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Show EMBRY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLEDALE. UTAH the cars we were froze (lft I eould hardly walk, and some of the boys simply could not move without intense pain. They loaded twelve men Into each 6 v( I compartment and detailed a guard of i six men to each car. The windows in the cars were all smashed, and everything about the cars was dirty. and Chief Petty Officer, U.S. Navy Finally the train stopped at a town iciuutr vt ie roreign Legion of France IN SANTA'S STOVE. named and there was a Captain Gun Turret.French Battleship Cassard mob of worueu and children around, Winner of the Croix de Guerre The fire was c'ackling merrily In as usual, ready for us with bricks and ' the o-big stove In Santa Claun' shop or Through SpwUl Amngtmtnt With Ik Ooorgt) Matrhew Adam. SerrV spit. They stoned us through the car work North. far room, fnr, up windows, and laughed and Jeered at "Ah," said oue of the hot coals, "we us, but by this time we were so used looked filthy and smeiled that way. turned his back out I went and around to it that we did not mlud much. Only, will burn so hard. We will not burn" ana wnere tbe coal dust had rubbed tne corner of the barracks. and then some fellow too much though. We will Just see every no oft, we were very pale. And all of us . But one of the sentries there saw would get all he could stand, and that the fire is kept warm and even were starved looking. either talk back or make a pass at and fine for Si nta Claus as he does his me and blew his whistle, and a guard About eleven o'clock that morning of eight came work. For It is cold enough anyway up from somewhere and somebody. Then he would get his the whistle blew again, and we came grabbed me. I tried to here. But he needs some warmth a either up arm or the bayonet through explain, but it out and were given an aluminum was no use, because as he is making the toys." or on crash a bead the with a leg, gun every time I said spoon and a dish apiece. Then we a word It meant another .swat over butt. . "Yes," said another one of the hot cheered up and saw corned beef and the ear, so finally I gave it After an eighteen hour ride, with- coals, "Santa Claus Is used to a cold up. z. cabbage for ourselves. An hour later Then they drilled me across the out food or drink, we arrived at climate and he likes It. Winter is his It was ralnlrj as we pulled favorite time of the year anyway. I've they drilled us through the snow to road to the officers' quarters. There the kuche. . When we got there we were three officers there, and each of in. As we went up the grade to the often heard hlra say so since Tve been stood in line until at least half-pas- t them asked me questions about all town we could see lights about a mile in the coal bin this fall. But at the twelve, and then the Germans shout kinds of things, but never once men- away, and we figured that that was same time he should have a good stove ed: "Nichts ta essen." But we did tioned my running out of the bar- the camp. The rain stopped and we its best not know what that meant, so we Just racks. Then they gave the sentries remained in the cars for some time. going "You said," the first coal remarked, hung around there and waited. Then some commands, and four of the sen Then, after a while, we knew our new "that say you had heard Santa-Clau- s' they started shouting, "Zuruckl Zu- - tries took me out and over to the guards were coming; ong before we that his favorite season of the year 1" ruck and drove us back to the barbed wire fence. There they tied could see them, we could hear the was the winter season. me, face to the fence, arms over my racket they made. Somehow a Ger"Well, I can add something to that" Later we heard the words "nlchts head, and hands and feet lashed to man cannot do anything shipshape "Is this to be an arithmetic sum?" zu essen!" so often that we thought the wire, and with a rope around my and neatly, but always has to have a asked the second coal. "I know a lot lot of meant and "no and too. eats." We olse, I thought, then, that my probably they running around, waist,, d had our reasons for thinking so, too, hunch had come true, and that I general confusion. swine about arithmetic, I do, I know that one Those words, and "zuruck" and would be crucified, like Murray and are more orderly In their habits than coal and another coal makes two " 'raus," - were practically all we did Brown. coals." the Huns. When they came up, we were roust"That certainly Is a lot to know," hear, except, of course, various kinds They posted a sentry there ! add! of schwelnhunde. tlon to the regular guards, and every ed from the cars and drilled up the said the first coal. "You are a bright It was awful to see the men when time he walked past me he would kick road to the camp. When we got near coal, you are." we got back to the barracks. Some of me or spit on me, or do both. the German barracks we were halted "Well, I look bright anyway," said One time he kicked me so hard and counted again, and made to stand the boys from the Georglc, not much the second coal, which was certainly over twelve years old, were almost that a prong of the barbed wire there for at least an hour after they very bright looking now as it burned crazy, but even the older men were gashed me over the left eye the only had finished counting us, shivering and blazed. crying, many of them. It was nothing one I can see with and fvhen the like leaves. At last they placed us in "What are you going to add?" the but torture all the time. They opened blood ran into my eye it" blinded me. barracks, and those who could went second coal asked. "Tell me please." all the windows and doors In the bar- I thought both eyes were gone then, to sleep. There were about forty barracks in racks, and then we could not heat the and I hoped they would shoot me. It room with our bodies. When we start- seemed to me that I had got my share the Limey group at Neustrellta and ed to move around, to keep warm, they by this time without losing the other two large Zeppelin sheds. The barfired a few shots at us. . I do not eye, and if it was gone, I wanted to racks were just about like those at Swinemunde at least, they were no know whether they hit anyone or not ; go too. I could not put up my hand to feel better. Along" the sides of the rooms we had got so that we did not pay any attention to things like that. But it where the prong had Jabbed me, and were long shelves or. benches, and stopped us, and we had to stand still. it kept on bleeding and smarting. I every' three feet were boards set in The Huns thought we would take the had on practically no clothing, you re grooves. The shelves were what we rifles from the sentries and use them, member. The wounds In my thigh had had to sleep on, and the boards in the. too. opened, and It .was bitter cold and grooves divided them up so that only I never saw a yellower bunch of windy. So you can picture to your a certain number of men could use each bench. people In my life. I do not mean peo- self how gay and carefree I was. The following morning we nearly When I had been there .for an hour ple. I wish I could publish what I dead when the Huns pulled a me the from and untied half dropped mean. they really We had stoves In the barracks, but wire, and I keeled over on my back. In a large wagon full of clothing. We no coal or wood to burn. There were They kicked me until I had to stand thought we never would have anymany boxes piled up there, but they up, but I fell down again, and all the thing to wear but our underclothes. belonged to the Germans. We would kicking In Germany could not have ThRjiJssued to each man a pair of model, a thin coat have burned them If we could, but brought me to my feet. I was Just all troueV. thl and coats some In. So seersucker whistles about their the blew them they the Germans made us carry H Needs Some Warmth as He Is across the road. They weighed about the sentries in the barracks awakened people wear In the summer, an overMaking the Toys. 150 pounds apiece, and we were so two of the boys, who came and carried coat about as warm as if it had been a of skull made in. me cap papers, cigarette weak that it was all two men could do "I was going to add," beean the first and a pair of shoes, which were a coal. All the time the sentries were yellto budge them. And we had to carry , 1" and day's labor to carry around. Not one them ; they would not let us roll them. ing, "Gott strafe England not changed your "I you've hope have or us under would !" received of until shirts "schwelnhund you socks, We were so cold and hungry that even mind," said the second coal. thought they were In a battle. What wear. that exercise did not warm us. "I beg your pardon." the first tml I do not know. from toe cut was shoe was The the their Idea right About 2 :30 the whistle blew again, "I am going to add Is continued. a In water a I as had little The boys of the pair received, and my and the Huns picked out a few men better that off part of wounds were In the right thigh' and tore them one of and can, and took them down the road. We the sleeve of his undershirt. So they my leg-- had stiffened up considerably "That's fine," said the second coal. could not figure" out why. but they washed anxI was afraid for a moment that you and sore, the and bandaged it "I got very got pretty gash came back about three o'clock, all of Believe was glad when I could ious, because there was nothing but decided not to tell what you were I me, had them with bread in their arms. They see was so tired and worn slush underfoot, and I was afraid I gong to add. And I did hope you I again. were chewing away on It when they out that I went to sleep at once, and might lose my leg. So I thought that would. I want to know so much. Well, had a chance. Whenever the sentries did not wake as long as you change your sentence up until they were giv- if I went to the commander and made were not looking they would bite at It a good shoe. ua our barley coffee next I kick a get tell me that you are going to add might ing and like a fish going after a worm. Each I told him that it was slushy outside. something instead of saying that you man carried five leaves. and that the water ran through the were going to add something I am r When they got in the barracks the In my shoe and made it bad for XIX. CHAPTER bole perfectly happy. Pray go on with your sentries made them put the bread whole leg, which was wounded. my adding." with and then, down on the floor, He' examined the shoe, and looked at German Prison Camps. - "I was going to add I beg your their bayonets, the sentries cut each A few davs after I had been lashed the open toe for some time, and I I beg It most humbly," the oh, pardon, aown center lengthwise once the loaf to the barbed wire fence some of the thought he was going to put up an said. "I really am going to coal first meant and four times across, which German officers came to the barracks. argument but would give in finally. I said I was. But every time what add ten men to a loaf about the size of an and one of them who spoke very good Then he asked me what I wanted. I I begin to speak I seem to insist upon loaf In this country ordinary teh-ce: "All of the neutrals who thought that was plain enough to see, said English In a way as though I had Innow. They gave each of us a piece but I said just as easily as I could beginning ere on unarmed ships step out but had changed my saiety-maic- n tended a telling than a little larger, that I wanted a shoe without a hole mind. I don'tyoumean to at Only a few stepped out all. I'm box. toe. in the Then he called for all the neutrals, and and sorry. dark, was deeply hard bread The "So the water runs into It, does and the Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, "But,I will go right on before I I really think they made it from trees. Brazilians and he said. "Well, my advice to you is to out stepped Spaniards make that Wrong speech again I will It had just exactly tbe same smeu But when I did, he said, "No, not get a knife, cut a hole in the heel and add not a coal, nor a number, nor that the dirt around trees has. Americans are not neu- let the water put" All the other w fiiPd iinst the sentries single file Americans. loud room anything that is used In arithmetic, in swine the very laughed tral. America supplies our enemies and mud, this of I will add that not only does Santa but ration our to get with food and ammunition." He raised at this, and I guess this Fritz thought' Claus like the winter season best but there was no chance of getting In line his fist and I thought he was going to he was a great comedian. But some' on filing he likes one flay of the whole year so twicey for we had to keep hit me, but Instead he gave me a how or other. It did not strike me and season road, the bet' likes In He out winter the best were to laugh, and I until we shove that caused me to fall and get funny that I just had ter than any other because In the winstand there in the snow to eat It We head. Then the was able, after quite a struggle, to the on cut little a unbarracks In the was back ter time the wonderful day comes. a not It even go could snickering. sentries pushed me over with the keep from That to that than day is Christmas. day. That Is til every roan had been served. harder keep , struggle French. British and the we are all working so hard the nnr menls were like this: A can or from day else, thought doing something After that they took the Norwegiare keeping Santa Claus' cabbage for. same the morning; in the were about coffee Our Just meals to Danes and barley separate ans, Swedes ; a tenth of a for all these toys ar to noon warm, at was shop so as called, Dreaa tne at swinemunde soup, barracks, and gave them clothes and be given away on Christmas day." a p. ui. i coffee Just at the as Geras the loaf of bread muddy, barley same rations just the and beds . .. 1 suit tnA I don't see how he can find so our menu aay m uuu uUJ When I saw this I as rank, and the soup just as man soldiers. May day. Lincoln's, The second morning after maily people to give toys to," the seckalser'8 birthday, made a kick and said I was a neutral, our barley coffee, one of ond coal said. or any other time. too, and ought to get the same treat- we had bad men. a was came to our barracks. great sentries "He has no trouble about that," said the soup took This cabbage Scandinavians. They the as ment and gave each w nniid It shadow soup, because the me to the officers again, kicked me which was number the first coal. "It seems there 'are it by hanging kits and lots and lots and lots of eh II- at me, and the only of us an envelope and a sheet of writboys claimed they made ...nnM an1 about and swore to us write told he Then a ui over : Darrei a cabbage dren, I really, could never tell you answer I got was, that America would ing paper. which fall on the water. wanted we after shadow alto, to how many, but so many I could never the anybody done the had for she all letting suffer for w tprwled. too. that if you found lies. Then I was sent back to the bar- he chalked on the door In big letters; count up to that number, and no more could take your KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGER could you, and no more could anything any cabbage In It. you racks again. But was address. return one the us o'clock it told and about at that I know of!" dish back for a second helping. The next day each asked and and were barracks from all We the I never" saw anybody gei us surprised, took "Well, we'll work hard," said tho they one dishful. AH it was, tecond coal, "and let us call a meetdrilled us through the swamps. The other where we were, because we had water. to fall one by one, some thought we were In Neustrellta. After ing In the stove. We will tell all the - men began v ""but most of them a while, we learned that it means We tried to go w . or swearing, burning coals and ihose which freshly r tt cantrips crying At , Pfst, without a word. Those but there were bo are put into the fire to burn their along being going were who those of us us-- and Santa Claus all they can, to who went down were smashed in the though, many of us thought It was best help -udAfte head with rifle butts or belts. not a warm the name of the town, and we fit ta so that he. will always have nd1rth, man of us arrived at a little rail- calling it the Brewery, beeatfM the a we fire." Finally 1 L'fc.i i flSked a sentry if I could go and had to stand in the name ended In lager. Wbatevi cer And the coul told the other coals, for some rea road station, us an hour while the en- was brewed there was not over outside for a minute, but for snow and difthey told still more so that the I had would not let me. and down the tracks hook- though. ran up was fire gine stood kept burning in just the right ferent ideas abont It, so (TO BE CONTUtUSaj on cars. When we finally got In way to help good old Santa arlTuBd near the door, and when be ing Gunmer Bepew in XVIII I CHAPTER I !. Continued. 16 ashore, the bombard were not only Lflreofsplt. If you could call it and t but also of rocks and bottlescould ito and most anything that and we j thrown. we im this time, "lest you forget," no only and clothing no shoes, ,d at had once neen our uuuerwrai. all right to be fl Coney Island in your swblri and Jibing suit In the drifts, because you 1 la good condition, and last buf not iit because you do not have to do I 4 Figure out the other side of it ! pose-arou- s I yourself.' -- saw a lot of Huns with the tn lone rifles coming toward us. !ing Just as they did In battle, and thought sure we were being used It is a good practice targets. ing they halted and stopped yelling ien they did, or we would have irted for them to fight it out, for i were not the kind that likes to be Itcliered with hands in the air, and I would have been glad for a chance f get a few of them before they got I But they did bait, and then sur us away junded us, and drilled tongh swamps and woods and shal- m water or slush. The women fol ured, too, and tlwre were plenty of icks and spit left Women as Well I men are the same the world over. ley say. I wonder T You can Just jftnre the women of. sny, Rockland, Jp, following a crowd of German flsonere that way, can't you? Not I of course the women of Rockland k pretty crude no kultpr at all P Oott never commissioned PresI fnt Wilson to take the lid oft the tare pot for him. . jThey drilled us along the docks, and Spooked as though the whole German vy was tied up at Swinemunde. ?e saw many of the ships we had ird about, among them being the m re x ?raons the Vulcan, for mother-shi-p marines.. There were many sail- re loafing along the docks, and they ve the a hand with their were no better with 1'rlck, but they had more ammunition fiea It came to spitting. One of them ftpped a young boy by the name of jtlly, and as you would never doubt, jelly picked up a rock and crashed ?e sailor with It. He was then bav- eted twice in the left leg. We be- pn singing then, our popular favorite. fack Un Vnnr trraililoo nl ien they heard us, how the swine women yr work. They wired jThen they drilled us past the Ger-- n soldiers' quarters. The men were J fine practice, and I guess all of us fought how handy we would be as But when we got near them, quit practicing and crowded yelling: "'RausJ Zuruckl" feets. fJ fm Bot to the top of the j!ta,Mf J . andu were halted near the bar-while nn officer read the mar-- f law of Germany to us. At least thought maybe that was It finally they let us Into the bar-an- d the first thing we saw was f hay' That ,00ked Sood P!a 4V made a rusn and d,ved But the Huns told us to take hny and throw in the middle of it road. They had to use force, be- woul(1 d0 ! Anally we gave J "owever,e ofand started to carry it L. and I the young boys were do not blame them tl uP1" ff V Jg tS1 of the boys tried to hide behind a box and was it. and two sentries JJJtrt him from one end of the bar-We-n 0,her' 1118 nose was bis filce mas,ied to a ?h Jelly. I L 5 os nothing we could do, ?andered P and down the 1. Ut as we did between C5. the Mewe, trying to keep f ef the ha,- - Wi! thS n,arathon was on we tle b,own vry loudly. ,ooked out w Baw ILT UP witb 01(1 t,n an8- then w. W1! T h& . I the firct St of gu,por l08e Were v!Tf and nl, 6orf,r,,y. and the men were half clothed. W f nelled h" s an t -- , " W -- u acn man had to bands "e ,aia SUBmi, ones with WlnTry f 5nUs got rasty -- u... nouui nun on ar Into u en we received barley Wee n,i' nU we had t0 drlk from u oT k 0t men h9d t0 n8,Jot8 ,L hi,- 'n Neo-strelit- -- They inarched us Into a field where ttre was nothing mucn but guns ana imunltion and snow, and set us up i something like skirmish formation. rtood there for some time, and I jj Ex-Gun- Albert N. Depew CojTTfcM. riAim inn Four-foote- . -- . "' ' r . itr We ... 7-- J-- spoiled " uij s4 "Prisoner-of-War-Camp- r t, . ." 1 - |