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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER- HYRUM. UTAH - ntniiiiiiiiinniiiiiiniiiimiiiiiiiniinHnninnniinniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiHiiimiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnininniiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiimiiiiiiinniiiiiimiiiiiiiiiinnimiiiinrj and Chief Petty Officer. U.rS. Navy Member of the Foreitfn Legion of France Captain Gun Turret. French Battleship Cassard Winner of the Croix de Guerre Ex-Gun-ner By ALBERT N. DEPEW BEP W Copyright. 1918, by Reilly and Britton Co., Through BpeeUI Arrangement with the George Matthew AdmaScrrlee flrst-clus- S'-tl- -- s. 14-ln- Sedd-el-Ba- Triumph again she was bottom up. She must have floated upside down for almost half an hour, then she went down as though there was somebody on the bottom pulling her. When she went our Old Man banged his telephone on the bridge rail and swore at the Huns and Turks and broke his telescope lens to bits. About fifty from the Triumph were lost. It was decided that the place was too hot for us with that sub running loose, and when they reported that afternoon that she was making her way south from Gaba Tepe to Cape Helles all of the fleet but the Majestic got under way, and the Majestic was the only ship left off the cape. They said the Majestic was then the oldest of the ships In that campaign, but she was the pride of the British fleet just the same. She was torpedoed off Cape Helles later on, when there off the were a number of sea was crowded with men men-of-w- anyone ever knew. Then she went aground, with her stern toward the shore and listed over to port. You could see different articles rolling out and down the sldeu Then her back broke. The quarterdeck was crowded with men half dressed, with life belts on, jumping over the side or climbing down. There was an explosion and a cloud of black smoke broke over us, and for a while I thought I was blinded. All the time the shells were raining in on us and on the Champagne. When I could see again I saw the men on the Champagne climbing down the starboard or shore side. One chap was going down hand over hand along a stanchion, when another fellow above him let go and slid right down on him. .The first man fell about thirty feet, landing in the water with his neck doubled under him. Our lifeboats and launches were out picking up e vivors. Those who got safely over the side started to swim ashore, but when they had gone only a little way they found they could wade in. When the water was only up to their waists they came upon barbed wire entanglements and not a man got ashore that way but was scratched and clawed and mangled horribly. Some of them that I saw afterwards were just shredded along the sides of their bodies like coconuts. A great many of them, though, were killed by shrapnel while they were In the water. On board the Cassard our guns had been busy all the time, and it was not long before we put one enemy battery out of commission. We had suffered a bit, too, but not enough to worry us. There were about 3,000 men on the Champagne, I think, and at least a third were killed or drowned, and the casualties must have been almost The ship was Just a mass of wreckage. They called for a landing party from' the Cassard, and officers asked for volunteers for trench duty. I was not very keen about going, because I had been in trenches at Dixmude, and I knew how pleasant they were not, B Where the GOLIATH was wrecked. Where the MAJESTIC was wrecked. Where the CASSARD engaged the WERFT and the KAISER LICHE MARINS. . j j sur-Th- two-third- s. night thinking about Murray; and when the time came there never was a chap more glad to charge and get a chance at the enemy with the bayonet than I was We attacked according to a program. Time cards were issued to the officer of each" section, so that we would work exactly with the barrage. To be ahead of, or behind the time card, would mean walking into our own barrage. The time of attack Is called zero that is, the minute when you leave the trench. Some of the Anzacs said it raeunt when your feet got the coldest, but I do not think they suffered very much with trouble in the feet not when: they were advancing, anyway. The time card might read something like this : First wave, zero, advance, rapid walk, barrage 25 In 10 seconds, take first trench, 0 :20 ; second wave, same as the first, pass first trench, 0:23; take second trench, 0:35. The third wave is ordered to take the third trench, and so on, for as many lines as the enem.tls entrenched. The other waves might be instructed to occupy Hill 7, 12:08, or dig in behind rock. 12:45. Here, zero is understood, the first figures standing for minutes and the others for seconds. It might take several hours to carry out the program, but everything is laid out to an exact schedule. I was in the sixth line of the. third wave of attack and zero was 4:30 a. m. Whistles were to be the signal for zero and we were to walk to the first line Turkish trench. As we came out our barrage fire would be bursting 50 yards ahead of us and would lift 25 yards every 10 seconds. Our stunt was to take advantage of it without walking into It, . Q-- fe under all the time. It seemed as if morning would never come. The sand was full of fleas great big boys and they were as bad as any cooties I had ever had at Dixmude, The morning came at last, and 1 was detailed with a fatigue party to the beach where we had, landed stores. When we got down to the docks I missed Murray and asked where he was. They said he had been missing from his post not more than an hour fr-the time we left. I left my fatigue party, without orders, and joined in the hunt for Murray. There were men searching all along the docks and on the shore to each side. Finally I saw a bunch of men collect around a storehouse at the farther end of the docks on the shore side. I ran up to them. There was poor old Murray. They were just taking him down. He had been crucified against the wall of the storehouse. There was a bayonet through each arm, one through each foot and one through his stomach. One of the garbles fainted when he had to pull one of the bayonets out. They had hacked off his right hand at the wrist and taken hi3 Identification disc. I lay this to the German officers more than the Turks. I do not know Just what I did after this. But it changed me all around and I was not like my usual self during the rest of the time. It was still raining when we started tj war-nursi- IjiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiLJ but I volunteered, and so did Murray, on our way to the front line. Along We went ashore in our boats under a' the road were numbers of troops DEPEW FINDS HIS PAL, MURRAY, HAS BEEN MADE A VICheavy fire. There were 12 men killed scoffing and among them Indian troops In the lifeboat in which I was. I es- on sentry duty. They looked like a TIM "OF HUN FRIGHTFULNESS. bunch of frozen turnips, ccol and uncaped without a scratch. We were mustered up on shore and comfortable. We were close enough to were called for, for sentry make the roar of the cannonading volunteers Synopsis. Albert N. Depew, author of the story, tells of his service volunteered. If he had seem intolerably loud and could see duty. Murray In the United States navy, during which he attained the rank of chief on with the rest of us he i the bursting shells, particularly those only gone s petty officer, gunner. The world war starts soon after he have come through. After a fro a the British ships. might receives his honorable discharge from the navy, and he leaves for Then we came across some Turkish we short were wait given the order to France with a determination to enlist. lie Joins the Foreign Legion and advance. heavier The became prisoneis who were sheltering in an firing Is nsslgned to the dreadnuuglit Cassard, where his markmanship wins old barn, I guess It was, and we went at we the about this so time, him high honors. Later he is transferred to the land forces and sent to bedouble. far We had not very stopped for shelter and rest. They got the Flanders front. He gets his first experience in a front line trench we fore had a told us that their troops were very fine little party surprise nt Dixmude. He goes over the top" and gets his first German In a us. handed tired from long fighting, but that they bayonet fight. While on runner service. Depew Is caught in a Zeppelin a couple The front line was running over had plenty of men. They raid and has an exciting experience. In a fierce fight with the Gerhad about shells of a hunsolid what be tc dropped good, appeared mans he is wounded und sent to a hospital. After recovering he is from the and dred barn before when broke yards just through ground, on they sails and the Cassard for the Dardanelles. ordered back to sea duty fell into trenches 30 to 40 feet deep. we came, so we knew the batteries There he sees the wonderful work of the British and French in the These trenches had been dug, covered were trying to get our range and we Gallipoli campaign. over with lnch boards and then did not stay any longer, but went with dirt, and were regular away from there and on our road. About 500 yards farther on we came were sticking out of the stakes Sharp CHAPTER XI Continued. the boilers bursting. Thousands of and parados, and at the. bot- to ruins, and when we went inside parapet 10 troops on shore and thousands of tom were more stakes and rocks and we found 50 or 60 of our boys cooking During our eighth trick off Cape sailors on the ships saw the final barbed wire. and sleeping and not giving a thought Helles I was amidships in the galley plunge, and it was a sight to rememWe were advancing with bayonets to the shells or shrapnel. The mules when I heard our two go ber. When the ship started to go, the fixed and arms at the carry, so when outside were banging away at the hay, off almost at the same time. Every- Old Man rushed back to his cabin, line fell, and seme of the as though there never had been a war the first body ran for his station. Going up got the signal book and destroyed it. the boys of the thiid line came in the world. There was no shell made second, told man the main deck to my turret a Also, he saved the lives of two of his running up, and in the scramble that that could budge them away 'from me it was a sub on the port bow, but men. followed many of the chaps in the that hay unless it hit them. I only caught a glimpse of the little We gave dry clothes and brandy and first few lines were bayoneted by their Then along came a cart making a whirlpool where her periscope sub- coffee to the Limeys we rescued, and comrades. I was In the third line, but lot of racket. One of the fellows in it merged. I do not know why she did though they had Just come through I was to pull up in time had half of his face shot away and lucky enough The not let loose a torpedo at us. something pretty tough, they wero and did not fall in. You could not look was all bandaged up, but he was tryofficers said she was trying to make calm and cool and started talking right down into that trench after you had ing to sing and laugh just the same the entrance to the Dardanelles and away about what ship they ould seen it once, 'it was too sickening. as the rest were doing. They were came up blind among our ships and probably be assigned to next. Our casualties were sent back to the Anzacs, and were pretty badly shot up. was scared off by our guns, but I ship. One boat was sunk by a shell The word Anzac, as you probably CHAPTER XII. thought we had just escaped by the and all the men lost. is made from the initials of the know, deour on skin of our teeth. Later We remained where we were, Australian and New Zealand army stroyers claimed to have sighted her A Pal Crucified. - ' scratching out shallow trenches for corps. They had a regular town, called off Gaba Tepe. When we got to V Beach on my ourselves, finding what natural cover Anzac, on the peninsula. At Suvla At noon we were at mess when one next trip the weather was really fine, there was and otherwise getting ready bay and around Gaba Tepe the Anzacs of the boys yelled, Shes lilt, and we but it did not please us much, for as was near. It got further into the Turkish lines than all rushed on deck. There was the soon as we got In range the enemy for the night, which to we could hardly any other unit in the allied armies, and rain British ship, Triumph, torpedoed and batteries opened up on us and the began we had They were wonderful fighters. fires because any keep going, listing away over to starboard. She shell fire wks heavier than any we to shelter them from the shore side, so By this time the Turks were making minwas ready to turn over in a few had been in before, though not more the enemy could not spot us, and the an attack, and all you could see to utes. One battleship Is not supposed effective. We drew in on a bright was sea. was It certainfrom wind the the front was one long line of smoke to go to the assistance of another one morning, about half past' five or six, miserable and that ly nighty spouting earth. Then our guns that has been torpedoed, because the with our'eonvoy, the troopship Chamand the noise was deafening. started once we while in would a Every chances are the sub is still in the pagne, ahead of us and going slowly, was worse than In the turrets It to an It whether stand attack, by repel neighborhood laying for the second sounding all the way. was a real one or not, and we were aboard ship during an engagement At this part of the shore there Is a ship with another torpedo. But one My head rang for days after we left of the British trawlers, went to the dock about a mile and a half long, the Dardanelles, assistance of the Triumph to pick up running back into the country and The Turks were getting a better Idea the crew. terminating in a road. The Chamour range now and the shells were of We could see the crew Jumping Into pagne was making for this dock, falling pretty close to us, but finally the water. Then we breezed out sounding as she went. Suddenly, when we tore in with the navals ahead. she was within 500 yards of the shore, toward the horizon, full speed and of batteries. three their ripped up All about the Triumph was a cloud of I saw her swing around and steer in In the lull that followed we made good black smoke, but when we looked a crazy fashion. We began asking time and reached our frontline posithrough the glass we could see she was each other what was the matter with tions at during the aftergoing .down. Then our guns began to her, but we learned afterwards that noon, 1 her rudder had been torn off, though bombard the Turkish positions and The next morning we made our first had to get busy. When I saw the we never found out how, nor do 1 think attack. I had had a bad of it, man-trap- There was never a time when ... and the help of women were appreciated than at the present Women should learn ami nursing at home. There is no better way than to study the new edition of th. Common Sense Medical Adviser with chapters on First Aid, BandagJ Anatomy, Hygiene, care of the Sick Diseases of Women, Mother and Babe the Marriage Relations- -to be had at soma or Send 50c. to Publisher W Washington Street, Bu5alo, N. Y. If woman suffers from weak back, nervousness or dizziness if pains afflict her, the best tonic and corrective is on made up of native herbs and made rifices Depew goes over the top in an attack on the Turkish trenches and has some close calls before he gets back to hit owv lines. 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