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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM, UTAH u muu who eume out lrum u :utio cafe. lie told us that the Germans had CAPTAIN GUN TURRET, FRENCH BATTLESHIP CASSARD WINNER OF THE CROIX DE GUERRE Connsht WUV Mr Brioon Co.. Through Spcciil Airingemcm DEPEW IS CAUGHT IN Wah dw Ccorgt Matthew Adams Service ZEPPELIN RAID AND HAS EXCITING 'EXPERIENCE been through the town and hud shot it up considerably, killing and wounding u few inhabitants, but tlmt shortly afterward a small force of Belgian cavalry had arrived and driven the Boches out. The Germans were expected either to return or begin a bombardment at any moment and all the Inhabitants who sported cellars were hiding in them. The rest were trying to get out of town with their belongings as best they could. On reaching our objective we made straight for the Hotel de Ville, where we were admitted and after a short wait taken to the burgomaster. We questioned him as to news, for we had been Instructed to pick up any information he might have as to conditions. But we did not get much, for be could not get about because of the Germans, who had made it a policy to terrorize the people of the town. We had just got Into the car and were about to start when the burgomaster himself came running out. He ordered us to leave the car there and said he would direct us where to go. He insisted that we go on foot, but could not understand when he tried to explain why. We soon saw the probable reason for the burgomasters refusal to ride in the car. All around for" about a mile the roads were heavily mined and small red flags on iron staves were stuck between the cobblestones, ns warnings not to put in much time around those places. Also, there were notices stuck up all around warning people of the mines and forbidding heavy carts to pass. When we got off the road I breathed again! After a great deal of questioning we finally reached our destination and made our report to the local commandant. We told him all we could and in turn received various information from him. We were then taken over to the hotel. Here we rend a few Paris newspapers, that were several weeks old, until about eight, when we had dinner, and a fine dinner it was, 1 Synopsis. Albert N. Depew, author of the story, tells of his service the United States navy, during which he attained the rank of chief gunner. The world war starts soon after he petty officer, first-clas- s receives his honorable discharge from the navy, and he leaves for France with a determination to enllst.JIe joins the Foreign Legion and is assigned to the dreadnaught Cassardr 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 Diximuie. He goes over the top and gets his first GermAi in a bayonet fight. In CHAPTER VII Continued. 6 wished I was the gunner I would have enjoyed it more if I could have got back at Fritz I surely officer. somehow. But I was not the gunner and I told him so. I had to shout at him quite a while before he Then he wanted would believe me. me to find the gunner officer, but 1 did not know where to find him. If I could have got to our guns I guess I officer would have had another medal for working overtime, but I missed the chance there. About this time another bomb came over and clouted out the best friend I had in my company. Before the war he had been one of the finest singers in the Paris opera houses. When he was with us he used to say that the only difference between him and Caruso w'as $2,500 a night. poilu and I dragged him into a dugout, but it was too late. One side of his face was blown off; the whole right side of him was stripped off and four fingers of the right hand were gone. I stuck my head out of the dugout and there was the captain discussing A matter with himself, cursing the Germans from here to Helgoland and putting in a word for the bombs every once in a while. All up and down the trenches you could hear our men cursing the Germans in all kinds of languages. Believe me, 1 did my bit and I could hear somebody else using good old United States cuss words, too. It certainly did not make me feel any better, but it gave me something to do. I think that was why all of us cursed so much then, though we were pretty handy with language at any time. But when you are under heavy fire like, that and cannot give it back as good as you get, you go crazy unless you have something to do. Cussing is the best thing we could the think of. Up tlie trench the third bay was simply smashed in and the Germans were bomb after bomb n placing it and in ours. right The captain yelled out that he was going up to the next hay to examine it, but no more had he got there than he bad his head taken clean off his shoulders. At daybreak our trenches were all Pounded In and most of our dugouts were filled up. Then Fritz opened up with his artillery fire right on us. We thought they were going to and we figured their and we could charge barrage would lift see them come over. e received orders to stand to with fixed bayonets. Then the man at the Periscope shouted, They come! A battery directly behind us went nto action first and then they all joined in and Inside of five minutes about eight hundred guns were raising Cain with Fritz. The Bodies were caught square la No Mans Land and ur rifles and machine guns simply nowed them down. Many of them came half way across, then dropped heir guns and ran for our trenches o give themselves up. They could not av got back to their Own trenches. was a shame to waste a shell on ese poor fish. If they had been civ- es the law would prevent you from ng them you know the kind, hey could hardly drag themselves Hong. That Is ave got ot you -e f the way they look when you them. But when they have kicks, cuffs, bayonet jabs nothing they will not do to t your misery. They seem to ih uk that H boosts their own courage. An nrtiliery fire like ours was great a for the gunners, but It was not ;- much fun for Fritz or for us in the trenches. We got under cover almost as much as Fritz and held thumbs for the gunners to get through in a hurry. Then the fire died down and it was so quiet it made you jump. We thought our parapet was busted up a good deal, but when we looked through the periscope we saw what had happened to Fritz trenches and, believe me, they were practically ruined. Out in No Mans Land it looked like Wool worths everywhere were gray uniforms, with tincups and accouterments that belonged to the Germans before our artillery and machine guns got to them. Our stretcher bearers were busy, carrying the wounded back to first-aidressing station, for, of course, we had suffered too. From there the blesses were shipped to the clearing station. The dead lay in the trenches all day and at night they were carried out by working parties to Stiff park, as I called It. A man with anything on his mind ought not to go to the front-lin- e trenches. He will be crazy inside of a month. The best way is not to care whether it rains or snows: there are plenty of important things to worry about. five-and-te- n; d CHAPTER VIII. On Runner Service. One night a man named Bartel and I were detailed for runner service and were Instructed to go to DIxmude and deliver certain dispatches to a man whofh I will call the burgomaster and report to the branch staff headquarters that had been secretly located in another part of town. We were to travel in an automobile and keep a sharp watch as we went, for DIxmude was being contested hotly at that time and German patrols were in the neighborhood. No one knew exactly where they would break out next. So we started out from the third-lin- e trenches, but very shortly one of our outposts stopped us. Bartel carried the dispatches and drove the car too, so It was up to me to explain things to the sentries. They were convinced after a bit of arguing. Just as we were leaving a message came over the phone from our commander, telling them to hold us when we came. It was lucky they stopped us, for otherwise we would have been out of reach by the time his message came. The commander told me, over the telephone, that if a French flag flew over the town the coast would be clear ; if a Belgian, that our forces were either in control or were about to take over the place but that German patrols were near. After this we started again. When we had passed the last post we kept a sharp lookout for the flag on the pole of the old fish market, for by this we would get our bearings and perhaps, If it should be a German flag, a timely warning. But after we were down the road a bit and had got clear we saw a Belgian flag whipping around in a good, strong breeze. But while that showed that our troops or the British were about to take over the place it also indicated that the Germans were somewhere near by. Which was not so cheerful. As we went through the suburbs along the canal which runs on the edge of the town we found that all the houses were battered up. We tried to hail several heads that stuck themselves out of the spaces between buildings and stuck themselves back Just as quickly, but we could not get an answer, Finally we got hold of too. After we had eaten all we could, and wished for more room in the hold, we went out into the garden and yarned a while with some gendarmes, and then went to bed. We had a big room on the third floor front. We had just turned in, and were all set for a good nights rest, when there was an explosion of a different kind from any I had heard before, and we and the bed rocked about, like1 a canoe in the wake of a stern-wheele- r, Pretty Silver various sized boles. All the crockery and china and mirrors in the house were in fragments. Knives, forks, spoons and a tea Not much more than an hour before set add greatly to the attractiveness the Zepp cam;?, we had been sitting tn of your table. We can completely a room-the house of the local milisatisfy your silver requirements, tary commandant, right under a big whether they be large or small, e was house This skylight. Our modest now a very pretty ruin, and it was just sterling or plated. as well that we left when we did. You prices make buying easy. could not even find a splinter of the big round table. The next time I sit under a glnss skylight In DIxmude, I IBM want a lad with a live eye for Zeppe MAKERS OF JEWELRY SALT LAKE CITY lins on guard outsiJe. 166 MAIN STRBET Something about the branch headquarters ruins made us think of breakfast, which we had forgotten, so back to the hotel. Then we started back to BARGAINS IN USED CARS our lines. We were ordered to keep Oldsmoblles, Na splendid used to the main road all the way back, or Guaranteed first class to condition-eaterms If wanted by running we would be shot on sight, and to reWrite for detailed list and descrip right parties. port to headquarters immediately on tlon. Used Car Dept., our return. I thought If the sight of Randall-DodAuto Co, Salt Lake City me was so distasteful to anybody, I would not take the chance of offending, being anxious to be polite in such cases. So we stuck to the main road. VICTIM OF GERMAN "KULTUR" Fritz did not give us any trouble and we were back by five, with all hands Irvin S. Cobb Writes of Work of Beaaf out to greet us when we hove in sight, of Berlin, as He Saw It In and n regular prodigal son welcome on f London Hospital.. tap, for we were later than they had In a London hospital I saw a UttlS expected us, and they had made up their minds that some accident had girl who ' had been most terribly maimed In an air raid. I am not going happened. While I was around Dixmude, I saw to dwell on the state of this child. many living men and women and chil- When I think of her I have not the dren who had' been mutilated by the words to express the feelings that I Germans, but. most of them were wom- have.- But one of her hands was gone en and children. Almost every one at the wrist and the other hand was of the mutilated men was too old for badly shattered; so she was Just a military service. The others had been wan little brutally abbreviated fragkilled, I guess. ment of humanity, a living fraction, But the Belgians were not the only most grievously afflicted. ones who had suffered from German Her wounds had censed to pain her, kultur. Many French wounded were the head nurse told me before we entortured by the Iluns, and we were tered, and for the rest of the time she constantly finding the mutilated bodies was a good patient, one of the best in of our troops. It was thought that the the ward. Germans often mutilated a dead body She was lying, when I saw her, with as an example to the living. her head propped upon a plllqw that The Germans had absolutely no re- was no whiter than her face was, and spect whatever for the Bed Cross. For there was a pitiful wraith of a smile instance, they captured a wagon load- on her poor little pinched 'commoned with forty French wounded, and place faje, and to her breast, with the shot every one of them. I saw the bandaged stump of one arm and with dead bodies. her remaining hand that was swathed In a clump of wrapping, she cuddled e When the Germans came to they got all the men and women up a painted china doll which someand children and made them march body had brought to her, and she was before them with their hands In the singing to It. The sight, I take It, would have been air. Those who did not were knocked down. After a while some of them saw very gracious In the eyes of his impewhat they were going to get, and being rial majesty of Prussia except, of as game sports as I ever heard of, tried course, th&t the little girl still lived; to fight. They were finished off at that naturally would be a drawback to his complete enjoyment of the speconce, of course. The former burgomaster had been tacle. Irvin S. Cobb In the Saturday shot and finished off with an ax, Evening Post. though he had not resisted, because he wanted to save the lives of his citi- TELL OF ENEMYS. APPROACH zens. They told me of one case, in Dixmude, where a man came out of his Certain Birds and Animals Make the Best Kind of Sentinels That an house, trying to 'carry his father, a man of eighty, to the square; where Army Can Employ. they were ordered to report. The old man could not raise his hands, so they A wounded soldier, asked what had dragged his son away from him, surprised him most in the battle zone, knocked the old man in the head with told of finding a robins nest In an an ax, and left him there to die. Those empty shell case. who were spared were made to dig the As a rule birds are the finest sengraves for the others. tinels In the animal kingdom. They There was a doctor there In Dix- become aware of approaching aircraft mude, who certainly deserves a mili- long before man hears anything. Early tary cross if any man ever did. He In the war parrots were kept at the was called from his house by the Ger- Eiffel tower as sentinels, hut they mans at 5 :30 one morning. He left his grew accustomed to the sound of enwife, who had had a baby two days emy planes and were no longer of use. before, in the house. He was taken to Pheasants always grow restless and the square, lined up against a wall chatter noisily If Zeppelins are apwith three other big men of the town. proaching, even when they are far Then he saw his wife and baby being away, so far that man can hear no carried to the square on a mattress by sound. What is perhaps stranger is the fact four Germans. He begged to be allowed to kiss his wife good-by- , and that such ordinary creatures as pigs they granted him permission. As he should sight a balloon when It Is comThe blister makes no stepped away, there was a rattle and ing over. the other men went West. They shot sound, yet, should one appear against him, too, but though he was riddled the sky, miles from a farmyard, the with bullets he lived, somehow, and farmer will be made aware of the fact begged the German officer to let him by the curious antics of his pigs and accompany his wife to the prison the clucking of his hens. where they were taking her. This was Toy dogs always are susceptible to the on but the too, presence of danger, and many a way, they granted heard the sound of firing. The soldiers pet shows uneasiness before a raid. yelled, Die FranzosenF.and dropped Cats, too, show fear of gunfire and the mattress and ran. But it was only seem to know when danger threatens. some of their own butchers at work. Dogs, birds and horses are very to sound. Watch the birds durDoctor Laurent carried his wife and a raid, listen to the dogs ing daylight old to was an that being baby aqueduct tfhere the horse and the stable visit rebuilt by the creek. There they lived, for three days and three nights, on the restively stamps up and down. But few herbs and the water that Doctor that all animals can accustom themLaurent sneaked out and got at night. selves to sounds that cause fear Is Doctor Laurent says thnt when the proved by our cavalry horses, dogs Germans killed and crucified the civil- that accompany their masters Into the ians at Dixmude, they first robbed firing line, and the robins nest In the empty shell case. them of their watches, pocketboolcs, a was There and other things. rings Tommy Sized It Up. Madame Tilmans there, who had had Toms teacher took her kindergarten three 'thousand frarcs stolen from her class to see the chickens in the school and was misused besides. A homely brown hen was mothyard. These were just a very few of the ering a brood of fancy chickens things that happened at just one place hatched In an Incubator. The aristowhere the Germans got to work with cratic chicks had tufts of feathers on their kultur. So you can picture the their heads. Tommy quickly noted the Belgians agreeing on a German peace, difference between hen and chicks and while there Is a Belgian alive to argue blurted out : Pshaw, she cant be their about It. They will remember the Germother." Then, after a moments conmans a long time, I think. But they sideration, he added with an air f conneed not worry: there are a lot of us viction: Oh, I guess shes only the who will not forget, either. nurseglrl. at glass-dom- BOYD PARK FOUNDED SO ks, SHOO. iionali-$2- 50 sy d - DIx-mud- " 5( There were seven more explosions, and then they stopped, though we could hear the rattle of a machine gun at some distance away. Bartel said it must be the forts, and after some argument 1 agreed with him. He said that the Germans must have tried an advance under cover of a bombardment, and that as soon ns the forts got into action the Germans breezed. We were not worried much, so tve did not get out of bed. A few minutes later we heard footsteps on the roof, and then a woman In a window across the street, asking a gendarme whether it was safe to go back to bed. Then I got up and took a look into the street. There were a lot of people standing around talking, but it was not interesting enough to keep a tired man up, so back into the hay. It seemed about the middle of the night when Bartel called me, but he said It was time to get out and get to work. We found he had made a poor guess, for when we were half dressed he looked at his watch and it was only a quarter past seven, but we decided to stay up, since we were that far along, and then go down and cruise for a breakfast. When we got downstairs and found some of the hotel people it took them a long time to get it through our heads that there had been some real excitement during the night. The explosions were those of bombs dropped by a Zeppelin, which had sailed over the city. The first bomb had fallen less than two hundred yards from where we slept. No wonder the bed rocked It house had struck a narrow three-storaround the corner from the hotel, and had blown it to bits. Ten people had been killed outright, and a number died later. The bomb tore a fine hole and hurled pieces of itself several hundred yards. The street itself wa3 filled with rocks, and a number of houses were down, and others wrecked. When we got out into the street and talked with some army men we found that even they were surprised by the force of the explosion. , We learned- that the Zepp had sailed not more than five hundred feet above the town. Its motor had been stopped just before the first bomb was let go, and it had slid along perfectly silent and with all lights out. The purr that we had thought was machine guns, after the eighth explosion, was the starting of the motor, as the Zepp got out of range of the guns that were being set for the attack. The last'bomb had struck in a large square. It tore a hole In the cobblestone pavement about thirty feet square and five feet deep. Every window on the square was smashed. The fronts of the houses were riddled with 1 y i sen-sitl- ve Depew is wounded in a brush with Germans. See next Installment. CTO BE CONTINUED.) Doesnt Understand. Sinette says she cant understand how. a small thing like a trolley pol can Keep a big thing like a street cap from running off the track. |