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u • BARNWELL SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA Coats fo Ex-Gunner and Chief Petty Officer, U. S. Navy Member of the Foreign Legion of France Captain Gun Turret, French Battleship Cassard \Winner of the Croix de Guerre Copyplp^t. 1918, by Reilly and Britton Co., Through Bp**«lal Arran^Pinrnt WfttKh** George Matthew Adams Service '* > "CHAPTER XIV—Continued. -134- * - ; 'When I looked around I miav tfiat our roiVi position wa>y'to the right of where theNurtiliery was, and 1 lint there were three lines of treii'lies with French infantry in theiii. So the trenches I lmd eothe from'-weremore like outposts 'than hnykhing else, and were.put off. 1 felt pretty sure, then, that the bovs in them would never . ^ —— ■■ * 1- come hark IinVeTTrrecatise as fioon as their fire t let up the Turks would ad vance. and to keep them.hack our guh>- would have to wipe jOHt^our men. and if they did not, the‘Turks would. At first L was triad. I had ( .;a, hut then I remembered. what ttiediriiiiery oliieer had said and I figured l/would have to go Faetf find ,s*tay. with lircm orArine them hack. Either wa\ there was not one chance mi a hundred that any of us would make. it. Because when I got thmughlt was really , just a miracle and nobody would have, thought it could happen. . r . Then tlie officer-told me to. go back do not,)believe I -came to, singing, he- V'auseii" neyet* Rang '“Sweet Adetine!'- before, that I know ( of, or any other snftjfj when u'nybbdy was in rujipe. Hut I heard it' Ibis of times, so maybe I did sing -it at that. - ...... TheVi I , wejbt to .sleep feeling fine. The next -momi-ng the detachment from the Cassard was withdrawn, and I saw some of the ifien -w ho had heen- In the two trenches, but I was not near enough to speak to them, So I do hot know how they pot out. a ‘ You never saw a happier hunch in yY»ur lift; than we were When wi*-.piled iritoHhe lifeboats and started for the Cassard^ The old .ship looked pretty other one. I pot outside tlie fi door and across the deck, got the essary parts and was coming with thetnewlicn I received two chine-gun bullets in tiie rfpht t One Went clear through bone :yj| and drilled a hob* on the other whitest |)e other came within an of»pojnp through. The peculiar t fs that these, twit were in n line a tenant Hufhey. -. Ur pinned an Ameri can Hag on rriy breast, a French flap bepeath It and beneath that the war cross, lie kissed me on both cheeks, of course, which was taking hdvantage of a cripple. Hut it is.the usjtal tlyiig with tin* French, as you know— till* kissing, uoi the no anuess to cripples. • r When lie had pinned the ihctlwl on be “said he* thanked mV* from jthe bot tom of Vis heart for the French people, ami also thanked all the Americans who had come, over from their own land to help a country with which most of them were not connected, lie said it was-a-war wtricti itmny na tions .were-taking part, but in which if we ne\er put our hoofs on th urn in it would' ctrmtgft there ■ were jnst two pleas, freedom and despotism. and a lot more things Unit I cannot remember, lie finished the Cassard', -and oiUKhoat was over. turned, Ian the nu n were rescued. Two njeii jn— tbe launch I was in were wounded.' Hut we did not pay any. attention to .that shelling the Turks might jfi't' its well have h n Mhw'iug it us Ibrough tt soda were, and that 1 was detailed to tliem Marbe you _ tlo not thtnlCT'Avas ~gTad? ie Wliol* Hut- there wrrs rmrgh--work- etHI—alosel and let pur launch pet into the lead, and that we circled abound t.lie C;ts- sard’s hows and enmu-up on the star board side, which was unusual. Hut I did not thiwk^hnythiijg. of it until 1 ( illtie over the. side,-'. Theft* were the side boys llmuf up. and the <>1 <I Man was there, with the ship's Steward beside him. He took the lop hook from the stew- kuow ’list whitt/Tliey were giving me the hied/.! for—though It was for one Of two things ai.d i do not know to this; day. Hut I thought it would no| be polite to ask, sp I let it go.at-that. wits light pray from the shell smoke hanpinp over it. and F could see the- Hushes where the Idp ones were doing their work, and I had to po throuph that field. t- fell" time, and npaln, sometimes when I thoupht a shell wits near, .and sometimes when I had no raison for It—only I was thirsty again, mid' was shivering all the time, and was so weak I could not have choked a gold- fish. I do not remember hardly any thing ahout going through that fii^d, and you might say the next thing .1 knew was when I was overtaken by a dispatch runner, and got in a tin tub jit the side of tl motorcycle und ■Was taken to the guns. I felt ready for a IHp Van Winkle nap then, but the officer in command would not let me. H»‘ said they were short of gunners—the.terrific shelling ftttd-killed off do: rns of 11n 1 Ml' • au-tFad J\e knew’ I could point a gun lie had ordered theni ovvr the telephone to pet me fo the l**o»1i as ftjst as possi ble. He spotted tin* two-^warehouses I bare n of for me and said H was up to. us to out them out of-coin- mission. The gun was a-Hdtieli naval, and that looked pood to une, so I bucked up a lot. The warehouses were ahout 10 or It” miles away, 1 ‘should judge, and abotti 30 or 10 yards apart. I felt very weak, as I have- said, and shiVered e -, ery opc£ in a while, so I did not tliink I could do much punning worth' whistling at. Hut they loaded the old 11-inch and miule rftuly, and we got the range und all was set. The officer told tile to let Iter ride. So I js-iiiJ to myself, "This, is one for ami they und i lot of cheer- fare-ybu-well, IL. W.ls . gccal-'sHitl—a 11 oget lung- :uni.. 1. :. should have Ilkto get a inedul every ,|n ' rtnrt-stttiW eiT 'n 'lii ine, and TTtt was uiy name or. it. Now when you are punished fitr anything you are logged, but I could not figure out what I laid done to get punished for, so I was very much surprised. Hut -the.I Old Man slapped me on the back and everybody cheered, and then I saw it was not punishment, but just the op posit e. j? When people ask me what I have received my decoration for (Croix de Cuerre), I tell tlient 1 do not rightly : is a .fact 1 go not was for going back lies hr for destroying So I always tellThom 1- got It for working overtime, That H-wimt tht' fclmejs -say, or if they have the Viei-nria cross tliey say, they got it for being very careless. As!? one 'of them and see. - All of us were certainly glad to be gboard the Cassard again, and if any place ever looked like home to me it was the old ship, Our casifa'ties were' very high uml s we >ere therefore or dered to put back fo |’rest. We bad a great little celebration that uiglit, and next morning weighed anchor and started ba'e'kr- after cieuring for action. I was still pretty blue about Mur ray, but very ni.ucli_relieved as to the Petticoats Are Narrow "7 One day I received a letter from a man who lmd been in. niy .company in the ’'Foreign; I.egion anil with w hom I bad been pretty chummy. -HC letter was ptirtly iii French and partly In Ivtiglisli. It wiis all"giiont win*, had Imu^i killed and who hag 1 e* n iwopmV- od. . lie also mentioned Murray's death; w he It In- had h>,aif+1—ithtrfffr' Urn+t about iii).'- receiving the Croix de Cuerre. I whs wishing he bad said the Steel dV;ek, but* I was able to crawl on to the turret door. .lust as I Nvas about to enter (lie pun was.tirefh That particular- charge happen'd to.he de fective. Tin' shell split and caused a back fire and the cordite, tire and gas came through the breech, which' the know explosion bad opened not heard from and •who l knew would visit me if he had/ th* ( hnnee. Hut two or tine, days later I got allollier lett.e^. frn'm Mm ^ntne mau. an if .will'll I opened-ft out t uni'uh d-a I'hoto- graph. .At .lit>t all I saw was that it was the |»botngj;a).ii of a man erm-ified with -bayonetSi but when I looked at It must have been a piece of cordite which did it, but whatever ir was, it •lilt liie In ‘the right eye ai.d blinded it. The ball of the eye \yas saved by the French surpconssind looks formal, hut it "pyins me greatly sometimes ■ and they tell me it will always 'be sight- 1 was unconscious' Immediately from the blow and from the quantity of pas which I—must have swallowed. This pas did me a great deal j>f damage and gives me dizzy spells often -to thee day. 1 do not know \Ciiat hapiiened during the rest of the engagement; as I dlil not regain consciousness until, three days later at sea. Hut 1 heard in the- hospital that the French super- dreaduaiipht Jeanne d’Arc ajul the it e.losejy I saw it was ItroWn. 1 fainted then, just like a girl. When I came to I could hardly make myself think about it. Two of my pals yntrrC—fi—hnrr—rpe' s-.xiumirh to tliink of it that 1 eriished the letter up in my hand', but later i*n I could read parts of it.—ft satrf rtrrW^bad found Frown ihK way near I/ixmude about two davs after ho bad been re- of- us Went sjifety of my own vkbi light qruiserNormundywere over and two stayed there. It seems very strange to me tiia.t both of my pals should be i-riieified and if I were superstitious I do not know what I that after the Dardanelles and my last day there they had not made the right bullet for me yet. The rest of us* felt about tin* same wiry "and wo were sing ing till the time. well as ourselves, though hot at the time I was wounded, and that w** had ail been^ pretty well battered. The Cassard -lost !*r -men—in the 'engage ment. and bad 4S wounded. Some of our turrets were twisted into all umii- here.’’ So 1 sent that one along and she landed direct and the warehouse went would tliink about it. It made- me sick and kept me from recovering as fast as I'would have done otherwise*- TTotTi FT rciun TThd Murray we re good paN and very good men 'in'*a fight. I often tliink of them* both.'and about tlie things We did- tog.-t1ier, but la-fely CHAPTER XV. is carried away. One of our lieu- mints wasJviHcd in the engagement. I was twill, that both the W'erft and e Kai'-t riicijH..-Marine were sunk in er-1gt'ineii'K I have <ei n" pictuK's- sailor's froin' the vVerft wiio . vv*- re Je Suis Blesse. As usual* wlien we got to Hi 1 , was ruslidwork day and night ibiiuf them id t<> tliink tve luul kili-l-ta 4 ' I' I' I i 11>- Cil* aid to get bt !’ out a all kinds yvci-e loaded visit to tlie'Turks. k-Tli m.ii'.li Ia use it wry what torture they inilsf it 'iniein TM.- ii. Ai/- amti il * n‘r Hrest.., thy Ueie.r i aki u* f rfrm >iie slii'p m t-. they wp-rr-sui*e*.ot jna'd' ut fit let.-u minutes .ohf^Ua ito aiiiliulane.. ;• and rusfi.-c tin u iiU-tlm TVe4++--+tV-+ sdiked liarpv wafi tin liability to discinri AiP r I laid bee | . We had that liei ti ihere \ai-y long I lore, siiiuetiiitig ntiexiiecteil .did happ. tor we ran- iiitio- twn^-eiirn-iy ;er'ui»er? Wliieli I afterwiual.s Iw Trt~.,vrrte l Wertf-niid Knisvrin lie M irim- one the sfiyrboaryl .and one on the po Ho'v jhey/fmd -.iiapaged . to sneak' so neisr us. I do not know. Tit opened up on --.is at mit lin.eli' in. than a thousand yunls and gave..JU« '- •Tof time from - the kt v ii i. fTioiigTi-w any kind of gunnery tln.y should.lm '•re is- made . ! C I'.I |-i I Thi'ui.c 1 . IIdie, CiWiTriVi fhidly illnVe up.; .men ware luuidagr-'i .and' hewd hud. u Wap n a iiife. Sutm* . ot- otit ea.’Vt-r Hi* -tiai ndiidid t<»- sa\ iY w'in'diiifr- heavv uTr or grytwing greenery done for nv thnrong1iT\ the- sfrrcwio *lid to After a -short time I returned to . - ot Hrest and- got my passage on the ' Ceorgie'for New York. *1 hftd three trunks witir irie full gf things I lia.il picked it)* around Eurofe and had heeti kreepiug n* . grandmo/lmr Among' iny lielongltigs* were several tKings' T s+rntrfd Ilk - to show hr -nhq^y-c tograplis in tliis book, bit ro ojy* but niernitddK eun see tbeiu tU’w. for down r© the Whi r of’jhivy .Ton - M > went. . (TO BE CONTINf i - ■ that they had my eyeball out mi my eiieek for almost .two hours. 1 ' At anv p. . rate they saved it'-'-W-H'—thipli wound- wer« He came right buck at them and were getting in some pret’y’-gwod shots. I was in the ITimdj gun turret, stn"N board bow—my old hangout—and we it about feijr s amt scoring I was mad. beemise F+md si nt tli.it orae over for niyseff -So I goCthy cross Wires ot) the wiPT-house, again hrmj. I wild to niy.'clf, ’ThlsTs nioOFur aliy- bndy, just -for .luck, because- I sure have laid plenty^of ft ioduJC’ v Then t In* Juiee ' i ami^-'thldvfrgb" ttiig.. wires and into the charge, iind a Way she went, 'and Up went the -.second w a ref umse. That made t\Vo ifiivr-is out of three, and I gueJTTlt hurt tin* Turks, some t<* lose nil (heir auuponitiom Tin* officer kNst/1 me h*-iore j could duiik-fanif slapped me mi \)n* back and I kecjiM over. I was just alf in. They bTiUght me to Avith rum, ami 4e/y “Stuff, they said I wire singing wh»*n I ca»H* t«», VVlem f10-Ting, to .shbw nic what s*»np it whs, I j^guretJ It wan “Sweet ^Adeline” thej* jnvtnt But I not dqiigefiuis in tliemselves and lad not been for the-roupli treat- ttiey got later on tii-ey.would be healed by this tinn*, 1 alii ^ure, ally think’J girt -a'Uttfe exti'a.at- ri in the hospital in many ways, for tiie FfettHi were.at uIL.t4jnes jinv- i; t<* show their .ftfeptlllnes”' Jj*. ■ -AiioTica. l'Ae.ry time |i.\ nieafs w*_ci- servud x tle re wa.s a little Amern an Hag on th* splatter and always pi larje v V^fcrfCati fitigd raped over* the bed. "f bad eyeiAttiing FiVanted giviTnb lue at once and when T-wati able to. all the cigarettes l -COUbT smokiy which jwiri IM*I 1 — While I. wgws.stjil iff 'te-d In the hbs* i*tj:J‘l rw-tivid the Croix tie tlttetrc, -.tiliUJi I hau won at .the DarduijielVes. iprisFntatlon wuv^iuude by Lieu- were letting them have shots every five niiiiute kruayfly. ‘ I do miff know bow long we had hewn >n-4»an of our range tinder ■Awvs. t-arriinF-;T\vny^ It w as so hot. though, ami we wer»*>^4iard at iftbat such a Hub* thing Ida- fttaCjfld not -bother us. It is hot'in any gun rncret, but l have always ni>ticed_ thet it is hotter there in Hie .DunlanellVs t!um in any other place. The sweat would simply cake up on us, until our faces .were just covered with-a film'of i*ow- r Fall. ', j - ; Pockets Remain. id sensible . fbekets are a triliiming feature that matiiifsii .a j* main, iti pood style in-s(*jte of ‘he • it. ■ >1i-— fact that they arv ti*i i ir, i ||.v. K»*;d r im.*>f?::.---didc - seeming-pocket^. tjiCedydr lined wTTh tiowFwmteror colored satin, an*, used simrrt- - j .4rTii,t\ tv nil sot lie of" tfi i * i ■ model- (11 r> v> y :! *- nf doil'bt blue serge.. ■«--- Ui.the Wusi- - ■ -^•*. Shrinks to Foxes. There are numberless • .Japan d<*dientcd.to foxes-. - Is another animal featvd by stFtHdis Japanese blind. 1 Smart Tam o' Shanters., •: j lie y "iitr/-pi-rl'. iii o’ i?han?*-rs that" <leimmd for;;iiei\ U .-tyer ray * .Tnd difll shown in t! most fiopular .They ar*» mad** of he ts. . while *iq.,Avl(h puffed •ar * duck putt smig-fittitlg*T»alwl ahont the head. Tin y iPTthing * to lulve jiower to m.r. bmable tfi turn, into i The scrying of wca.*dt - of jlogs oreclO'fderru srict) insignificant ,h:q very smarF soft hearer, mb’led crqwus a-ml a Mack mjfskin*. are lb ix 1 tjiiloted walking F •U Cfs -for more dr^.sy >l,t lealher^.und a Hut the range finder was carried nwnjr, and .although U locked laid for JIS r wus feeffng »o .g»*o«l ! thatdl vAl- unteered to go on dec^ and ^et an- of gray come, in l-U-.k* dark ~Uh aLn>!Uwr through V \X* selling color*. •" ■ - .‘"Tf - 1* :i**.: * \ iidi tile,-* dayT.- .for :uu Ur' -V’tn )|i\ ot^i* r *1 ■ .• ’n vr r. m :i 1 ]»■ If * hi _ p : V er "f "lie r-- ' — ■ ■. .* i«v-11 i.r Was KT'T eoneig.-iivs t *. 'illd. T !l* , lV |« — \ U.fL :, ;i the .at:: e r !.! * ! i. l’i j * i m k fastened. V- 1 i ■—» a B- 1 ■■M 1 -J w i I 1 I