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ALBERT N. DEPEW , /7 ■ -7—7- S. . .7 Ex-Gunner and Chief Petty Officer, U. 5. Wavy Member of the Foreign Legion of France Captain Gun Turret, French Battleship Cassard Winner* of the Croix de Guerre s V * Copyright, 1tW>, by RHlty,*n<1 Britton Co.,Through Special Arrangement With the Cl<*ortr«Cjfatttaew Service Inn in mill iWoSfor’Th* P „r»de, tor,.u aip and (Wiionabie a„ PP ,-r S m. by m The word ^Anzttc," as you probably fripperies. ~And ? then again at kno<v, inr made from the.initials of the. j }" street is the scene of the final Australian and New' Zealand army flaunting of flamboyant furbelows. DEPEW FINDS HIS PAL, MURRAY, HAS BEEN MADE A VIC TIM OF HUN FRIGHTFULNESl . 7.;' ■“ ^ Synopsis.—Albert N. Depow, author jof the story, tells of his service in the United States navy, during which he attained the rftnk^of chief petty officer,ff'rst-t'ltrss gnnner. The wotfd War sturts soon after in* receives his fionorable discharge frota the navy, and lie leaves for France with a determination to enlist. .He-Joins the Foreign Legion and Is assigned to the dreadnought (’assard, whore ids , inarkiiianshtpwins him high .honors. Later lie is.trausierred to the land forces and sent An the Flanders front. He gets hjs first experience in a front line trench at Dlxmude. He goes “over tip* fop” and gets Ids first Herman in a bayonet tight. While on runner service, Hep* w is caught. in a Zejqidin raid and lias an exciting experience. In fierce fight with the’f by mans he is wound(Ml\and sent to a hospital. After recovering he- is ordered hack to sea duty and sails on the (’assard for the ItnrduneTTes. Then* he sees the wonderful work of the British und French in the Gallipoli campaign. . . d . volunteers for trench dirty, f was not very keen about going, because I had been iii trenches at 1 Mxnfude, and I know how plowed; they were—not, but I volunteered,jand so "did Murray, We went ashore in,our boats under a heavy tire. There were- 12 nmtt killed* in tiie lifeboat in which I was. I es caped withoVit a scratch. /' / We w en* mustered up on shore and voIuiitei-rs^Avere called for," for sentry duty. Murray volunteer^. If he had only gone on with tin 1 rest of us lie —— . 1 1 . , , » E Ilf ASH I NGTON.—War does ririt prevent feminine Washington £ fl eriading F street every afternoon. F street is a particularly ’ s»i \ corps. They had a regular town, called 1 Aristae, on the peninsula. At Suvlit brfy and around Curia Tepe the Anzacs j g<*t 'further into tfte Turkish lines than any other , unit in the -allied armies. 7hey were wonderful fighters. By tills time tin* Turks were mating an attack, and all you could see to the front was one long line of smolp- and spouting earth. Then our guns- started and the noise was deafening. might "have come Through.' After a short, watLgiCVA given tlm. order 'iu«j j, WH *. Vh^*tr (board ship, durin CHAPTER XI—Continued. —10— During our eighth trick off Cape Ilelles I was amidships in the galley when I heard our two 14-pounders go oft almost at tile samo' nme. I*very body ran .for his station. Going up tiie main deck to my turret a man told life TT 'Wiis fi sUb on the port how, hilt I only caught a glimpse of the little whirlpool where her periscope sub merged. I do not know vvhy ,she did not let loose a torpedo ’at us. The officers said * she was trying to make tin* entrance to the Dardanelles haul enrfie up Mind among mir -ships ami was scared off by our guns, bub I tho'ught we had just escaped bf the skin of our teeth. Later on our de stroyers claimed to have sighted her off Gaba Tepe. At noon we were at mess when rino of the hoys yelled, "She’s hit." and we all rushed on dock. There was tin* British ship, Triumph, torpedoed and listing away over to starboards Sin* was ready to turn over in a few min utes. One battleship is not supposed to go to the assistance of another one that has been torpedoed, because the chances are - the sub Is st|ll in thj; neighborhood laying for tin* second ship with another torpedo. Hut one of the British trawlers went to the assistance of the Triumph to pick qp the crew. ; We could see the crew Jumping Into the water. Then we hf-ecsed out toward the horizon, full speed ahead. All about the Triumph was a cloud of black smoke, hut when we looked through the glass we could see she way going down. Then our guns liegnjvTo i bombard the had to get busy Triumph again she was bottom N up. She must have floated upside down for almost half an hour, then she went down as though tty*re was souichody on.the bottom pulling her. When she went our Old Man banged Ills telephone on tiie bridge rail and swore^at - the Huns and Turks and calm arid.enof and started-talking right advance, .The' firing, became heavier about this time, so - we went at the double. We had not got very far be fore we bad a fine little surprise party handed us. ’I lie front line was * running-over what appeared to be good, solid ground, when they broke through ami fell into trenches .’10 to 40 an engagement. My head rang for days after we left the Dardanelles. Tim Turks were getting a better idea of our range now and the shells were falling pretty close to us, but .finally we tore in with the 14-inch navals and Tipped up three of their batteries. Washington, is famed for the beau ty, for t,he dash, for the chic of its women, And justly so/;Too. JTlicre ure of course, many more pretty girls on Broadway or Fifth avenue in un- hour than there are on F street in a day., but. with all .respect to New York city, it must lie admitted that tiie love ly women* of Washington give an im pression of crittwe, of breeding, of The high manners and tine customs of another day, that is nbt obtained along the, in Thn "tHrrefs--^MPd aul.white._wayi„ —-- . 7 •>>■■7. ^——- The sun is hot in. tiie afternoon and the- frocks are thin.^ind if one strolls toward tiie sun the view resembles tin* back paces' of the magazines. Here ami there on'a street currier is a pretty group. Often in the center of it is ■ / vV- away aTrinit what ship they probably be assigned to nexg, would CHAPTER Xll. A Pal Crucified. ... .aru.*-.gui. la. "V" IXeaiJi-. on .gay next trip tiie weather -was really flue, but it did not please us much, for as tH ra tige tell into trenches 30 to 40 feet deep. , , n the lull that followed we made good of horse power. The women s : I bes,. trenchekluid been dug. covered timeifind reached'o,ur front line posi- uniform* most-of themTinilmlam o M r with >4dip'll boards find then tlons qt Sedd-el-Bulir during the after- ^iiib(4. They work from early w.ith dirt, and were regular man traps. Sharp stakes were sticking out of tin* parapet and parados, him! at tiie bot tom -w ere,. nio.re stakes and rocks and barbed- wire. -Wo uerv ridvom-ing with bayottejs fl^ed and arms at tiie carry, so whin first linT* foil, and si me of tiie fit Sedd-el-Bulir during nooh. , ( The next morning we made, our first attack. I hrtd had a bad night of it. Thinking about-Murray, and when,the a French or a Serb or an Italian officer, VUfid in his uniform, a spot of rich color in a circumfluent band of. admiring ladies w ho shimmer about liini and bend a‘nd sway much in tin* manner, of goldfish dodging about their ruined castle in a globe. • . . ‘| And the saluting that goes on must represent untold useless expenditure salute, too, for "there are scores .of them in e' drivers. Nor is their uniform an empty morning until late at night; most of them-—' give their own cars ami buy their own; gas and (ITT; 'and'their labors are not less arduous than those of a masculine ainbulanee driver. Ami fio more romantic, either. Tiny carry one end of a stretcher that bears very fre quently a dying person to the waiting car. r soon ns we got in range the enemy | s.Vond. the boys of the third line canid butteries opened up on us and the-; miming up, and in the scramble that shell fire was heavier than any we followed ‘ many of the chaps in the had been in before, though nut more' tfi-sj f,»\v linns were liayom-tcd by their effective.- We drew' In < ( n u bright . omiVuh s. I was in tfic third line, but morning, about half past five or six, I was lucky etionirh to:pt»ii -up in time,., with our convoy, the troopship/> bum- Jami'did not full In. You could rn^t look pagne, ahead of us and going slowly, down into fhut trench after yoti had sounding all the way. k . seen it once, it w as too siekeujrfg At thljs^pitrf-of the shore there Is a Our casualties were sent back.to the dock about a mile and a half long, ' ship. One boat was sunk b^ a sTiell running back into the country and and all thej men losL- . 7 termiriating in a road. Tin* (’ham- We remained ^yhero we were, pagne was makinj'^for tills dock, scratching out ^shallow trenches for sounding as she went. Suddenly, when ourselves, finding what natural cover sin* was within 50(| yards’of tin* shore, j there was-hrid otherwise getting ready 7 saw her -swing around and steer In for the night, which was near.- It a crazy fashion. We began- asking began to rain and we could hardly each other what was tiie matter with keep any fires going, because we had her, but we learned afterwards that to shelter them from the shore side, so her rudder had been torn .off, though we never found out how, n<»r do 1 thiuk anyone ever knew. Then she went aground, with her stern toward tiie shore and listed over to port. You could see different arti cles rolling out and dow;n the side. Then her/back broke. The quarter deck was crowded with men half dressed, with life belts on, jumping <*vrr J the\sble or climbing down. There was an explosion and a cloud of black for a while Turkish jrosltlons and l 1 usy. I <» II..- ' ' ""'k-ht blintot. and Turks broke his telescope lens to bits. About fifty from tin* Triumph were lost-, If was decided that the place was too hot for us with that sub .running loose, and when they reported that afternoon that she was making her way south from Gaba Tepe to (’ape ; Hellos all of the fleet but the Majestic got under’way, and the Majestic was the only ship left off the cape. They said tin* Majestic was then the oldest of the ships In that campaign, but slie was the. pride of.'the British! fleet Just-the same. She w as torpedoed off Cape Helles later on, when there were a number of i.ien-'of-war off the cape. The see-was crowded with men swimming and drowning. I saw a life boat crowded with- men and other men in the water banging', onto her. and there were so many hanging on that they started to 'pull lie,- under. Of' their own accord the men fcn the water let go to save those in the boat. Most of them were drowned. Tin- Majestic listed so..tbat the men could not stand on deck, aruT tfie'sidos were covered with- men Jmngjng on to ropes and - not knowing’ whet her to jump into the,sea or not. \V? low ered all our lifeboats and steam launches, and so did the other shipsi We picked up a number of the crew and were pretty close to the Majestic when she went down like a rock.’As she went down- she turned over and a gurby run along her side to the ram at her how and got on it without even being wei. A boat picked htm up off the ram, which stuck out, of the water uftcr the ship had <TWSe<i to’settle... She had torpedo i/ets on her sitb-s^ to All the time the shells were raining in on .us and on the Champagne. When I could see again I saw the men on the Champagne climbing tytwn the starboard or short* side. One chap was going down hand over hand along a stanchion. when_anotlier fellow above him let go and slid right down on. him. Tin* first man fell about- thirty feet, landing in tin* water with his neck doubled under him. Pqr lifeboats and launches were out^ picking up sur vivors. • Those who got safe'.y over the side stnrtetjrftu swim ashore, but when they had gone only a little way, they found they could wade in. When the water was only up to their waists theyenme upon barbed wire entanglements and not a man got ashore that way hut was scratched and clawed mid man tle* enemy could not spot us. and th*r w ind was from the sea. It was certain- Jfiy miserable that night. Evbry once in a while we would stand hy to repel an attack, whether It was a real one or not. and we were; under fire all the time. It seemed as if morning would ue„ver come. The sand was full of fleas—great big boys —and they wore as had as any cooties. I had ever laid at Dixmude. j Tiie morning came at last, and I was detailed**' with a fatigue party tq the beach where we had landed stores. When we got down to the docks I. missed Murray and asked where he was. They-said he had been missing from his post not more than an hour from the time we'left. * I left my fatigue party, without orders, and 1 joined in the hunt for MurFay. There were men searching till along the docks and on the shore to each side. Finally I saw a bunch of 'men collect around a storehouse at the farther end of the docks on the shore side. I run up to them. Ach/ Baba Bill Y-Beach He Had Been Crucified. time came there never was a chap more glad to charge and get a chance at the eriemy with the buyonet .than I was. We attacked according to a program. Time cards were issued to the officer of each section, so that we would work exactly with the barrage. To be ahead of, or. bbkjnd the time card, would mban walkirig^ into our own barrage^ The time of attack is called zero— that is, tie* minute, when yoi^ leave the trench. Some of the x An/.:rcs said it meant when your feet’goT the coldest, but I do noL think they suffered very much with trouble in the fedb—not when they were advancing,. anyway. Tin-re was p oor old Murray. Th ,.^'Tl>.'<i'"e card .aialit.read were. just taking him down. lie had 1 , '' ., , lrs ” ,l Y'j uin, , ‘’ I a cruelfled against the wall of the '""T" 8 ',' f,“ "* r™”'*- . L . .. 1 take first trench, 0:20; second wave, storehouse. There waits a bayonet; . ’ , ’ through en--h nnn. one through each ' S,I . I 1 I ," J * s " ■ rs ■ l-ass nst trench, foot and one through his Momarh. Me s< ’ e< > 1 "’ lreach^.0:3;». The One of the garbies fainted when he Verbal Slip, but It Spoiled Romance . . t . . * HILE n-tandering, a solitary reaper, across lots.over the vast and verdant ellipse that.fills up the geography between the Monument and the back view of tla White House, T ny.S12.-">d white-pointed toe, redriceij from Sl > — .. because it was a Friday• bargain, chine *|in <*ontaet with a square stone marker embedded deep }ri the gras< beating _this sitnple and pathetic- in>eription, "U, S. Meridian, issf." I ‘she'd a fe>v silent tears. 1 These* inemorial ston**s lire stt-sad. -*H\ S. Mc-rldiau, 1HS4”—so sjniple and eloquent ! TloYi lifting my Streaming eyes, I observed .as a yrcpv tlies from that mortuary (ablet In the ellipse where tlo* tank Britannia was woyt to gambol some frionths ag«». straight through the smith <!<>«*r of the executive mansion and out -through the north door, across Lafayette Park and out Sixteenth street It would find it> last roosting place linearly on tin* top of "Meridian hill," in a direct line w ith that w istful little overgrow n tablet. I had always thought before..-that, a nafCitliah'. *as a" vague and abstract thing like an equator or a. horizon. I never realized before that you c-nuld stump your toe against cyne. Did you? And speaking of as tiie crow flies, it was this amiable typewriter*!* proud privilege recently to go snooping down F street oh the heels of a dapper* young first lieutenant und the new girl upon whom lie was obviously'desirous of making an impression before he started off kaiser chasing. Tin* sweet young tiring asked her soldier Hie exact distance between r two certain towns. “Just fifty miles,” replied,”* the lieutenant with precision and dignity, “that- is, as the fly crows.” And the foolish girl giggled and spoiled all the atmosphere. ‘That official will never propose now. You know, youmielf, Geraldine, how hard it is to get a man, soldier or civilian, up to the scratch again once he’s side-tracked. Here Is Trip Visitor To Capital Must Not Miss I / CAN'T iff THAT vfiOCK CREEK PARK IS SO FINE — IT IOT5 on MY iSO* 'l-Bahf el-dahr ‘c4 O third wave is ordered to take the third trench, and so on^for as many lines ns tin* enemy is entrenched., The other waves might be* Instructed to occupy Hill■ 7, 12:US, oi\ dig in behind rock 12:15. Here, zero is understood, the* I do not know just what T (lid after standing.for minutes ami its. ’But it changed me all around | f « r s »*vondsr-dfn.igM take ! several hours to carry out the pro gram, but everything is. laid out to find to pull one of the bayonets out. They had hfieked off his right hand at the wtist and taken his identifica- tlon^dfsc. I lay this to the German officers more than the Turk£. first line* Torliisli trench. -As we came out our barragb (ire* would he' bursts jng 50p.vaid.s ahead of "us and would lift 25 yards every JO seconds. Our • stunt was to take udvi.yU’.ge of it without walking into it.* ■ Where the 60LIATH was wrecked & Where the MAJESTIC was wrecked. © Where the CAS SARD engaged the n VHSRFT and th* KAISERLlCHE MARINE, and iimnj of .the crew were unabb* to ^led horribly. Some «f. them that 1 get cletii ii. tin nets and went down i saw afterwards were just *hred<led with her. Quite a, lot were caught below decks and had along the sides of their bodies like no possible j coconvts,.’ A great many of them, chance to escape. There was-it. big though, were killed by shrapnel while explosion as. she went under-ivobuhjy they were in the water. the boilers bursting, Thousands.of troops getshore, juxthr thousands of sailors on^tbw ships, saw the final plunge, and It.wa^t a sight to remem ber. When the ship started to go, the Old Man rushed back to his cabin, got tl)e sfgipil hook and destroyed it. Also, he saved the lives of two of his W# gave dry clothes and brandy and co the Limeys we rescued, and though they had just come through On boa^d the (’assard .our guns had. been busy.ali the-time, and it wus n'oi long before -we put, one enemy but tery out ^f commission. We had suf fered af bit, too, but- not enough to worry us. There were about 3,000 men On the. Champagne, I think, and at least a third were killed or - drowned, and the casualties musfi have been almost two-thirds. The ship was Just a mass of wreckage. They called for a landing party trout I hi and I w^is not like my usual self dur ing thq rest, of the time. . ---T-t-wns-■■sttit raining when staffed j Hn «<’hedule.-- ori our way to the front • line. -Along! ^ was * n fhe sixth line of the third the road were nurnbers of troops' %vu 'o of attack arid zero was 4:30 scoffing -find among them Indian troops a - In - ^ liisties were to be the signal on S'-utry iliit-y. TTiTT looked like a I for ZPr ° and we were.to .walk to' the bum h ,of frozen turnips,- crdT and un- (•oinfortaole. We Were close- enoug]i_t<» make tin* roar of the - cannonading seem intolerably Iou4 -aml,-could .^'e the bursting shells, particularly those fro i the British ships. . Then we.eatm- across some -Turkish prisoners- wjio were shelt< ring in. an *qbl barn. I guess it was,. and we, stopped for shelter and rest.* They told mi that their troops were very tired 44wKAobg lighting, tuft that they hiid I>lei11v of.mbn. They said it .counle of siieljH—}md ' M^iipped about a hun dred yards fromffkri barn just before v^e came, so we knl'Hw the baft* ri* s wbco trying to' got oae7>nge-s ( mi vui u...l._ did rlHt stay any longer,^Nait went away froHi there and on -our iTad. •Vbdut fiUti'ygirds farther on *w.e ehme 1 Harry to ruins, and whrin we went insidi * we fount] 50 or 00 of our b’oys cotniiug and’sleeping and not frying a thought to the shfrls or shrapnel, q’ln' mules outside were banging away uTffhe hav, as though there never had' been F OPPORTUNITY presents itself, cspq«-ially if you are a -newcomer to tin national capital, take a little bike through the beautiful park on the north west cornef of’tile city and become acquainted with -some of tin* prettiest scenery you can find anywhere. Even tHe entrances to the park are tilings of beauty. They are numerous and wide spread, and residents of any section of the city will nml-an .easy way to get into the park. Especially is this true of tiie zoo, which presents, in addiOn to its treys rolling hills and streams, a con- gregittipn of anjmals as Interesting as any to In* found. Fafrffliaf entrances to tlw* Zoological park are four In num ber. First of ad, there is the Adams mill road entrance, down-which, every sunshiny Sunday nfterrfonn. stream hundreds of people* yK>m all sections of fhe city. This entrance leads down the stone steps, arid affords perhaps the'iiiosf piemresqm* (jriorway to tlimzoo. The Connecticut avenue, entrance is perhaps the most: pleasant way of nil for those who are not fond of walking, and admits one at once into the, park. But there is yet another wajF-of getting juto tiie park, r and with the initiated'the favoVite. ' ,* \ ' y i - v \Valk m-ross the Calvert streeL r tTrtdge / untiL you come to the west end. Turn directljKto your, rigiif, and tli*'rl*. nj/fhe side of- tiie bridge, yotmw4l4'*seo styps leading downward. Follow ■ihc&aCduXvn.’.jaul-jdown »fH|-dttwn. Then you wit! rmne to’ a plrtH* •whcre-'-yfH^'httveft’-tr-t-htA-KHghjeKt-hleft- • whi<’li-w-«y to go,— Don’t: Strike down the-rond to/the left and you suddenly will come out tit the ford. Then* before you will be the creek rushing over th> x roeks, rocks oyer have erossoTTthe “crick”.these- many (jceTidos. I remember when I.used to hop from, rock to stone to stout*. Either tiie stones have been washed away, or somethingN^or I wouldn’t care to try the passage now! - . Y Soon you come to a-bridge, pass tjtf Jwskal on gear and before you know It are rigjit with tiie animals, the bears being juH.above your head. , Depew goes over the top in an attack on'the Turkish trenches and has some close calls before he gets back to his own Jines/ Didn’t miss reading about it in th£ next installment. . ■ 5 - 5 • v ■ ... • ; \ • Considerable Amusement in Store for Registrars X J CST because a thing is .serious is no reason w hy one shouldn’t SL*e the-funny sidiyi'f i't is there. When you,think of a Hun you ,think of a biped that rou thii never smil(*s or laughs ixo’ be Continued.) City. Dweller and the Tin Can. Herb is an :i stonisiii11g fnct." \vr 11cs 1 . 8. Stabibr "TiT Evbryl were 1 the ftwsard. .od omcer. ^ ^ ^ Staid *vr "Til. Every bod y’s, “which the-proper authorities will veri- ifovDir you; ' - ■ ^Tki^ry per cent of the business of (lie whfd**snie grocers of the entire country is ip canned goods. In the wholesale hou-seB of New York»*jChi- ii?th»* world. There,vyiis no shell inadeTcage, I’hiladelphla and other large cit- that could budge them away * from 'hts, foods make up 40 per cent of the that hay unless it hit them. business. Then along oame a cart making a "The fact is that, If you were to lot of racket. Oue of the fellows in It | tnkjTthe .tin-cans out of any city of had half of his face, shot away and the -fir*t or-second class, -tho inhabL- Vkas bandaged up, blit he was try- J tants would begin to starve’simost at ing to sing and laugh Just the .same;-once. That meads, of course} that as the rest were doing. They were -those cities could not have grown w'T But you can’t find ou^ until the day—and in some cases you are going iilv nhnt nn I inrtro wiriEmt .k . -4 have a tiard time even t-hon! - When you think of the Aim'riain soldier you think of a Smiling man. When tffat big regis tration conies off the registrars throughout the country are going to see and hear amusing things gnlrire, if tlu*y keep fheir eyes and ears ^pen, which I expect they will do. Atrpitdy cfrfzehsf not Teglstered the draft, are.’beginning to manifest reluctance; here and there, at giving out information as. to wliether or not they will have to register. * • -,- This thirig iiits the age-shy ones both ways. Sappo'si*' you are fifty- fears old. say, and pride yourself on looking young: ^omebody^comes up and says; “Say, Bill, will-you have to register?” ' That sounds like an easy question to answer, arid so i>1a; but {f you answer it flatly, then that 5 fellow, knows you are not fo;.ty-siY years old. Tiutu. again, ff ^ou have to register, and are trying -to mako folks believe you are old In w isdom, you show yourself up when you admit it. " ’ — ’ Members of. Ibcal .boards throughout the nation will register themselves to the draft if they-come, within the age. limit, and it is probable that the great majority of the 5,000 board members will register.