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• * • " • v , ' " " " u ' * * . • 3.-»* &'"n ' •'<*' * & •"-* •» 2̂l;; z*- ****** *• ;• THE McHENRT PI«A IXDEA I.ER; MeHENRY. ItlS ^ 1 •* " ** t i> ~ +y :*..'^. 5*T\ # ' • 0?/ j&y si * 7 ' 1M; itiiiisfiiiiiKifffirTfifriiirTvviiniiiii iniimnmmtniniinnm»muuifmimiiinii»iwiiiiiiniuni GUNNER ALBERT N. DEPE W Pr Ex-Gunner and Chief Petty Officer, U.rS. Navy Member of the Foreign Legion of France Captain Gun Turret, French Battleship Cassard Winner of the Croix de Guerre ; With the Oeorge Mktlbew Adtmi Strrlee [ • LEGIONARIES VOW VENGEANCE WHEN GERMANS HIDE BEHIND BELGIAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN. 8ynopsis.--^Albert N. Depew, author of the story, tells of his service In the United States navy, during which he attained the rank of chief petty office*, first-class gunner. The world war starts soon after he receives his honorable discharge from the navy, and he leaves for France with a determination to enlist. He joins the Foreign Legion and is assigned to the dreadnaugl^t Cassard, where his marksmanship wins him high honors. Later he Ijs transferred to the land forces and sent to the Flanders front. He gets his first experience in a front line trench at Dixmude. CHAPTER V--Continued. I never saw a battery better • con­ cealed than this one. Up on the ground you couldn't see the muzzle twenty yards away--and that was all there was to see at any distance. There was a ruined garden just outside the gun quarters, and while the gunners were there picking apples there would be a hiss and an explosion, and over would go some of the trees, or maybe a man or two, but never a shell struck nearer the guns than that. The pollus used to thank Fritz for helping them pick the apples, because the explosions would bring them down in great style. Shells from our heavy artillery passed gust over the garden, too, making an awful racket. But they were not In it with the "75's." They gave me a little practice with a "75" under the direction of expert French gynners before I went to my 34rlnch naval gun, and, believe me, it was a fine little piece. Just picture to yourself a little beauty that can send a 88-pound shell every two sec­ onds for five miles and more, if you want It to, and land on Fritz' vest button every time. There is nothing I like better than a gun, anyway, and I have never since been entirely satis­ fied with anything less than a "75." As you probably know, the opposing artillery in this war is so widely sepa­ rated that the gunners never see their targets unless these happen to be buildings, and even then It is rare. So, since an artillery officer never sees the enemy artillery or infantry, he must depend on others to give him the range and direction. F<* this purpose there/fere balloons end airplanes attache<y to each artil­ lery unit. The airplays are equipped with wireless, but jalso signal by smoke and direction J of flight, while the balloons use telephones. The ob­ servers have maps and powerful glasses and cameras/ Their maps are marked off in zones to correspond with the maps used by. tlie artillery officers. The observations are signaled to a receiving station on the ground and are then telephoned to the batteries. All our troops were equipped with telephone signal "corps detachments and this was a very important arm of the service. The enemy position Is shelled before an attack, either en barrage or otherwise, and communica­ tion between the waves of attack and the artillery is absolutely necessary. Bombardments are directed toward certain parts of the enemy position almost as accurately as you would use • searchlight. The field telephones are very light and are portable to the last degree. They can be rigged up or knocked down in a very short time. The wire is wound on drums or reels . A Regular Hail of Shrapnel Fell. «nd you would be*surprised to see how quickly our corps established com­ munication from a newly won trench to headquarters, for Instance. They were asking for our casualties before we had finished having them, almost. Artillery fire was directed by men whose duty It was to dope out the range from the information sent them by the observers in the*ir. Two men were stationed at the switchboard, one man to receive the message and the other to operate the board. As soon as the range wasvplotted out it waa telephoned* to the gunners and they did the rest. The naval guns at Dixmude were Mounted on flat cars and these were der. Two poilus who sat In the rear on guard had each been wounded In the leg and one had had a big strip of his scalp torn off. There was not a sound man in the bunch. You can imagine what their cargo was like, If the convoy was as used up as these chaps. But all who could were sing­ ing and talking and full of pep. That is the French for you: they used no more men than they could possibly spare to take care of the wounded, but they were all cheerful about It-- always. Just after I passed this ambulance the Germans began shelling a section of the road too near me to be comfort­ able, so I beat It to a shell crater about twenty yards off the road, to the rear. A shrapnel shell exploded pretty near me just as I jumped Into this hole--I did not look around to see how close it was--and I remember now how the old minstrel joke I had heard on board ship came to my mind at the time--something about a fellow feel­ ing so small he climbed into a hole and pulled it after him--and I wished I might.,do the same. I flattened my­ self as close against the wall of the crater as I could and then I noticed that somebody had made a dugout in the other wall of the crater and I started for It The shells were exploding so fast by that time that you could not listen for each explosion separately, and-just as I jumped into the dugout a regular hail of shrapnel fell on the spot I had just passed. It was pt-etty dark In the dugout and the first move I made I bumped Into somebody else and be let out a yell that you could have heard a mile. It was a Tommy who had been wounded in "the hand and between curses he told me I had sat right on his wound when I moved. I asked him why he did not yell sooner, but he only swore more. He surely was a great cusser. The bombardment slackened up a bit about this time, and -I thought I would have a look around. I did not get out of the crater entirely, but moved around out of the dugout until I could see the road I had been on. The first thing I saw was a broken- down wagon that had Just been hit-- in fact, It was toppling over when ray eye caught it. The driver jumped from his seat and while he was in the air his head was torn completely from his shoulders by another shell--I do not know what kfnd. This was enough for me, so back to the dugout. How the Germans did It I do not know, but they had found out about that road and opened fire at exactly the moment when the road was cov­ ered with wagons and men. Yet there had not been a balloon or airplane in the sky for some time. After a while the bombardment moved away to the east, from which direction I had come, and I knew our batteries were getting it. The Tommy and I came out of the dugout. As I started climbing up the muddy sides I saw there was a man standing at the edge of it, and I could tell by his puttees that he was a Limey. I was having a hard job of it, so without looking up I hailed hitn. "That was sure some shelling, wasn't it?" I said. "There's a lad down here with a wounded fin; better give him a hand." "What shelling do you mean," says the legs, without moving, "There's been none In this sector for some time, I think." The Tommy was right at my Jieel by this time, and he lej; out a string of language. I was surprised, too, and still scrambling around In the mud. Then the Tommy let a "Gawd 'elp us!" .and I looked up and saw that the legs belonged to a Limey officer, a major, I think. And here we had been cussing the eyes off of him! But he sized it up rightly and gave us a hand, and only laughed when we tried to explain. I got rattled and told him that all I saw was his legs and that they dld%not"look like an offi­ cer's legs, which might have made it worse, only he was good-natured about it. Then he said that he had been asleep in a battalion headquarters dug­ out, about a hundred yards aWay, and only waked up when part of the roof cuved in on him. Yet he did not know lie had been shelled! I went on down the road a stretch, but soon found it was easier walking beside it, because the Huns had shelled it neatly right.up and down the middle. Also, there were so many wrecked horses aud wagons to climb over on the road--besides dead men. I After I had passed the area of the bottom, so I took this chance to find out about it, while they halted for a rest just a tittle farther down the road. I found that they carried their emergency kits In their coat£. These kits contained canned meat, tobacco, needles, thread ajid plaster--all this in addition to their regular pack. Then I drilled down the road some more, but had to stop pretty soon to let a column of French Infantry swing on to the road from a field. They were on their way to the trenches as re-enforcements. After "every two companies there would be a wagon. Pretty soon I saw the uniform of the Legion. Then a company of my regi­ ment came up and I wheeled in with them. We were In the rear of the col­ umn that had passed. Our boys were going up lor their regular stunt In the front lines, while the others had just arrived at that part of the front Then for the first time my feet be­ gan hurting me. Our boots were made of rough cowhide and fitted very well, but it was a day's labor to carry them on your feet. I began lagging behind. I would lag twenty or thirty yards behind and then try to catch up. But the thousands of men ahead of me kept up the steady pace and very few limped, though they had been on the march since 3 a. m. It was then about II a. m. Those who did limp were carried in the wagons. But I had seen very few men besides the drivers rid­ ing in the wagons, and I wanted to be as tough as the next guy, so I kept on. But, believe me, I was sure glad when we halted for a rest along the road. That is, the re-enforcements did! Our company of the Legion had not come from so far, and when the front of the column had drawn out of the way along the road we kept on filing, as the "Saying Is. I did not care about being tough then, and I was ready for the wagon. Only now there were no wagons! They belonged with the other troops. So I had to ease along as best I could ' for what, seemed like hours--to my | feet--until we tprned off onto another ; road and halted for a rest. I found out later that our officers had gone astray and were lost at this time, though, of course, they did not tell us so. We arrived at our section of the trench about three o'clock that after­ noon and I rejoined my company. I was all tired out after this trek and found myself longing for the Cassard and the rolling wave, where no Mara­ thons and five-mile hikes were neces­ sary. But this was not in store for me--ryet. not far from me and was knocked over to where I was lying. The lieutenant came back and helped me with the first-aid roll and then the Germans began using shrap­ nel. The lieutenant was swearing hard about the shrapnel and the Ger­ mans and everything else. Farther to the right a shell had just struck near the parados and made a big crater and across from.it, against the parapet, was a young chap with a deep gash In his head,, sitting on the fire step and next to him a fellow nursing the place where his arm had been blown off. Our bread ration lay all about the trench and some the poilus were fishing It out of the mud and water and wiping the biscuits off on their sleeves or eating as fast as they could. Only some of the biscuits had fallen In bloody water and they did not eat these. A young fellow, hardly more than a boy, stumbled over the parados and fell into the trench right near the lieutenant and the lieutenant dressed his w6unds himself. I think he was some relation of the boy- The lieutenant asked him how he felt, but the boy only asked for water and smiled. But you could see he was mm drawn back and forth on the track by I bon*b*rd,,,ent and .•*<* b*<* on the Itttia y I sat down to rest and smoke. A couple of shells had burst so near the little Belgian engines. After I had been at my "gun for sev­ eral days I was ordered back to my iiegiment which was again in the lfront-Hne trenches. My course was past both the British and French lines crater that they had thrown the dirt right Into the dugout, and I was a little dizzy from the «hock. While I was sit­ ting there a squad of Tommies came up with about twice their number of t quite a distance behind the frent ' 'been making Fritz do the goose step Everywhere there were ambulances tid wagons going backward and for-ard. I met one French ambulance 'tfc&t was a long wagon full of poilus IJtom a field hospital near the firing •nd was driven by a man whose [left arm was bandaged to "the shoul- and they started them at it again when they saw me sitting there. It sure is good for a laugh any time, this goose step. I guess they call it that after tt»« fellow who Invented it One thing-1 had noticed about.Fritz was the way bis coat flared out at the CHAPTER VI. Fritz Does a Little "Strafelno." My outfit was one of those that saw the Germans place women and chil­ dren in front of them as shields against our fire. More than a third of our men, I should say, had been pretty tough criminals in their own countries. They always traded their pay against a handful of cards or a roll of the bones whenever they got a chance. They had been in most of the dirty parts of the world. This war was not such a much to them; Just one more job in the list They could call God and the saints and the human body more things than any boss stevedore that ever lived. Yet they were religious in a way. Some of them were always reading religious books or saying prayers in different ways and between them they believed in every religion and super­ stition under the sun, I guess. Yet they were the toughest bunch I ever saw. After they saw the Germans using the Belgian women the way they did, almost every man in my company took some kind of a vow or other, and most of them kept their vows, too, I believe. And those that were religious got more so after that. Our chaplain had always been very friendly with the men, and while I think they liked him they were so tough they would never admit it, and some of them claimed he was a Jonah, or jinx, or bad luck of some kind. But they all told him their Vows as soon. a& they made them and he was sup­ posed to be a sort of referee .as to Whether they kept them or not. During my second stunt In the front lines things got pretty bad. The Ger­ mans were five to our one and they kept pushing back parts of the line and cleaning out others. And 'the weather was as bad as it could be and the food did not always come reg­ ularly. Now, before they took their vows, every last man In the bunch would have been kicking and growling all the time, but, as It was, the only time they growled wa§ when the Ger­ mans pushed us back. Things kept getting worse and you could see that the men talked to the chaplain more and quite a few of them got real chunimy with him. One morning Fritz started in bright and early to begin his strafe. The lieutenant was walking up and down the trench fo see that the sentries were properly posted and were on the job. A shell whizzed over his head and landed Just behind the parados and the dirt spouted up like I imagine a Yellowstone geyser looks. Another officer came up to the lieu­ tenant--a new one who had only joined the company about a week be­ fore. They had walked about ten yards when another shell whizzed over them. They laid to and a third one came. There were three In less than five minutes, directly over their heads. Then a shell landed on the left side of the trench and a poilu ye'l«d that four men had got it. They were all wounded and three died Icter. The lieutenant went over to them and Just after he nassed me a lad got It square How We Give 'Em the Butt. in great pain. Then the boy said: "Oh, the pain iS awful. I am going to die." "You are all right, old man," tjpe lieutenant said. "You will be home soon. The stretcher bearers are com­ ing." So we passed the word for the stretcher bearers. Then he took the water bottle from the boy's side and sat him up and gave him some water. He left the water bottle with the chap and went to hurry the stretcher bearers along. When he got around'the corner of the trench the boy was slipping back and the water bottle had fallen down. So I went over to him and propped him up again and gave him some more water. Depew goes "over the top" and "gets" his first German in a bayonet fight. Read his story of this exploit in the next In­ stallment. (TO BE CONTINUED.) PLANES IDENTIFIED BY TUNE Discovery Made by American Prove* Extremely Valuable to British • Aviation 8ervice. Air raids on London are no longur the sure-fire stuff for heartening tfee German people that they once w *re. Lately the raiders usually find that they can raid up to the English coast and then have to raid right back home again. A young American is given credit for the success of the British in surrounding their capital with a shrap­ nel barrage whenever the German fly­ ers approach. A Brooklyn youth who had enlisted In the British aviation service was as­ signed to test out an airplane detector which was expected to discover the ap proach of airplanes before they could be heard, so to speak, with the naked eye. No one expected that the device would make it possible to tell whether the approaching plane were German or British. His musical studies had trained the American's hearing to a high degree, however. He listened through the In­ strument for several days while only British planes flew within its range. Then he heard a different note. A Ger­ man raiding squadron was approach­ ing. The American had discovered that British planes hum In G-mlnor. He found thnt the German raiders are tuned In B-flat. Now the British avia­ tion service keeps men about the capi­ tal with their ears close to detectors, and whenever airplanes are heard vibrating in B-flat a barrage Is imme­ diately ordered. Would 8ave Sea Loss. ,New York steamship underwriters and government officials have author­ ized official tests of a new Invention which, >lt Is claimed by its designers, will save property valued at thousands ofvd<)llar8 in the event of the sinking of yessels. It Is called a pneumatic safe and Is said to float on the water, though of steel construction. It Is as .impervious to fire and theft as other safes. The dfevlce Is said to weigh three tons. As evidence of his faith in the success of the invention the man wljo constructed it will lock himself Inside when the safe Is lowered over­ board. In case tjy> Invention bears out what Is claimed for it it will be adopt* ed for use on American oceangoing vefy EX-CATTLE KING HOW A PAUPER General Terrazas Once Owned 200,000 Herd am! Milttai Acres in Mexico. STRIPPED OF WEALTH Now He Lives Quietly in El Paso, Tex* Planning Recovery of Estate- Sought Refuge From Bandits. El Paso, Tex.--Each evening at sun- get an old man with silver white hair and a snowy beard may be seen walk­ ing around the plaza taking his dally exercise with his two bodyguards. He is Gen. Luis Terrazas, octoge­ narian exile from Mexico, who lost vir­ tually all his great fortune in the revolution of Madero and Villa and now is forced by political conditions in the country to live on the border. When the Madero revolution started in 1911 "•Don Louis" was known as the cattle king of Mexico. His herds num­ bered more than 200,000 head and grazed on a thousand hills and plains of northern Mexico. His estates stretched from the Rio Grande to Chi­ huahua City and he could ride for 24 hours by train over his own acres, which then numbered more than a million. Big Business Interests, From his offices In the state capital General Terrazas governed this vast cattle empire, conducted a bank and many other industries connected with his cattle business. He and his large family lived In luxury in the marble palace on. the Alamada or at Quinta Carolina, his summer home on the plains. Train after train of cattle ar­ rived at the border from the Terrazas ranches. His annual export averaged 25,000 head, and the "T-Running-S" brand was as well known at the Chicago, Q 9 Was Forced to Flee From Mexiee. Kansas City and Fort Worth stock yards as it was in Mexico. The xfer- razas holdings were estimated to be worth $5,000,000 (gold) but were not for sale at any price. Now General Terrazas and his fam­ ily live in a rented house on Golden Hill. He rides to his office in an old automobile and buys his groceries from a cash-and-carry store. Property Confiscated. The revolutionists under Madero, Orozco and other leaders killed the Terrazas cattle for food, ̂ urned his ranch buildings and looted his stores and jvarehouses. Then Francisco Villa, acting as commander in the north for General Carranza, issued a decree con­ fiscating all of the Terrazas holdings, Including the herds, lands and personal property. General Terrazas was forced to flee from Mexico before Villa's ad­ vance on Chihuahua City from Juarez, He made the long trek to the border at Ojlnaga with the fleeing federal col­ umn. He never returned to Mexico. July 22 last General Terrazas cele­ brated his eighty-ninth birthday an­ niversary, surrounded by his ten sons, seventy-flve grandchildren and many more relatives. 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