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Show One dny, on" Capo Holies, during din' seventh trick mI ll.ii I iiiidunellon, WO Sighted II Mill periscope Just IlllOIlt illiini'i' time. Tin' I'l'lni'ii ( 1 j ii-'.f mill it destroyer sighted ( In- sub nl. the miiiiio llini', Mini (hi' I'rliii'i' George li'l. go two I'c 1 1 1 ) I s before (Ik periscope disappeared, dis-appeared, lull ilhl mil lul Ihi' murk. TrnnsporlM, lull I Icshlps mill itiiIkitm wore thirk ih'iiiiihI I licri. nil nl iiin-lior, mill II. was ii ureal, place I'm' n hill) lo bi'. Ill no lime nl., nil tin' destnuvrs breezed mil Willi llii'h' lulls In Hid :ilr, I browing n smoke tcrccii ii i j i i I m 1 (he larger ships, 'liny Imiihsl liluli mill low, nil over (In1 spul whore she hud lii'i'ii sighted mill nil lu'iiiliiil II, thinking to ruin it or tiling it to 11m surface, so wi' could t it 1c c ii crack nt Albert K DepGwsifc' EX-GUNNER AND CHIEF PETTYvOFFlCER.-U.-S- NAVY."f MEMBEK OP THE FOREIGN LEGION OF FRANCE CAPTAIN GUN TURRET, FRENCH BATTLESHIP CASSAKD y? WINNER OF THE CROIX DE GUERRE Cofymt. 1"18. by Roily nJ Bmwn Co.. Thrcush Speod Airmen Wnh tlx Ctio hUnhcw Admi 5ervic mipOI'Hlllloll.H, (OO, llllll llll (llHIIppoill'Oll mid was not found for (wo ilnys. Itnl lio wits ii liinilsimm and not usnl to lii'nvy wi'iilln r. Wlii'ii wo koI (o tlio 3 it 1 1 1 1 k 1 1 piMiln-mila piMiln-mila llio llllll Www our linltlc Hoot and Irnnspiii'ls lay off t ln slrnltu. Wo ronld not ri'iicli llio Utile limlior on llio 'I'ni'lilsli 'iiiisl, lull llio wliolo fleet foil luippy and fairly oonlldont of vlo-toi'y. vlo-toi'y. Wo lay oil' Capo Hollos, ami II was llioro wo roceivi'il llio news Hint tlioro wore sul nun rl lies I.vIiik around (illirallar. Tlion 1 1 icy woio rrporlcd oil' Malta. Wo f,'ol llio news frnui I'.rll-Isli I'.rll-Isli trawlers and transporls. Our nIH-fors nIH-fors said (lie suhs could nut reael: llio lai'danolles wllhoul pulllii;: In soino-whoro soino-whoro for a fresh supply of fuel, and Ihal. the allied Heels were on the liiok-ou. liiok-ou. at every place where the subs nilj;hl try to put In. I'.nt they not there Just the same. Then llio l'.rltlsh superdreadiiaULdil Queen Kliabel h, "the terror of the Turks," ennie In. She left KiiKlnnd with a whole Meet of cruisers and destroyers, de-stroyers, mill all the I.lnieys said, "She'll net IhroUK'i. Nollilng will slop her." (Ino of the hoys nhoard of tier told mo lie had no Idea the I lardanelles Wiinhl he as hot a place as he found It was. "Caw Mimey," he sn'hl, "what Willi dodlu' shells and submarines, yon cawn't 'clp but run onto a blooniln' mine. Ill don't mind lellln' you," lie said, "that 111 was scared cold at first. And then Hi thinks of what 'Oly Joe' (the chaplain) told us one service, 'llin times of dyiiKer, look liupwards,' 'o says. So 111 looks liupwards, and lillniey lilf there wasn't a bally plane a-droppln' bombs lion lis. 'What price luipwai'd looks, Oly Joe?' I sinus out, but lie weren't nowlieres near, lilarst me, there weren't nowhere you could look without doln' yer bloody lioye a. i . - . Wyf W i fy- y 'p r,i 4 GUNNER DEPEW SEES WONDERFUL WORK OF BRITISH AND FRENCH NAVIES IN GALL1P0LI CAMPAIGN. Synopsis. Albert N. lVpow, author of the story, tells of his service in the United Slates navy, dmini; which he attained llio rank of chief petty ofheor, first-class gunner. The world war stmts soon after bo receives his honorable discharge from the navy, and be leaves for France with a determination to enlist. He joins the Foreign Legion and is assigned to the dreadiuuight Cassard, where bls,inarksiiianship wins him high honors. Later he is transferred to (lie land forces and sent to the Flanders front. lie gets his first experience in a front line trench at Pixnmde. He goes "over the top" and gels his first Cvrnian in a bayonet fight. While on runner service, Depew Is caught in a Zeppelin raid and has nil exciting experience. In a fierce light with the Hermans, Her-mans, he is wounded and is sent to n hospital. After recovering he Is ordered back to sea duty and sails on the Cassard for the Dardanelles. CHAPTER XI. 9 Action at the Dardanelles. I made twelve trips to the Dardanelles Darda-nelles In all, the Cnssard acting generally gen-erally as convoy to tfoop ships, but one trip was much like another, and I cannot remember all the details, so I will give only certain incidents of the voyages that you might find interesting. inter-esting. We never put into the Dardanelles Darda-nelles without being tinder fire but GalUpoiyy f$ ' Ay J? J GALLIPOLIanatl-I GALLIPOLIanatl-I DARDANELLES I dirty trick." When the Queen Elizabeth entered the Dardanelles, the Turkish batteries on lint Ii shores opened right on her. They had Ideal positions, and they were banging away In great style. And the water was simply thick with mines, and for all anybody knew, with subs. Yet the old Lizzie sailed right along, with her band up on the main deck playing, "Everybody's Doing It." It made you feel shivery along the spine, and believe me, they got a great hand from the whole fleet. They say her Old Man told the boys he was going to drive right ahead nnd that if the ship was sunk he would know that the enemy was somewhere in the vicinity. Well, they were headed right, but they never got past the Narrows. They stuck until the last minute though, and those who went up, went up with the right spirit. "Are we downhearted?" they wuuld yell. "No!" And they were not, either. They did not brag when they put It over on the Turks, and they did not grouch .when they saw that their Red Caps had made mistakes. Their motto was, "Try again," and they tried day after day. I do not know much about the histories of nrmies, but I do not believe there was ever an army like that of the allies In the Galllpoll campaign, and I do not think any other army could have done what they did. I take off my hat to the British army nnd navy after that. It was hotter than I have ever known It to be elsewhere, and there was no water for the boys ashore but what the navy brought to them sometimes some-times a pint a day, and often none at all. The Turks had positions that you could not expect any army to take, were well supplied with ammunition and were used to the country and the climate. Most of the British army were green troops. It was the Anzacs' first campaign. They were wonderful boys, these Australians and New Zealanders. Great big men, all of them, and finely built, and they fought like devils. It my "I Saw H. M. S. Goliath Get It." It. All the rest of the fleet battleships battle-ships anil transports weighed anchor at once and .steamed ahead lit full speed. It was a great sight. Any new ship coining up would have thought the British and French navies had gone crazy. We did not have any fixed course, but were steaming as fast as we could In circles and half circles, and dashing madly from port to star-hoard. star-hoard. We were not going to allow that sub to get a straight shot at us, hut we almost rammed ourselves doing It. It was a case of chase-tail for every ship iu the fleet. But the sub did not show Itself again that day, and we anchored again. That night, while the destroyers destroy-ers were around the ships, we slipped our cables and patrolled the coast along the Australian position at Gaba .Tope, but we did not anchor. The following day the Albion went ashore In the fog, south of Cuba Tepe, , and as soon as the fog lifted the Turks let loose and gave It to her hot A Turkish ship came up and, with any kind of gunnery, could have raked her fore nnd aft, but the Turks must have been pretty shy of gun sense, for they only got In one hit before they were driven off by II. M. S. Can-opus, Can-opus, which has made such a fine record In this war. Then the Canopus pulled in close to the Albion, got a wire hawser aboard, and attempted to tow her out under a heavy fire, but as soon as she started pulling, the cable snapped. The crew of the Albion were ordered aft and jumped np on the quarter deck to try and shift the bow off the bank. At the same time the fore turret and the fore six-Inch guns opened up a hot fire on the Turkish positions to lighter the ship and shift her by the concussions of the guns. For a long time they could not budge her. Then the Canopus got another hawser aboard and, with guns going and the crew jumping nnd the Canopus pulling, the old Albion finally slid off and both ships backed into deep water with little harm done to either. Then they returned to their old anchorages. At Cape Ilelles every one was wideawake. wide-awake. We were all on the lookout for suhs and you could not find one man napping. Anything at all passed for a periscope tins, barrels, spars. Dead horses generally float iu the water with one foot sticking up, and we gave the alarm many a time when it was only some old nag on his way to Davy's locker. On the Cassard the Old Man posted a reword of 50 francs for the first man who sighted a periscope. This was a good idea, but believe me he would have had trouble making the award, for every man on the ship would be sure to see it nt the same time. Each man felt sure he would be the man to get the reward. The 14-pounders were loaded and ready for action on a second's sec-ond's notice. But the reward was never claimed. Depew geta into a hot place when he volunteers for service in the trenches at Gallipol!. ! After a battle he finds his pal a victim of Hun rightfulness. The next installment tells the story. (TO BE CONTINUED.) I garbies believed. This chap was the real original Baron Muncliauseu when it came to yarning, and for a while lie had me going too. He would whisper some startling tale to us anil make us promise not to tell, as he had picked it from some other ship's message, nnd the Old Man would spread-eagle him if he found it out. They probably would have logged him. at that, If they had known he was filling us full of wind the way he did. He told ine one time that Henry Ford had Invented something or other for locating suhs miles away, and nlso another device that would draw the sub right up to It and swallow It whole. He had a lot of other yarns that I cannot remember, but I did not believe him because I saw he was picking out certain men to tell certain yarns to that is, spinning them where they would be more sure of being believed be-lieved and not just spinning them anywhere. any-where. So I got pretty tired of this stuff after a while and when we put out from Brest on the fourth voyage I got this fellow on deck in rough weather and began talking to him about the chap who had gone overboard over-board the time before and had been cut up by the propeller. I pretended that of course, he knew all about It that the Old Man had had this garby pushed overboard because he was too free with his mouth. But this did not seem to do any good, so I had to think up another way. When we were out two days I got hold of our prize liar again. I figured that he would be superstitious and I was right. I said that of course he knew that a ship could not draw near Cape Helles and get away again unless un-less at least one man was lost, or that, If it did get away, there would be many casualties aboard. I said it had always been that way and claimed that the Old Man had pushed this garby overboard because someone had to go. I said on our other trips no one had been sacrificed and that was the reason we had suffered so much, and that the Old Man had been called down by the French minister of the navy. I told him the Old Man would pick on whatever garby he thought he could best spare. That was all I had to tell him. Either Ei-ther he thought the Old Man knew of his yarning or else he did not think himself of much account, for he disappeared dis-appeared that very watch and we did not see him again until we were on the homeward voyage and a steward happened to dig into a provision hold. There was our lying friend, with a life belt on, another under his head, and the bight of a rope around his waist, fast asleep. Why he had the rope I do not know, but he was scared to death and thought we were going to chuck him overboard at once. I think he must have told the officers everything, because I noticed them looking pretty hard at me or at least I thought I did ; maybe it was my conscience, if I may brag about having hav-ing one and I thought one of the lieutenants lieu-tenants was just about to grin at me several times, but we never heard any more about it, or any more yarns from our wireless friend. Tiie fourth voyage was pretty rough, j too. The old girl would stick her j nose into the seas and many times I thought she would forget to come out. We had a lot of sand piled up against the wheelhouse and afler we dived pretty deep one time and bucked out slowly, there was not a grain of sand left. It looked like the sea was just j kidding us, for we were almost into j quiet water, and here it had just taken one sea aboard to clean up the sand j we carried all the way from Brest, i During the who!e voyage you could ; r.Ct get near the galley, which was ' where our wireless friend hung out j when he could. The pans and dixies hanging on the wall stood straight out when the ship pitched, and several heavy ones came down on n cook's head while he was sitting under them during a heavy sea. That made him i besides saying so, what is there to write about in that? It wag interesting interest-ing enough at the time, though, you can take it from me ! Coming up to "V" beach on our third trip to the Dardanelles, the weather was as nasty as any I have ever seen. The rain was sweeping along in sheets great big drops, and driven by the wind in regular volleys. You could see the wind coming, by the line of white against a swell where the drops hit. As -we rounded the point, the seas got choppier, and there were cross currents bucking the ship from every angle, it seemed. You could not see two hundred yards away, the rain was so thick, and the combers were breaking over our bows three a min-tite. min-tite. The coast here is pretty dangerous, danger-ous, so we went in very slowly and had the sounding line going until Its whir-r-r-r sounded louder than a machine ma-chine gun in action. I was on the starboard bow at the time and had turned to watch some garbies poking at the scuppers to drain the water off the deck. But the scuppers had been plugged and they were having a hard time of it. The officer on the bridge, in oilskins, was walking up and down, wiping off the business end of his telescope and trying try-ing to dodge the rain. All of the garbles gar-bles but one left the scuppers on the starboard side and started across decks to port. The other chap kept on fooling around the scuppers. Then I saw a big wave coming for us, just off the starboard bow and I grabbed hold of a stanchion and took a deep breath and held on. When my head showed above water again the other end of the wave was just passing over the place wher the garbies had been, and the officer was shouting, "Un homme a la mer !" He shouted before the man really was overboard, because he saw that the wave would get him.' I rushed back to the port bow and looked hack, for the wave had carried him clear across the decks, and saw the poor lad in the water, trying to fend himself off from the snip's side. But it was no go, and the port propeller pro-peller blades just carved him into bits. On our homeward voyage we re-' re-' ceived word again by wireless that there were Zeppelins at sea. We did not believe this and it proved to be ontrue. But there were other stories and taller ones, told us by one ofthe tireless operators, that some cf the "Un" Homme a la Mer!" was hand-to-hand work half the time; hardly any sleep, no water, sometime no food. They made a marl; there n! Gallipoli that the world will have to go some to beat. Our boys were on the job, too. AVe he'd our part of the works until the time came for everybody to quit, and it was no picnic. The French should bo very proud of the work their navy did (here in the Dardanelles. On our sixth trip I saw IT. M. S. Goliath get it. She was struck three times h; torpedoes and then shelled. The niiii were floundering around in the water, with shrapnel cutting the waves all around them. Cnly a hundred hun-dred odd of her crew were saved. |