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Show r,in;HHHmmm;mnimiHnmniininniininminnHnmminnmiiimiiiiHiimmmnniiiiiiininTTiTinmnintmninmiimniiiiiinHHtnmimHHini! GUNNER DEPEW by Ex-Gunn- ALBERT N. DEPEW and Chief Petty Officer, tL 5. Navy Member of the Foreign Legion of France er Captain Gun Copyright, ttlR, bp JUKI, nd ItHtlon Ca., Through SpMlaJ Turret, French Battleship Cassard Winner of the Croix de Guerre Arrinnl With h, Oof Htth,w Adams Serrtr, "110 CM tr of speaking with ths ness about tho practical that aro Involved In it. Foo Must F.y WITH GERMANY, "If It bs In deed and DEPEW IS WOUNDED IN FIERCE FIGHT WITH GERMANS Synoptic Albert N. Depew, author of the atorjr, telle of hie servlet lo the United States navy, dininit which he attained the rank of chief gunner. The world war atarte aoon after he petty olllcer, flret-clee- a receives hie honorable discharge from the navy, end he leaves for France with a determination to enllat. lie Joins the Foreign Legion nnd le assigned to the dreudnnught Cueenrd, where hie tnarkmunshlp wine him high honors. Later he le transferred to the land forces and aeut to the Flundera front, lie geta hie first experience In a front line trench at Dlxmude. He gnee -- over the top- - and gets hie first German In .bayonet fight. While on runner servlet, Depew Is caught In a Zeppelin raid and haa an exciting experience. i - CHAPTER IX. 7 Laid Up for Repairs. e One night, after 1 had been at for about three weeks, we tuude charge In the fare of a very heavy fire. Our captuln always stood at the parapet when we were going over, and made the sign of the cross and shouted, "For God and France." Then we would go over. Our officers always led us, but I have never seen a German officer lead a charge. They always were behind their men, driving Instead of leading. 1 do not believe they are as brave as they are said to be. Well, we went over tide time, and the machine guns were certainly going It strong. . We were pretty sore about the chuplaln and the Swiss and all that, and we put up an awful fight, but we could not make It and had to come back. Ouly one company reached the Iloche trenches and not a man of It came buck who had not been wounded on the way and did not reach the trench. They were Just wiped out The captain was missing, too. We thought he was done for, but about two oclock In the morning, he came back. He simply fell over Into the trench, all In. He had been wounded four times, and had lain In a shell crater full of water for several hours. He would not go back for treatment then, and when daylight came. It was too late, because we were practically rut off by artillery fire behind the front Plx-tnud- troops, In small groups what was left of squads and platoons and singly. Our captain had got It a fifth time, meanwhile, but he would not leave tin, as he was the ranking officer. He had a scalp wound, but the others were In his arms and shoulders, lie could not move his hands at all. Hut he led our charge when we ran for the woods. tVe curried some machine guns with us as we weut, and the gunners would run a piece, set up, fire while we opened up for them, and run on again. 8ome troops came out of a trench still farther to the right and helped us, and we drove the Germans out of the woods and occupied It ourselves. From there, we had the Germans In our old trench almost directly from the rear, and we simply cleaned them out 1 think all the vows were kept that day, or else the men who made them died first. I was shot through the thigh some time or other after the captain got back. It felt just like a needle-pricat first, and then for a while my leg was numb. A couple of hours after we took our trench back, I started out for the rear and hospital. The wound had been hurting for some time. They carried the captain out on a stretcher nbout the same time, but he died on the way from loss of blood. Fresh troops came up to relieve us, but our men refused to go. and though officially they were not there In the trench, they stayed until they took the captain away. Then, bock to billets not bullets, this time. 1 believe that we received an army citation for that piece of work, but 1 do not know, as I was In the hospital for a short time afterward. 1 do not remember much about going to the hospital except that the ambulunce made an awful racket going k line trenches. When daylight came, the artillery fire opened up right on us, and the Germans had advanced their lines Into some trenches formerly held by us and hardly forty-fivyards away. We received bombs and shells right In our faces. A Tunisian In our company got crazy, and ran back over the parados. He ran a few yards, then stopped and over streets of Etaples, the looked back at us. I think he was and the bearer who picked up one that coming to his senses, and would have end of my stretcher, had eyes like dead started back. to us. Then the spot fish on water; also, that there where he had been was empty, and a werefloating some civvies standing around the second later his body from the chest entrance as we were being carried In. down fell not three yards from the do In the hosfirst The thing they do know not where the parados. I old dirty bandIs off to take your pital top part went. That same shell cut a j and slide your stretcher uuder a ages exlow It In before the groove hilltop electric magnet A doctor comes ploded. He had been hit by a big big In and places Ids hand over your In two. cut I and shell, absolutely have seen this happen to four men, but wound, and they let down the magnet over his hund and turn on the Juice. this was the only one In France. , If the shell fragment or bullet In you reAbout seven oclock, we received Is more than seven centimeters deep, enforcements, and poured freah troops pain. The first over and retook the trench. No sooner you cannot feel the 4t had we entered it. however, than the doctop peP,rt? to ,hw dcpP RltU- Is, and where It Germans turned their artillery on us, (your ; ated, and then a nurse comes up to not even waiting for their own troops to retire safely. They killed numbers you, where you He, with your clothes of their own men In this way. Hut the still on, and asks you to take the "pressure," Then they lift you on a cart, and roll you to the operating theater. They take off your clothes there. I remember I liked to look at the nurses and surgeons; they looked so good In their cteuu white clothes. Then they stick hollow needles Into you, which hurt a good deal, aud you take the pressure. After a while, they begin cutting away the bruised and maybe rotten flesh, removing the old cloth, pieces of dirt, and so forth, and scraping awuy the splinters of bone. Ton think for sure you are going to bleed to death. The blood rushes through you like lightning, and If you get a sight of yourself, you can feel yourself turning pale. Then they hurry you to your bed, aud cover you over with blankets and bottles. They raise your bed on chairs, so the blood will run up toward your head, and after a while, your eyes open ami the doctor says, Oul, oul, vlvra, meaning that you still hud some time e stone-pave- d four-wheele- d hot-wat- 11 ' For God and France. lira was so heavy that, when they counterattacked, we had to retire agulu, and this time they kept after us and drove us beyond the trench we had originally occupied. We left them there, with our artillery taking care of them, and our machine guns trying to enfilade them, and moved to the right There was a suneh of trees there, about like a small Woods, and as we passed the Germans hmceawd in It opened firs on us, and we retired to some reserve trenches. We were pretty much scattered by this time, and badly cut up. We reformed there, and were Joined by other of our to spend before finally going west. The treatment we got in the hospital was greut We received cigarettes, tobacco, matches, magazines, and clean clothes. The men do not talk about their wounds much, and everybody tries to be happy and show It. The food was fine, and there was lots of It. I do not think there were any doctors In the world better than ours, and they were always trying to make things easy for us. They did not rip the dressings off your- - wounds like some of the butchers do In some of our dispensaries that I know of, but took them off carefully. Everything was clean and sanitary, and Borne of the hospitals had sun parlors; which were well used, you can be sure. Some of the men made toys and fancy articles, surjn as button hooks nnd paper knives. They made the handles from empty shell cases, or shrapnel, or pieces of Zeppelins, or up along ths out hot, after the Germans bad put with them tortured and their eyes bayonet. Three others were brought before their wives and children and sabered. The Belgian told me he was at Na tuur when the Germans began shelling 1L The bombardment lasted the whole of August 21 and 22, 191 L They centered their fire on the prison, the ho pltal, end the rullwuy station. They entered the town at four o'clock In the afternoon of August 23. During tha hours, they behaved first twenty-fou- r themselves, hut on the 24th they begun firing at anyone they pleased, end set fire to different houses on five of the principal squares. Then they ordered every one to leave his house, and those who did not wero shot. The others, about four hundred In all, were drawn up In front of the church, close to the river hank. The Belgian said be could never forget hovr they all looked. "I can remember Just how It was," he said. "There were eight men, whom I knew very well, standing In a row with several priests. Next came two good friends of mine named Bnlhna When they are getting well, the men harness making, mechanical drawing, telegraphy, gardening, poultry raising, typewriting, bookkeeping and ths mrn teach the nurses how to muke canes out of shell esses, and rlnga of aluminum, and slippers and gloves out of blankets. The nurses certainly work hard. They always have more to do than they ought to, but they never compluln, and are always cheerful and ready t play games when they have the time, or read to some pollu. And their work Is pretty dirty too: 1 would not like to have to do It They any there were lots of French society Indies working as nurses, but you never heard much about aoclety, or any talk about Lord llelpus, or Count Whosls, or pink teas or aaythlng like that from these nurses. A few shells landed near our hospital, while I was there, but no patient was bit They knocked shrine of Our Lady to splinters, though, and bowled over a big crucifix. The kitchen was near by, end It was Just the chefs luck that he had walked over to our ward to see pal of his, when a shell landed plumb In the center of the kitchen, and all you could see all over the barracks was atew. Thnt was a regular eatless day for us, until they rigged up bogles and got some more dixies, and mixed up some cornmeal for us. The chef made up for It the next day, though. The chef was a great little guy. He was i "blesse" himself, and 1 guess his atop ach sympathized with ours. There wee a Frenchman In the bed next to me who bad the whole side of his face torn off. He told me be had been next to a bomber, who had Just lit a fuse end did not think It was burning fast enough, so he blew on It. It burned fast enough after that, and there he was. There was a Belgian In one of the other wards, whom I got to know pretty well, and he would often come over and visit me. lie esked many questions about Dlxmude, for be bad had relatives there, though he had lost track of them. He often tried to describe the house they had lived In, so that I might tell him whether It was atlll standing or not, but I could not remember the place he apoke of. Dur- Women and Children Begged for tho Live of the Men. ing our talks, he told me about many atrocities. Some of the things he told me I had beard before, and some of and Guillaume, with Balbau'a seventeen-year-old aon; then two men who them I heard of afterward. Here are some things that he either saw or had taken refuge In- a barn and had been discovered and blinded ; then two heard of from victims : He said that when the Germans en other men whom I had never seen betered the town of St. Quentin, they fore. it was awful to see the way the started firing Into the windows us they women were Shoot me too, passed along. First, after they had oc- shoot me with crying husband. my the town, they bayoneted every cupied "The men were lined up on the edge workingman they could find. Then of the hollow, which runs from the took about children half of the they road to the bottom of the village. high that they could find, and killed them with their musket butts. After this, One of them was leaning on the shoulof an old priest, and he was crythey marched the remainder of the chil- ders dren and the women to the square, ing, T am too young I can't face death bravely.' w here they had lined up a row of male "I couldnt bear the 6ight any longer, citizens against a wall. The women turned my back to the road and covand children were told that If they moved, they would all be shot An- ered my eyes. I heard the volley and other file of men was brought up, and the bodies falling. Then some one made to kneel In front of the other cried, Look, theyre &U down. But a few escaped." men against the wall. This Belgian had escaped by hiding The women and children began to he could not remember how many beg for the lives of the men, and many of them were knocked In the heud with days la an old cart filled with manure nnd rubblsli. lie had chewed old hides gun butts before they stopped. Then the Germans fired at the double for food, had swam across the river, rank of men. After three volleys, there and hid la a mud bank for almost a were eighty-fou- r dead and twenty week longer, and finally got to Frnnce. He took It very hard when we talked wounded. Most of the wounded they then killed with axes, but somehow, nbout Dlxmude, nnd I told him that three or four escaped by hiding under the old church was Just shot to pieces. tho bodies of others and playing deud, He asked about a puintlng culled the though the officers walked up nnd "Adoration of the Magi," and one of down firing their revolvers Into the the other prisoners told us It had been snved and transported to Germany. If piles of bodies. The next day the Germans went thnt Is true, aud they do not destroy through the wine cellars, and shot all It meanwhile, we will get It buck, dont the Inhabitants they found hiding worry I My wound was Just a clean gunshot there. A lot of people, who hud taken refuge lu a factory over night, decided wound and not very serious, so, alto come out with a white flag. They though It was not completely healed, wore allowed to think that the white they let me go after three weeks. Hut flag would be respected, but no sooner before I went, I saw something that were they all out than they were seized no man of us will ever forget Some nml the women publley violated In the of them took vows Just like the mea square, after which the men were shot of the legion I have told about One Of .the patients was a German A paralytic was shot as he sat In his and a boy of fourteen was doctor, who had been picked up In No Mans Land, very seriously wounded, taken by the legs and pulled apart At one place, a man was tied by the lie was given the same treatment as arms to the celling of his room and set any of us, that is, the very best but afire. Ills trunk was completely car- finally, the doctors gave him up. They bonized, but his head and arms were thought he would die slowly, and that unburned At the . same place, the It mlgst take several weeks. body of a flftecn-year-olboy was found, pierced by more than twenty While in the hospital Depew bayonet thrusts. Other dead were witnesses a scene that con. found with their hands still In the air, vlnces him that it Is not only leaning up against walls. kaiser and his system, dux tho At another place the Germans ths ' German soldiers themshelled the town for a day, and then selves, that are responsible for entered and sacked it. The women much of tho frightfulness that and children were turned loose, withhas marked ths war. Read out being allowed to take anything this scena in tho next Inabout with them, and forced to leave the stallment. town. Nearly five hundred men were deported to Germany. Three, who were almost exhausted by hunger, tried (TO BE CONTINUED.) to eserpe. They were bayoneted and clubbed to death. Twelve men, who Experiments with powdered peat for had taken refuge In a farm, were tied fuel have been so successful In Sweden together and shot In a mass. Another that a plant for Its production na a group of six were fied together and large scale has been established learn AND GOES TO HOSPITAL I front picked ,2 ASSERTSWILSOII tlemeut President in Speech at New York Says Enemy Must Pay the Price. - arm-chai- r, d FOR ALL DEMANDS JUSTICE Declares Enemies Hava Mads It lm possible to Corns to Peace Term Hunt Are Without Honor and Do Not Intend to Do Justice. New York, Sept. 80. The price of peace will he Impartial Justice lo all nation, the Instrumentality to secure It I a league of r.atlon formed, not before or uftcr, hut at the peace conference, nnd Germany, n a member, "will huve to redeem her not hy what at the peace table hut hy whut lc Imp-1-eii- follow." in truth n. common object of the sooluted against UsrninV nations whom they govern a. liV IIIIllfllltlllllllllllllltllllllllllllllttlllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllltllllllllllllimMlllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllKIlillllllllltlllllllllllllllttlllltl11""! anything els ... tm?a pllcUt , Till wa I'rcMldcnt VIIons answer, given Friday night before nil audience of fourth Liberty loan worker here, to (lie recent peace talk from the central power. The Presidents Address. The president tqioke In part us follows: I am not "My Fellow Citizen: here to promote the loan. That will be done ably aud enthusiastically done by the hundred of thousand ol loyal and tireless men and women who have undertaken to present It to you nml to our fellow citizen throughout the country, and I have not the least doubt of their complete success, for I know their spirit and the spirit of the country. No man or woman who has really taken In w hut this war mean can hesitate to give to the very limit of what they have. And It la my mission here to try to make clear once more what the war really means. You will need no ether stimulation. We accepted the Issue of the war i farts, not as any group of men either here or elsewhere had defined them, and we can accept no outcome which dpes not squarely meet and settle them. The War's Issues. "Those Issues are these: "Shall the military power of any nation or group of nations be suffered to determine the fortunes of peoples over whom they have no right to rale except the right of force? "Shall strong nations be free to wrong weak nations and make them subject to their purpose and Interest? Shull people he ruled and domlnat-id- . even In their own Internal affairs, hy arbitrary and lrresMinslhle force, or hy their own will and choice? Shall there he a common standard of right and privilege for all peoples and nations or shall the strong no as they will and the weuk suffer without redress? Shnll the assertion of right be haphazard and Iry casual alliance or shall 'here he a common concert to oblige the observance of common rights? "No man. no group of men. chose these to lie the Issues of the strug-ge- . They are the Issues of It. and hey must tie settled hy no arrange-me- n or compromise or adjustment of Interests, hut definitely and once for fl. and with a full and unequivocal acceptance of the principle thut the Hlerest of the weakest is a .Mhe Interest of the strongest. sacred riils is w hat we mean when we speak of a permanent pence. If we apeak sincerely. Intelligently, and lth a real knowledge and comprehen-slo- n of the matter we deal with. We are all agreed that there can be no pence obtained hy any kind of bargain or compromise with the governments of the central empires, because we have dealt with them nlreudv und have een them deal with other govern-mud- s that were party to tld struggle at nnd Bucharest. They have convinced us are without honor and do that thev not Intend Justice. They observe no covenants, accept no principle but force and their own Interests. We cannot come to terms with them 1 hey have made It Impossible. The German people must bv this time he fully aware thnt we cannot the word of those who forced this war upon us. We do not think the same thoughts or speak the same language of agreement. It Is of capital Importance that we should be explicitly agreed that no peace shall he obtained hy any kind of compromise or abatement of the principles we have avowed as the prlnct-pi- e for which we are lighting. There should exist no doubt about that. I am. therefore, going to take the liber- Hrest-LItovs- nc-ee- pt f Destroying Hun Airplane. MaJ. V, A. Bishop, British ulr service, tells this: The British do not officially announce a hostile machine destroyed without strict verification. When you are fighting a formation of or more Huns In general melee, and one begins a downward spin, there I seldom time to disengage yourself and watch the machine complete Its fatal plunge. You may be certain the Hun was entirely tnorully out of control nnd nothing could save htm; but unless someone saw the crash! a secure ami las, l,,, wdll he necessary at the pence table shall and who J cm. willing to pay the price !,! .h will u..,v iV, und willing also to virile fuNhlbri the only l.ts.rua.eaS by which It can he made certain , J the agreement of the ti 7! honored and fulfilled. . "Thut price Is Impartial Justice every Hein of settlement, no antC whose Interest Is crossed ; not only lu. partial Justice, but also the sutUfic. tion of the several peoples who fuf. tune are dealt with. That liullsi. sable Instrumentality I a league of nation formed under eovenauti thit will he efflcaclou. "Without auch Instrumentality, (, which the peace of the world cun be guaranteed, peace will rest lu prt uiin the word of outlaws and only upon that word. For Germany win huve to redeem her character, not only hy what hupiiens ut the pence tall hut whut follows. "And, a 1 see It, the consUmUm, of thnt .league of nation nml the clear definition of Its object must he a part, I In a sense the most essential part, of the pence settlement Itself, it csq. not he formed now. If formed now, it would he merely a new alliance confined to the nation associated against a common enemy. It Is not likely that It could be formed after thut settlement It Is necessary to guarantee the peace, and the pence cutiiiot he guaranteed a an afterthought. The reason, to speak In pluln terms again, why It must he guaranteed, is that there will be parties to the peace whose promises have proved untrustworthy, nnd mean must he found In connection with the iace settlement Itself to remove that source of insecurity. "It would be folly to leave the guato the subsequent voluntary action of the government we lmv seen rantee destroy Russia and deceive Itoumanhu Particulars of Terms. These, then, are some of the particulars, and I state them with the greater confidence because I can state them authoritatively as representing this governmeuts interpretation of It own duty with regard to peace: Justice FIRST The Impartial meted out must Involve no discrimination between those to whom we wish to be Just and those to whom we do not wish to be Just It must he a Justice thut plays no favorites and know no stnndnni but the equal right of the several peoples. "SECOND No special or separate Interest of any single nation or any group of nations cun be made the imsls of any part of the settlement n which Is not consistent with the Interest of all. THIRD There can be no league or alliances or special covenant and understandings within the general nd common fumlly of the league of nations. FOURTH And more specifically, there can be no special, selfish, economic combinations within the league and no employment' of any force of economic boycott for exclusion except us the power of economic penalty hy exclusion from the markets of tho world may he vested In the league of nation Itself os a means of discipline nnd control. FIFTH All International agreements and treaties' of every kind mut be made known In their entirety to the rest of the world. Speclnl alliances and economic rlvulrles and hostilities have been the prolific sources In the modern world of the pluns and pusshms that Insinproduce war. It would he an cere a well na Insecure pence that did not exclude them In definite und binding terms. Tlnln workaday people hnve demand-toed almost every time they came that gether, nnd are still demanding, deof government their leaders the exclare to them plainly what it Is seekwere Is It that what they actly think ing In this war and whut they the Items of the final settlement should be, with They ure not yet satisfied still told. They what they have been seem to feur thnt they are getting what terms they ask for only In statesmens arterritorial of terms in the only powof divisions rangements and the er und not In terms of broad vision. Justice and mercy and peace and the longsatisfaction of those men distracted and of oppressed ings nnd women and enslaved peoples that seem to them the only thing worth , fighting a war for that engulfs the world. Germany is constantly Intimating the terms she will accept; and alnot ways finds thnt the world docs want terms. It wishes the flnnl triumph of justice and fair dealing." com-nio- deep-seate- d credit is given only for a machine driven down. The royal flying corps Is absolutely unperturbed when It losses on any one day exceed those of the enemy, for we philosophically regard this as the penalty necessarily entailed hy our acting always on the offensive In the air." John, T His Excuse. to meet wnnt U1C to- - |