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Albert RDep EX'GUNNER AND CHIEF PETTOFFICERr-UrSNAVY MEMBER OF THE FOREIGN CAPTAIN GUN TURRET, FRENCH BATTLESHIP CASSARD 1 . , WINNER OF THE CROIX DE GUERRE sCopyright 1913, by Reify and Britton Co. "Through SpecUl CHARTER XVII Continued. ! : 15 ;-' W- Also, by this time some of the men finri host their heads comnletelv ? in fnpf hud erone violent! v era zv. a nil the rest jof us were afraid of them. We were all thinking of the fight that might occur any moment between the Tarrpwdale and some other vessel and we knew .we were in the likeliest place for the vessel to be struck. Even though we were not hit amidships. If the slrip were sinking we did not think the dermans would give us a chance to escape. Ave figured from what they had jsaid that we would go down with the ship. And going down on a ship in which you are a prisoner is quite dif ferent from going down with one for which you have been fighting. You arrive ui iue same yiuue uut me ieei Ing is different. V SpW of us thought of overpowering the rev and taking the vessel into our own hands, and we got the rest of the: feane or nearly sane men together andltried to get up a scheme for doing it. j J was strong for" the plan and so were several others, but the Limey of ficer's who were with us advised against it. They said the Germans were taking us to a neutral country, where we wouia De interned, wnicn WitS5 just what the Germans had told us, put what few of us believed. Then some others said that if we started anything the' Germans would fire theNtime bombs. We replied that at ; least the Germans would go west "with us, but they could not see that there was any glory in that. Foil my self! I thought the Germans would not fire I the bombs until the last minute, and? that wefwould have a chance at the boats before they got all of us anyway. There were only thirteen Gerpan sailors on board, besides their commander. This last Hun was named Badewitz. ' x So the pacifists ruled, because we 'cauld not doanything unless we were all together, and there was no mutiny. They said we were hotheads, the rest ofj us, but I still think we could have made a dash for it and overpowered otirj sentries, and either gone over the siile with the lifeboats, or taken oyer the! whole ship. It would have been better for us if we had tried, and if the? nacifists had known what was coming to us they would have fired thej time bombs themselves rather than go on into that future. How ever, that is spilt milk. 7 jAe were not allowed to open, the portholes while we were In the bunk ers, under penalty of death, and there In fthe dark, In that stinking air,jt Is no I wonder many of us went crazy. Among us was a fellow named Har rington, about six feet tall and weigh ing 250 pounds.. He seemed to be all right mentally, but some of us thought af terwards he was crazy, Anyway, I do not blame him for what he did. Harrington rushed up the . fijdflley and opened the door. There was a German sentry there, and Har rington made a swing at him and then grabbed his bayonet. The sentry ye led and some others came, down ' from the bridge and shot Harrington ough the hand.' i- After they had . beaten Harrington pretty badly, the bull of the bunch, Badewitz himself, came over and hammered Harrington Bli, around the deck. ' Then they put him In irons and took him to the chart ropm. - pie next day we were sitting in the fiddley getting warm when the door opened and there was Badewitz. He yelled "Heraus!" and began firing at us with a revolver, so we beat it back onto the coal. Pretty soon the door opened again. But it was only a Ger man sentry. He threw down a note. It I was written in English and read, "Pick out; eirfit men for cooks." So we picked out eight men from the va rious vessels and they went on deck afid rigged up a galley aft. ; : " But; we did not receive any knives, forks, spoons or plates. The first meal we gt was nothing but macaro ni, piled up oh pieces of cardboard boxes. Then we appointed four men to serve the macaroni, ' and they got four I nippba nf wnnrti th cleanest we could find, which was not very clean at thaV and they dug around ; in ; the macaroni and divided it up and put it in our hands. 'We had to eat it after that from our grimy fingers. Those who were-helped first had to go farthest back on the coal to eat it, - and those: who were helped last -got less," I because the dividers. got more careful .toward 1 the end and gave smaller portions. ; ' ' . But we did not get" macaroni" very longjl A- cook from the Voltaire, was cleaning a copper dixie that the mac aroni' had been, cooked in, and he was holding it ovW the side when theses seI polled heavily and dropped the diie into' the briny.-- A sentry:wbo aw rhiK 4rop;it forced Mm up to LEGIQN OF. FRANCE Arrangemeni Wkh the George Matthew Adams Scrvic Badewitz, who began mauling bim be fore the sentry even had told his story. After a, while Badewitz quit pounding the cook, and listened to the sentry. Then Badewitz said the cook had put a note in the dixie before he dropped it, so they beat him up again and put him inlrohs. After that they sent the rest of the cooks back, and would not let them on deck again. They, had plenty of canned goods and Meat aboard, but they would not give us any. Five of the men were buried at sea that day. More men were going mad every minute, and it was a terrible place; pitch dark, grimy, loose coal underfoot, coal-dusty air to breathe, body-filth everywhere. Some of the crazy men howled like dogs. But we were not as much" afraid of these as we were of the others who kept still, but slipped around In the dark with lumps of coal in their hands. We got so we would not go near each other for fear we were running into a crazy man. Those of us who were sane collected as near the fiddley as we could, and we would not let the others get near us, but shoved them back or shied lumps of coal at them. And every once in a while some one of us would begin to act queer. May be he would let . out a howl suddenly, without any warning. Or he would just quit talking and begin to sneak around. Or he would squat down and begin to mumble. We could not tell just when a man had begun to lose his mind. He would seem just like the rest of us, because none of us was much better than a beast. We could not take turns sleeping and standing watch against the crazy men, because when we talked about it, we agreed that none of us could tell whether or not the sentries would go crazy while on watch and have the rest of us at their mercy. It was aw ful to talk about going crazy in this way,' and to figure that you yourself might be' the next, and that It was al most sure to happen If you did not get some sleep soon. But it was worse to find a man near you going, and have to boot him out with the other insane men. The days passed like that, with nothing to do but suffer, and starve and freeze. It got colder and colder, and all we could wrap ourselves in was the coal. We began to speculate on where we were. It was not till later than an old skipper in our bunch told us that we had rounded the north ern coast of Iceland. Finally, one .'day, a lad yelled down "Land!" and we all dove for the fid dley like wild men, and those who could get near enough looked out, and sure enough! there was the coast of Norway, very rugged and rocky and covered with snow. We thought it was all over then,, and that we would be landed at Bergen sure. Then there was the usual running around and yelling on deck, and we were not so sure we would be landed, and very suddenly it got colder than ever. a was in the fiddley, aching to get out, and ready for anything that might happen, when the door opened None of Us Was Much Better Than a Beast. , ' suddenly and Badewitz grabbed me, and tasked me in English if 1 was a quartermaster. I said yes, and he pulled me by the arm to a cabin. ,did not know what was going to hap pen, but he took an oilskin from the wall and told me to put 4t on. w There were two sailors there also. and they put? lif belts os, and then I was more puzzled than ever, and scared, too, because I thought maybe , they were going to! throw me over board, though what that had to do TP" with oelng a ouartermast could not see But they drilled me up onto the bridge and told me Jo take the wheel. What their idea ' was I do not know. Possibly they- wanted a noncombatant at the . wheel in case they were over hauled; by a neutral Vessel. We were going full speed; at .the time,r "but as soon as I took the wheel she cut down to half speed, and stayed that way for half an hour. , Then: up to full speed again Pretty soon there was a tramp steamer on the starboard bow, and al most before I saw it, there were two more sentries' oh each side of me. prodding me with their revolvers and warning me to :eep on the course. They had civilian clothes on. Then we went through the Skager Rack and Cattegat, which are narrow strips of water leading to the Baltic, an4 we were only a mile from, shore with vessels all about us. It would have been an easy thing for me to signal what our ship was and who were aboard, but they had six sentries on my neck all the time to keep me from it, I never wanted to do any thing worse in my life than jump overboard or signal. But I would have been shot down before I had more than started to do either, so I just stayed with the wheel. We were nearing one of the Dan ish islands in the Baltic when we sighted a tug. She began to smoke up and blow her siren. The sailors got very excited and ran around in crazy style, and Badewitz began shouting more orders than they could get away with. The sentries left me and ran with the rest of the Fritzies to the boat deck and started to lower one of the lifeboats. But Badewitz was right on their heels and kicked the whole bunch around in great shape, roaring like a bull all the time. I left the wheel and ran to the end of the bridge, to jump overboard. But the minute I let go of the wheel the vessel fell off Of the course, and they noticed it, and Badewitz sent five of them up on the bridge and three others to the side with their revolvers te shoot me if I should reach the wa ter. I think if I had had any rope to lash the wheel with I could have got away and they would not have known it When the five sailors reached the bridge one of them jumped for the j cord and gave our siren five long blasts in answer to the tug. The tug was about to launch a torpedo, and we whistled just in time. One of our men was looking from the fiddley, and he saw the Huns making for the life boats, so he got two or three others and they all yelled together, "Don't let them get away!" thinking that they would get the oat over and leave the ship, and trying to yell loud enough for the tug to hear them. Badewitz took this man and two or three others, whether they, were the dies who yelled or not, and beat them up and put them in irons, t thought there was going to be a mutiny aboard, but it did not come off, and I am not sure what the Huns were so excited about. The other four sailors who came up on the bridge did not touch me, but just kept, me covered with their re volvers. That was the way with them they would not touch us unless Badewitz was there or they had bayo nets. The old bull himself came up on the bridge after he had beaten up a few men, threw me around quite a bit and kicked me down from the bridge and slammed me into the coal bunkers. I felt pretty sore, asyou can . imagine, and disappointed and pretty low generally. After a while we heard the anchor chains rattling through on their way to get wet, and we pulled up. Then every German ship In the Baltic came up to look us over, I guess. They opened up the hatch covers, and the Hun garbles and gold-stripes came aboard and looked down at us, and spit all they could on us, and called us all the different kinds of swine in creation. They hd them lined up and filing past the hatchways all of them giving us the once over in turn. Maybe they sold tickets for this show it would be like the Huns. At first we were milling around try ing to get out from under the hatch openings and the shower of spit, but some Limey officer sang out, "Brit ishers all! Don't give way!" and we stood still and let them spit their damned German lungs out before we would move for' them, and some Cor nishmen began singing., their song about Trelawney. So we made out that we did not know such a thing as a German ever lived. We got better acquainted with Ger man spitting later on, and believe me, they are great little spitters, not much on distance or accuracy, but quick in action and well supplied with ammu nition. Spitting on prisoners is the favorite indoor and outdoor sport for Germans, men and women alike. When the show was over, they rousted us up oh deck and put us to work throwing the salt pork and can ned goods into two German mine-layers. While we were at it, a Danish patrol boat came out and tied along side us, and some of her officers came aboard and saw us. They knew we were )?risoners-of-war, and they knew that a vessel carrying , prisoners-of-war must not remain in neutral wa ters for over twenty-four hours, but they did not say anything about it. That night two men named Barney Hill and Joyce, the latter a gunner from the Mount Temple, sneaked up on deck and aft to the poop deck. There was a pair of wooden stairs leading to the top f the'poop deck, and Joyce and Hill lifted It and got it over the side with a rope to it The two of them got down into the water all right but Joyce let. out a yell be cause the water was so cold, and XJerman patrol boat heard Mm and flashed a searchlight They, picket ur Joyce right . aay, v but Barney" was making.'good headway and vas almost free when they dragged him in. They beat them up on the patrol boat and when they put them back, on the larrowdale .Badewitz beat them up some, more and put. them in Irons Then he began to shoot at their feet, with his revolver, and he had a sailor tand by to hand him another revol ver qwhen th first one was empty. Then he would gash their faces with the barrel of the revolver and shout "I'm . Badewitz. .I'm the man who fooled the English," "and shoot at them some more. , .till the while the sailors were cele brating, drinking and eating, and yell Ing, as usual, and the whistles on all the German ships were blowing, and they were having a great f est After about thirty hours we left, being es corted by a mine-layer and a mine sweeper, I asked a German garby if that was the whole German navy, and he looked surprised and did not know I was kidding him, and said no. Then I said, "Ho the English got all the lest, did they?" and he handed me one in the mouth with his bayonet hilt, so I quit kidding him. " We saw rows and rows of mints, and the German sailors pointed out what they said were H. M. SS. Lion and Nomad, but I do not know wheth- A Cup of Water for Our New Year Dinner. I er they wereHCiil same ones that were a number of parts of counties have In the Jutlandbattle or not. Finally just been released from federal ;quar we landed at Swinemunde just as the antine against the cattle fever tick, bells were ringing .the old year out according to officials of the bureau of and the new year in. We were a fine animal industry, who have received re bunch of blackbirds to hand the kaiser ports from ten Southern states In for a New Year's present, believe mo. I They mustered us up on deck, and each of us' got a cup of water for out New Year's spree. Then we saw w were In for it, and all hope gone, tot we were glad to be released from our hole, because we had been prisoner since December 10 three days on the Moewe and eighteen on the Yarrow dale and the coal was not any softer than when we first sat on it So we began singing, "Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, boys, smile. What's the use of weary ing? It's never -worth while," and so f,orth. They made us shut up, but not before we asked ourselves if we were downhearted, and everybody ytdled No!?' And that Is how we , gave our re-i gards to Swinemunde. CHAPTER XVIII. "Pack Up Your Troubles." We arrived at Swinemunde. on the east bank, and after we had had our drink of water and had been rousted back intothe bunkers, Badewitz went across to the west side in a launch with Joyce and Hill and a guard of ; sailors. They were to be shot the next morning, with some others, at a j i public shooting-f est. The rest of ua j wrapped ourselves in lumps of coal as best we could and tried to sleep. In the morning crowds of Germans came aboard us and were turned loose on the boxes in the hold. It was a sight to see them rip off the covers and gobble the salami and oth er stuff that we carried. Table man ners are not needed when there is nc table; I guess, but if you had seen them, you would say these Germans did not even have trough manners. I have seen) hogs that were more fin icky. While they were at It, hand to hand with the chow, giving and receiving terrible Juhishment, we prisoners were mustered on deck, counted, kicked onto tugs and transferred to the west bank, where the mob was waiting for us. My wounds, as you can imagine, " were in a pretty bad state by this time, and were getting more painful every minute, so that I found I was getting ugly and anxious for an argument I knew that if I stayed this way I would probably never come out alive, for there is every chance you. could want to pick a quarrel while you are a prisoner that will mean freedom for you but only the freedom of going west, which I wafs not anxious to try. Wh n we got near the nest bank, on the tugs, we could see that we were up against a battle with our arms tied. Over half the crowd was women and children, I should say, and the rest were laborers and old civvies, and re serve soldiers, and roughnecks gen erally. We 'could see the spit expert the spit; snipers, deployed to the front almost 5 (TO BE CONTINUED.) ; Fully . nine-tenths jot would vanish If we did"' MINERAL MATTER FOR SWINE Mixture of Charcoal, Salt, Ashes, Sul u phur and Copperas Will Tend to Prevent Worms. 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