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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER- HYRUM, UTAH - Coming buck from the Dardanelles a gold stripe sent for me and asked me whether I thought there were y other gunners In the States that would serve with the French. Gold Cuff LinU ex-nav- I told them the country was full of j- - A By - rVl IKonfL IN Copyright, 1918, GUNNER DEPEW, - ..... and Chief Petty Officer, U. 5. N vy Member of the Foreign Legion of France Captain Gun Turret, French Battleship Cassird Winner of the Croix de Guerre Ex-Gunn- er llOTO'VS.7 HOSPITAL, SEES UNUSUAL INSTANCE OF HUN FRIGHTFOLNESS. IN Albert N. Depetv, author ot the story, tells of his service States navy, during which he attained the rank of chief s gunuer. The world war starts soon after he receives his honorable discharge from the navy, and he leaves for Synopsis. In the United petty officer, first-clas- France with a determination to enlist. He joins the Foreign Legion and Is assigned to the dreadnought Cassard. where his marksmanship wins him high honors. Later he Is transferred to the land forces and sent to the Flanders front. He gets his first experience In a front line trench at DIxmude. He goes over the top and gets his first German in a bayonet fight. While on runner service, Depew is caught in a Zeppelin raid and has an exciting experience. In a fierce fight with the Germans, he Is wounded and is sent to a hospital. CHAPTER IX Continued. ' cause there were lots of them. But you can never have too many handy founded boys with the guns and he was very MAKERS OF anxious for me to get all I could. I KW MAIN STREET SU.tGScIT7 had no way of reaching the I did know--, so I had to pass up this opportunity to recruit by mail. While we were in Brest I got permission to go aboard a submarine BARGAINS IN USED CARS and a petty officer showed me around. This was the first time I was in the ronninc condition-eaterms II S Interior of a sub and I told the officer t iht parties. Write lor detailed list and itxril ion, Used Car Dept., ut j wouti ne to take a spin in the Randall-DodAuto Co., Sal. uk, cit, tub myself. He Introduced me to the commander, but the petty officer said he did not think they would let me stay aboard. I showed the commander my passport and talked to him for a while, and he said he would take me on their practice Writer Gives It ae Hie Opinion Thai .They AreActuated Solely by cruise two days later if the Old Man Selfishness. me written permission. gave So I it back to the CasOn the most pronounced nuis sard and while I did not promise that ances with which seasoned travelers od 1 would get any American gunners for him ln exchange for the written per- - railroad trains have to contend U the sy d I Trf at Dixmude, and after resting up at pI BOYD PARK by Reilly and Britton Co., Through Special Arrangement With the George Matthew Adame Service certain places we knew we were making It effective. My guns did for two enemy pieces that I know of, and perhaps several others. The French garbles were a good deal more excited in action than I they would Theywere dodging around below decks, trying to miss the shrapnel that came aboard, shouting, swearing, singing but fighting hard, at that. They ctood the gaff just as well rs any other garbles would, only In their own sweet way which is noisy enough, believe me. as Hrnptf hv fUr seamen. " voT can see what they up against in the dodging line. A gun tnerof in th. best nlacp on enrih for n nprvmis we will give you a new Thle is the guarantee that good gunners and he wanted me to write to all I knew and get them to come over,. He did not mean by this, and neither do I,' that there were not good gunners In the French navy, be- hot-foote- d or he is usually a male instead of t iot the hospital, I was keen on going to Theres an be wanted to. It seems as though he ohentand female-per- slsts in having hU window me nni But there was a nurse there, who sea again. that way. for he gave noise and smen work Ml the dld take amfsent open, no matter whether other occih took special interest in his case, and a The Cassard was in dry dock for re- time in a flahtimr cun turret note to commander tbe sub But she stayed up day and night for some pairs after her last voyage to the DarI pants of the car dislike it or not; an engagement I would rather bIm another note by messenger. during time and finally brought him through. danelles as convoy to the troopship be In a 01d but tbe time than wanted Murray t0 ers thereabout receiving The case was very well known, and Dupleix. Everything was being rushed between gun turret every supone was enough. Man saId decks. if At that, anything So- two days later 1 went aboard Ply of dust and fine cinders, as well everybody said she had performed a to get her out as soon as possible, and does happen in a turret- -it is good as enough soft coal smoke to last then) crews were working day and night. miracle. He got better slowly. night sure for all, and no rain checks ln tbe morning and had breakfastThen a few weeks later, when he There were other ships there too the remainder of their lives, Thes$ breaka sub and crew the with good needed was out of danger and was able to cranks are almost always and dreadnaughts, One of our junior lieutenants was fflst it was. too. After breakfast they walk, and it was only a question of and battleships, and armored cruisers, struck occasional travelers. went It is noticed by commander by a fragment of shell es he took stations and the time before he would be released from all being overhauled. was at his station behind the wheel- - UP on the structure amidships, which those who have taken the pains to obj the hospital, this nurse was transWe received and placed guns of house a piece of his skull was was just under the conning tower, and serve that the regular traveler tha ferred to another hospital. Everybody newer design, filled the magazines with driven and id into his brain. He was car- - I squatted down on the deck beneath is, the man who rides every day be! knew her and liked her, and when she the highest explosives known to naval window summer never the opens structure, the ried into my guu turret, but he went "around to say good-by- , all the use, and generally made for a would not let them take him to sick Then the gas engines started up side the seat in which he Is riding. It men were sorry and gave her little hard job. Our magazines ready were filled bay to have his wound dressed. There and made au awful racket and shook does not mean any more comfort for1 presents, and wanted her to write to with' shells for our big 12 and he sat, asking every now and then the old tub from stem to stern. I him to do so, as lie long ago dlscow them. She was going to get a nurse guns. A shell can tear a hole how the fight was going and then sort could tell that we had cut loose from ered, but much discomfort instead, she knew in the other hospital to turn through the heaviest armor at of dozing oft for a while. As soon as a railroad car starts to plate the dock and were moving. After a her letters into English, so that she 12,000 yards, nnd will do more damage After an of action we put while they shut oft the gas engines half hour could write to me. I gave her a ring than you would think. about and started away, still firing, and started the motors and we began I had made from a piece of shell case, When we had coaled and had got As a moparting slap on the back tlie to submerge. When we were all the only compose themselves a few com but I guess she had hundreds of them our stores aboard, we dressed for acmore be far ments they would Turks tore oft one of our tur-- way under I looked through the perlat that. tion orrather, undressed. The decks would to breaths than and fortable we went, back to scope and saw a Dutch merchantman, rets, then they away But this German doctor would not were clear; hatch covers bolted and Brest with a coal dust, smoke and cinders. But thSj 15. to her. That would not davits folded down; furniture, chests, We did not casualty list of only - We stayed under about half an hour say good-bhave much trouble guess- and then came back to the surface, average occasional traveler will pus! have made me sore, but it made this tables, chairs were sent ashore, and inwas that it dry dock for us again. One of the garbles was telling me up his window as soon as he enters thi French girl feel very bad, and she be- flammable gear, like our rope ham- ingWe to Brest after $ quiet later on that this same sub had gone car. back got You could gan to cry. One of the French officers mocks, went overboard. voyage, It makes no difference to him how, patching ourselves up where out of control a few weeks before find saw her and found out about the doc- not a single wooden chair or table we could on the way; and again there and kept diving and diving until she much the rest ol the car suffers he is tor, and the officer went up and spoke in the ward room. was the rush work, day and night, struck bottom. I do not know how the only one to be considered. It is a When the ship Is cleared for action, to to the German. Then the French ofget into shape and do it over again, many fathoms down it was, but it was practice that causes great discomfort ficer left, and the German called to a shell bursting ' inside cannot-fin- d turned us out in 12 days and farther than any commander would to passengers who have the necessary They the nurse and she went over to him much to set afire, and if one bursts on back we went to the Turks and their take a sub if he could help it. This sense to know that everybody Is better . and deck, there is nothin to burn but the Hun assistants. stopped crying. hot garby said they could hear- the plates off if the windows are closed on The talked for a little while, and wooden deck, and that is covered with We were lucky getting inshore, only noticed that Is a wonder was that And and it it always days. cracking then she put out her hands as if she steel plate. receiving a nasty smash astern, when artists invariably did not crumple up from the these was going to leave. He put out his Finally, we had roll call all men the Turks got our range and landed they but she weathered window open when they it, pres- leave the pressure, hands, too, and took hold of hers. And present. Then we set sail for llie before we got out. We suve button and all, and in a quarter peaches and only though! last The first, then he twisted her wrists and broke Dardanelles as escort to the Dupleix, tore our rudder off getting 0f an hour was ou the surface. While part. nearly one else count! no is for themselves them. We heard the snap. which had on board territorial and away. But we had to come back surface j the right Courant. 0n Hartford they sighted smoke, There were men in that ward who provincial French troops Gascons, away, because we had carried quite submerged again, and soon, over the had not been on foot since the day Parisians, Normans, a number of heavy guns from Brest horizon came d eight battleships, they came to the hospital, and one of Spahis, Turcos all kinds. When we were given the Job of running corted by Zepps and destroyers. them was supposed to be dying, but it messed, we had to squat down on the them ashore. It was day and night ... . is an absolute fact that when we heard steel mess deck ' and eat from metal They tested their tubes before they work and a great job for fun, because, got jn range. let go. The Scheme of Lifo That Is a Beautirui her scream, there was not a man left plates. they Finally and while you never knew when flrst shot missed, but after that they Thing for Both Parents in bed. There had been a notice posted be- would get It, you had good reason you to Offspring, I need not tell you what we did to fore we left that the Zeppelins bad begot into jf good and the garby said all feel get lammed by a cute y0U could hear was the knocking of the German. They did not need to gun sea raids, and we kept a live eye little you would shell or a dainty bit of shrap- - the detonated .guncotton. From year to year we find every shoot him, after we got through with out for them. The news proved to be nel before the over. was a constantly growing approo job where five of minutes was About later they sightleft him. They did shoot what a fake, though, and we did not see a Aboard ship it was deck work, of ed five destroyers, two on each bow, tloa by parents of their responslb him, to make sure, though. 1 single cigar while we were out. and course, and one dead ahead. The sub steered It is not the kind of a response Now, I have heard people say that We made the trip to the Dardanelles there than it was not much better life on ashore with the guns, be- - In at right angle zigzags and the de- - really that puts blue specs It is not the Germans we are fighting, without sighting uu enemy craft, keepthe but the kaiser and his system. Well, ing in close touch with the Dupleix, cause the enemy trenches were near stroyers stayed with their convoy. The blurs the distant road, but Is a fa makes the shore and that themof two the amused less at some launched sub of Bophe and busy every minute preparing for torpedoes they it may be true that responsibility selves trying to pick us off whenever than a mile before diving, to get away want the companionship of his son a soldiers, would not do these things if action. t we showed on deck. J guess we were from the destroyers and the garby the mother the confidences of they did not have to : myself, 1 am not I was made gun captain and given It can a regular shooting gallery for them, said at least one of them was hit. so sure. of the starboard bow turret, daughter. The parent knowsgetting charge lie Here some and without of our men thought they These ships must have been some have these things But you take this doctor. guns. I had my mounting two child s was, an educated man, who had been men at gun practice daily, and by the did not need all the practice they of the lucky ones that came down holding, truly earning, the who ' . . trained all his life fo help people time we neared the Dardanelles, after were getting, for quite a few of us from the North sea. The garby said spect. tn he thought they were off the Dutch Were in pain,- and not to cause it. And five days, they were la pretty fair acted as bulls eyes. man of affairs, the father of a he was not where he would have to shape. But we did not mind the bullets so coast at the time, but he was not boys, told me Just a few days ag0.uS, t obey the kaiser or any other German. certain things he had to do he was about 5 a. m. when we drew much. They make a clean wound .or sure. It cu But that tbis I was on And this nurse had saved his life. crulse was feel tbat not then he did near Cape Ilelles and took stations put you away entirely; shrapnel oney is any for actjon. The Dupleix was in front tears you up and can play all kinds onIy a Practice cruise and we did not Bpare the time nor the So I do not see that there l argument about it. He broke that of us. The batteries on the cape of tricks with various parts of your meet with any excitement ln the short But he said, Ive got to mane with my boys. a girls wrists becauseto he wanted1 to; opened up on us, and in a few min body without killing you. As for time that we were out. it. Now, say utes later those at Kum Kaleh joined shells well, mincemeat- is the word. that is all there is with your children good Making P this German doctor was a dirty cur in. about as good a thing as any The Narrows were thick with mines In and a scoundrel. But I say that he is next the Guninstallment V made for do. It means keeping a grip0 beach the and there had been a great deal of As Dupleix a fair sample of most of the Germans and prepared to. land her troops, we damage done ner of Depew tells the wondernt your temper, discretion in you there, so after a while I have met. And it is Germans of this work ful heart. of . the British and in batbroadside on, raking their your and the sunshine British Yarmouth detailed swung their kind that we are fighting not merely teries as we did so, nnd received a trawlers to French navies in the Gallipoli Is a scheme of life good for J go in und sweep up. They the kaiser. Don't it. miss campaign. which entered a guu had to go up unprotected, of course, Womans Wgrld. It is like going to college. I have shell, in the after turretthrough and exploded. and they started off one night all port I Air. heard have never been there, but Force of Compressed Some bags of powder stored there serene. (TO BE CONTINUED.) some people say it did not do a 'man resistance The effects of air (where they should never have been) Everything went well until they an any good to go. But I have never were fired and the roof of the turret turned known in the twelve wnere well at Narrows Given-Citand the started Macbeth's Death Place heard a man who went there say that. was tunnel, off. lifted on It landed half mne Simplon deck, back. Then, before you could tell it, Belmont castle, the scene final Lrobahly you have not been over there, tiltedjust up against the side of the tur- five or six searchlights were playing struggle between Macbeth and Macduff exceptionally high amount and maybe you think we are not fightret. on one of nnd the trawlers shells Macbeth was when slain, has been ing the German people, but only the On deck the rain of fire was simply splashing the water all over her. en to the city of Dundee by its owner, kaiser and his flunkeys. terrific. Steel flew in all directions. Both banks were simply banging away Mrs. Marryat, who inherited a Weil, nobody had belter tell me that. large It was smash, crash, all point blank at them and I never fortune from her brother, Sir James I I been and have have Because there, enl the time, and I do not mind saying I thought they would get bock. Caird. The castle, which is located 17 and flfty square feet, has a seen this. And I know. fe never thought we would come out Thej did get back, though, but miles from Dundee, was once the home lag current of 8,530 cubic tw some of them had hardly enough men of the British of it. , tvfo CHAPTER X. Sir Henry per second, maintained by premier, ' Some of the heavy armor plate up left to work ship. But that Is like blast fans at the Brig dian , ln The property Tra forward was shot away and after that the Limeys. They will get back from includes 900 acres of Hell at Gallipoli. rfr park land and is exhaust fans at Iselle. looked Cassard more old encounter the like a Is one 1 man while there from hosvalued at $2,000,000. anywhere the e with this current After was discharged than anything else to me. As alive. a sistance than in open air up pital, I was ordered to report to my monitor we drew nearer the shore they began A chap aboard one of the trawlers duty. Must Remain Awake and a half miles an bour ship at Brest for dlree oppos The hoys abonrd the Unssard gave using shrapnel on us and in no time said a shell went through the wheel-- 1 knocks at every mans higher speeds or Tpportunlty our funnels were much at all shot full house Murof between the' quartermaster and door, said .Uncle Eben;' but' iF me a hearty welcome, especially gwjjj tion the resistance is you ray, who hnd come back after two holes and a sieve was watertight com- himself and nil the Q. M. said was, hes sits down an listens, yous liable than outside. Coasting by g sanS no, an weeks in the trenches at Dixmude. 1 pared to them. down the seven per one W Naturally we were not just taking was glad to see them, too, for after all, maximum gradient, a train, they were garbles, and 1 always feel all this punishment without any Optimistic Thought. ccous ing with the current, cannl Our guns were at It fast and move at home with them thnn with solhour on a The greatest saints have their time Jthlrty-flv- e miles per diers. Then, It was pretty rough stuff from the way the fire slackened in of faiutness. the braking by the air. I I ST - - I open-windo- 14-Inc- h w - 14-in- j - I big-gu- n y I - open-windo- w Indo-Chines- e, es-an- , i I 14-inc- h - , y. of-th- I giv-wei- -e slam-han- g i Campbell-Bannerma- sa n. I I . In-t- I come-bnc- k. I I he |