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Show DEPEW , Albert R DepewP: EX-GUNNER AND CHIEF PETTy'oFHCER.' U.! NAvV MEMBER, OF THE FOREIGN LEGION OF FRANCE -K? CAPTAIN GUN TURRET, FRENCH BATTLESHIP CASSAP.D-V WINNER OF THE CROIX DE GUERRE e fcW m ! " Co. 'Uvouth SpaJ Ariit MHH WtS th Orav Mhtw Adn Savta 8YN0PSIS. CHAPTER I-Albert N. Depew, author tf On; story, enltBta in the United Hiatev pavy, nerving four yeara and attaining lho rank of chief petty officer, ilrit-ciuBS gunnor. CHAPTER. II-Tho great war start soon after he Is honorably discharged from the navy and he sails for France with a determination to enllil. CHAPTER III H joins the Foreign l.'-Kion and is assigned to the dreadnuugnt CiL'surd where his marksmanship wins in'. i high honors. CHAPTER IV-Depew Is detached from his ship and sent with a regiment of the Legion to Flanders where he soon finds himself In the front line trenches. i IIAI'TKR V He Is detailed to the nr-lillery nr-lillery and makes the acquaintance of the ; "6's", the wonderful French guns tliut i have saved the day for the ullies on many a battlefield. Before seeing uny action, hr? 1 Is ordered back to his regiment in the front line trenches. CHAPTER VI Itepew goes "over the top" and "gets" his first German In a bu-onet bu-onet tight. CHAPTER VII-Hls company takes part . in another raid on the German trenclie and shortly afterward ussists In stoppm,' i a tierce charge of the Huns, who uie l mowed down aa they cross No Mao's j Land. CHAPTER Vlll-Sont to Dlxnnnle with dispatches, Depew is caught In a Zeppelin raid, but escapes unhurt. cnvnlry lmd nrrlvcd find driven th'' BoebM out. Tba Gcmuuna were ox- IH'cted either to return or begin n DOS biirdiucnt at any moment and all 1 1 1 Inhabitant! who sported cellars were i hiding In them. The rest were trying to ftt out of town with their belonging! belong-ing! as best they could. On reaching our objective we made straight for the Hotel de Ville, whore I we were admitted and after a short I wait taken to the burgomaster. We questioned him as to news, for we hud been instructed to pick up any Information Infor-mation he might have as to conditions Rut we did not get much, for he 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 oar and were about to start when the burgomaster burgo-master himself enme running out. lie ordered us to lenve the car there and paid he would direct us where to go. He Insisted that we go on foot but 1 could not understand when he tried to explain why. We soon saw the probable reason for the burgomaster's refusal to ride in the car. All around for about a mile the roads were heavily mined nud small red flags on iron stases 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. command-ant. We told him all we could and ii, turn received various information from him. We were then taken over to the hotel. Here we read a few Paris newspapers, that were several weeks old, until about eight, when we had dinner, and a fine dinner it was, 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 night's rest, when there was an explosion explo-sion of a different kind from any 1 hud heard before, and we and the bed rocked about, like n canoe in the Wftke of a stern-wheeler. There were seven more ekploalOM, and then they stopped, though we could hear the rattle of a machine gun at some distance away. Hurtel laid If nnal be the forts, end after eorae argument argu-ment I agreed with bin, Be anld thai the Qertnau must have tried en nd vance under cover of u bombardment, ni.il thai ms soon ms (be forts got into action the Germane breesed. We wi re not worried much, .' we did sot gel out of bed. A few minutes later we heard footsteps foot-steps on the roof, and then a woman in a window acroae the street, asking h gendarme whether it was safe to go bach to bed. Then I got up and tool: a look Into the street There were a lot of people .standing around talking, but it w;is not Interesting enough to keep a tired man up. so iuio the hay. It Seemed about the middle of the night when Bnrte called me, but he SI lil It was time tO get out and j;et to work We found he bad made poor g'tess, for When we were half dressed he looked at bis watch and it was only a quarter pasi seven, iut we decided to stay up. Since we were that tar along, and then t,o down and cruise for ' u breakfast, When we got downstairs uud found of the hotel people It took them a long time to ;.''; it through our heads t1"'' there hud been some real exeite- ment dnrii r the night The explosions were tlio.-.c of bombs dropped by a Zeppelin, which had sailed over the city. The first bomb bad fallen less than two hundred yards from where we slept. No wonder the bed rocked! It had struck n narrow three-story house I around the corner from the hotel, and had blown 11 to bi's. Ten people had been Killed outright, and u number died later. The bomb tore n fine hole and hurled pieces of itself several hundred hun-dred yurds. The street itself was tilled with rocks, and a number of houses were down, and others wrecked. wreck-ed. 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 Eopp 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 be- I Ing set for the attack. The last bomb had struck in u large ! square. It tore u hole In the coble-stone coble-stone pavement about thirty feet square and five feet deep. Kvery window win-dow on the square was smashed. The fronts of the houses were riddled with various sized holes. All the crockery and china and mirrors in the house were in fragments. Not much more than an hour before the Zepp came, we had been sitting In a room at the home of the local military mili-tary commandant, right Under a big glass-dome skylight. This house was now a very pretty ruin, and it was us1 as well that we left when we did. V.u could not even Bad a splinter of the big round table. The next time I ;' under a glass skylight In I'Knuitlc, I want a lad with a live eye for Zeppelins Zeppe-lins on guard OUtalde, Something about the branch hej.il quartern ruins fade us think of break fast, which we had forgotten, so back to the hotel. Then we started back to our Hies, We were ordered to keep to the main road all the way back, or we would be shot on sight, and to report re-port to headquarters immediately on our return, I thought if the sight of me was B0 distasteful to anybody, I would not take the chance of offending, offend-ing, being anxious to be polite In BUCh cases. So we stuck to the main road. Fritz did not give us any trouble and we were buck by five, with all hands out to gnet us when we hove in sight, and a regular prodigal son welcome on tap, for we were later than they had expected us, and they had made up their minds that some accident had happened. While I was around Dlzntude, I saw many living men ond women and children chil-dren who had been mutilated by the Germans, but most of them were women wom-en and children. Almost every one of the mutilated men was too old for military service. The others had been killed, I guess. But the Belgians were not the only ones who had suffered from German kultur. Muny French wounded were tortured by the Huns, and we were constantly finding the mutilated bodies nfe jbuV iik' ttir, We Were Constantly Finding the Mutilated Muti-lated Bodies of Our Troops. of our troops. It was thought that the Germans often mutilated a dead body as an example to the living. The Genuuns hud absolutely no respect re-spect whatever for the Bed Cross. For Instance, they captured a wagon loaded load-ed with forty French wounded, and shot every one of them. I raw the I dead bodies. I When the 0 rmnn came to !lx-muile !lx-muile they got nil the men nnd women and Children and made them i:. arch before them with their hands Ln :hi nlr. Thoe who did BOl were kl DCkOd down. After B While BOOBS of them saw ,, what they were golfip to get, i nd '"'lngv as game sports as 1 et r ft anl Of, tr . to light. They were Bnlthod nfl at once, of course. The former bargOBU iter had been shot and finished off With an ax, though he bad not re rated, bcai -e he wanted to save tin- ,; I of hi citizens. citi-zens. They told me of 001 e:so. i Dlr-mude, Dlr-mude, where a l.ian : i OHl I Iim house, trying to cim; Cat! r, h man of eighty, to the square, tov they wore ordered "id man could not nils.' I. hi rule, - ihey dragged his son I ' I lm, knocked the old man in the h lth on ax, and left him there to torn who were spared Were mad ifo1 graves for the otle I There was B ioctof there ii D nuide, who certainly del . : rn : li-tary li-tary cross if any !;an ever dhl ll was cnlled from his boo. ,- , c,..r-mans c,..r-mans at BsttrflM BN rnlng. lie ! I Ids wife, who had had S bob twt lays before. In the hou e. He .:, I p. to the square, lined up BgaiASI :. v nil with three other big men of the town. Then ho saw his ife and hnM being carried to the square on a Unttri H by four Germans, lie begged to lie allowed al-lowed to kiss his wife gOOdrhy, and they granted him permission. As ho stepped away, there was u rattle I nd the other men went West. They shot him, too. but thongh he was riddled with bullets he lived, somehow, and begged the German officer to let hlin accompany his wife to the prison where they were taking her. This was granted too, but on the way. they heard the sound of firing. The soldiers yelled, "Die Frunzoseu !" and dropped the mattress and ran. But. It was only some of their own butchers at work. Doctor Laurent carried bis wife and baby to tin old nqm dm ! that woe ! mg rebuilt by the creek. There they lived for three days und three nights, on the few herbs and the water thai DoctSC Laurent sneaked out and got at Bight Doctor Laurent siiys that when the Germans killed and crucified the civilians civil-ians iit Dlxmude. they first fobbed them of their watches, pocketbooka, rings and other things. There wan a Madame Tilmans there, who had had three thousand franca stolen from her and was misused besides. These were Just a vi ry few of tho things that happened at Just one place where the Germans got to work with their "kultur." So you can picture the Belgians agreeing on a German peace, while there is a Belgian alive to argue about it. They will remember the Germans Ger-mans a long time, t think. But they need not worry: there are a lot of uh I who will not forget, either. 1 CHAPTER IX. I Laid Up for Repairs. One night, after I had been at Dlx- I mude for about three weeks, we matkt I a Charge hi tho face of o very heavy j fire. Our captain always stood at the parapet when we were going over, ana made the sign of the cross and shouted, "For God and France." Then we would For God and France. I go over. Our oltieers always led is, but I have never seen a German officer lend a charge. They always were be-, be-, hind their men, driving instead of lead- 1 ing. I do not believe the are as brave as they are said to be. Well, we went over this time, and ! the machine guns were certainly going i It strong. We were pretty sore about i the chaplain and the Swiss nnd all that, and we put up an awful tight, but we could not make It and had to come back. Only one company reached tho Boche tranches and not u man of it i came back who had not been wounded on the way and did not reach tho trench. They were Just wiped out. M The captain was missing, too. We thought he was done for, but about i two o'clock ln the morning, he came ' back. He simply fell over Into the I tranch, oil In. Bo had been wounded 1 four times, and had loin In a shell crater full of water for several hoinAi He would not go bock for treat BOffil j then, and when daylight came. It was too lute, been us,, we were practically rut off by artillery fire behind the front line trenches. When daylight came, the artillery Are opened up right on us, and ftjj i Continued on puge three.) ! C- i . . t f '..". T :: 0 "' -' ott.ii .1 "n:-::::: J '"." i GUNNER DEPEW o j (Continued from pafre two.) Germans had advanced their line-; Into Jtome trenches formerly held by ns ntul hardly forty-flve yards awny. We received re-ceived bombs and shells rifM In our faces. A Tunisian In our company pot crazy, and ran back over the porodoa. lie ran a few yards, then stopped mid looked back at lis. I think he wan coming to his senses, unci would hnve W tarted back to us. Then the ipot where he had been wns empty, and I second later his body from the chest down fell not three yanN from tl- I parados. I do not know where tin-top tin-top part went. Thnt same shell cut I irroove In the low hilltop before It -ploded. He had been hit lv a h!,-nhell, h!,-nhell, and absolutely cut In two. I have seen this happen to four men. but this was tne only one In France. About seven o'clock, we received re-enforceraents, re-enforceraents, and poured fresh troops over and retook the trench. No sooner had we entered It, however, than the Germans turned their artillery on us, not even waiting for their own troops to retire safely. They killed numherH of their own men In this way. But the Are was so heavy that, when they counter-attacked, we had to retire npiilti. and this time they kept after us and drove us beyond the trench we had originally occupied. We left them there, with our artillery artil-lery taking care of them, and our machine ma-chine guns trying to enfilade them, nnd moved to the right. There was a bunch of trees there, about like a small woods, and as we passed the Germans concealed In It opened fire on us, and we retired to some reserve trenches. We were pretty much scattered by this time, and badly cut up. We reformed there, nnd were Joined by other of our 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 us, as he was the ranking officer. He had a scalp wound, but the others were In his arms and shoulders. He could not move his hands ut all. But he led our charge when we ran for the woods. We carried some machine ma-chine guns with us as we went, and the gunners would run a piece, set up, fire while we opened up for them, nnd run on again. Some troops came out t of a trench still farther to the right and helped us, and we drove the Germans Ger-mans 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. I think all the vows were kept that day, or else the men who made them died first. I wus shot through the thigh some time or other after the captain got j bock. It felt Just like a needle-prick at 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 car-ried the captain out on a stretcher about the same time, hut he died on the way from loss of blood. Fresh troops came up to relieve us, but our men refused to go, and though official- ' ly they were not there In the trench, . they stayed until they took the cup-tain cup-tain nwuy. Then, back to hlllets not ! bullets, this time. 1 believe that we re- celved un army citation for that piece j Of work, but 1 do not know, as i wu-In wu-In the hospital for a short time a?ter-ward. a?ter-ward. I do not remember much about going to the hospital except that the ambulance made an awful racket going! over the stone-paved streets of Ktaples, and that the bearer who picked up one end of my stretcher, had eyes like dead fish flouting on water; also, that there' were some civvies stuuding around the entrance us we were being curried In. The first thing they do in the hoa-j pltal Is to take oft your old dirty band-j ages and slide your stretcher under u l big electric magnet. A doctor comes In and places his hand over your i wound, and they let down the BtafOal j over his band and turn on the juice. If the shell fragment or bullet in you I Is more thun seven centimeters deep," you cunnot feel the pain. The firsi HOCtOf reports to the chief how deep lyoiir wound Is, and where it is sltu-'ated, sltu-'ated, ami then a nurse comes up to .you, where you lie, with your clothes 'still on, and usks you to take the' "pressure." Then they lift you on a four-wheeled j icart, und roll you to the operating theater. the-ater. Th'-y taUe off your dollies there. , I remember 1 1 1 Led to look ut the j iiursi s and surgeons ; they looked so j OOd III their Clean white clothe-;. Then they stick hollow n lies Into Won, which hurt a good deal, and you . lake the pressure. After a while, they ! Iiegln cutting awuy the bruised und . toaybe rotten tlesli, removing the old loth, pieces of dirt, und so forth, and lieraplng away the splinters of boue. You think for sure you ure going to jbleed to death. The blood rushes v ("through you like lightning, and If you pet a sight of yourself, you can feel (yourself turning pale. Then they hurry iyou to your bed, and cover you over jwlth blankets and hot-wuter bottles. rrbey raise your bed on chulrs, so the BlOOd will run up toward your head, (and Hfter a while, your eyes open und y mo- doctor says, "Out, oul, II vlvru." meaning that you still had some time fo spend before finally going west. The treutuieut we got lu the hospltul was great. We received clgurettes, to-Iriicco, to-Iriicco, matches, mugailnes, and clean rkituea. The meu do not talk about I I llieir wounds much, and everybody tries to be happy and show It. The food was fine, and there wus lots of It. I do not think there were any doc-torsOn doc-torsOn the world better thnn ours, and they v.ere 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 curefully. Everything was very clean and sanitary, and some of the hospltuls hud sun parlors, which were well used, you can be sure. Some of the men made toys and fancy articles, such as button hooks and paper knives. They made the handles from empty shell cases, or shrapnel, or pieces of Zeppelins, or anything else picked up ulong the front. When they are getting well, the men learn harness making, mechanical drawing, telegraphy, gardening, poultry poul-try raising, typewriting, bookkeeping and the men teach the nurses how to make canes out of shell cases, and rings of aluminum, nnd slippers and gloves out of blankets. The nurses certainly work hurd. They always have more to do than they ought to, but they never complain, and are always cheerful and ready to play games when they have the time, or read to some poilu. And their work Is pretty dirty too: I would not like to have to do It. They say there were lots of French society ladles working as nurses, but you never heard much about society, or any talk about Lord Helpus, or Count Whosls, or pink teas or anything like that from these nurses. A few shells landed near our hos-' pltal, while 1 was there, but no patient was hit. They knocked u shrine of Our Lady to splinters, though, und bowled over a big crucifix. The kitchen was near by, and it wus Just the chef's luck , thnt he had walked over to our wurd to see a pal of his, when a shell landed plumb In the center of the kitchen, nnd all you could see all over the bur-racks bur-racks was stew. That was a regular entless 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 a , "blesse" himself, and I guess his stomach stom-ach sympnthized with ours. There was a Frenchman In the bed next to me who kad the whole side of his face torn off. He told me he had been next to a bomber, who hud just lit a fuse and did not think It wus burning fast enough, so he blew on it. II burned fast enough after that, und 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. He usked many questions ques-tions about Dlxmude, for be hud had relutlves there, though he had lost track of them. He often tried to describe de-scribe the house they hud lived In, so that I might tell him whedier it was -till stuuding or not, but I could not remember the place he spoke of. During Dur-ing our talks, he told me about many atrocities. Some of the things he (old a.- I hud heard before, and some of i hem I heard of afterward. Here are some things thut he either saw or lieurd of from victims: He suld thut wheu the Germans entered en-tered the town of St. Quentln, they started firing into the windows as they passed along. First, after they hud occupied oc-cupied the town, they bayoneted every uorktngmun they could find. Then 1 1 hey took about hulf of the children I hat they could find, und killed them with their musket butts. After this, ihey marched the remainder of the children chil-dren and the women to the square, where they had lined up a row of mule t i citizens against n wall. The women und children were told that if they moved, they would all be shot. Another An-other file of men was brought up. and made to kneel in front of the other men against the wall. The women ami children began to beg for the lives of the men, and many Women and Children Begged for the Lives of the Men. of them were knocked In the head with gun butts before they Itoppod, Then the Germans ttredat the double rank of men. After three volleys, there were eighty-four dead and twenty wounded. Most of the wounded they th. n k.lled with axes, but somehow, three or four ( eapi ' by hid Dfl under the bod-ten of others nnd p'ay In;: dead, though the ofllceta walked up and 1" :i Bring their revolvers Into the piles of bodies. The next day the Germans went through the wine rellais, and shot all the Inhabitants they found hiding there. A lot of people, who had taken refuge lu a factory over night, decided to come oi t with a white flag. They were allowed to think that the white flag would be respected, but no sooner were they all out than they were seized nnd the women publicly v.olnted In the square, after which the men were shot A paralytic was shot as he sat In his arm-chair, and a boy of fourteen was taken by the legs and pulled apart. At one place, a man was tied by the arms to the celling of his room and set afire. His trunk was completely carbonized, car-bonized, but his bead and arms were unburned. At the same plnce, the body of a fifteen-year-old boy was found, pierced by more than twenty bnyonet thrusts. Other dead were found with their hands still in the air, leaning up ngnlnst walls. At another place the Germans shelled the town for n day, and then entered und sacked It. The women and children were turned loose, without with-out being allowed to take anything with them, nnd forced to leave the town. Nearly five hundred tnea were deported to Germany. Three, who were almost exhausted by hunger, tried to escape. They were bayoneted and clubbed to death. Twelve men, who had taken refuge in a farm, were tied together and shot In n mass. Another group of six were tied together nnd ehot, after the Germans hud put out their eyes and tortured them with bayonets. Three others were brought before their wives and children and sabered. The Belgian told me he was nt Na-mur Na-mur when the Germans began shelling it. The bombnrdment lasted the whole of August 21 and 22, 1914. They centered cen-tered their fire on the prison, the hospital, hos-pital, and the railway station. They entered the town at four o'clock In the afternoon of August 23. During the first twenty-four hours, they behaved themselves, but on the 24th they began firing at nnyone they pleased, and 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 were shot. The others, about four hundred In nil, were drawn up In front of the church, close to the river bank. The Belgian snld he could never forget how 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 Haitian and Gulllaume. with Balbau's seventeen-year-old son ; then two men who had taken refuge In a ham and had been discovered and blinded; then two other men whom I had never seen he-fore. he-fore. "It was awful to see the way the women were crying 'Shoot me too, shoot me with my husband." "The men were lined up on the edge of the hollow, which runs from the high road to the bottom of the village. One of them was leaning on the shoulders shoul-ders of an old priest, and he was crying, cry-ing, 'I am too young I can't face denth brnvely.' "I couldn't bear the sight any longer. I turned my buck to the rond und covered cov-ered my eyes. I heard the volley and the bodies fulling. Then some one cried, 'Look, they're all down.' But a few escuped." This Belgian had escuped by hiding he could not remember how many days In an old cart filled with manure nnd rubbish. He hud chewed old hides fO food, hud swum across the river, und hid In a mud bank for almost a week longer, und finally got to France.. He took it ver hard when we talked about Dlxmude, and I told him that the old church wus Just shot to pieces. He asked about a painting called the "Adoration of the Magi," and one of the other prisoners told us it hud been saved and transported to Germany. If that is true, and they do not destroy It meanwhile, we will get It back, don't worry ! My wound was Just u Clean gunshot wound und not very serious, so, ul-thongh ul-thongh it was not Completely healed, they let me go after three weeks. Hut before 1 went, 1 saw something that no man of us will ever forget Some of them took vows Just like the men of the legion I have told about. One of the putlents was a German doctor, who had been picked up in No Man's Land, verv seriously wounded. lie was given the same treatment as any Of t:s. that is, the very hot. but finally, the doctors gave him up. They thought he would die slowly, and that It might take several weeks. But there wus u nurse there, who took special Interest In his ease, and she stayed up day and night for uome time and finally brought him through. The case wus very well known, and everybo" ) suld she hud performed a miracle. He got better slowly. Then a few weeks later, when he wus out of danger ami wus able to walk, und It was only a question of time before he would be released from the hospital, this nurse was transferred trans-ferred to another hospital. Everybody knew her uud liked her, und when she went uround to say good by, all the men were sorry and guve her little presents, and wanted her to write to them. She was going to get a nurse ahe knew In the other hospital to turn her letters Into English, so that she could write to me. I gave her a ring I had made from a niece of shell case. but I guess she had hundreds of them at that But this German doctor would not Bay good-by to her. That would not hnve made me sore, but i; ma l this French rlrl feel very bad. nnd ! ba gun to cry. One of the I neb officers saw her ami found out gin :t ilie dot -tor, and the officer went Dp til I fopo ' to the German. Then the I'n i t h officer of-ficer left, and the German tolled to the nurse und she went over to him and stopped crying. They talked for a little while, and then she put out her hands us If she was going to leave, lie put out his And Then He Twisted Her Wrists and Broke 1 htm. hands, too, and took hold of hers. And then he twisted her wrists and broke them. We heard the snap. There were men tn thut ward who had not been on foot since the day they came to the hospital, and one of them was supposed to be dying, but It Is an absolute fact that when we heard her scream, there was not u man left in bed. I need not tell you what we did to the German. They did not need to shoot film, after we got through with him. They did shoot what wus left of him, to make sure, though Now, I have heard people say that it Is not the Germans we are fighting, , but the kaiser and his system. Well, it may be true that some of the Boche soldiers would not do these things if they did not hnve to : myself, I am not so sure. But you take this doctor. Here ho ! was, an educated man, who had been trained all his life to help people who I were in pain, and not to cause It. And ' he was not where he would have to , obey the kolser or any other German. I And this nurse had saved his life. So I do not see that there Is any argument about It. He broke that girl's wrists because he wanted to; thut Is nil there Is to It. Now, I say this German doctor was u dirty cur nnd a scoundrel. But I sny that he is 1 a fair sample of most of the Germans i I have met. And It Is Germans of this j kind that we are fighting not merely I the kaiser. , It is like going to college. I have never been there, but I have heurd I some people suy It did not do a man nny good to go. But I have never heard man who went there say thut. Probably you have not been over there, and maybe you think we are not fighting fight-ing the German people, but only the kaiser and his flunkeys. Well, nobody hud better tell me that. Becuuse I have been there, and I hOTO ' en this. And I know. I CHAPTER X. Hell at Oallipoll. After I was fllscharged from the hospital, hos-pital, I was ordered to report to my ship at Brest for sea duty. The boys aboard the Cassard guve me n henrtv welcome, especlallv Mnr-r.iy. Mnr-r.iy. who had come back after two weaka in the traocbea at Dizmttda. I 1 was glad to see them, too, for after all, they were garbles, and 1 always feel I more at home with them than wlih soldiers. sol-diers. Then. It was pretty rough stuff ut Dlxmude, nnd after resting up ut the hospltul, I was keen on going to I a again. The Oaaaard whs in dry dock for re-I re-I !rs after her hist voyage to the Dar-danellea Dar-danellea as convoy to the troopship Duplets, Everything was being rushed t ' get her out us MOOD as possible, nnd crews were working day and night. There were other ships there too mi- i Tdreadnaughta, and dreadnaughta, and battleships, and armored cruisers, all being overhauled. We reeeived llllil phni-d gllllS of never deaigOi tilled the magaiinea with the highest explosives known to naval i Use, and generally made ready for a hard Job. Our maga.uies were Oiled with shells for our big 12 uud It nub ! guns. A 14-lneh shell enn tear u hole Ibroiigh the heaviest armor plate at 12,000 yards, and will do more damage titan you would think. When we hail en. lied ami had got our stores ubonrd, we dreaaed for action ac-tion or rather, nndreaaedi The decks Were clear; hutch covers bolted and davits folded down; furniture, chests, tallies, chairs were sent ashore, and Inflammable In-flammable geur, like our rope Iiiiiii-DlOCka, Iiiiiii-DlOCka, went overboard. You could tint bud a single wooden chair or table in the ward room. When the ship Is Cleared for action, a shell bursting inside eiinnot find much to set utire, and if one bursts on deck, there is nothing to burn but the wooden deck, u:u! that is covered with -t'ei plate, Finally, we had roll callall men present. Then we set sail for the j Dardanelles ns escort to the Duplelx, which bad on board terrltorlnl and provincial French troop Onrnns, i I 'ontinued on page seven.) uiimmnimiHiiniiiiiiiiiiinniiiMiiimiu: I Gummier 1 Depew J " - -1, n, M S E j4lbertSC. "Depew 5 Ea-Gunner and Oilel Petty Officer. S I' S. Nan Mmlm of the Foreign 2 Lr-ion o? France Captain Gun r Turret. French Battleihip Canard B VVmn-r of the Cron de Gu er rel S iliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiHiiiiiiiiiiTi 3 Jopjrlghi, law. Ir HoIIIt nil Hrltton Co.. Through Special Arrarynoinni Wtih the fieorge Muihw Adaina Service. t'nrisiuns. Montana, Indo-Chinese, 8pahls, Tureos all kinds. When wo messed, we had to squat down on the eteel mess deck and eat from metal platen. There had been a notlre posted before be-fore we left that the Zeppelins had begun be-gun Mi raids, and we kept a Nve eye ont for them. The news proved to be a fake, though, and we did not see u single cigar while c were out. We made the trip to the DurdanelltJH without sighting an enemy craft, keeping keep-ing In close touch with the Duplelx, and busy every minute preparing for action. I was made gun captain and given charge of the starboard bow turret, mounting two 14-inch guns. I had my men at gun practice dally, and by the time wc rieared the Dardanelles, after five days, they were in pretty fair shape. It was about B a. m. when we drew near Cape Helles and took stutlons for action. The Duplelx was In front of ns. The batteries on the cape opened up on us, and in a few minutes min-utes later those at Kum Kaleh Joined Id. As the Duplelx made for "V" beach and prepared to land her troops, we swung broadside on, raking their batteries bat-teries as we did so, and received a shell, which entered through a gun port In the after turret and exploded. Some bags of powder stored there (where they should never have been) were fired and the roof of the turret was Just lifted off. It landed on deck, tilted up ngalnst the side of the turret. tur-ret. On deck the rain of Are was simply terrific. Steel flew In all directions It was smash, crash, slam-bang all the time, and I do not mind saying I never thought we would come out of It. Some of the heavy armor plate up forward was shot away and after that the old Cassard looked more like a monitor than anything else to me. As we drew nearer the shore they began using shrapnel on us and In no time at all our funnels were shot full of holes and a sieve was watertight compared com-pared to them. Naturally we were not Just taking all this punishment without any comeback. come-back. Our guns were at It fast and from the way the Are slackened In certain places we knew we were mak-lng-lt effective. My guns did for two enemy pieces that I know of. uud perhaps per-haps several others. The French garbles were a good deal more excited in action than I thought they would be. They were dodging around below decks, trying to miss the shrapnel that came aboard, shouting, swearing, singing hut fighting hard, at that. They stood the gaff Just as well as any other garbles would, only In their own tweet 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 lighting gun turret. Hut 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 all, and no rain checks needed. One of our Junior lieutenants was struck by a fragment of shell as he was at his station behind the wheil-house wheil-house and a piece of his skull was driven Into his brain. He was" carried car-ried into tuy gun turret, but he would not let thetii take him to sick bay to btie his wound tlres-.ed. 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 net ion we put nbout and started away, still firing. As a parting slap on the back the Turks tore oil one of our lug-gun turrets, tur-rets, and then away we went, back to Brest with a casualty list of only 1.5. We did not have much trouble guess-Aa guess-Aa Ing that It was dry dock for us again. kj We got back to B'e'st after a quiet voyage, patching oerselves 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. iThey turned us out in 13 days and back we went to the Turks and their A li. in assistants. W We were lucky getting inshore, only receiving a nasty smash astern, when the Turks got our range and landed two peaches before we got out. Wo nearly tore our rudder off getting away. Hut we had to come back right way, because we had carried quite I P71 !.,-, , ! J Gunner Ocpew m French Sailor Uniform. Uni-form. 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 tt. you had good reason to feel you would get lammed by a cute little shell or a dainty bit of shrapnel shrap-nel 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 be-cause the enemy trenches were near the shore nnd they amused themselves them-selves trying to pick ns 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 ftW of us acted ns bull's eyes. But we did not mind the bullets so much. Chey make a clean wound or put you nway entirely; shrapnel tears you up and can play all kinds of tricks with various parts of your body without killing you. As for 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 ISritlsh 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 were playing on one of fhe trawlers and shells were splashing the water all over her. Roth banks were simply banging away point blank at them and I never thought they would get back. They did get back, (hough, but some of 'hem had hardly enough men left to work ship. But thnt 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- i house between the quartermaster and himself nnd all the Q. SI. said was, "Gaw blimey, that tickled." "Hut I Know their shooting was very bad," said the other chap to me. "Tlfnuc Turks must have thought the flue was behind them." Coming Back from the Dardanelles a gold stripe sent for me aud asked me whether I thought there were other ex-navy gunners In the States that would serve with the French. I told them the country was full of good gunners and be wanted me to write to all I knew and get them to come over. lie did not mean by this, and neither do I, that there were not good gunners In the French navy, because be-cause there were lots of them. But you can never have too many handy bov with the guns and he wns very anxious for me to get all I could. I had no way of reaching the ex-garbles I did know, so I had to pass up this Opportunity to recruit by mall. While we were In Brest I got pVr-misslon pVr-misslon to go aboard a submarine and a petty officer showed nie around. This was the first time I was in the Interior of a sub and 1 told the officer that I would like to take a spin in the tub myself. He Introduced me to the commander, but the petty offlctr said he did not think th. would let me stay aboard. I showed the commander com-mander my passport and talked to him for a while, and he said he would take me on their practice cruise two days later If the Old Man gave me written permission. So I hot-footed it back to the Cassard Cas-sard ami while I did not promise th it I would get any American guuueis for him In exchange for the written per- was so thick, and the combers were breaking over our hows three a minute. min-ute. The eoast here is pretty dangerous, danger-ous, so we went In very slowi.v 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 garbles poking at the scuppers to drain the witter 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 acros-decks acros-decks to port. The other chap kept on fooling around the scuppers. Tbei I uw a big wave I'omiai tor us jusl mission, he wns free to think that If he wanted to. It seems as though he did take It that way. for be gae me a note to the sub commander and sent him another note by messenger. I wnnted Murray to go too, but the Old Man said one was enough. So, two days later, I wenl aboard In the morning and bad breakfast with the sub crew anil a good break fast It wa, too. After breakfast they took stations and the commander went up on the structure amidships, which wns Just under the conning tower, Sod I squatted down on the deck beneath the structure. Then the gas engines started up and made tin awful racket and shook the old tub from stem to stern. I could fell that we bad cut loose from the dock and were moving, After a while they shut off the gas engines .mil started the motors and we began tO submerge. When we were all the way under I looked through the periscope peri-scope and saw a Dutch merchantman. We stayed under about half an hour nnd then cntne hnck to the surfnee. One of the garbles was telling me Inter on that this same sub bad gone j out of control n 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 j crneklng and It was g wonder that they did not crumple up from the pressure, but she weathered It. pressure pres-sure button nnd nil. and In n quarter of an hour was on the surface. While on the surface they sighted snjoke, submerged again, and soon, over the horizon came eight battleships, es- I corted by Zepps and destroyers. They tested their tubes before they got hi 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 detonnted guncotton. About five minutes later they sighted sight-ed five destroyers, two on each bow, nnd one dead ahead. The sub steered In at right angle zigzags and the destroyers de-stroyers stayed with their convoy. The sub lnunched 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. j These ships must hnve been some I of the lucky ones that came down ! from the North sea. The garby said '. he thonght they were off the Dutch 1 coast at the time, but he was not j sure. But this cruise that I was on was only n practice cruise and we did not ' meet with any excitement in the short time that we were out. CHAPTER XI. Action at the Dardanelles. T made twelve trips to the Dardanelles Darda-nelles In all, the Cassard acting gen-. gen-. erally as convoy to troop ships, but one trip wns much like another, and ' I cannot remember all the details, so j I will give only certain Incidents of I the voyages that you might find lntor-I lntor-I est Iul:. We never put Into the Dnrdu- nelles without being under fire but j besides saying so, what Is there to write nbout In thai? It was lnterest-I lnterest-I lng enough at the time, though, you can take It from me : Coming up to "V" beach on our third trip to the Dardanelles, the 1 wenther 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 I line of white against a swell where j the drops hit. As we rounded the point, the seas I got choppier, and there were cross j currents bucking the ship from every angle, It seemed. You could not see two hundred yards away, the rain yi J x T Jr I IS J? f pp "-jr v gMkMp I GALLlPOLIsndtl- DARDANELLES off the starboard bow and I grabbed bold of a Stanchion and took a deep breath and held on. When my head showed above water ggalfl the other end of the wave was Just passing over the place 1 here the garbles had been, and the olheer was shouting, "In homme a la mer '" He shouted before ine man really was overboard, because he saw that the wave would get him. I rushed back to the port bow and looked buck, for the wave had carried lil in clear across the decks, and saw the poor lad In the water, trying to fend himself off from the ship's side. But It was no go, unit the port propeller pro-peller blades Jusl curved him Into hits. On our homeward voyage we received re-ceived word again by wireless that there were Zeppelins at sea. We did not believe this uud It proved to be untrue. But there were other stories mid taller ones, told us by one of the wireless olieruUirs. thut some of the I smM 'wWKK ' er -".vf fr Hi1 w "Un Homme a la Merl garbles believed. This chap was unreal un-real original Baron Munchausen when It came to yarning, and for a while be had BM going too. He would whisper some startling tale to us nnd make us promise not to tell, as he had picked It fromgsome other ship's message, and the Old Man would spread-eagle him If he found It out. They probably would have logged him, at that, If they Jiad known he was filling us full of wind the way he did. Fie told me one time that Henry Ford had Invented something or other for locating subs miles nway, and also another device that would tlraw the sub light up to It and swallow It ' whole. He hud n lot of other yarns that I cannot remember, but I did not believe hltu 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 bexOM and had In en cttt up by the propeller. I pretended that, of course, he knew all about It that the Old Mail had had this garby poshed overboard because be was too free with his mouth. But this did not seem to do any good, so 1 had to think up another way. When We were out two days 1 got hold of our prize liar again. I figured that he would be superstitious and 1 was right. I said that of course he knew that a ship could not draw near Cape Helles und get away again unless un-less ut 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 wuy and claimed that the Old Man had pushed this garby overboard because someone had to go, I said on our other trips no one hud been sacrificed ami that was the reason wc hud suffered so much, aud that the Old Man had been called tlown by the French minister of the navy. I told him the Old Man would pick on whutever garby he thought he could best spare. That was all I had to tell him. Hither Hi-ther he thought the Old Man knew of his yuinlng or else he did not think himself of much account, for ht 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 bold. There wns our lying friend, with a life belt on, unother under bis head, und the bight of a rope arountl bis waist, fust asleep. Why be had the rope I do not know, but he was scared to death Mid thought we were going to chuck him overbourd ut once. I think he must have told the officers everything, because I noticed them looking prett) hard at me or ut least I thought I did j maybe It was my conscience! if I may bra;' about having hav-ing one uud I thought one of the lleu-tenants lleu-tenants wns lust ah tut to grin at me several times, but we never hoard any inore about It. or any more yarns from our w ireiess friend. The fourth voyage wns pretty rough, too. The old girl would stick her nose into the s ns mid ninny times i though! she Would rorgeJ to come out. We had a lot nf m id piled up againsl the wheelhouse ami after we dived i Itj (li ep "tie time and hill ked out : here u i not a gruln oi sand h ' nked llko the sea was jusl ri iiIiiiohI Into it r, and here i lind jum taken i ii ,i !jii i d to i leu II iii I he -and we em i led h tin1 uj ' roiu Bi est. the "hole voyage you could .: the galley, which was re our wireless friend hung oul i it he i nil I I. i he p a- uud dlxleS i . Oil the V'. t II -1 1 Hi i i . hen the shlji pitched, ami sei i .i I ' is came dow n on a t nok's he wus stttlnu under them . ii hen' j sen, Th il mads hlra iierstltlous, ioo, mid he disappeared :. id v. ns not found for I o doj , Bui i us n Ii un un I not used to b hvj her. II i gill to Hie (hllllMil M-ill- i In- ill tli time our buttle Heel und transports lay off the straits, Wa could not ri .nil the little luibor on the Turkish const, b it the v. bote fleet fell hupp) and fairly confident of victory. vic-tory. VVe ln.V olf Cape Helles, and It WHS there we received the news that there were submarine- lying around Gibraltar, Then they vi ere reported Muttu, We got the new from Brll Ish trawlers and tr.tti-iioris. our ntfl-cers ntfl-cers suld the subs could not reach the Dardanelles without patting III somewhere some-where for a fresh supply of fuel, and that the allied fleets were on the look-nit, look-nit, at every place where the robf Ight tr.v to int In. But they got there just the suine. Then the British superdreadnaught Queen F.llzabetb, "the terror of the Turks," came In. She left Kngland with a whole fleet of cruisers am! de-strovers, de-strovers, nnd all the Limeys said, "She'll get through. Nothing will stop her." One of the boys aboard of her told me be bad no Idea the Dardanelles would be as hot a place as he found It was. "(Saw blimey," he sail', "what with dodging shells and submarines, you enwn't 'dp but run onto a bloomln' mine. Hi don't mind tcllln' you." ho said, "that Hi was scared cold at llr-l. And then III thinks of what 'Olv .loo' (the chaplain) laid H one eervica. 1 Iln times of dyngcr, look hnpw arils,' e sns. So 111 looks bupwurds. and lilluiev hlf there wasn't n bally plana a-dropptn' bombs bOO ns. 'What price hupwnrtl looks, Oly Joe?' I sings out. but he weren't nowberes near. Blarst me, there weren't nowhere yon could look without doln' yer bloody heye n dirty trick." When the Queen F.lizabeth entered the Dardanelles, the Turkish batteries on both shop's 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 baud 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 band from the w hole fleet. They say her Old Man told the bo s he was going to drive right ahem! and 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 wenl up, went up with the right spirit. "Are we downhearted?" they would yell. "No!" And they were not, either. They illtl not brag when they put It over on the Turks, and they did not grouch when tiny saw thut their Bed Caps bad liunle mistakes. Their motto was, "Try again," and they tried day after day. I do not know much about the histories of armies, but I do not believe there was ever nil liriny like that of the allies In the Calllpoll campaign, and 1 do not think any other army could have done what they did. I take Off my hat to the British army and navy after that. It was hot I it than 1 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 ut nil. 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 An.aes' first campaign. They were wonderful boys, these Australians and New Zealanders. Croat big men, all of them, uud flmi built, and they fought like devils. It was hand-to-hand work half 'he time; w "I Saw H. M. S. Goliath Get It." hardly an.v Bleep, DO water, sometimes no food The) ihide a mark there at Callipoli that the world will have to go I nine lo heat. Our boys were on the Job, (on. We held our part of Hie works until the time came for everybody to Quit, and it was no picnic. The French should be very proud of the stork their navy dldfthere In tie Dardanelles. On our sixth trip 1 saw II. M. S. Colinth get It. She was struck three times (y torpedoes and then shelled. The men ware floundering around in the water, with shrapnel cutting the waves all around them, (nly a hundred hun-dred odd of her crew were saved. One day, off I'npe Helles, during our seventh trick at the I lardanelles, we sighted a sub periscope Just about dinner time The Prince (Jeorge and a destroyer sighted the sub at the same time, and the I'rlnce Oeorge let go two rounds before the periscope disappeared, dis-appeared, bill did not hit the murk. Transports, battleships end cruisers were thick around there, all ut anchor, und it eras g great place for a sub to be. In no time ut all the destroyers breezed out with their tails In the ulr, throwing u smoke screen around the larger ships. They hunted high nnd low, nil over the spot where she bad been sighted and all mound It, thinking to ram It or bring It to the H surface, so we could take a crack at It. All the rest of the fleet battle- M ships and transports weighed anchor at once and steamed ahead at full It was a great sight. Any new ship H coming up would have thought tlu H British and Frond navies had gone H crazy. We did not have any fixed H course, but were steaming as fust ns we could In circles and half circles, H and dashing madly from port to star- H board. We were not going to allow H Hint sub to get a straight shot at us, H but we almost raniuied otirsclvc J doing It. It was a case of chase-tail H for ship in the licet. H But the sub did not show Itself H again that day, and we anchored H again. That night, while the destroy- H ers were around the ships, we slipped our cables nnd patrolled the coast B nlong the Australian position ut Qabtt H Tepe, hut we did not anchor. H The following day the Albion went H ashore In the fog, south of Cuba Tope, H and as soon as the fog lifted the Turks H let loose and gave It to her hot. A H Turkish ship came up and, with any H kind of gunnery, could have raked her H fore and aft, but the Turks must H have been pretty shy of gun sense, U for they only got In one hit before H they were driven off by II. M. S. Can- H opus, which has muile such a flmt H record In this war. H Then the Catiopus pulled In close to H the Albion, got a wire hawser aboard, U and attempted to tow her out under H a heavy lire, but as soon ns she started H pulling, the cable snapped. The crew H of the Albion were ordered aft and H Jumped up on the quarter deck to H try and shift the bow off the hank. H At the same time the fore turret nnd H the fore six-Inch runs opened up u H hot fire on the Turkish positions to M lighter the ship nnd shift her by tho M concussions of the guns. For a long H time they could not budge her. Then M the Oonopna got unother hawser M aboard and, with guns going and the J crew Jumping ami the Caiiopus pulling, M the old Albion finally slid off and both M ships backed Into deep water with M little barm done to either. Then they WM returned to their old anchorages. H At Cape Holies every one was wide- H awake. We were all on the lookout U for subs and you could not find one H man napping. Anything at all passed M for a periscope tins, barrels, spars. H Dead horses generally flout In the H water with one foot sticking up, and M we gave the alarm many a time when U It was only some old nng mi his wuy to M Davy's locker. H On the Cassard the Old Man posted M u reward of BO francs for the first man U who sighted a periscope. This was a H good Idea, but believe me he would H have bad trouble making the uvvurd, U for every man on the sljp would be U sure to see It at the same time, Kuch H mini felt sure he would be the mull to H get the reward. The I l-poumlers were M loaded and ready for action on a sec- U mill's notice. But the reward was M never claimed. U During our eighth trick off Cape H Helles I was amidships in the galley M when I heard our two 14-poundcrs go M off almost at the same time. Kvery- H body ran for his station, doing up M tlie main deck to my turret u man (old M me It was a sub on the port bow, but H I only caught u glimpse of the little H whirlpool where her periscope sub- H merged. I do not know why she did PgH not let loose u torpedo ut us. Tho PH officers said she was trying to make M the entrance to the Durilaniiles and M came up blind uniting our ships und M was scared off by our guns, but I bbbbbI thought we hud Just escaped by tho M skin of our teeth. Later on our de- M stroyers claimed to have sighted her M off Ouhu Tepe. I At noon we were at mess when one IH of the boys yelled, "She's hit," und we M all rushed on deck. There wus the M British ship, Triumph, torpedoed uud M listing uw.i.v over to sturbourd. Sin B wus ready to turn over in a few urn, M utes. oim battleship Is not supiMised IH to go to the assistance of unother one M thut has been torpedoed, becuuse tho M chances are the sub is still III tho M neighborhood laying for the second M ship with another torpedo. But one M of the British trawlers went to tho IH assistance of the Triumph to pick up M We could see the crew Jumping into HB the water. Then we breezed out M toward the horizon, full speed ahead. All about the Triumph was u cloud of M Muck smoke, but when we looked M through the glass wc could see she wus H going down. Then our guns began to M bombard tin- Turkish positions and I BH had to get busy. When 1 saw tho klsSli Triumph again she was bottom up. sss! She must have limited npeldo down BH for ulmostlialf an hour, then she went HH down as though there was somebody H on tbeooottom pulling her. M When she went our Old Man banged H his telephone nn trio bridge rait ana H swore at the Huns and Turks and BH broko his telescope lens to bits. About ssssi fifty from the Triumph were lost. Hj It was decided that the place was M too hot for us with imit sub running H loose, and when they reported that H afternoon that she was making her M way south from Cahu Tepe to Oupo M Helles all of the tleet but the Majestic H got under way. and the Majestic wan Jsl the only ship left off the cape. gsSai They said the Majestic was then tho WM oldest of the ships In that cumpaign, SH but she was the pride of Un British jH fleet Just the same. She was torpedoed jSn off Cape Helles later on. when there BH were a number of men of-uui off tho BW cape, The sas wa- crowded with men Bm w limning and drowning. I saw a life- drl boat crow ileit with men and other men HR Iln the water banging onto bei anil Jv''' I there were so many bunging ou that K&i ( 1 o be ( oliliimed i &ft. |