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' DOT Albert RDepQ - PC'GUNNER AND CHIEF PE1 MEMBER* OF THE FOREIGr CAPTAIN GUN TURRET. FREN WINNER OF THE CI * ? - wcjyrva WIS. fey ?n4 Brawn Co. THwrfi Sptokl A & ,' 6YN0P8I8. CHAPTER I?Albert N. Dcpew, author Ot the story, enlists In the United States navy, sorving four yearn and attaining ? the rank of chief petty officer, first-clous gunner. CHAPTER II?The groat war starts soon after he la honorably discharged from the navy and he soils for France With a determination to enlist. CHAPTER HI?He Joins the Foreign Legion and Is assigned to the dreadnought Car sard where his marksmanship wins him high honors. w CHAPTER IV?Dcpcw is detached from his ship and sent with a regiment of the " . Legion to Flanuers where lie soon finds himself In the front line trenches. CHAPTER V?He Is detailed to the artillery and makes the acquaintance of the , "iC's , the wonderful French guns that j have saved the day for the allies on many i a batlh field. Before seeing any uctlon, he , Is ordered hack to his regiment In thG j front line trenches. CHAPTER VI?Depew goes "over the J top" und "gets" his first German In a bay- ! onot fight. CHAPTER VII?Ills company takes part In another raid on the German trenches and Buortly afterward assists In stopping \ a fierce charge of the Hons, who urc mowed down as they cross No Man's Lund. - CHAPTER VIII?Sent to Dlxmudo with dispatches, l)?pew hi caught In a Zeppelin raid, but escapes unhurt. CHAPTER IX?lie is shot through the thigh In a brush with the Germans and Is sent to a hospital, where he quickly recovers. CHAPTER X?Ordered hack to sea duty, Dtpew rejoins the Cnssnid, which makes rcverul trips to the Dardanelles as a convoy. The Cassur-l Is almost haltered to QicceH hv the Turkish batteries. CHAPTER IX. Laid Up .'or Repairs. On(- n'.phl, m'tf. 1 iiuti Inm ?t Dl*mu-lo r.c al??ui thrcti weeks, we niiitlo a charge In tin* fare of a very heavy Eri. Our cayt.il n always stood at the para pel wle-n we were going ove r, and made the sign of the cross and shouted, "For God and France." Then we would J* For God and France. go over. Our officers always led us, but I have never seen a Gerninn ofllcer lend a charge. They always were behind their men, driving Instead of leading. I do not believe they are as brave as they are snld to he. Well, we went over this time, and the machine guns were certainly going It strong. We were pretty sore about the chaplnln and the Swiss and all that, and we put tip an awful light, but we could not make It and had to come back. Only one company reached the Boehe trenches and not a man of It came hack who had not been wounded on the wny and did not reach the trench. They were Just wiped out. The captain was missing, too. We thought he was done for, but about two o'clock In the morning, he came back. lie simply fell over into" the trench, -all In. He had been wounded four times, and had lnln In a shell crater full of water for several hours. He would not go hack for treatment then, and when daylight came, It was too late, because we were practically cut off by artillery fire behind the front lino trenches. When daylight came, the artillery Are- opened up right on us, ami the Germans had advanced their lines into Some trenches formerly held by us and hardly forty-live yards away. We received bombs and shells right in our faces. A Tunisian In our company got crazy, and ran hnck over the parados. He ran a few yards, then stopped and looked hack at us. I think lie was coming to his senses, and would have started back to us. Then the spot where he had boon was empty, find a second later his body from the chest down fell not three yards from the parados. I do not know whore the top part went. That same shell out a groove In the low hilltop before It exploded. He hnd been hit by a big ;v' ahflll, and absolutely cut in two. I have seen thla happen to four men, but th\s wag the only one In France. About seven o'clock, we received reenforcecnentg, and poured fresh troops over and retook the trench. No sooner had wed entered It, however, than the Gcrmni|l turned their artillery on us, not evci waiting for their own troops to retlrl safely. They killed numbers SB of thelrjlwn men In this way. Rut the Are wniao heavy that, when they counter-attajBed, we had to retire agalu, and thjftlme they kept after an and Grove beyond the trench wf Uft<l ^ LEGION OF FRANCE CH BATTLESHIP CASSAKD^r ROIX DE GUERRE "1?1W* <h> Cwn Wirfimi Ad?i twW originally occupied. We left them there, with our artillery taking care of them, and our machine guns trying to enfilade-them, and moved to the right. There was a bunch of trees there, about like a small woods, and as we passed the Germans concealed in It opened fire on us, and we retired to some reserve trenclic". We were pretty much scattered by this time, and badly cut up. We reformed there, and were Joined by other of our iruups, in smau groups?what was left of squads and platoons and singly. Our captain had got It a fifth time, meanwhile, but he would not leave us. us he was the ranking otllccr. He had a sealp wound, but the others were In his nrms and shoulders, lie could not move his hands at all. Iiut he led our charge when we ran for the woods. We carried some machine guns with us as we went, and the gunners would run a piece, set up, fire while we opened up for them, and run on again. Some troops came out of a trench still farther to the right and helped us, and we drove the Germans out of the woods and occupied It ourselves. From there, we had the Germans In our old trench nlinost directly from the rear, and we simply cleaned them out. I think nil tlie vows were kept that day, or else the men who made them died first. I was shot through the thigh some time or other nftir the captain got back. It felt .iust like a noedle-prh I: at first, and then for a while my leg was iiumh. A couple of hours after we took our trench hack, I started out for the rear and hospital. The wound had been hurting for some time. They carried the captain out on a stretcher about the same time, hut he died on the way from loss of blood. Fresh troops came up to relieve us, hut our men refused to go, and though otlieiall.v they were not there in the trench, they stayed until they took the captain away. Then, hack to billets?not bullets, this time. 1 believe that we received an army citation for that piece of work, but I do not know, as 1 was In the hospital for a short time afterward. I do not remember much about going to the hospital except that the ambulance made un awful racket going over the stone-paved streets of Etuples, and that the bearer who picked up ono end of my stretcher, had eyes like dead fish floating on water; also, that there were some civvies standing around the entrance as we were being carried in. Th? first thing they do in the hospital Is to take off your old dirty bandages and slide your stretcher under a big electric magnet. A doctor comes lu and places his hand over your wound, and they let down the magnet over his hand and turn on the Juice. If the shell fragment or bullet In you is more than seven centimeters deep, you cannot feel the puln. The first doctor reports to *he chief hoTv deep your wound Is, and where It Is situated, and then a nurse comes up to you, where you He, with your clothes stllf on, and asks you to take the "pressure." Then they lift you on a four-wheeled Clirt. find roll vnn fn tho An?i*oHnrr nter. They take off your clothes there. I remember I liked to look at the nurses and surgeons; they looked so good In fhelr clean white clothes. Then they stick hollow needles Into you, which hurt a good deal, and you take the pressure. After a while, they begin cutting away the bruised und maybe rotten flesh, removing the old cloth, pieces of dirt, and so forth, and scraping away the splinters of bone. You think for sure you ure going to bleed to death. The blood rushes through you like lightning, and If you get a sight of yourself, you eun feel yourself turning pale. Then they hurry ou to your bed, und cover you over vlth hlunke's and hot-water bottles. They raise your bed on chairs, so the blood will run up toward your head, and after a while, your eyes open and the doctor says, "Oul, oul, 11 vlvra," meaning that you still had some thus to spend before Anally going west. The treatment we got In the hospital was greut. We received cigarettes, tobucco, matches, magazines, and clean clothes. The men do not talk about their wounds much, and everybody tries to be happy and show It. The food was fine, and there was lots of it. I do not think there were any doctors in the world better than ours, and they were always trying to make things easy for us. They did not rip the dressings off your wounds like nine of the butchers do In some of our dispensaries that I know of, but took them off carefully. Everything was very ciean ana sanitary, and some of tlie hospitals had sun parlors, which were well used, you cun be sure. Some of the men made toys and fancy articles, such as button hooks .ind paper knives. They made the handles from empty shell eases, or shrapnel, or pieces of Zeppelins, or anything else picked up along the front. When they are getting well, the men learn harness making, mechanical druwing, telegraphy, gardening, poultry raising, typewriting, bookkeeping and the men teach the nurses how to make canes out of shell cases, and rings of aluminum, and slippers and gloves ont of blankets. The nurses certainly work hard. They always have more to do than they ought to, but they never complain, and are always cheerful and ready to piny games when they have the time, C9ftit9J9B*?2ilU?- AfilUMCJUCk is pretty dirty too: I would not like i ! to have to do It. They eay there were ] lots of French society Indies working as nurses, but you never heard much 1 about society, or any talk about Lord i Helpus, or Count Whosls, or pink teas | or anything like that from these < nurses. , ; A few shells landed neur our hog- i 1 pltal, while I was there, but no patient : was hit. They knocked a shrine of Our ] Lady to splinters, though, and bowled over a big crucifix. The kitchen was near by, and it was Just the chef's luck l that he had walked over to our wurd , to see a pal of his, when a shell landed plumb In the ceuter of the kitchen, ] r.nd all you could see all over the bar- ] rucks was stew. ( That was a regular eatless day for : us, until they rigged up bogles and got some more dixies, and mixed up some cornmeal for us. The chef made up i for it the next day, though. The chef was a great little guy. He was a < "blesse" himself, and I guess his atom- ] ach sympathized with ours. < There was a Frenchman In the bed ( next to me who had the whole side of j his face torn off. He told me he hud ? been next to a bomber, who had Just lit a fuse and did not think It was ; burning fust enough, so he blew on It. i It burned fast enough after that, and \ there he was. | . There was a Belgian In one of the < uher wards, whom I got to know pretty I well, and he would often come over ind visit me. He asked many ques- i Ions about Dixmude, for he had had i elntlves there, though he had lost rack of them. He often tried to decrlbe the house they had lived in, so hat I might tell him whether It was I 111 standing or not, but I could not ( member tlio place he spoke of. Durig our talks, he told me about many ..troclties. Some of the things he told no I had heard before, and some of hem I heard of afterward. Here are <mne things that he either suw or heard of from victims: Ho said that when the Germans entered the town of St. Quentln, they started firing Into the windows as they passed along. First, ufter they had occupied the town, taey bayoneted every worklnginan they could find. Then they took about half of the children that they could find, and kii'ed ther ( > ith their musket butts. After f ( they :n*v.ehed the remainder of t'ae dren and the women to lewhere tliey hod lined Ui> a Cltir.cns against a v.ulT. The women bad children were toll that If they moved, they would all be shot. Another fih? of men was brought up, and made to kneel In front of the other rnon against the wall. The women and children began to beg for the lives of the men, and many Women and Children Begged for the i Lives of the Men. of them wore knocked In the head with ' gun buttf* before they stopped. Then the Germans tired at the double rank of men. After three volleys, there were eighty-four dead and twenty wounded. Most of the wounded they then killed with axes, but somehow, three or four escaped by hiding under the bodies of others und playing dead, though the ofllcers walked up and down firing their revolvers Into the piles of bodies. The next day the Germans went thrdugh the wine cellars, and shot nil the Inhabitants they found hiding there. A lot of pec. ie, who had taken refuge In a factory over night, decided to come out with a white ting. They were allowed to think that the white fiag would be respected, but no sooner i were they all out than they were seized and the women publicly violated in the ! square, ufter widt h the men were shot. A paralytic was shot as he sat in bis arm-chair, nnd a hoy of fourteen was token by the legs and pulled apart. At one place, a man was tied by the . arms to the celling of his room nnd set ' afire. Ills trunk was completely car- ! bonlzed, but his head and nrms were unburned. At the same place, the body of a fifteen-year-old boy was found, plowed by more than twenty bayonet thrusts. Other dead were ( found with their hnnds still In the air, | leaning up against walls. At another place the Germans ' shelled the town for a day, nnd then entered nnd sacked It. The women 1 nnd children were turned loose, with- j out being allowed to take anything j 1 with them, and forced to leave the ' 1 town. Nearly five hundred men were t deported to Germany. Three, who 1 I were almost exhausted by hunger, tried 11 to escape. They were bayoneted and : 1 clubbed to death. Twelve men, who j had taken refuge In a farm, were tied together and shot In a mass. Another < group of six wera tied together and shot, after the Germans had put out ] their eyes and tortured them with 1 bayonets. Three others were brought j before their wives and children and 1 mibered. J j The Belgian told me he was at Na- i mur when the Germans began shelling i it. The bombardment lasted the whole i of August 21 and 22, 1014. They con- j tered their Are on the prison, the hoe- ' pltal, ,and the railway station. They i entered the town at four o'clock in the i afternoon of August 28. During the ] first twenty-four hours, they behaved < themselves, but on the 24th they began ; 4 grtog at W0R9 plW?0? ftn4 ??t j ? fir* fo different houses on live of the principal squares. Then they ordered every one to leave his house, and those who did not were shot. The others, about four hundred In all, were drawn up In front of the church, close to the river hank. The Belgian said he could never forget how they all looked. "I can remember Just how It was," he said. "There were eight men, whom I knew very well, standing In a row with several priests. Next came two good friends of mine nnmed Balbau and Gulllaume, with Balbau's seventeen-year-old son; then two meu who had taken refuge In a barn and hud been discovered and blinded; then two other men whom I had never seen bofore. "It was awful to see the way the women were crying?'Shoot me too, ihoot me with my husband." "The men were lined up on the edge of the hollow, which runs from the high road to the bottom of the village. One of them was leaning on the shoulders of an old priest, and he was crying, 'I am too young?I can't face dcuth bravely.' "I couldn't benr the sight any longer. [ turned my back to the road and covered my eyes. I heard the volley and the bodies falling. Then some one cried, 'Look, they're all down.' But n few escaped." This Belgian had escaped by hiding ?he could not remember how many days?In an old cart filled with manure and rubbish, lie had chewed old hides for food, had swam across the river, and hid in a mud hank for almost a week longer, and finally got to France. lie took It very hnrd when we talked about Dixmude, and I told him that the old cliuren was just shot to pieces. He asked about a painting called Who "Adoration of the Magi," and one of the other prisoners told us It had been saved and transported to Germany. If that Is true, and they do not destroy It. meanwhile, we will get It buck, don't worry! My wound was Just a clean gunshot wound and not very serious, so, although It was not completely honied, they let mo go after three weeks. Hut before 1 went, I saw something that no man of us will ever forget. Some of them took vows Just like the men of the legion I have told about. One of the patients was a German doetor, who had been picked tip In No Man's Lund, very seriously wounded. He was given the same treatment as any of us, that Is, the very best, but finally, the doctors gave him up. They thought he would die slowly, and that It might take several weeks. Hut there was a nurse there, who took special interest In his case, and siio stayed up duy and night for some time and finally brought liim through. The case was very well known, and everybody said she hat:, performed a miracle. lie got better slowly. Then a few weeks later, when he was out of dancer and was nhle to walk, and it was only a question of tiino before he would be releused from the hospital, this nurse was transferred to another hospital. Everybody knew her and liked her, nnd when she went around to say good-by, all the men were sorry and gave her little presents, and wanted her to write to them. She was going to get a nurse she knew in the other hospital to turn her letters into English, 90 that sho could write to me. I gave her a ring I hud made from a piece of shell case, but I guess she had hundreds of them at thut. But this German doctor would not say good-by to her. That would not have made me sore, but it made this French girl feel very bnd, and she began to cry. One of the French ofllcers saw her and found out about the doctor, and the ofllcer went up and spoke to the German. Then the French officer left, and the German culled to the nurse nnd she went over to him and stopped crying. They talked for a little while, and then she put out her hands as If sho was going to leave, lie put out his n 1 And Then He Twisted Her Wrlete and Broke Them. hands, too, and took hold of hers. And lli> n ho twisted iier wrists and broke them. We heurd tho snap. There were men In that ward who hud not heen on foot since the day tliey eiyne to the hospital, and one of them was supposed to be dying, hut It Is an absolute fact that when we heard her screaiu, there was not a man left In hcd. I need not tell you what we did to the German. They did not need to shoot film, after we Kot through with hint. They did shoot what was left of him, to make sure, though. Now, I have heard people Bay that It Is not the Germans we are fighting, but the kaiser and his system. Well, It inny be true that some of the Roche Roldlers would not do these things If they did not have to: myself, I am not so sure. But you take this doctor. Here he was, an educated man, who had been trained all his life to help people who were In pain, and not to cause It And tie was not where he would have to >bey the kaiser or Any other German. And this nurse had faved his life. 80 I do not HI tfclt. Ulfttf-.il *0? HaaaSihii hi fAn rin --* - IWIWP^ippiP^ argument about it. lie "broke that ! girl's wrists because he wanted to; ! tlint Is all there Is to it. Now, I suy this German doctor was a dirty cur j and a scoundrel. But I say thut he is a fair sample of met of the Germans ! I have inet. And It Is Germuns of this j kind that we ure lighting?not merely the kaiser. j It is like going to college. I have 1 never been there, but I have heard I some people say It did not do a man I any good tQ go. But I have never j heard a man who went there say that. ' Probably you have not been over there, ! and maybe you think we are not light- ' lng the German people, but only the I kjijser and Ids flunkeys. Well, nobody hud better tell me that. ; Because I have been there, and I have j seen this. And I know. * CHAPTER X. | Hell at Gallipoll. After I was discharged from the hospital. I was ordered to report to my ! ship at Brest for seu duty. The boys aboard the Cassard gave j me a hearty welcome, especially Mur- | ray, who had come back after two Weeks in the trendies at Dixinude. ; was glad to see them, too, for after all, i they were garbles, and I always feel j more at home with th,??,i I dlers. Then, It was pretty rough stuff 1 at Dixmude, and uffer resting uj> at the hospital, I was keen on Ruing to j' sea again. I ' The Cassard was in dry dork for re j' pairs after her last voyage to the Dardanelles as convoy to the troopship ' Ihiplelx. Kvery'tiling was being rushed to get her out as soon as possible, and 1 Crews were working day and night, j ' There were other ships there too??ii- !' perdrciulnaughts, and dreadnoughts, j i and battleships, and armored cruisers, j' all being overhauled. We received and placed guns of 1 ] newer design, lllled the magazines with | the highest explosives known to naval use, and generally made ready for a hard Job. Our magazines were lllled with shells for our big 12 and 14-Inch guns. A 14-lneh shell can tear a hole through the heaviest armor plate at 12.000 yards, and will do more damage j than you would think. When we lmd (sailed and had got our stores aboard, we dressed for ne- ' tlon?or rather, undressed. The decks were clear; hatch covers bolted and davits folded down; furniture, chests, | tallies, chairs were sent ashore, and In- j ' Untamable gear, like our rope humI mocks, went overboard. You could not find a single wooden chair or table j | in the ward room. When the ship is cleared for action, a shell bursting Inside cannot lino much to set nllre, and if one hursts on deck, there Is nothing to burn hut the wooden deck, and that Is covered with steel plate. | Finally, we had roll call?all men j present. Then we set sail for tin I Dardanelles as escort to the Duph'lx, which had on board territorial and ' provincial French troops?(lascons. I Parisians, Normans, Indo-Chinese. ) Spalits, Turcos?all kinds. When we j messed, we hud to squat down on the j Citonl rt?/*nn - -1 *- " * oi.cci lucoa ut'CIL 1U1U t'UC ITOID IlH'iai plutcs. There hnd boon n notice posted be- > fore we left that the Zeppelins had be- ! pun Ron raids, and we kept n Nve eye | out for them. The news proved to he j n fake, though, and we did not see a single cigar while we were out. We made the trip to the Dardanelles without sighting un enemy craft, keep- ; Ing In close touch with the Dupleix, [ and busy every minute preparing for action. I was made gun captain and given chnrge of the starboard bow turret, mounting two 14-lneh guns. I had my men at gun practice dally, and by the time we neared the Dardanelles, after five days, they were In pretty fulr shape. i It was about 5 a. m. when we drew near Cape Holies and took stations for action. The Dupleix wns In front of us. The batteries on the cape opened up on us, and In a few minutes later those at Kum Kaleh Joined In. As the Dnplelx made for "V" beach and prepared to laud her troops, we ' swung broudslde on, raking their batteries as we <Jld so, nnd received n , I shell, which entered through a gun j port In the after turret and exploded. Some bngs of powder stored th?-re (where they should never have been) j were fired nnd the roof of the turret | was Just lifted off. It landed on deck, j ; tilted up against the side of the tur- t 1 - _ * 1 ret. I On deck the ruin of fire was simply | : terrific. Steel llow In nil directions.. . It was smash, crash, slum-bang all , : the time, and I do not mind saying I ! never thought we would conic out 1 of It. Some of the heavy armor plate up forward was shot away and after that the old Cnssurd looked more like a monitor than anything else to me. As we drew nearer the shore they began livlnc ahrn nnnl An no r..wl ' ? ? ~ ? uu uo IUUI ill II?? lllllir i nt nil our funnels were shot full of I holes and n sieve was watertight coin- [ pared to them. Naturally we were not Just taking | all this punishment without any come- ] hack. Our guns were at It fast and i from the way the fire slackened In I certain places we knew we were mnk- 1 Ing It effective. My guns did for two J enemy pieces that I know of, nnd perhaps several others. ' The French garbles were n good | deal more excited In action than I ; thought they would he. They were dodging around below decks, trying to miss the shrapnel thut came aboard, shouting, swearing, singing? hut lighting hard, at that. They stood the gafT Just as well us any other garbles would, only In their own sweet way?which Is noisy enough, believe me. One of our seamen was hit 130 times by fragments of shrapnel, so you can see what they were up ugnlnRt In the dodging line. A gun turret In action is not exactly the best place on earth for a nervous man nor one who likes his comfort. There Is an awful lot of heat and noise and smell and work, all the time In a fighting gun turret. Hut during an engagement I would rather be In a gun turret every time tliun between decks. At that, If anything does happen In a turret?it Is good night sure for all, and no rain chaclu) ] PERUNA v No sufferer from catarrh | of the stomach can read Mrs. Van lJuren's letter * without a feeling of thank- I fulness. ^ "I have spent a Rreat deal of moticy with doctor* for catarrh of the atomnch and at time* have been compelled to fjlve up my J' housework for days. For years I (11(1 not know wln<t n well day t wilt and cannot help but feel that I would not he alive to-day had I not been induced to try Peruua. Ms bottle* of l'eruna made me u well womiu.'1 needed. One of our Junior lieutenants was 1 struck by a fragment of shell as he was at Ills stilt ion behind the wheel- 1 house and a niece of his skull was ' driven Into his brain. He was cur- ] ried Into my gun turret, but he ! would not let tliein take him to fdck | bay to have Ids wound dressed. There | 1 he sat, asking every now and then | how the right was going and then sort j 1 o? dozing off for a while. ! ' After half an hour of action wc put about nnd started n\ ay, still firing. As a parting slap on the bnek the l'urks tore off one of oar big-gun tur- . Pets, and then away v.e went, hack to [trest with a casualty list of only 15. We did not have much trouhle guessing that it was dry dock for us attain. We r ' hack to Brest sifter n quiet ravage, patching ourselves up where kvo could on the way, and attain there was the rush work, day and night, t>> get into shape and do it over again. Fhcy turned us out In 12 days and ht'.elt we went to the Turks and their Hun assistants. ' We were lucky getting Inshore, only receiving a nasty smash astern, wuen the Turks got our range and landed two peaches before we got out. We nearly tore our rudder olT getting uway. But we had to come hack right a ay, because we had carried quite ^ ' i Gunner Dcpcw fn French Sailor Unl* I Torm. n number of heavy guns from Brest and were given the Job of running them ashore. It was day and night work :tnd a great Job for fun, because, while you never knew when you would get to, you had good reason to feel you would get lammed by a cute little shell or a dainty bit of shrapnel before the Job was over. Aboard ship it was deck work, of course, and it \vn not much better there than ashore with the guns, because the enemy trenches were near ; the shore and they amused them- i S( Ives trying to pick ns off whenever we showed on deck. I guess we were ! I a regular shooting gallery for them, 5 ' and some of our men thought they : did net need all the practice they were getting, for quite a few of us & r1 I p TJiT. 'DISAL'L!" OvlSCN" (,. T U Ai? iwsi gjj last wor jjlj ^UiiAHCE PROYEl tlUnder the Soulhc m ( ump.-.ny "DitaL:.'ii | fa \ : ' in," payrr.cnt of Hi fi; v|y ccfttc upon n ni di-ability, :.n !??. /* the iniui'F.J r.n I* tiu f.-.te of int-iC [U ninoiint of the monthly. i Chesterfield L< IC. C. DOUGLj ALSO FIRE, ACCIDENT, HE/' INSUR/ We Buy u?d Sell Real _ m*mBaainT2225SM225|S5F lade Me a hflHttj Cnow a. g^HHH Mm. Mitttn A. TuBnti, IT ris;hliin<l 8t., Grand Kftplda, lleh., I'aat Commander Valley liy Hive, U O. T. M. l.luuld * raklrt K?ru K?M Krrrywher? | icted as bull's eyes. But we did not mind the bullets so nuch. Chey make u clean wound or ?ut you uway <*utlrely; shrapnel tears you up and can pluy all kinds if tricks with various parts of your body without killing you. As for shells?well, mincemeat Is the word. The Narrows were thick with mines and there liud been a great deal ol damage done there, so after a while tlie British detailed their Yarmouth trawlers to go In and sweep up. They tiad to go up unprotected, of course, and they started off one night all serene. Everything went well until they turned at the Nurrows and started hack. Then, before you could tell It live or six searchlights were playing on one of Ihe trawlers and shelli were splashing the water all over her Both banks were simply hanging awnj point blank at them and I nevei thought they would get back. They did get back, though, bui pome of them had hardly enough mer left to work ship. But that Is llk? the Limeys. They will get back fron anywhere while there Is one mat alive. A cliap aboard one of the trawlen said a shell went through the wheel house between the quartermaster ant himself nnd all the Q. M. said was 'flaw blimey, that tickled." "But I Know their shooting wni very had," snld the other chap to me "Tlfose Turks must have thought th? flue was behind them." Coming back from the Dardanelles n gold stripe sent for me and askot me whether I thought there wen other ex-navy gunners in the Statoi that* would serve with the French I told them the country was full o good gunners and he wanted me t< write to all I knew nnd get them t? come over. He did not menn by this nnd neither do I, that there were no good gunners In the French navy, be cause there were?lots of them. Bu you cau never have too many hand; hoys with the guns and he was ver; anxious for me to get all I could. ii..<i nw v> ui rcucuuig uie ex-garons I did know, so I hud to pnss up thlt opportunity to recruit by mull. Wlille we were in Brest I got pel mission to go aboard u subraarinand a petty otilcer showed me around This was the ilrst time 1 was in thinterior of a sub and I told the office that I would like to take a spin in th> tuli myself. He introduced me to th. commander, but the petty officer sab he did not think they would let nv stay aboard. I showed the com mander my passport and talked fe him for a while, and he said h would take tue on their practlc cruise two days later If the Old Mat gave me written permission. (To Be Continued) FOR SALE OR RENT ..mail Kami e >. taining 115 acres, ' miies south of Clieraw; 7 miles r.. t'hcsteriield; good new house .ad i.u.buildings, on S.A.L. R.R., half nila from Kimberly station. Rural nail route and church and school landy; good lard for cotton, corn or ohacco; 'J'J acres in cotton this year, iar.rain for quick sale. It. A. MELTON. Ch. raw, R.F.D. 1 2t-lp =1 rY iINSURANCE P ME SOUTHEs N r COMPANY iS D IN LII E IN- l! ition. \ I in I.ire ftniS Trust y In.'ui'Rn-." Propremiums irnmelo?. il nnd pcrn-a<1 tin; Company inco np for life At nth of ilir fa.* policy, p )an U Ins. Co. \SS, Manager VLT1I, HAIL, LIVE STOCK lNCE EitiU?Money Loaned