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- nu , , . I J I? 3M mmmmmm mmmm* Gunner I W. Depew I ???????? s !Bu = jQlbcrt tfC <Dcp W | ^s. N?r^ ?4gfiE 1 wSmm Cr?l*?f? oTatnl E mrnmnninTTnTTTnTnTnnnTiminnri.n (Conneud Prom Last Waak) Then the Hans begun shelling and they kept It up for some time. Then they ordered us up on deck to see the ship they hud been firing at and when we came up the companion The Huns Were Running Up and nAU? n?1. w?v?l * ?ll? i/CVW? wny they were Just bringing the other fhlp's skipper aboard. It was the French collier St. Theodore, hove to off the starboard side with a prize crew from the Moewe aboard and wigwagging to the raider. Then the Hons began ahonting and they rousted ua below deck again. The place where we had been waa filled with arooke, from what or why I do Hot know, but it was almost impossible to breathe In it. When the smoke cleared up a bit the Marathon . started again, for we were still In our underwear only. One of the boys had asked Fritz for clothing and Fritz sold the English had tough enough skins and they did not need clothing. Then he said: "Walt until yon see what our German winters are like." The following morning the engines began to tear away again and the guns started firing. After a while the firing stopped and the engines too, and aftor an hour they had the old man of the Ynrrowdale aboard. She was a British ship chartered by the French . and bound for Brest and Liverpool - with a very valuable cargo aboard? t Airplanes, ammunition, food and auto2-ipabiles. \V^hen they rousted us on deck again ttth?f|t. Theodore was still In sight, but t ahe'h^d the Yarrowdale for company. 2 Both were trailing behind us and keep; Ing pretty close en. While we were ? on deck we saw the German sailors at - work on the main deck making about : ten rafts and when they began to place i tins of hardtack on the rafts, a tin to . each* we imagined they were going to 1 heave ua over the aide and let na go . on the raft*. But Instead they began telling nt we would land In the 8tates and then they rousted us between eftecks again. We had only been there a short time When some of the German officers cama down and asked if any of the men WOQld volunteer to go firing on the _ 'vrowdale and we almost mobbed J* n to take us. They began putting y"5'" the names of the men who were 7?^ ud I talked them Into putting to go a ^ ^ Then i felt about mine do\ ^ Hghter un ^came nn<i ^that ^me Five o'cloc. n to do any worrylnK. I had forgotte. ? nguai rations and ? We received ou. ^ voInnteered tig. ?* . * fe^lve clothes tired that we wouk TO, nn offlcer and shoes. In the mo rend out tho came down below and ^ nn(1 1 - ot those who we|! .,led m|ne felt even lighter when he c. d We were each given a life . mustered on deck. The sea was pretty nasty and i of the men had narrow escapes fr? falling between the Moewe and ttu lifeboats when the swells rocked us. One man fell from the ladder and broke his neck on the gunwale of the lifeboat. They took over boat after boat to the Yarrowdate nntll finally we were all there. Then they mustered ns on deck and warned us not to tart anything, because they had a time bomb In the engine room and two on the bridge. Meantime they had brought over several boatloads of hard* tack and we threw It Into No. 8 hold. This was to be our food for some time. Ir I CHAPT1R XVII. Landed In Germany. They had a coolie crew oo the Tan-rowdale and when they rooted them on deck the coolies be Ken to pray, and though It la nothing to laugh at I could not help but chuckle at the way some of them went about talking to their various gods. They were beginning to i. amell dangdk and were pretty nervous. Dvery one ?f the coolies had a cane t nad a pair of Palm Beach trousers. The Buns were loading them In the f lifeboats to be taken back to the Moewe with their sea bags and one of them got too nervous and was slow about getting into IBs lifeboat, no the .. Germans shot him without saying a ** * 1 1 . ; - UL , II " I. I" ' ' ' ' | Thenthe Germans called out the names of those who had volunteered to I go stoking and thla Included me. We were drilled down the flddley Into the fire room. The flddley Is a shaft that runs from the main deck of a ship to the engine room. I looked around a bit and caw a German standing not very far from the flddley. so I asked him If we would be given shoes. He aald no. Then I asked htm If we had to fire In oar fare feet and he said yes?that we did not need shoes. Then he went Into the engine room. I looked at the narrow passage he went through and at the narrow passage of the flddley to the main deck and I talked to my feet like I used to "Feet, Do Your Duty." it Dlxmude. I said: "Feet, do your luty." They did it and I flew up the Iddley. I never wanted to see that itoke hole again. I sneaked np to where the rest of '.he fellows were and the guards Irilled us Into No. 4 hold. There was nothing but ammunition In it. Tliey >attened the hatches down on us, which made the hold waterproof. And is that made It practically airtight the >nly air the 580 of us got was through die ventilators. That hold was certainly foul. They next day some of the men had ffot cigarettes somewhere. In a few minutes they as well as the rest had it up and were puffing away In great ityle. I divided a cigarette with anither fellow. Remember, we were sltdng and stnndlng on ammunition all this time. It shows how much we lared whether school kept or not. The Germans saw the smoke coming out of the ventilators and they were crazy with fright A gang' of them laid below and rousted us out with whips. They lined us up on deck and read us the Hot act They drilled us down Into the coal bunkers. It was simply terrible there. Coal dust to breathe and eat and sleep on. Also, by this time some of the men had lost their heads completely; In fact, had gone violently crazy, and the rest of us were afraid of them. We were-, all thinking of the light that might occur any moment between the 'Yarrowdale and some other vessel and we knew wo were In the likeliest place for the vessel to be struck. Even though we were not hit amidships, If the shtp were sinking we did not think the Germans would give us a chance to escape. We figured from what they had said that we would go down with the ship. And going down on a ship In which you are a prisoner la quite different from going down with one for which you have been fighting. You arrive at the same place, bdt the feelIn? la different. Some of us thought of overpowering the crew and taking the vessel Into our own hands, and we got the rest of the sane or nearly sane men together and tried to get up a scheme for doing It. I was strong for the plan and so were several others, but the Limey officers who were with us advised against It. They suld the Germans were taking us to a neutral country, where we would be Interned, which was just what the Germans had told us, but what few of us believed. Then some others said that If we started anything the Germans would fire the time bombs. We replied that at least the Germans wonld go west with us, but they could not see thut there was any glory In that. For myself, I thought the Germans would not fire the bombs until the last minute, and that we would have a chance at the boats before they got all of us anyway. There were only thirteen German sailors on board, besides their commander. This last Hun was named Budewlts. 80 the pacifists ruled, becauso we could not do anything unless we wero all together, and there was no mutiny. They said we were hotlieads, the rest of us, but I still think we could have *oade a dash for It and overpowered T sentries, and either gone over the side th? lifeboats, or taken over the w "h?,e ?blp. It would hnve been better for we h?d tried, an(1 the pacl hHd known what was coming to UH they would have fired the time b ^rohs themselves rather than go on l.tto that^ future. How ever, uiai u sp? '* ?? We were not u*lowed to open#the porthole* while we were In the bunkr ! em, under penalty of death, and there In the dark. In that Btluklng air, It la no wonder many of ua went crazy. Am one o* WM a named Harrington, about hI* feet tall and weighing 290 pound*. He seemed to be all right mentally, hut aome of ua thought afterwards he was crazy. Anyway, I do not blame him for whut he did. Harrington rushed up the fiddle? and opened the door. There was a German sentry there, and Harrington made a awing at him and then grabbed hi* bayonet. The sentry yelled and some others came down from the bridge and shot Harrington through the hand. After they had beaten Harrington pretty badly, the dull of the bunch, Bndowtts himself, ouMorer and hammered Harrington Jto feck. TfeB Ifey.pgt ^ - r 1 - - Y ' hlra Id Iroos and took him to the chart room. The next day we were sitting In the ! flddley getting warm when the door opened and there was Badewlts. He yelled "Ileraust" and begun firing at us with a revolver, so we beat It back onto the coal. Pretty soon the door opened nraln. Rut It was only a German sentry. He threw down a note. It was written In English and read, "Pick out eight men for cooks.". So we picked out eight men from the various vessels and they went on deck and rigged up a galley aft. But we did not receive any knives, forks, spoons or plates. The first meal we got was nothing but macaroni, piled up on pieces of cardboard boxes. Then we appointed four men to serve the macaroni, and they got four pieces of wood, the cleanest we could find, which was not very clean at that, and they, dug around In the macaroni and divided It up and put It In our hands. We had to eat it after that from our grimy fingers. Thnuo wH/v i?a1-?-J n A * * * mvwv *?uu ttcic uciyeu ursi 11(1 U lO farthest back on the coal to eut it, and those who were helped last got ? less, because the dividers got more careful toward the end and gave mailer portions. But we did not get mncaronl very long. A cook from the Voltaire was cleaning a copper dixie tliut the macaroni had been cooked In, and he wus holding It over the^ side when the ves.sel rolled heavily, and dropped the dlxle Into the briny. A sentry who suw hliu drop It forced hlui up to Bndewltz, who began mauling him before the sentry even had told his story. After a while Badewltz Quit pounding the cook, and llsterfed to tho sentry. Then Badewltz said the cook had put a note in the dlxle before ho dropped It, so they beat him up again and put him In Irons. After that they sent the rest of the cooks back, and would not let them on deck again. I They had plenty of canned goods and | meat aboard, but they would not give I us any. Five of the men were burled at sea ! that day. More men were going mad every minute, and It wns a terrible place; pitch dark, grimy, loose coal underfoot, coal-dusty air to breathe, body-fllth everywhere. Some of the crazy men howled like dogs. But we were not as much afraid of these as we were of the others who kept still, but slipped around In the durk with lumps of coal In their hands. We got so we would not go near each J> * uuier iur iear ?'(! were running Into u crazy man. Those of us who were sane collected as neur the flddley as we could, und we would not let the others get nenr us, but shoved them buck or shied lumps of coul at them. And every once In a while some one of us would begin to act queer. Mnybe he would let out a howl suddenly, without uny warning. Or he would Just quit talking nml begin to sneak around. Or he would squut down and begin to mumble. We could oot tell None of Ue Wat Much Better Than a Beast. Just when a man hnd begun to lose his mind. He would seem Just like the reHt of us, because none of us was much bettor than a beast. We could not take turns sleeping and standing watch against the crazy men, because when we talked ubout It, we agreed that none of us could tell whether or not the sentries would go cruzy while on watch and bare the rest of us at their mercy. It wus awful to talk about going cruzy In this way, and to figure thnt you yourself might be the next, and that It was almost sure to happen If you tlld not get some sleep soon. Hut It was worse to find a man near you going, and have to boot him out with the other Insane men. The days passed like that, with nothing to do but sufTer, and starve and freeze. It got colder and colder, and all we could wrap ourselves In was the coal. We began to speculate on where we were. It wns not till later thnn an old skipper In our bunch told us that we had rounded the north era count of Iceland. Finally, one day, a lad yelled down "Land!" and we all dove for the llddley like wild men, and those who could get near enough looked out, and sure enough! there was the e??n}?t of Norway, very rugged nnd rocky and covered with anow. Wo thought It was all over then, and that we would be lauded at Bergen aure. Then there was the usual running around and yelling on deck, and we were not ho aure we would be landed, and very suddenly It got colder than ever. I waa In the flddley, aching to get out, and ready for anything that might happen, when the door opened suddenly and Badewltz grabbed me, and asked me in English If 1 wua a quartermaster. I said yes, and he pulled me by the arm to a cabin. I did not know what waa going to happen, but he took an ollakln from the wall and told me-to put It on. There were two Bailors there also, and they put life belts on. and then I was more puzzled than ever, and senred, too, because I thought maybe they were going to throw me overI board, though what that had to do with being a quartermaster I could | not see. But they drilled me up onto the bridge and told mo to toko the wheel. ""What" their Idea mia I do not know.I Possibly they wanted a noncombatant at the wheel in case they were overI hui^Ied by a neutral vessel. We were ' going full speed ut the time, but as soon as I took the wheel she cut down to half speed, und stuyed that way for hulf an hour. Then up to full speed again. Pretty sOon there was a tramp steamer on the sturboard bow, and almost before I euw It, there were two more sentries on each side of me, prodding me with their revolvers und 1 warning me to keep on the course. I They had clvllluu clothes on. Then we went through the Hkager Rack and Cattegat, which aro narrow strips of water leading to the Baltic, and we were only a mile from shore with vessels all about us. It would have been an easy thing for me to signal what our ship was and who were aboard, but they had six sentries on my neck all the time to keep mo from It. I never wunted to do anything worse In my life thuu Jump overboard or signal. But I would have been shot down before I had more than started to do either, so I just stayed with the wheel. We were nearlng one of tho Danish Islands In the Bultlc when we sighted a tug. She began to Hinoke I up and blow her siren. The sailors got very excited and ran around In crazy style, und Badewltz began shouting more orders thun they could get away with. The sentries left me and run with the rest of the Frltzles to the boat deck and started to lower one of th(? llfohnnfu Unf --1-4 I ...v .?vt/t'uwii *_?v?v Iiuucniuj ?U?) llglil on their heels uud kicked the whole bunch around In great shape, roaring like u hull all the time. I left the wheel and rnn to the end of the bridge, to Jump overboard. Hut I the minute I let go of the wheel the ! vessel fell off of the course, and they i noticed It, and Bndewltz sent live of j them up on the bridge and three others to the side with their revolvers to shoot me if I should reach the wui ter. I think If I had had any rope to lash the wheel with I could have got away and they would not have known it. When the five sailors reached the bridge one of thera Jumped for the cord and gave our siren five long blasts In answer to the tug. The tug i was about to launch a torpedo, and ' we whistled Just In time. One of our j men wus looking from the flddley, and : he saw the Huns making for the life- j bouts, so he got two or three others j and they all yelled together, "Don't ! let them get awuyl" thinking that they would get the boat over und leuvc the ship, and trying to yell loud enough for the tug to hear them. | Bndewltz took this man and two or three others, whether they were the ones-who yelled or not, and beat them up und put them In Irons. I thought j there was going to be u mutiny abonrd, but It did not come off, and I um not sure what the Huns were so excited ubout. | The other four sailors who came up on the bridge dicPnot touch me, but Just kept me covered with their revolvers. Thut wus the wuy with them ?they would not touch us unless Bndewltz wus there or they had bayonets. The old bull himself came up on the bridge after he hud beaten up a feW men, threw me around quite a bit and kicked me down from the bridge and slummed me Into the coul bunkers. I felt pretty sore, as you can Imagine, und dlsuppolutcd uud j pretty low generully. After u while we heurd the anchor , chains rnttllng through on their wuy ) x? get wet, and we pulled up. Then every Genuau ship In the Bultlc came up to look us over, I guess. They opened up the hutch covers, und the llun garbles und gold-stripes came, aboard and looked down at us, and spit ull they could on us, und culled | us all the different kinds of swine in crentlon. They had them lined up and filing past the hatchways?all of them giving us the once over in turn. Maybe they sold tickets for this show ?It would be like the Huns. At first we were milling uround trying to get out from under the hutch openings and the shower of spit, but i some Limey officer sung out, "Britishers ull! Don't give wuy 1" and wo ( stood still and let them spit their dumned Herman lungs out before we ( would move for them, and some Cornlshmen began singing their song ( about 'Trelawney. So we made out that we did not know such a thin* as u Herman ever lived. ' We got better uequuinted with German spitting later on, and believe me, < they are greut little spit tern, not much on distance or accuracy, but quick In ; action and well supplied with ammunition. Spitting on prisoners is the favorite JndoOr und outdoor sport for Germans, men and women alike. When the show was over, they rousted us up on deck und put us to work throwing the salt pork and canned goods into two German mine-layers. While we were at It, a Danish ' patrol boat cume out and tied alongside us, and some of her officers cume abourd und saw us. They knew we | were prisoners-of-war. and they knew that a vessel cnrrylng prisoners-ofwar must not remain In neutrul wntes's for over twenty-four hours, but they did not say anything about It. I That night two men named Barney TTI1I f 1 *--? 1 iiwi linn juyi'c, me riiier a gunner l from the Mount Temple, sneaked up I on deck and aft to the poop deck. There wna a pair of wooden stairs lending to the top of the poop deck, and Joyce and Hill lifted It and got It over the aide with a rope to It. The two of them got down Into the water I all right, hut Joyce let out a yell because the water was ho cold, and a German patrol boat heard him and flashed a searchlight. They picked up Joyce right away, but Harney wus making good heudwny and was almost free when they drugged him In. They beat them up on the patrol boat, and when they put them back on the Turrowdale Badewltz beat them up . some more and put them In Irons. Then he began to shoot at their feet I with his revolver, and he had a sailor stand by to hand him another revolver when the first one was empty. Then he would gash their faces with the barrel of the revolver and shout, "I'm Badewltz. I'm the mnn who fooled the English," and shoot at them some more. | All the while the sailors were celebrating, driuklng ahd eating, and yell' tog, M usual, AA4 the whistles on >11 . the' German ships were blowing, and they were having a great fest. After about thirty hours we left, being escorted by a mine-layer and a minesweeper. I asked a German garby if that was the whole Germun navy, and he looked surprised and did not know I was kidding him, and said no. Then I sold, "So the English got all the rest, did they?" and he handed me one In 1 the mouth with his bayonet hilt, so I quit klddlug him. We saw rows and rows of mines, and the German sailors pointed out what they said were H. M. SS. Lton and Nomad, but I do not know whether they were the same ones that were In the Jutlund battle or not. Finally we lunded at Swlnemunde just us the bells were ringing the old year out and the new year In. We were a fine bunch of blackbirds to hand the kaiser for a New Yeur's present, believe me. They mustered,us up on deck, and each of us got a cup of wuter for our A Cup of Water for Our New Year*? Dinner. New Year's spree. Then we snw we were In for It, and all hope gone, but we were glnd to he released from our hole, because we had been prisoners since December 10?three days on the Mocwe and eighteen on the Yarrowdab,?and the coal was not uny softer than when we first sat on It. So we begun singing, "l'ack up your troubles In your old kit bag and smile, hoys, smile. What's the use of worrying? It's never worth while," and so forth. They made us shut up, but not before we asked ourselves If we were downhearted, und everybody yelled | "No!" And that is how we gave our regurds to Swlneiuunde. (To lie Continued) AUDITOR'S NOTICE The Auditor's office will be open for the assessment of all personal property, poll, road and dog tax from January the 1st, 1919, and February the 20th, 1019. All ablebodied men between the ages of 21 and CO years are subject to a poll tax of $1.00 and those between the ages of 18 and 50 are required to pay a commutation road tax of $2.00. The law requires 50 per cent, pen-' alty added on all property not re- I turned on or before February the ' 20th. The office will be open every day except as below stated. 1 will be at the following places on the dates named: Patrick, January the 27th from 0 to 12 o'clock. Cedar Creek, January 27th, from 1 to 2 o'clock. John II. Wallace's, January 28, from 10 to 12 o'clock. Cash, January 28, from 1 to 2 j o'clock. Cross Koads, January 20, from 10 I to 12 o'clock. Mt. Croghan, January 20, from 1 to 4 o'clock. Ruby, January 20, from 1 1 to 2 u'clock. Guess, January 21, from 12 to 2 u'clock. A r gel us, February 4th, from 11 to $ o'clock. McHee, February, 5th and <?th. Middendorf, February 7 th, from I 1 to 2 o'clock. Jell'erson, February 10th. J. G. Holly's, February 11, from 10 to 12 o'clock. W. J. 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