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Albert ,N.Dep< EX-GUNNE* AND CHIEF PE MEMBER OF THfc.FOREK CAPTAIN GUN TURRET, FREI WINNER OF THE < Wl W V% and Irkn Co, TVou# Ip?U 8YNOPSI3. CHAPTER I?Albert N. Dcpew, author Ot the atory, enlists In the United Hlates navy, serving four years and attaining the rang of chief petty officer, first-class gunner, CHAPTER II?The areat war ???rt soon after he ia honorably discharged from the navy and he aalla for Franco with a determination to enlist. CHAPTER III?Ho Joins the Foreign Legion and Is assigned to the droadnaugnt C&ssard whore his marksmanship wins him high honors. CHAPTER IV?Depew Is detached from his ship and sent with a regiment of thu Legion to Flanders where he soon finds himself In the front line trenehes. CHAPTER V?He Is detailed to the artillery and makes the acquaintance of the "76's' , the wonderful French guns that have saved the day for the ullles on many a battlefield. Before seeing any action, ho Is ordered back to his regiment In thft front line trenches. CHAPTER VI?Depew goes "over the top" and "gets" his first German In a bayonet fight CHAPTER VII?His company takes part In another raid on the German trenchea and shortly afterward nsststs In stopping a fierce charge of the Huns, who aro mowed down as they cross No Man's Lund. CHAPTER VII. Stopping the Huns at Dixmude. I was standing In a communication trench that connected one of our frontline trenches with a crater caused by the explosion of n mine. All around me men of the third line were coming up, climbing uround, digging, hammering, shifting planks, moving snndhags up and down, bringing up new timbers, reels of hnrbed wire, ladders, cases of ammunition, machine guns, trench inortars?all the things that make an army look like n general store on legs. The noise of the guns was just deafening. Our own shells passed not far above our heads, so close were the enemy trenches, and the explosions were so dear and so violent that when you rested vour rifle hntt nn snmptiiini? solid, like a rock, you could feel it shake and hum every time a shell lauded. Our first line was Just on the outskirts of the town, in trenches that had been won and lost by both sides many times. Our second line was in the streets and the third linp was almost at the south end of the town. The Huns were hard at it, shelling the battered remains of Dixmude, and to the right stretcher bearers were working in lines so close that they looked like two parades passing each other. But the bearers from the company near me bad not returned from the emergency dressing station and the wounded were piling up, waiting for them. A company of the 2me Legion Etrangere had Just come up to take their stations In the crater, under the parapet of sandbags. A shell landed among iucui juoi ueiure tucjr vuiereu me crater and sent almost a whole squad west, besides wounding several others. Almost before they occupied the crater the wires were laid and reached back to us, and the order came for us to remain where we were until further orders. Then we got the complete orders. We were to muke no noise but were all to be ready In ten minutes. We put on goggles and respirators. In ten minutes the bombers were to leave the trenches. Three mines were to explode and then we were to take and hold a certain portion of the enemy trenches not fur off. We were all ready to stnrt up the ladders when thev moved Nlg's section over to ours nna he Rneaked up to me and whispered behind his hand, "Be a sport, Doc; mnke It flfty-flfty and gimme a chance." I did not have any Idea what he meant and he had to get back to his squad. Then the homhors came up to the ladders, masked und with loaded sacks on their left arms. "One minute now," said the officers, getting on their own ladders and drawing their revolvers?though most of the officers <u nit? x>t?Kiun cnurgea wun nne ana bayonet like their men. Then?Boom! Slam I Bang!?and the mines went oft. "Allcz!" and then the parapet was filled with bayonets and men scrambling and crawling and falling and getting up again. The smoke drifted back on us, and then our own machine guns began ahead of us. Up toward the front the bombers were fishing In their hags and throwing, Just like boys after a rat along the doeks. The black smoke from the jniK juuuHimit ruuea over us ana probably there was gee, too, but you could not tell. The front lines had taken their trenches and gone on and you could see them, when you stood on a pornpet, running about like hounds through the enemy communication trenches, bombing out dugouta, disarming prisoners?very scary-looking In their masks sad goggles. The wounded were coming back slowly. Then we got busy with our work In the dugouts hnd communication trenches and flit bnys, with bpyonets and bombs, digging the Boches out and sending them "west." Aad every once In a while a Fritz Tin-one side would step out and yell "Knmerad," while, like as not, on the other side, his pal would pot you with a revolver when you started to pick him up, thinking he was wpunded. *tylen we stood aside aft the entrance to a dugout and some feochee en pie got to single file, shouting "Kemerad" i. i - . ^ ift LEGION OF FRANCE NCH BATTLESHIP CASSA&D^ 3ROIX DE GUERRE I Awg? WMi <h? Gw|i Mum > ih The Bomber* Were Fishing In Their Bag and Throwing. for nil they were worth. One of them had life mask and face blown o(T; yet he was trying to talk, with the tears rolling down over the raw flesh. He died five minutes later. One night, while I was lying back In the trench trying not to think of anything and go to sleep the bombs began to get pretty thick around there, and when I could not stund It any longer I rushed put Into the bay of the fire trench and right up ugainst the parapet. where It was sufer. Hundreds of star shells were being sent up by both sides and the field and the trenches were as bright as day. All up and down the trenches our men were dodging about, keeping out of the way of the bombs that were being thrown In our faces. It did not seem as If there was any plnce where It was possible to get cover. | Most of the time I was picking dirt out .UJ ?v <-o uiai ?iiiusiuuii uuu uriveu Into them. If you went Into a dugout the men already In there would shout," "Don't atlck In n bunch?spread out I" While you were In a dugout you kept expecting to be burled alive und when you went outside you thought the Boches were aiming at you direct?and there was no place at all where you felt ; ?afe. But the Are bay looked better than I the other places to me. I had not been j there more than a few minutes when ' a big one dropped In and thnt bay was Just one mess. Out of the 24 men In the bay only eight escaped. | When the stretcher bearers .got there they did not have much to do In the way of rescue?It was more pallbear er's work? I A atretcher bearer was picking up one of the boys, when a grenade landed alongside of hltn and you could not And a frngment of either of them, j Thnt made two thnt landed within 1 twelve feet of me; yet I was not even 1 scratched. When I got so that I could move I vnrui uver 10 wncre rne captain was standing, looking through a periscope over the parapet. I was very nervous and excited and was afraid to speuk to him, but somehow I thought I ought to ask for orders. But I could not say n word. Finally a shell whizzed over our heads?Just missed us, it seemed like, and I hroko out: "What <11(1 you see? What's all , of the news?" and so on. I guess I chattered like a monkey. Then he yelled: "You're the gunner 1 oflieer. You're Just in time?I've located their mortar batteries." I surely Wished I was the gunner oflieer. I would have enjoyed It more If I could have got back at Fritz somehow. But I was not the gunner oflieer and I told him so. I had to shout at him quite a while-before he would believe me. Then he wanted me to find the gunner oflieer, but I did not know where to find him. If I could have got to our guns I guess I would have had another medal for working overtime, but I missed the chance there. About this time another bomb camo over and clouted out the best friend I had in my company. Before the war 1?<> hnd been one of the finest Hinders In the Paris opera houses. When he was with us he used to say thut the only difference between him and Caruso was $2,.r>00 a night. A poilu and I dragged him Into n dugout, but It was too late. One side of his face was blown off; the whole right side of him was stripped off nnd four fingers of the right hand were gone. I stuck my head out of the dugout and there was the captain discussing the matter with himself, cursing the Germans from here to Helgoland and putting in a word for the bombs every once in a while. All up and dgwn the trenches you could hear our men - cursing the Germans In all kinds of 1 languages. Believe me, I did my bit | and I could hear somebody else using good old United Ststes cuss words, ' too. It certainly did not make me feel any K'tter, but it gave me something to do. I think that was why all of ns cursed so much then, though w< were pretty handy with languuge ai ! any time. But when you are undei hmn fire Ilk* that and cannot glyt ... i twrqgjpwiapp-j"1 *" i i s=s= 11 =3 , It back as good as you get, yon go crasy unless you hare something to da Cussing Is the best thing we could think of. | Up the trench the third bay was simply smashed in and the Germans were placing bomb after bomb right In It and in ours. The captain yelled out that he was going up to the next! bay to examine It, but no more had he. got there than he had his head taken clean off his shoulders. At daybreak our trenches were all, pounded in and most of our dugouts were filled up. Then Fritz opened upi with his artillery fire right on us. We thought they were going to charge and we figured their barrage would lift and we could see them come over. I We received orders to stand to with fixed bayonets. Then the man at the periscope shouted, "They cornel" A battery directly behind us went Into action first aqd then they all joined in and Inside of five minutes about eight hundred guns were raising Culn with Fritz. The Boches were! caught square In No Man's Land and I our rifles and machine guns simply mowed them down. Many of them came half way across, then dropped their guns and ran for our trenches ! to give themselves up. They could not have got back to their own trenches. It was a shame to waste a shell on these poor fish. If they had been civvies the law would prevent you from hitting them?you know the kind. They could hardly drag themselves along. That Is the way they look when you have got them. But when they have got you?kicks, cuffs, bayonet Jabs? there Is nothing they will not do to ; / add to your misery. They seem to i think that It boosts their own courage. ! An artillery fire like ours was great | fun for the gunners, but It was not much fun for Fritz or for us fei tho trenches. We got under cover almost as much as Fritz and held thumbs for the gunners to get through In a hurry. Then the fire died down and It was so quiet It made you Jump. We thought our parapet was busted up n good deal, but when we looked through the periscope we enw what had#happcned to Fritz* trenches and, j believe me, they were practically I ruined. I Out In No Man's Lnnd It looked like Wool worth's flve-and-ten ; everywhere , were gray uniforms, with tlncups and l accouterment8 that belonged to the | | Germans before our artillery and muI chine guns got to them, i Our stretcher benrers were busy, I carrying the wounded back to flrst-ald dressing station, for, of course, we had ; suffered too. From there the blesses were shipped to the clearing station. The dead lay in the trenches all day and at night they were carried out by working parties to "Stiff park," as I colled It. A man with anything on his mind ought not to go t# the front-line trenches. He will be crnzy inside of a month. The best way Js not to care whether It rnlns or snows: there are plenty of Important things to I worry about. CHAPTER VIII. On Runner 8ervlce. One night a man named Rnrtel and I were detailed for runner service and j were instructed to go to DIxniude and i deliver certain dispatches to a man whom I will call the burgomaster and report to the branch stuff headquarters that had been secretly located In another pnrt of town. We were to travel In an automobile and keep a sharp watch as we went, for Dlxmude was being contested hotly at that time and German patrols were In the neigh- | borhood. No one knew exactly where they would break out next. So we started out from the thirdline trenches, hut very shortly one of our outposts stopped us. Bartel carried the dispatches and drove the car too, so It was up to me to explain things to the sentries. They were convinced after a hit of arguing. Just as we were leaving a message came over the phone from our commander, telling them to hold us when we came. .'It was lucky they stopped us, for otherwise we would have been out of reach by the time his message came. ! The commander told me, over tho tele- { phone, that If a French flag flew over ' the town the coaRt would he cleaf; If a ; Belgian, that our forces were either In control or were about to takd over the place but that Germans patrols , were near. After this we started again. i When we had passed the last post i we kept a sharp lookout for the flag | j on the pole of the old fish market, for ( by this we would get our hearings? ; 1 and perhaps, If It should he a German I Aug, a timely warning. But after we were down the road a bit and had got clear we saw a Belgian flag whipping nround In a good, strong breeze. But while that showed that our troops or . the British were about to take over the place It also indicated that the Germans were somewhere near by. Which was not so cheerful. As we went through the suburbs along the cnnnl which runs on the edge of the town we found that all i the houses wore battered up. We tried to ball several heads that stuck themselves out of the spaces between buildings and stuck themselves back Just as quickly, but we could not get nn answer. Finally we got hold of a man who came out from a little > cafe. He told us that the Hermans had been through the town and hnd shot t up considerably, killing and woundMig u few Inhabitants, but that shortly afterward a small force of Belgian i cavalry had arrived and driven the Bocheg out. The Germnns were expected either to return or begin a bombardment at any moment and all the Inhabitants who sported cellnrs were , hiding In them. The rest were trying I to.get out of town with their belongings as host they could. , 0n reaching our objective we made straight for the Hotel de Vllle, where ' we were admitted and after a short wait taken to the burgomaster. We . questioned hint as to news, for we hnd been Instructed to pick up any Information he might have as to conditions. But we did not get much, for he could I not get about because of the Germans, who hnd made It a policy to terrorize the people of the town. t We had Just got Into the car and , I were about to start-when the burgo master himself came running out. He ordered us to leave the car there and said he would direct us where to go. He Insisted that we go on foot, but I could not understand when he tried to explain why. Wo 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 and small red flags on Iron staves were stuck between the cobblestones, as warnings not to pot 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. We told him all we could und in 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 wo 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 of a different kind from any I had heard before, and we arid the bed rocked about, like a canoe In the wake of a stern-wheeler. i There were seven more explosions, i and then they stopped, though we i could hear the rattle of a machine gun at some distance away. Bnrtel snld It i must be the forts, and after some urgu- 1 ment I agreed with him. He said that ' the Germans must have tried an ad- j vance under cover of a bombardment, j and that as soon as the forts got Into | action the Germans breezed. We were not worried much, so we did not get i out of bed. 1 A few minutes later we heard foot- i steps on the roof, and then a woman ; In a window across the street, asking i a genuurrae whether It was safe to go bock to bed. Then I got up and took | a look Into the street. There were a lot of people standing around talking, but It was not Interesting enough to keep a tired man up, so Into the hay. It seemed about the middle of the I night when Bartel called me, but he said It was time to get out and get to work. We found he had made a poor guess, for when we were half dressed he looked at his wutch and It was only I a quarter past seven, but we decided; ( to stay up, since we were that far j j along, and then go down and cruise for ] a breakfast. | When we got downstairs and found some of the hotel people It took them a long time to get It through our heads that there had been some real excitement during the night. The explosions were those of bomhs dropped by a Zeppelin, which hud sailed over the city. | The first bomb had fallen less than two hundred yards from where we slept. No wonder the bed rocked I It had struck a narrow three-story house around the corner from the hotel, and ; | hod blown It to bits. Ten people had been killed outright. And a number died later. The bomb tore a fine hole and hurled pieces of Itself several hundred yards. The street Itself was Oiled with rocks, and a number of houses were down, and othors wrecked. 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. 1 We learned that the Zepp 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 Zcdd trot . - - t out of range of the guns that were be- , log set for the attack. j The last bomb had struck In a large s square. It tore a hole in the coblestone pavement about thirty feet square and five feet deep. Every win- ' dow on the square wus smnshed. The fronts of the houses were riddled with various sized holes. All the crockery and china and mirrors in the house were in frugments. Not much more than an hour before the Zepp came, we had been sitting in a room ut the house of the local military commandant, right under a big glass-dome skylight. This house was J now a very pretty ruin, and it was Just j as well that we left when we did. You could not even tlnd a splinter of the big round table. The next time I sit under a glass skylight In Dtxmude, I wunt a lad wLth a II/e eye for Zeppelins on guurd outside. Something about the branch headquarters ruins made us think of breakfast, which we had fergotten, so hack to the hotel. Then we started buck to our lines. We were ordered to keep to the muin road all the way bnck, or we would be shot on sight, and to report to headquarters immediately on our return. I thought If the sight of me was so distasteful to anybody, I would not take the chance of offending, being anxious to he polite in such cases. So we stuck to the main roud. Fritz did not give us any trouble and j wo were back by five, with all hands out to greet 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 Dlxmude, I saw many living men and women and children who had been mutilated by the Germans, but most of them were women and children. Almost every one of the mutilated men was too old for military service. The others had been killed, I guess. Hut the Belgians were not the only ones who had suffered from German kultur. Many French wounded were tortured by the Huns, and we were constantly finding the mutilated bodies of our troops. It was thought that the Germans often mutilated a dead body as an example to the living. The Germans had absolutely no respect whatever for the Red Cross. For instance, they captured a wagon loaded with forty French wounded, and shot every one of them. I saw the , dead bodies. When the Germans came to Dix 5 We Were Constantly Finding the Mutilated Bodies of Our Troops. mude they got all the men and women and children and made them march before them with their hands In the fill*. Thn.QA trhn HIH nnf nrnrn lrnnnlrA^ I down. After a while some of them saw what they were going to get, and being as game sports as I ever heard of, tried to fight. They were finished off at once, of course. The former burgomaster had been Bhot and finished off with on ax, though he had not resisted, because he wanted to save the lives of his cltlEens. They told me of one case, In Dlxmude, whore a man cume out of his house, trying to carry his father, a man of eighty, to the square, where they were ordered to report. The old man could not raise his hands, so they dragged his son away from him, knocked the old man in the head with an ax, and left him there to die. Thost who were spured were mude to dig the gruves for the others. There was a doctor there In Dlxrnude, who certainly deserves a military cross If any man ever did. He was called from his house by the Germans at ,r> :30 one morning. He left his wife, who had hud a baby two days before, In the house. He wns taken to the square, lined up against a wall with three other big men of the town. Then he saw his wife and baby being carried to the square on a mattress hy four Germans. He begged to be allowed to kiss his wife good-by, and they grnnted him permission. As he stepped awuy, there wns a rattle and the other men went West. They shot tilm, too, but though he was riddled ( with bullets ho lived, somehow, and begged the German officer to let him * iccompany his wife to the prison where they were taking her. This was granted too, but on the way, they beard the sound of firing. The soldiers pelled, "Die Frnnzosen!" and dropped the mattress and ran. Hut It was only some of their own butchers at work. Doctor Laurent carried his wife and 1 baby to an old aqueduct that was being , rebuilt by the creek. There they lived for three days and three nights, on the few herbs and the ftmter thut Doctor I Laurent sneaked out un<l got ut night, u Doctor Laurent says that when the jlermans killed and crucified the civilians at Dlxmude, they first robbed l' them of their watches, pocketbooks, rings and other things. There was a Madame Tllmans there, who had had three thousand francs stolen from her ind was misused besides. These were Just a very few of the things that happened at Just one place ivii?*re me uermuns got to work with :helr "kultur." So you can picture the Belgians agreeing on a German peace, vhlle there Is a Belgian alive to argue ibout It. They will remember the Gornans a long time, I think. Ilut they ?eed not worry: there are a lot of ua f vho will not forget, either. 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