The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 20, 1917, Image 3
)RK BOY TEixs of; months
pent AS CAPTIVE IN GERMANY
KUU of Mr, \V. T.
[ff^'arrived "i llih hulm> 1,1 V<?rl$-|
fT*oU^> luornimr hav-j
rL? K i.rlM.nri In tb* hands of tho 1
F **?., in Berlin sine* March H, /fail
BEtf?* jios>cs*cd ??* ? keen aj>i>e.
L whk'li was IH'V1M' <l?rlnK
fiuwruuienl in lierniany, and iirat
L i of conditions iii Ger
r v ami the win- zone, young Moore
rlieW1 ki'i'f tj*'1'4' vu*y relating to
Lfrh'iHlx soUM* of bta c.M?crlenoes.
J ^ ,?>ssv*sh>n of many interesting
L ilwii he does not fiHjI At liberty
friVe outl'1" ,ht' ?tery of the sluk
L?f Iii* vessel, I lie Htorufcog, l?y the
JLm? Hubniui'ine U 00, on February
survival <?f ou|y sevou of the
'm of sixty live of tile tftorskog, his
^nlioii on I he I'-hoat neurly a month,
td his lift* i" Merlin, sounds like tho
yyk*um? luiglit reiul In a dluie novel.
^ wJkinl quite freely Wednesday af
fuoou, n"'1 <inrlng the interveiw
the ne\\>i>ai>er man asked ques
that Jim didn't think he should
jover. Ito refused to say a word; that
all.
#\Im'Ut ilir?'<* and uf>e half yenrs ago,
mjivf Moon- left his homo hero, a mere
Ipofa hul. He went In Winstprt-8a
u, N. where be worked in a tobac
i factory fur a while and from there
[tout le t'lty Polut, Va. Then he
ri/ted ever to Newport News, nnd
iIjijhhI oil a vessel carrying grain tx>
anioo. The boy has all kinds of
(fve anil It was an easy matter for
ju to k*'( hy as an able seaman, al
lie had never h^eii on an ocean
ilag t?l> i" his life. He got across
hrigliti ?nd since that time .lie. hjfts
Hie voyages ail over the world as a
llor in the merchant service of sev
il nations. Although he only &>le
ited his INth birthday on May 1, in
ftlbi. lie has grown fully two feet
he left home and ho has acquir
the exjierience not i>ossessed by the
eraj:e man of ;u>. He exj>ects to re
nt to Kmilnnd next week and com
fcte his two yearn service us an twue
iHian ami gunner in the British raer
iint marine. Then he intends eu
rtlug in the navy of the United states
b<?s?> soldiers and sailors he says are
ie tinest in the world, "and I am not
ijing that because I ain an Ainerl
iii, either,"
Yotmjc Jim tells his story In a
lodest way. Kven when he related
je incident of the sinking of his ves
fl i>y the submarine there was no
hanxe In his voice but the whole was
old as though it were an every day
mirreaiv with him. "I like the
ea." he said. '"In that, like every
bitu: else a fellow takes k chance. It
ffnnls a lino opportunity to n youint
Mow and 1'ce veen having a great
line. 1 lirst shipped at Newport News
satiable seaman. I was told to take
he wheel. I didn't know anything
ilnmt it: but ih I wot to the wheel
K>nse 1 iiotb*ed the position of the
onipuss. Then I asked the man whom
i was to relieve, 'how you turned the
[rick when ymi wanted the ship to
[n to the rij;ht and how when you
ranted t<> to the left.' He told me,
|ml rlie re>t was easy. That fellow
lever jrave mo away and I have been
letting alomr tine, part of the time
iwinuiiinmly. ever since.
?'You M it's creat to get back
tome !>? a land where you can get all
'ou want to e?t." said the boy. "That
alk flohm there being plenty to eat iu
iernianv is all stuff. We got two
leais a day over there and it was slim
Btions at that. When I was in Bue
?> Aaiit-s in January, I welched 155
pounds uiwi when I got to No ra w y a
few w?eks ago' I weighed 1JJH. That
doesn't wound like much to eUt, dt>e.s
it?.
"I came over (foil! Christlanu on
tilt* Danish pHSMOIIgCI' bunt l*rlneo
Oscar II, Hitil I came pretty near eat
ing up I lie deck. I a to hIx meals ev
ery dliy ami then I hail room for more.
Those Uertaun* treated me decent
enough, hut they are simply up against
It In the ration line. It's the same
way In Norway ami Sweden. They
like Germany, are issuing bread cards."
How the boy managed to procure
hi# release from the authorities at
Jlerllu on June 18, he deellned to say.
There was no doubt with them as to
IiIm nationality. On his right arm 1*
tattooed a United States Jlug, and on
Ids left arm the British Union Jack
boldly dolled the Germans in their
capital, Frederick YV. King, a wealthy
American living In Merlin, paid his
passage over, he said; but further
than that he declined to talk. Here Is
his story as he 'ttyld II himself:
"It was on the Ktli day of February
last that- I was on the Noovelglan
freighter Storskog, a 1 1.000-tonner,
carrying a cargo of grain from Buenos
Aires to Queenstown. It was about
It.,MO In the morning that the U-Hoat
got us. 1 was asleep at the time and
I was awakened by a terlttlc explo
sion. When I nwoke I was on the
deck, standing up. Following the ex
plosion of the torpedo the big vessel
apiH?ared to jump out of the water and
she listed forward. Everybody made
a rush for the boats. There'wore Hix
of -th?m? ami three were crushed
against the sides Jot the vessel (luring
the attempt to launch them. There
were sixty-five of the crew and I was
the only American among them. We
got Into three boats, that Is most of us
did, although I am sure that the en
gineers ami firemen never got off the
freighter. Oaptalu Abrahence, of the
Storskog; together with Ills papers, was
taken off by the U-boat's crew.
r'Well, we paddled around in the
water for a while. Finally the U
boat began shelling the torpedoed ves
sel. I don't knpw how many shots
were flroc\, Bang, went a shell and
over went one of the life .boats: bang,
went another shell and down went an
other. A thin! shell sent*: the- third
life boat down and we were all floun
dering in the water. The (Hermans
afterward told us that the shelling of
the lifeboats was accidental and?
maybe it was. It Is possible. But to
make a long story short, all but seven
of the sixty-five were drowned like
rats In that sea. I was one of the
lucky seven, having managed to hold
on to the rudder of a life boat until
the tMuvit's crew took us aboard.
My righV/knee was somewhat bruised
by the splintered tiad>ers of the bout:
but otherwise I was ali rlgh't.
"They took us aboard the subma
rine?the IT-00, I learned she was. and
huddled is in ohe of the torpedo
rooms. We were given bread and
water twice a day .and two guards
with loaded guns stood over us from
February 8 until March 3. They
added a little jam to the bread on
Sunday, and they gave us what they
called coffee. Therf> is not any coffee
or tea in Germany and on the U
boat they had a substitute something
like Posturn. The officers got the first
brew, uuder-olllcers the second brew,
the crew, the third and we got the
fourth. We were allowed to smoke
once or twice a day and that helped.
"I discovered that the crew con
rtttett Of thirty three ottWrs Hint men.
The captain whose name 1 never did
Km i n. <*oui<l fc|>eak English all right
autl s?? could moat of thv*ciiv\v. lie
ii.Mt bfiM) In atatcM eight >ears.
All tlu* c*ew wore ilttmit enough fel?
lows ami we talked about evoryl liiii;-:
but war. I wan on that boat tvvetfty
three da.VM. In that time eleven ves
sels were tor|>6docd by the |Mk>. I
never foamed their nauiw or national
ities. They were too fur away and Ik*
sidrs we prisoner* couldn't llnd out
anything anyhow, hut I noticed that
no more prisoners were brought In.
Tlu? Germans explained that there was
nowhere to put them.
"No. 1 won't tell you the tMMWt'a
xone, hut we kept cruising arouod for
twenty-three day? without going Into
|H>rt. The fiw*) held out all rfght,
there was plenty of water and the
sub vjas eool a, plenty. The eleven
vessels thai fell prey to the submit -
rlne were found at different times
and hone of them at tempted to make
a light for it.
"Finally the INhoat anchored at
Heligoland. We sevep prisoners were
transferred to a tor|>edo boat ami tak
en to Wllhelmsha vcn. From there
they took Us to It rem en, and after re
maining in that port a couple of days,
we were taken inte Berlin. I was
stone -broke when I got Utet'o aud I
don't know what In the world I
would have done If it hadn't been for
Mr. Frederick \V. King, a wealthy
American who furnished me with mon
ey to pay my board and lodging and
other expenses.
"I was treated well enough. I had
to re]K?rt at the police station onccf a
day and was lo> ked in my room every
night at 10 o'clock. But the rations,
my, j I'm hungry yet. Nobody gets
any breakfast in Germany any niOre??
nothing hut dinner and supper. Of
course you can eat breakfast if you
?want ftS^hut then if you do you'll miss
either dinner or supper. I lived
principally on turnips and you know
yourself that turnips are poor chew
ing. I was allowed two plates of them
a day, ftO- grains of butter aud 200
grams of meat a week, and one-fourth
of a in an id of sugar every two weeks.
There was nogfease with the turnips;
thfcy were just boiled In water and
since they are mostly water anyhow,
you see there was not much of food
value to eat. Everybody got the same,
so I had no kick. No matter how
much money you've got, that's all you
can get. Of course you can get black
bread, four pounds of it each week
but I nevei* did learn to like It and
haven't yet.
"All food Is allotted by cards. You
have to get it at a certain place
all the time. These food depositories
are called 'Everybody's Kitchen,' and
they are distributed all over Germany.
It is so in Sweden- and Denmark, too.
Everybody i;ets enough to subsist on,
but there are millions of hungry j?eo
ple in Germany.
"I saw Kajser WllUolm a couple of
times .hut /diiee BUI didn't undertake
to speak to me. why of course I
wilSn't inclined to shake with him?
It was a few weeks ago when some
Turkish prince.- I didn't know his
name, came to Berlin. The two rode
through the streets in an armored
hutomobile. Six soldiers accoiu]Miuied
it?three on one fender, two on the
other and another sitting in front
with the chauffer. There was no
demonstration as he passed by, due
to the lact that few people recognized
him. But I knew him all right. "Bill
doesn't count for much in Germany
?not near os much as Americans
think for. He Is more or less of a
tigurehead. It's the powers behind
litm that are doing the devilment. Von
Hindenhurg is a !>opular Idol; but
Double
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i
Camden
[ reully you dou't hoar inuoh about him
I or anybody else. There's nobody In
llerlln but women ami thoy don't tmIk
about war. What they art* thinking
altOfVt In something to oat.
"The t.Vlinans doil't seell I to rtn-on*'
ntao the fact tliat I hoy are lit war
\riHt??lit* United State*. They don't
consider tlds country seriously at all,
ami I hoy have lit t to or no feolluK to
ward Americans. I heard very little
\Y?r talk, Sold lorn returning from the
front aro not allowod to talk. Kvi
deuce* of tho horrors of war aro on
every side however. Women do every
thing. They ran tho stores. tlu
strwt tars businesses of ovory kind.
Poverty and distress is to ho seen
everywhere,
"Itait tho i>ooplo aro pretty cheer
ful.? 'l'lu?y cx|ieot tt* win. Of course
they do. What nation doos not?
Tliey drink tholr boor?there Is plenty
of that smoke elifurettes,! they aro
plentiful. too; ami ko about tho af
fairs in tholr uiothodloal way.
"1 am sorry i enn't toll you how
I managed to jfot away. It was tho
Name Mr. King of the Aerograph 4?oid?
Iktvhy. who paid my passage, I left
ltorlin on .June l'i. wont from there
to Warnemuda and thence to (JJedser.
I>0111(1)1 rk. At Christiana, I hoarded
tho Oscar 11 of tho Xoandannvijin
Atwerhmi line, arriving in New York
last Saturday. Hero I am hark In the
Inane town, alive and well.
"I am going haok to Kngland, stay
in the merchant service a short while
and then enlist in the navy of Tnele
Ham whoso men aro tho tlnost hody of
sailors in the world ami whose sol
dier* are even superior to those Cana
dians who have been doing such great
si-rapping across the pond."
Greet* Enters Tlte War.
Washington,. July 10.?iVnyprtninty
urt to (Jreoce'R status in the world
war was cleared away toda.V- with re
ceipt of official Information that the
Greek (ioverninent not only has sev
ered relations with all (our of the Cen
tral Powers, hut is actually in a state
of war with them.
Information has reached the State
Department that the Greek minister
In Paris has untitled, tho French Gov-*
eminent'(Jreeoe considers herself a full
belligerent and will act accordingly.
He said it was not necessary to issue
a formal declaration of war, as the
government feels it Is Ih>uih1 by the
declarations previously issued - at Sa
lonlkl by Premier Venbselos.
- Greece Is expected to lose no time in
mobilizing her war resources and
joining effectively in tJie odBtiuot) Al
lied oik.'rat Ions in the Balkans. The
strength of the Veiilzelos army Is
placed at about (?0,0G0 men, ^and the
remnants of the former regular army,
while not over 30.000, now Is capable
of reaching tt<)0,(K)0 if munitions are
provided.
Did You Know
That the Italian front is longer than
?th*..ivi:cuch. British and Belgian fronts
r combined ?
That some of,the Italian positions
? ?an only be reached in baskets slung
from wires?
That Italian railway trains have
been shelled by .submarinesV
Tiiat some of the most famous
churches in Venice have-been destroy
ed by Austrian airplanes, which have
raided that city more than a hundred
I hues?
That in six days the Italians mob
ilised and equipped and transported
tQ the front an &TMX of half a mil
lion men?
That the French have built a f>2
centimeter gun which fires a shell
weighing one and a half tons.
That the French have a commission
of 7,(KM) airplanes
That tea reproducing shells are more
effective and more generally used than
asjrtiyriatlng gas?
That In places the Austrian and
Italian trenches are only six feet
apart?
That on the Western front men "have
been drowned in the mud? I
_ Thai Infantry charges are now led
by offieers-in airplanes?
That the British have organized a
salvage corps to save everything on
the battlefield; that even the rags are
collected and sold?
That the traffic on the roads behind
the British front is denser than the
traffic on Fifth avenue, and that It
is controlled by traffic policemeu?
That the French have organized a
corps of scene painters to paint scen
ery to deceive the German airmen
That in a heavy l?ombardment the
springs -of a field gua > wear out in
two days? j
That soldiers whose faces have l>eeii
blown away have l?een given new)
faces by American surgeons? . -
That, there is a Russian array .fight-1
In* In France? ? f . "
That an American woman is giving
phonograph concerts In the Belgian
first-line trenches?
? That in one day the French fired
$1,000,000 worth of shells at Arras;
that in one week the Germans fired
two hundred and forty trainloads of
shells at Verdun: that Hi ohe month
the British fired five million shells
on the Homme??Scrtbner'o.
Parked Building Struck.
Tuslcegee Institute/ Ala., July 14.?
The Baptist Church three miles from
here, crowded Jwlth delegates attend*
ing a negro district convention, was
tfrnck by lightning Wst night. One
man was seriously Injured and twen
ty-five tfttg&rs were severely shocked.
The bolt struck the tower of the
church while the congregation was
singing, melting the bell and Its wire
rope, and pawied-down through the
shafiin? of the cupola. A panic fol
low?4r:-T ?-a- ?r
Fouf French ships of m<v? than
1,000 tons weiy Jost hy .submarine*
during the week ending July 8.
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