 months. After betas showered with attentions seen. It was some time before the wei*e missing and began to search all that the men did for a week oir so uilt against the wall of the hospital he sails amt&for America and the 'ions. They had taken 'the [.rest of us could make them ijuit, he- for them. Ny Yor':. ttaSiairlvea safely in afterward was to talk about his visit (To be concluded next week)