Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 5, 1918, Page 6

SATURDAY, OCT. 5, 1918 i aoe eee -S-NAVY,, 2 <7 MEMBER. OF THE FOREIGN LEGION OF FRANCE LIES Ns APTAIN GUN TURRET, FRENCH BATTLESHIP CASSARD ‘WINNER OF THE CROIX DE GUERRE i (Ceci 1918 ty Rady and Brizon Ca. Theo Spacial Amacgerent With the George Mant’ Adame Sevan, | work and a great job for fun, because, Bonds to Kill Kulture. SYNOPSIS. R I—Albert N. Depew, author , enlists in the United States ing four years and attaining Tank of chief petty officer, first-class CHAPTE) goon after from the navy and hi sith a determination CHAPTER IlI—He joins the Fore Legion and is assigned to the dreadnaught Cassard where his marksmanship wins him high honors, CHAPTER IV--Depew is detached from his ship and sent with a iment of the Legion to Flanders where he soon finds himself in the front line trenches. CHAPTER V—He is detailed to the ar- tillery and makes the acquaintance of the “S's”, the wonderful French guns that have saved the day for the allies on many @ battlefield. Before secing any action, he is ordered back to his regiment in the front line trenches. CHAPTER VI—Depew goes “over the top” and “gets” his first German in a bay- onet fight. ‘R II—The great war si he is honorably discharged sails for Frence to enlist. CHAPTER VII—His company takes part in another raid on the German trenches and shortly afterward assists in stopping & fierce charge of the Huns, who are mowed down as they cross ‘No Man's aGHAPTER VITI—sent to Dizmude with ches, Ww cau ne in raid, but escapes unhurt. ace CHAPTER IX—He is shot through the thigh in ® brush with the Germans and lg sent to @ hospital, where he quickly recovers. CHAPTER X—Ordered back to sea duty, Depew rejoins the Cassard, which makes several tiips to the Dardanelles as a con- voy. is almost battered to pisces by the Turkish batteries. One of our junior Heutenants was struck by a fragment of shell as he was at his station behind the wheel- house and a piece of his skull was driven into his brain. He was car- ried into my gun turret, but he would not let them take him to sick bay to have his wound dressed. There he sat, asking every now and then how the fight was going and then sort of dozing off for a while. After half an hour of action we yut about and started away, still firing. As a parting slap on the back the Turks tore off one of our big-gun tur- rets, and then away we went, back to Brest with a casualty list of only 15, We did not have much trouble guess- ing that it was dry dock for us again. We got back to Brest after a quiet voyage, patching ourselves up where we could on the way, and again there was the rush work, day and night, to get into shape and do it over again. They turned us out in 12 days and back we went to the Turks and their Hun assistants, We were lucky getting inshore, only receiving a nasty smash astern, when the Turks got our range and landed two peaches before we got out. We Nearly tore our rudder off getting away. But we had to come back right away, because we had carried quite Gunner Depew fh French Sailor Unl- form. @ number of heavy guns from Brest and were given the job of running them ashore. It was day and night || | WANT YOUR BRICK | : WORK On Contract or P; Call for Estimate PETER CLAUSEN 41f Se Jnckaon, Phone 404M. STORAGE Household Goods, Pianos. Ete. Storage House on Burlington Tracks CHAMBERLIN FUKNITURE AND UNDERTAKING CO. ; while you never knew when you | would get &, you had good reason to | feel you would get lammed by a cute little shell or a dainty bit of shrap- |net before the job was over. Aboard ship it was deck work, of | course, and it was not much better there than ashore with the guns, be- cause the enemy trenches were near the shore and they amused them- selves trying to pick us off whenever | we showed on deck, I guess we were a regular shooting gallery for them, and some of our men thought they did not need all the practice they were getting, for quite a few of us acted as bull's eyes. But we did not mind the bullets so much, Whey make a clean wound or put you away entirely; shrapnel tears you up and can play all kinds of 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 had been a great deal damage done there, so after a while the British detailed their Yarmouth trawlers to go in and sweep up. They had to go up unprotected, of course, and they started off one night all serene, Everything went well until they turned at the Narrows and started back. Then, before you could tell it, five or six searchlights were playing on one of fhe trawlers and shells were splashing the water all over her. Both banks were simply banging away point blank at them and I never thought they would get back. They did get back, fhough, but some of them had hardly enough men left to work ship. But that is like the Limeys. They will get back from anywhere while there is one man alive, A chap aboard one of the trawlers said a shell went through the wheel- | house between the quartermaster and himself and all the Q. M. said was, “Gaw blimey, that tickled.” “But I Enow their shooting was very bad,” said the other chap to me. “Titose Turks must have thought the flue was behind them.” Coming Back from the Dardanelles ® gold stripe sent for me and asked me whether I thought there were other ex-navy gunners in the States thate would serve with the French. I told them the country was full of good gunners and he wanted me to write to all I knew and get them to come over. He did not mean by this, and neither do I, that there were not good gunners in the French navy, be- cause there were—lots of them. But you can never have too many handy boys with the guns and he was very anxious for me to get all I could. I had no way of reaching the ex-garbies I did know, 60 I had to pass up this opportunity to recruit by mail. While we were in Brest I got per- mission to go aboard a submarine and a petty officer showed me around. This was the first time I was in the interlor of a sub and I told the officer that I would like to take a spin in the tub myself. He introduced me to the commander, but the petty officer said he did not think they would let me stay aboard. I showed the com- mander my passport and talked to him for a while, and he said he would take me on their practice cruise two days later if the Old Man gave me written permission, So I hot-footed it back to the Cas- sard and while I did not‘promise that I would get any American gunners for him in exchange for the written per+ mission, he was free to think that if he wanted to. . It seems as though he did take it that way, for he gave me a note to the sub commander and sent him another note by messenger. I wanted Murray to go too, but the Old Man sald one was enough. So, two days later, I went aboard in the morning and had breakfast with the sub crew and a good break- fast it was, too. After breakfast they took stations and the commander went up on the structure amidships, which was just under the conning tower, and I squatted down on the deck beneath the structure. Then the gas engines started up and made an awful racket and shook the old tub from stem to stern. I could tell that we had cut loose from the dock and were moving. After a while they shut off the gas engines and started the motors and we began to submerge. When we were all the way under I looked through the peri- scope and saw a Dutch merchantman, We stayed under about half an hour and then came back to the surfgce. One of the garbles was telling me later on that this same Sub tind gone out of control a few weeks Before} and kept diving and diving until she struck bottom. I do not know how many fathoms down it was, but it was farther than any commander would take a sub if he could help ®. This garby said they could hear the plates cracking and it was a wonder that they did not crumple up from the pressure, but she weathered it, pres- sure button and all, and in a quarter of an heur was on the surface. While on the surface they sighted smoke, submerged again, and soon, over the horizon came eight battleships, es- corted by Zepps and destroyers. They tested their tubes before they got n range. Finally they let go. The first shot missed, but after that they got into it good ard the garby sald all you could hear was the knocking of the detonated guncotton, About five minutes later they sight- ed five destroyers, two on each bow, and one dead ahead. The sub steered in at right angle zigzags and the de- stroyers stayed with their convoy. The sub launched two torpedoes at less than a mile before diving, to get away from the destroyers and. the garby sald at least one of them was hit. These ships must have been some of the lucky ones that came down from the North sea. The garby said he thought they were off the Dutch coast at the time, but he was not sure. But this cruise that I was on was only a practice cruise and we did not meet with any excitement in the short time that we were out. CHAPTER XI." Action at the Dardanelles. I made twelve trips to the Darda- nelles in all, the Cassard acting gen- erally as convoy to troop ships, but one trip was much Ike another, and I cannot remember all the details, so I will give only certain incidents of the voyages that you might find inter- esting, We never put into the Darda- nelles without being under fire—but besides saying so, what is there to write about in that? It was interest- ing enough at the time, though, you can take it from me! Coming up to “V" beach on our third trip to the Dardanelles, the weather was as nasty as any I have ever seen. The rain was sweeping along in sheets—great big drops, and driven by the wind in regular volleys. You could see the wind coming, by the Une of white against a swell where the drops hit. As we rounded the point, the seas got choppler, and there were cross currents bucking the ship from every angle, it seemed. You could not see two hundred yards away, the rain GALLIPOLlanitte DARDANELLES was so thick, and the combers were breaking over our bows three a min- ute. The coast here is pretty danger- ous, 86 we went in very slowly and had the sounding line going until its whir-r-r-r gounded louder than a ma- chine gun in action, I was on the starboard bow at the time and had turned to watch some garbies poking at the scuppers to drain the water off the deck. But the scuppers had been plugged and they were having a hard time of it. The officer on the bridge, in ollskins, was walking up and down, wiping off the business end of his telescope and try- ing to dodge the rain. All of the-gar bies but one left the scuppers on the Starboard side and started across decks to port. The other chap kept on fooling around the scuppers. Then I saw a big wave coming for us, just off the starboard bow and I grabbed hold of a stanchion and took a deep breath and held on. When my head showed above water again the other end of the wave was just passing over the place where the garbies had been, and the officer was shouting, “Un bomme a la mer!” He shouted before the man really was overboard, because he saw that the wave would get bim. I rushed back to the port bow und looked back, for the wave had carried him clear across the decks, and saw the poor lad in the water, trying to fend himself off from the ship's side. But it was no go, and the port pro- peller blades just carved him into bits. On our homeward voyage we re- ceived word again by wireless that there were Zeppelins gt sea. We did not believe this and it proved to be untrue. But there were other stories and taller ones, told us by one of the wireless operators, that some of the sarbles believed. This chap was the real original Baron Munchausen when it came to yarning, and for a while he had me going too, He would whisper LIBERTY Bonds to PETITION: FOR: RELEASE } } “Un Homme a ta Mer!” some siaruing laie to us and make us promise not to tell, as he had picked it from@some other ship’s message, and the Old Man would spread-eagle him if he found it out. They probably would have logged him, at that, if they had known he was filling us full of wind the way he did. He told me one time that Henry Ford had invented something or other for locating subs miles away, and also another device that would draw the sub right up to it and swallow it whole. He had @ lot of other yarns that I cannot remember, but I did not believe him because I saw he was picking out certain men to tell certain yarns to—that is, spinning them where they would be more sure of being be- lieved and not just spinning them any- where, So I got pretty’ tired of this stuff after a while’and when we put out from Bre&t on the fourth voyage .I got this fellow on deck in rough weather and began talking to him about the chap who had gone over- board the time before and had been cut up by the propeller. I pretended that, of course, he knew all about it— that the OldeMan had had this garby nushed overboard because he was too free with his mouth. But this didnot Seem to do any good, so I had to think up another way. When we were out two days I got hold of our prize Niar again, I figured that he would bé superstitious and I was right. I said that of course he knew that a ship could not draw near Cape Helles and get away aguin un- less at least one man was lost, or that, if it did get awky, there would be! many casualties aboard. I sald it had always been that way and claimed that the Old Men-had pushed this gurby overboard because someone had to yo, I said on-our other trips no one had been sacrificed and that was* the reason we had suffered so much, | and that the Old Man had been called down by the Freygh minister of the} navy. I told him.the Old Man would pick on. whatever. garby he thought he could best spare. | That was all I hud to tell him. El- ther he thought the Old Man knew ‘of his yarning or elge he did not thipk | himself of much account, for he dis- appeared that very watch and we did not see him again until we were on the homeward voyage and a steward happened to dig inté a provision hold. There was our lying friend, with a life belt on, another under his head, and the bight of.2 rope around his waist, fast asleep, Why he had the rope I do not know, but he was scared to death and thought we were going to chuck him overboard at once. I think he must have told the officers everything, because I noticed them looking pretty hard at me—or at least I thought I did; maybe it was my conscience, if I may brag about hav- ing one—and I thought one of the lieu- tenants was just ‘about to grin at me several times, but we never heard any more about it, or any more yarns froin our wireless friend. The fourth voyage was pretty rough, too, The old girl would stick her nose into the seas and many times I thought she would forget to come out. We had a lot of sand piled up against the wheelhouse and after we dived pretty deep one time and bucked out slowly, there wag not a grain of sand left. It looked Ike the sea was just kidding us, for we were almost into quiet water, and here it had just taken -one sea aboard to clean up the sand we carried all the way from Brest, During the whole voyage you could not get near the galley, which was where our wireless friend hupg out when he could. The pans and dixtes hanging on the wall stood straight out when the ship pitched, and several heavy ones came down on a cook's head while he was sifting under them during a heavy sea. That made him) superstitious, too, and he disappeared and was not found for two days. But he was a landsman and not used to heavy weather, . | When we got to the Gallipoli penin- sula the fifth time our battle fleet and transports lay off the straits. We could not reach the little harbor on | the Turkish coast, but the whole flect felt happy and fairly confident of vic- tory. We lay off Cape Helles, and it! was there we reeelved the news that there were submarines lying around Gibralter, Then they were reported off Malta... We got the news from Brit- ish trawlers and transports. Our offi- gers said the subs could not react the | TF ARON PREEK AS WILL BE CARRIED TO THE CAPITAL BY FRANK CURTIS Council Adopts Resolution Addressed to Interior, | Land and Justice Departments to Permit Use of Gas for Fuel and Conserve the Coal Frank G. Curtis leaves for Washington, D. C., tonight to apply to the department of the interior and the department of justice for permits to divert gas from the Iron Creek and Poison Spider wells to Casper for fuel purposes. 0 he has the endorsement of the city council, which last night adopted the following resolution addressed to Franklin K. In so doing! Lane, secretary of the interior; Clay Tallman, commisioner of the general land office; T. W. Gregory, attorney gemeral; and Francis J. Kearful, as- | sistant attorney general: | “Gentlemen: L “WHEREAS, Casper, Wyoming, our rapidly growing city, now with a population of 12,000 people, for some time since has been, and now is in great need of fuel, because of both searcity and high cost; } “WHEREAS, It appears that there | is an abundant ‘supply of excellent! fuel gas at Iron Creek and Poison} Spider, only a few miles distant from | this city, which gas is of little, or no | use or value, in this prairie country, excepting for fuel for this city; | “WHEREAS, The Public Utilities | Commission of the State of Wyoming | has the power to fix gas rates to be paid by onr people, insuring reason- able prices for fuel gas for residents | of this city; “WHEREAS, It appears that capi- talists of experience and ability stand ready to run a gas pipe line from Iron Creek and Poison Spider to| Casper, as soon as the United States government provides that the gas lands referred to, are released or re-| Dardanelles without putting in some- whe:e for a fresh supply of fuel, and! that the allied fleets were on the look- | ou: at every place’ where the ‘subs! might try to put in. But they got there | just the sume. Then the British superdreadnaugat Queen Elizabeth, “the terror of the Turks,” came in. She left England with a whole fleet of cruisers and de- stroyers, and sll the Limeys sald, ; “She'll get throrgh. Nothing will stop | her,” | TO BE CONTINUED 1 be stored to public entry, so that it may) be depended upon that there shall be ho government opposition to the en-/| terprises that invest cast sums of‘ money to pipe this city for gas and build a pipe line to Casper from the gas fields; “WHEREAS, Oil is such an im- portant factor to carry on the world ar; “WHEREAS, Our oil refineries are today burning, for fuel, about one-tenth of the bulk of the oil product coming to this city; gin “WHEREAS, The Iron Creek and! Poison Spider gas can well displace the burning of oil for fuel in this) city; “WHEREAS, Laborers are scarce | and will evidently be scarcer, and} less laborers will be required to fuel! with gas than with oil; * “WHEREAS, Fuel gas from our city will enable the shipment of about 2,000 tons of coal per day to other localities that need it, releasing 700) or 800 coal miners per day to mine coal for others that need their ser- vices; “WHEREAS, Many coal cars may be released for other points and pur- poses, if this city is furnished with} fuel gas instead of coal; and | “WHEREAS, The residents of | Casper, our refineries and industries are unanimously desirous of imme- diately securing the Iron Creek and| Poison Spider gas for fuel; “NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RE- solved that we most respectfully and most urgently request the depart ments and officials of the United States government, who have the authority to do so, to fully and im- mediately release the Iron Creek and! 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The maximum has been quad- rupled in a few hundred days, illus- | trating the keen competition amongst motion picture producers to impress the public with the maghitude’ of the movie drama. » It will be seen that gauged by mere expenditure of money Mr. Ince must have done this. For the million he gives you the last word in battle scenes- In battle scenes he is facile pringeps. About three years s¢o he made the Battle Cry of Gettysburg, which is still regarded as a classic of war film work. In “Civilization,” he takes you on water and by the helo of the United States Government, al- ways friendly toward the movies, he shows you duels, battles, submarines, dreadnaughts, explosions, and inci- dentally. the infinitely harrowing scene of the Lusitania. Mr. Ince is so vivid in this part of-his picture that you may imagine that he was an eve witness of this disaster. 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