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DEPEW nm- - ner link new ' p,lr Sf BOYD PARK Winner of the Croix de Guerre nd Britton Co., Through Special Arrangement With the George Matthew Wdamg Bcrrlce W OillllllllllllllUlIlIllllllIIIIIIIlllIIIllIMIlEllllIlllllIIlllUIIIIMlIlIlllllIIIlIlIlllllllllIIllllllIlllllMlllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllUtlllUIllllLlI MAKERS OF JEWELRY MAIN STREET SALT CT t they were the toughest bunch I ever asleep In a battalion headquarters about a hundred yards away, and saw. LEGIONARIES VOW VENGEANCE WHEN GERMANS HIDE BARGAINS IN USED only waked up when part of the roof CARS After they saw the Germans using 80 iplindid uied BEHIND BELGIAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN. caved in on him. Yet he did not know the Belgian women the did, way they lion S 250 to $800. Gvurad fl he had been shelled almost every man in tunnlni condition-eatook lermj if I went on down the road a stretch, some kind of a vowmy company tight parties. Write for detailed hat aiui ,b' or other,' and lion. Used Car Dept., biit soon found was it easier N. Albert most walking of them kept their vows, too, I Randall-DodDepew, author of the story, tells of hfs service Synopsis. Auto Co., jall Uk( beside It, because the Huns had shelled believe. And those City In the United Stutes navy, during which he attained the rank of chief were religious that It neatly right up and down the middle. got more so after s petty officer, gunner. The world war starts soon after he that. Also, there were so many wrecked receives his honorable discharge from the navy, and he leaves for Our chaplain had always been very horses and wagbns to climb over on France with a determination to enlist. lie joins the Foreign Legion and friendly with the men, and while I DEEM PICTURE OUT OF PLAj the road besides dead men. is assigned to the dreadnaught Cassard, where his marksmanship wins think they liked him they were so After I had passed the area of the him high honors. Later he is transferred to the land forces and sent to tough they would never admit It, and British Authorities Request Removj, bombardment and got back on the some the Flanders front. He gets his first experience In a front line trench at of them claimed he was a Jonah, of Kaiser's Portrait From road I sat down to rest and smoke. A or Dixmude. or bad luck of some kind. Bat jinx, Tonga King's Palace. couple of shells had burst so near the they all told him their vows as soon crater that they had thrown the dirt as they made them and he was supGermanys interesting relations into the dugout, and I was a little CHAPTER V Continued. to be a sort of referee as to the little kingdom of Tonga in Jr on guard had each been wounded In right posed from the shock. While I was sit- whether dizzy the leg and one had had a big strip of South Pacific are recalled by recent they kept them or not there a of Tommies came second stunt in the front Incidents there. A few years back I never saw a battery better con- his scalp torn off. There was not a ting with aboutsquad my During a twice their number of lines cealed than this one. Up on the ground sound man in the buuch. You can up things got pretty bad. The portrait of the kaiser mounted German prisoners. The Tommies had were five to our one and they within a massive gilt frame was you couldnt see the muzzle twenty imagine what their cargo was like, if seen making Fritz do the pre goose step kept pushing back the was as used convoy as these was and all there parts of the line sented by the German government to that up yards away and they started them at It again when and And But all who could were singwas to see at any distance. There chaps. the King George Tuboa II, the present cleaning ont others. saw me sitting there. It sure was a ruined garden just outside the ing and talking and full of pep. That they is good for a laugh any time, this weather was as bad as It could be ruler of the archipelago. Forthwith and the food did not always come reggun quarters, and while the gunners is the French for you: they used no goose step. I this picture adorned the walls of the they call It that before took their Now, were there picking apples there would more men than they could possibly after the fellowguess ularly. wooden they palace at Nukualofa, the cap. who invented It. be a hiss and an explosion, and over spare to take care of the wounded, but One thing I had noticed about Fritz vows, every last man in the bunch ital of the kingdom. Germans-w- ho would go some of the trees, or maybe they were all cheerful about it was the way his coat flared out at the would have been kicking and growling shortly before the war, were rather all the time, but, as it was, the only conspicuous in a man or two, but never a shell struck always. bottom, so I took this chance to find Tonga were Just after I passed this ambulance out about it, while they halted for a time they growled was when the Ger- admire the painting when theywontcamto nearer the guns than that. - The poilus used to thank Fritz for helping them the Germans began shelling a section rest Just a little farther down the mans pushed us back. to pay their respects to King George. Things kept getting worse and you Moreover, close at hand were busts of pick the apples, because the explosions of the road too near me to be comfort road. I found that they carried their would bring them down in great style. able, so I beat .It to a shell crater emergency kits in their coats. These could see that the men talked to the Emperor Frederick of Germany and Shells from our heavy artillery passed about twenty yards off the road, to the kits contained canned meat, tobacco, chaplain more and quite a few of them Prince von Bismarck. So delightfully Informal In many ways is the Tongan just over the garden, too, making an rear. A shrapnel shell exploded pretty needles, thread and plaster all this got real chummy with him. in One near me morning Fritz started bright court that the busts did awful racket. But they were not in it just as I jumped into this in addition to their regular pack. excellent servhole I did not look around to see how with the 75s. Then I drilled down the road some and early to begin his strafe. The ice ns hat racks on festive .occasions. close it was and .. I remember now more, but had to lieutenant was walking up and down But not so They gave me a little practice with with the present from the stop pretty soon to a 75 under the direction of expert how the old minstrel joke I had heard let. a column of French infantry swing the trench to see that the sentries All Highest. But alack for the big posted and were on the French gunners before I went to my on board ship came to my mind at the on to the road from a field. They were properly of the in little Tonga kaiser picture A over head shell his whizzed naval gun, and, believe me, it time something about a fellow feel- were on their way to the trenches as job. After the war had been in progress foi1 so and landed the behind small Just he ing climbed parados some time into a hole was a fine little piece. Just picture After every two the pulled it after him and I wished companies there would be a wagon. and the dirt spouted up like I Imagine whereabouts fact of its existence andj to yourself a little beauty that can and came within the purview I might do the same. I flattened mylooks. a Yellowstone geyser send a shell every two sec- self as close Pretty soon. I saw the uniform of the of British the government and that Another officer came up to the lieuagainst the wall of the Legion. Then a company of my regionds for five miles and more, if you the Tongan govi government requested new a tenant one who had only as I could and then I noticed ment came want It to, and land on Fritz vest crater up and I wheeled In with erument to remove it from the palace, week bea that somebody had made a dugout in them. We were about the company joined in the rear of the colbutton every time. There is nothing the other wall The pith of this request was that umn that had passed. Our boys were fore. They had walked about ten I than a gun, anyway, and started for It. of the crater and is a British protectorate. But noti over whizzed when another shell I have never since been entirely satisup for their regular stunt in the yards one withstanding Tonga is a Brfflsh proi to a and third The shells were exploding so fast going them. laid They front lines, while the others had fied with anything less than a 75. by that time that you could not listen arrived at that ftjjtrt of the front. just came. - There were three in less than tectorate it Is the last independent As you probably know, the opposing for each five minutes, directly over their heads. kingdom in the Pacific aill it prides explosion separately, and just Then for thefirst time my feet beartillery in this war is so widely sepa- as I jumped into the dugout a regular Then a shell landed on the left side Itself on having not gan rated that the gunuers never see their hail of shrapnel fell on the but a cabinet and a. nnrment.-- v hurti2. a polio of the spot I had fitted very we our meutrencn,.njd okugtfrjit.,uril'irjr itfl w mi targets unless these happen to be just passed. It was pretty dark in of rough cowhide and labor to carry them wounded and three died later. The buildings, and even then it is rare. So, the dugout and the first move I made but it was a days on your feet. I began lagging behind. lieutenant went over to them and just HISTORY WROUGHT IN STONE since an artillery officer never sees the I bumped into sbmebody else and he or thirty yards after he passed me a lad got It square enemy artillery or infantry, he must let out a yell that you could have I would lag twenty and to then cate up. But not far from me and was knocked Marvels of French Architecture Which behind try on others to give him the range heard a mile. It was a Tommy who depend thousands of men ahead of me over to where I was lying. the the Uncivilized Hordes of Geand direction. had been wounded In the hand and few the and up very pace steady and kept back rmany Would Destroy. For this purpose there are balloons between curses he told me I had sat The lieutenant came limped, though they had been on the helped me with the first-airoll and and airplanes attached to each artil- right on his wound when I moved march since 3 a. m. It wrns then about then In architecture France Is supreme, the Germans began using 'Shraplery unit. The airplanes are equipped asked him why he did not yell sooner, a. in. Those who did limp were II was swearing with wireless, but also signal by but he only swore more. He surely nel. The lieutenant It well may be said that without carried in the wagons. But I had seen hard about the Gerthe and France there would have been no Gothi smoke and direction of flight, while was a great cusser. shrapnel men ridfew besides the drivers very . else. The cathedrals of the balloons use telephones. The obic architecture. The bombardment slackened up a ing in the wagons, and I wanted to mans and everything a shell had just to servers have maps and- powerful bit about this time, and I thought are the right France Farther absolutely unrivaled, says be as tough as the next guy, so I kept a made and are cameras. the near Their Gilbert in the Worlds Work. One Cass and struck parados maps not I glasses did would have a look around. on. But, believe me, I was sure glad from across against it, with marked off in zones to correspond crater and has only to mention the names of No. get out of the crater entirely, but we halted for a rest along the big the maps used by the artillery officers. moved around out of the dugout until when the parapet, was a young chap with tre Dame . de Paris, Bourges, Reims. road. deep' gash in his head, sitting on Chartres, Rouen, Amiens, Beauvais and The observations are signaled to a could see the road I had been on. That did! is, the broken-dowthe fire step and next to him a fellow Coutances to bring up memories of mireceiving station on the ground and The first thing I saw was a Our company of the Legion had not nursing the place where his arm had racles of been hit to creative design which no had the batteries.. are then telephoned just wagon that come from so far, and when the front been blown off. Our bread ration lay words can fittingly characterize or All our troops were equipped with in fact, It was toppling over when my of column had drawn out of the all about the trench and some of the the driver jumped telephone signal corps detachments eye caught it. The way along the road we kept on filing, poilus were fishing It out of the mud Wonders of constructive ingenuity and this was a very important arm from his seat and while he was in the as the saying is. I did not care about and water and wiping the biscuits off suas of the service. The enemy position is air his head was torn completely from they are, they have a yet more tho and I was ready for on their sleeves or eating as fast as being then, tough of evidence I do en another shell as either an shoulders by his shelled before attack, preme significance the wagon. they could. Only some of the biscuits refinement and taste of a people inbarrage or otherwise, and communiea not know what kind. This was enough no water In and they wagons! had fallen bloody Only now there were tion between the waves of attack and for me, so back to the dugout. stinct with emotion and ennobled by not eat these. other troops, How the Germans did it I do not They belonged with theas best I could didA the artillery is absolutely necessary, idealism in its most exalted phase. young fellow, hardly more than a These are directed toward know, but they had found out about So I had to ease along Bombardments great buildings give expression like hours to my boy, stumbled over the parados and certain parts of the enemy position that road and opened fire at exactly for what seemed to the spiritual aspirations of a great off onto another almost as accurately as you would use the moment when the road was cov- feet until we turned a rest. I found fell Into the trench right near the people. . lieutenant and the lieutenant dressed of superb a searchlight. The field telephones are ered with wagons and men. Yet there road and halted for constructions are They out later that our officers had gone his wounds himself. I think he was very light and are portable to the last had not been a balloon or airplane in scale and fascinating beauty, embethis at lost time, were some and of relation the carvor astray boy. be rigged up the sky for some time. llished by tracery and arabesque, degree. They can of course, they did not tell he The lieutenant how him asked though, tapestry, knocked down in' a- very short time. and inlay, stained glass, After a while the bombardment felt, but the boy only asked for water ing The wire Is wound on drums or reels moved away to the east, from which us so. and iron" of marvelous craftsbronze the of our section at arrived We and smiled. But you could see be was and you would be surprised to see how direction I had come, and I knew our design. They trench about three oclock that after- in great pain. Then the boy said : manship and exquisite year thousand a quickly our corps established com- batteries were getting it. The Tommy noon and I rejoined my of the product company, I am going are faultless Oh, the pain is awful. munication from a newly won trench and I came out of the dugout. As I contribution or the taste, of to headquarters, for instance. They started climbing up the muddy sides was all tired out after this trek and to die." Innumerable thousands of craftsmen You are all right, old man," the were asking for our casualties before I saw there was a man standing at found myself longing for the Cassard devoted to the glory of God and You will be home we had finished having them, almost, the edge of it, and I could tell by his and the1 rolling wave, where no Mara- lieutenant said. of France. And-I- t Is this glorious love e hikes were neces soon. The stretcher bearers are comthons and Artillery fire was directed by men puttees that he was a Limey. I was nation that the hordes of Germany But this was not in store for ing." So we passed the word for the would whose duty it was to dope out the having a hnrd job of it, so without sary. destroy. me yet. stretcher bearers. range from the information sent them looking up I hailed him. men Two In from water took bottle the he the Then air.. by the observers "That was sure some shelling, Within Sound of the Guns. CHAPTER VI. the boys side and sat him up and gave were stationed at the switchboard, wasnt It? I said. a lad Theres A new sound arose In the darkness, him some water. He left the water one man to receive the message and down here with a wounded fin ; better a thrill Does a Fritz Little Strafeing." bottle with the chap and went to a sound which held for me the other to operate the board. As give him a hand." alluring more and was outfit vital of one out saw incomparably those it My that the stretcher bearers along. soon as the range was plotted It ro "What shelling do- you mean," says the Germans place women and chil- hurry battle. distant the of hint than and corner to of around the the the he gunners When was telephoned got . without moving, undulatlo Theres the legs, mellow a in dren front of them as shields trench the boy was slipping back and slowly, rich, they did the rest. in this sector for some none and been against our fire. More than a third of the water bottle had fallen down. So which stirred every fiber, The naval guns at Dixmude were time. I think." off. our men, I should say, had been pretty I went over to him and propped him quavered, descended and broke were these and cars on flat mounted all 0 was with at heel The right my Tommy criminals stood own listening in motionless, their countries, up again and gave him some more tough drawn back and forth on the track by by this time, and he let out a y. nnmlstaka string They always traded their pay against water. ears, ard again It came, little Belgian engines. woo I was of and too, misty language. surprised, of the a or of roll the of a handful from the depths cards After I had been at my gun for sev- still, scrambling around in the mud. me lu bones whenever they got a chance. My companion smiled at eral days I was ordered back to my coe had a let Then the Gawd Tommy elp They had been in most of the dirty over the top" umph. His first surprise Depew goes regiment, which was again in the us I and I looked up and saw that the fo ,t time, of not was war ahead even of This world. the was In and gets hie first German a parts promptly, trenches. My course front-linco We a to dusk. Limey officer, a such anuch to them; just one more was only now growing legs belonged bayonet fight. Read hla atory past both the British and French lines major, tall, And think. I God we here call drooped could had list. In the the in been Job see Imagination They of this exploit In the next Inbut quite a distance behind the front muzzle raised skywan and the saints and the human body cussing the eyes off of him! stallment lines. sized boss stevedore he It But more up rightly and gave wolf uttering that cry which of things than any Everywhere there were ambulances us a no lived. and ever we that is most symbolic of the hand, when for only sounds and laughed and wagons going backward Pa a in were hurlement to explain. I got rattled and Yet they way. religious ern wilderness ; un (TO BE CONTINUED.) ward. I met one French ambulance tried him e told that all I saw was his legs Some of them were always reading et lugubre. I could not believe my w that was a long wagon full of poilus and or books Versatile Windmill. . that they did not look like an off- religious saying prayers in that here In the heart of France, from a field hospital near the firing and between them they different A windmill in Europe grinds grain in sound of the guns at the fron line and was driven by a man whose icers legs, which might have made It believed ways wo in and a baker and flour superfor l. to mixes was shoul-jureligion he every then about to worse, the only had heard the voice of a wild left arm was bandaged Yet I under stition the sun, into kneads guess. it and dough. Two poilus who sat in Uio rear it. 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