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Show EttERY, COUNTY PROGRESS, CASTLE DALE. UTAH Curater Bepew and Chief Petty Officer. U.S. Nvy Member of the Foreign Legion of France Captain Gun Turret. French Battleship Cassard Winner of the Croix de Guerre Ex-Gun- Albert N. Depew Copyright, GUNNER 1818, DEPEW, by Bflly maA Brttton Co Thmrafh Special Arrangement With tha George Matthew Adami Berriee IN HOSPITAL, SEES UNUSUAL INSTANCE OF HUN FRIGHTFULNESS. Albert N. Depew, author of the story, tells of his service United States navy, during which he attained the rank of chief first-clas- s gunner. The world wur starts soon after he petty officer, honorable his discharge from the navy, and he leaves for receives France with a determination to enlist. He joins the Foreign Legion and is assigned to the dreadnaught 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 In a fierce fight with the Gerraid end has an exciting experience. mans, he is wounded and Is sent to a hospital. Synopsis. Id thp CHAPTER IX at Dixmude, and after resting up at Continued. the hospital, I was keen on going to But there was a nurse there, who sea again. The Cassard was in dry dock for retook special Interest in his case, and she stayed up day and night for some pairs after her Inst voyage to the Dartime and finally brought him through. danelles as convoy to the troopship The case was very well known, and Duplelx. Everything was rushed a to get her out as soon as being possible, and crews were working day and ho There were other ships there toonight. to and dreadnaughts, walk, and It was only a question of and battleships, and armored cruisers, tlaje before he would be released from all being overhauled. the hospital, this nurse was transfWe received and placed guns of erred to another hospital. Everybody newer design, filled the magazines with knew her and liked her, and when she the highest explosives known to naval went around to say good-by- , all the use, and generally made ready for a men were sorry and gave her little hard job. Our magazines were filled presents, and wanted her to write to with shells fbr our big 12 and them. She was going to get a nurse guns. A shell can tear n hole he knew In the other hospital to turn through the heaviest armor plate at ber letters into English, bo that she 12,000 yards, and will do more damage could write to me. I gave her a ring than you would think. I bnd made from a piece of shell case, When we had coaled and had got but I guess she had hundreds of them our stores aboard, we dressed for actfciat. tionor rather, undressed. The decks Jim this German doctor would not were clear; hatch covers bolted and to her. That would not davits folded down; furniture, chests, ay good-bhave made me sore, but it made this tables, chairs were sent ashore, and inFrench girl feel very bad, and she be- flammable gear, like our rope hamgan to cry. One of the French officers mocks, went overboard. You could saw her and found out about the docnot find n single wooden chair or table tor, and the officer went up and spoke in the ward room. to the German. When the ship is cleared for action, Then the French officer left, and the German called to a shell bursting inside cannot find the nurse and she went over to him much to set afire, and if one bursts on and stopped crying. deck, there Is nothing to burn but the They talked for a little while, and wooden deck, and that is covered with then she put out her hands as If she steel plate. was going to leave. He Finally, wo had roll call all men put out his hands, too, and took hold of hers. And present. Then we set sail for the then he twisted her wrists and broke Dardanelles as escort to the Duplelx, them. We heard the which had on board territorial and snap. There were men in that ward who French troops Gascons, provincial had not been on foot since the day Parisians, Normans, they came to the hospital, and one of Sptihls, Turcos all kinds. When we them was supposed to be dying, but it messed, we had to squat down on the Is an absolute fact that when we heard steel mess deck and eat from metal her scream, there was not a man left plates. In bed. There had been a notice posted beI need not tell you what we did to fore we left that the Zeppelins had bethe German. They did not need to gun sea raids, and we kept a live eye shoot him, after we got through with out for them. The news proved to be him. They did shoot what was left of a fake, though, and we did not see a him, to make sure, though. cigar while we were out. Now, I have heard people say that single the trip to the Dardanelles made We It is not the Germans we are fighting, without sighting un enemy craft, keephut the kaiser and his system. Well, in close touch with the Duplelx, It may be true that some of the Boche ing and busy every minute preparing for soldiers would not do these things If action. they did not have to: myself, I am not ' I was made gun captain and given so sure. of the starboard bow turret, charge But you take this doctor. Here he two guns. I had my was, an educated man, who had been mounting and by the daily, men at gun practice trained all his life to help people who time we neared the Dardanelles, after ere in pain, and not to cause were in pretty fair it And he was not where he would have to five days, they shape. obey the kaiser or any other German. It was about 5 a. m. when we drew And this nurse had saved his life. near Cape Helles and took stations So I do not see that there is any for action. The Duplelx was in front argument about It. He broke that The batteries on the cape Shi's wrists because he wanted to; of us. on us, and in a few minup opened that is all there Is to It. Now, I say utes later those at Kum Kaleh joined this Gerinnn doctor was a dirty cur and a scoundrel. But I say that he is ID'as the Duplelx made for "V" beach ralr sample of most of the Germans we and prepared to land her troops, batI have met. And it is Germans of this their on, raking 'id that we are fighting not merely swung broadside a teries as we did so, and received the kaiser. a gun entered through which ft Is like to college. I have shell, in the after turret and exploded. port ner been going there, but I have heard Some bags of powder stored there ome people say It did not do a man been) they should never have turret jny good to go. But I have never (wherefired of the roof the and heard a man who went there say that were lifted off. It landed on deck, rronnuly Voll llnvo nn haon mar tlura was just the side of the tur-rnd maybe you think we are not fighti- tilted up against ng the German people,-bu- t only the "Iser and his flunkeys. On deck the rain of fire wassimply Steel flew In all directions. terrific. Well, nobody had better tell me that all crash, slam-bansmash, was because I have been there and I have It I mind not saying do I nnd Sen 'his. And I know. the time, come out would we never thought CHAPTER X. ?fSome of the heavy armor plate up that forward was shot away and after Hell at Galtlpoll. a like more looked Cassard 1 Was discnnEI from the bos- - the old As me. to else dim I was anything ordered to report to my monitor than nearer the shore hey began SI1lP at Brest for sea duty. Ting shrapnel on ns and in no time me boys aboard the Cassard gave ?t were shot full of e hearty welcome, especially Mur-- hole" our funnelswas watertight com- sieve a and who had come back after two the renche at Dixmude. 1 wa were not Just taking glad to see them, too, for after ail without any com punishment .11 this arbiea. and I always feel toor.Were at It fast and were guns Our back. w,th them than with Blackened in Are the It waa stuff from the way everybody suid she had performed miracle. He got better slowly. Then a few weeks later, when was out of danger and was able h 14-In- y Indo-Chines- 14-in- et g nIw. sol-mB- T pretty rough certain places we knew we were making it effective. My guns did for two enemy pieces that I know of, uud perhaps several others. The French garbles were a good deul more excited in action than I thought they would be. They were dodging around below decks, trvinir miss the shrapnel that came i to aboard, shouting, swearing, 6lnging but fighting hard, at thut. They ctood the gaff Just as well rs any other garbles would, only in their own sweet way which is noisy enough, believe me. One of our seamen was hit 130 times by fragments of shrapnel, so you can see what they were up against in the dodging line. A gun turret in action is not exactly the best place on earth for a nervous man nor one who likes his comfort. There is an awful lot of heat and noise and smell and work, all the time In a fighting gun turret. But during an engagement I would rather be in a gun turret every time than between decks. At that, If anything does happen in a turret it is good night sure for nil, and no rain checks needed. One of our Junior lieutenants was struck by a fragment of shfell ps he was at his station behind the wheel-hous- e and a piece of his skull was driven into his brain. He was carried Into my gun turret, but he would not let them take him to sick bay to have his wound dressed. There he sat, asking every now and then how the fight was going and then sort of dozing off for a while. After half an hour of action we put about and started away, still firing. As a parting slnp on the back the Turks tore off one of our big-guturrets, and then away we went, back to Brest with a casualty list of only 15. We did not have much trouble guessing that It was dry dock for us again. We got back to Brest after a quiet voyage, patching ourselves up where we could on the way, and again there was the rush work, day and night to get into shape and do It over again. They turned us out In 12 days and back we went to the Turks and their Hun assistants. We were lucky getting Inshore, only receiving a nnsty smash astern,- when the Turks got our range and landed two peaches before we got out We nearly tore our rudder oft getting away. But we had to come back right away, because we had carried quite a number of heavy guns from Brest and were given the Job of running them ashore. It was day and night work and a great Job for fun, because, while you never knew when you would get it, you had good reason to feel you would get lammed by a cute little shell or a dainty bit of shrapnel before the job was over. Aboard ship It was deck work, of course, and it was not much better there than ashore with the guns, because the enemy trenches were near the shore and they amused themselves trying to pick us off whenever we showed on deck. I guess we were a regular shooting gallery for them, and some of our men thought they did not need all the practice they were getting, for quite a few of us acted as bull's eyes. But we did not mind the bullets so much. They make a clean wound or put you away entirely; shrapnel tears you up and can play all kinds of tricks with various parts of your As for body without killing you. shells well, mincemeat is the word. The Narrows were thick with mines and there had been a great deal of damage done there, so after a while the British detailed their Yarmouth trawlers to go in and sweep up. They had to go up unprotected, of course, and they started off one night all serene. Everything went well until they turned at the Narrows and started back. Then, before you could tell it five or six searchlights wert playing on one of the trawlers and shells were splashing the water all over her. Both banks were simply banging away never point blank at them and I thought they would get back. They did get back, though, but some of them had hardly enough men left to work ship. But that Is like the Limeys. They will get back from anywhere while there is one man alive. A chap aboard one of the trawlers said a shell went through the wheel-hous- e between the quartermaster and himself and all the Q. M. said was, "Gaw blimey, that tickled." "But I know their shooting was very bad," said the other chap to me. "Those Turks must have thought the flue was behind them." n Coming back from the Dardanelles stripe seut for ine and asked me whether I thought there were a gold other gunners In the States that wouhl serve with the French. I told them the country was full of good gunners and he wanted me to y fflSfll write to all I knew and get them to come over. He did not mean by this, and neither do 1, that there were not BLUE STAR. good gunners In the French navy, because there were lots of them. But "Ah. Mr. Sun," said the little blue you can never have too many handy star flower, "how glad we are to see boys with the guns and he was very you." anxious for me to get all I could. I "I know It, 1 know it," said Mr. Run. had no way of reaching the "You don't care for my old rival, the I did know, so I had to pass up this King of the Clouds, or the army of opportunity to recruit. by mail. or the mist grandchildren, raindrops, While we were In Brest I got per- or their nurse, old Nurse Fog? You mission to go aboard a submarine don't care for any of them, do you?" and a petty officer showed me around. "Oh no," sold little Blue Star, "we This was the first time I was In the Interior of a sub and I told the officer simply cuu't stand them. In fact we that I would like to take a spin In the won't open on days when they come tub myself. He Introduced me to the dowu to the oarth. We love you Mr. commander, but the petty officer enld Sun. We love clear days, we flower he did not think they would let me stars. Just as the stars In the night I showed the com- love clear night.s, isn't that so?" stay aboard. mander my passport and talked to "But they don't cure for me," said him for a while, and he eald ha Mr. Sun. "They like Mr. Moon." would tnke me on their practice where we're different," said "That's cruise two days later if the Old Man Blue Star. gave me writted permission. "My, but there were lots of your So I It back to the Cassard and while I did not promise that family around this spring," said Mr. I would get any American gunners for Sun. "Tell us about them," said Blue Star. him In exchange for the written permission, he was free to think that It "You know we lnven't long to stay. he wanted to. It seems as though he Not only ourselves, but our families did take It that way, for he gave me are almost through blooming for the a note to the sub commander nnd sent I him another note by messenger. wanted Murray to go too, but the Old Man said one was enough. So, two flays later, I went aboard In the morning and had breakfast with the sub crew and a good breakfast it was. too. After breakfast they took stations and the commnnder went up on the structure amidships, which was just under the conning tower, and I squatted down on the deck beneuth hot-foote- d the structure. Then the gas engines started up and made an awful racket and shook the old tub from stem to stern. I could tell that we had cut loose from the dock and were moving. After a while they shut off the gas. engines and started the motors and we began to submerge. When we were all the way under I looked through the perl-scoand saw a Dutch merchantman. We stayed under about hnlf an hour nnd then came back to the surface. One of the garbles was telling me later on that this same sub had gone out of control a few weeks before and kept diving and diving until she struck bottom. I. do not know how many fathoms down it was, but it was farther than any commander would take a sub if he could help It This garby said they could hear the plates cracking nnd it was a wonder thnt they did not crumple up from the pressure, but she weathered It, pressure button and all, and In a quarter of an hour was on the surface. While on the surface they sighted smoke, submerged again, and soon, over the horizon came eight battleships, escorted by Zepps and destroyers. They tested their tubes before they got In range. Finally they let go. The first shot missed, but after that they got Into It good and the garby said all you could hear was the knocking of the detonated guncotton. About five minutes later they sighted five destroyers, two on each bow, and one dead ahead. The sub steered In at right angle zigzags and the destroyers stayed with their convoy. The sub launched two torpedoes at less than a mile before diving, to get away from the destroyers and the garby said at least one of them was hit These ships must have been some of the lucky ones that came down from the North sea. The garby said he thought they were off the Dutch coast at the time, but he was not -- sure. But this cruise that I was on was only a practice cruise and we did not meet with any excitement in the short time that we were out. In the next installment Gunner Depew tells of the wonderful work of the British and French navies in the Gallipoll campaign. Don't miss it. TO BE CONTINUED.) Macbeth't Death Place Given City. Belmont castle, the scene of the final struggle between Macbeth and Macduff when Macbeth was slain, has been given to the city of Dundee by its owner, Mrs. Marryat, who .inherited a large fortune from her brother. Sir James Caird. " The castle, which Is located 17 miles from Dundee, was once the home of the British premier. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerma- The property Includes 000 acres of park land and la valued at $2,000,000. Must Remain Awake. "Opportunity knocks at every man's door," said Uncle Fljen ; "but If you jes' sits down an' listens, you's liable to drap off to sleep an' not notice It" Optimistic Thought The greatest salnta have their time of. faiutness "Its Enough to Have a Glimpse of the Beautiful World." year. Midsummer is Just about time for us to be tip and closing for the year." "That Is so," agreed Mr. Sun. "Well, your relation.- and cousins were all here. The fields were full of them I Actually, little Blue Star, and all the rest of you little blue stars, the fields looked blue almost purple. Oh, your families and relations made the spring very beautiful and they made the fields look quite superb 1" The little blue star flowers all nodded their liends and smiled. "Thank you, dear Mr. Sun," they said. "And they were all called by tile same names as they always have . been," continued Mr. Sun. "Some folks called them the blue star flowers just as you call yourselves, others called your cousins the I've forgotten just or the bright-eyew hich. And still others called their relations the pointed grass flowers I suppose because they grew - . s, blue-eye- d In meadows anil fields. "They had the same habits as you have, they opened only on the sunny days, nnd then each flower closed by noonday and the following day fresh blossoms opened. Why don't you care about blooming more?" Mr. Sun in- ' quired. "But you're Mr. Sun,nnd folks need you; flowers need you, the trees need you and many things need you." "Ah, you make me very happy," said Mr. Sun. "But tell me more about yourselves." "Well," said little Blue Star, the tiny flower which had talked first, "though there are three of us on a pair of leaves, only one of the three opens at at o time. We don't like to bloom more than a day and only at noon. We droop when we are picked unless sometimes we are put right into water and are kept in the sunshine. You see we always love you. Mr. Sun." Mr. Sun beamed happily. "Please go on," he said. "Ah, Mr. Sun," continued Blue Star, "you think we are strange not to last longer, not to bloom oftener bnt there are so many of us to come, and If we all kept on blooming there because It would be a terrible mix-u- p has never been our habit. "You feel a little sorry for us we don't bloom and bloom, but one day Is enough for us. "Now, Mr. Sun, don't you see?" the little blue star asked as it looked up from the meadow Into Mr. Sun's smiling face. "It's enough for any little blue star flower," continued Blue Star, "to see you, Mr. Sun, to have a glimpse of the beautiful world, to hear the gay, happy voices of children as they see us come out in the spring, to hear, the wind whisper la the soft breeze. Ah, the world Is beautiful, and we are glad to bloom for Just half a dail" he-cau- |