Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 26, 1918, Page 6

id i “OUTWITTING THE HUN” old ay) ae a — BS LIEUTENANT PAT O'BRIEN EL Copyright, 1¥16, by Pat Alva O'Brien He told me when war was declared and thought the only thing for him to | RMU Per ~_fense of his country. He found that | ee™he could not go directly from woeFrancisco, because the water was too yrell guarded by the English, so he ded a boat for South America. te<“There he obtained a forged passport nd in the guise of a Montevidean took passage for New York and from there —#to England. | ans He passed through England without — any difficulty on his forged passport, =P pnt concluded not to risk going to Hol- ~ land for fear of exciting too much sus- | picion, so went down through the | —. Strait of Gibraltar to Italy, which was neutral at that time, up to Austria, - und thence to Germany. He said when —@ they put in at Gibraltar, after leaving 7 England, there were two suspects! ~* taken off the ship, men that he was! _ sure were neutral subjects, but much % to bis relief his own passport and cre- ~g dentials were examined and passe¢! ~, 0. K. * The Hun spoke of his voyage from @ America to England as being excep! tionally pleasant, and said he had s/ fine time, because he associated wit? the English passengers on board, his ~@ fluent English readily admitting hin to several spirited arguments on the, sudject of the war, which he keenly enjoyed, One little Incident he relate¢| ~® revealed the remarkable tact wh'ct! our enemy displayed in his associa: tions at sea, which no doubt resulte¢ | advantageously for him. As he ex! ~% pressed it, he “made a hit” one evening | a when the crowd has assembled for a little music by suggesting that they/ sing “God Save the King.” Thereafter) =® his popularity was assured and the de- sired effect accomplished, for very soon a French officer came up to hin * and said, “It’s too bad that England > pea ourselves haven't men in our army “ ike you.” It was too bad, he agreed, in telling me about it, because he was! confident he could have done a whole| "> “* lot more for Germany if he had been! -@ in the English army. a” apparent loyalty, In spite of his) however, the old political battles waged in Cali- fornia were much more to his liking! than the battles he had gone through "@ over here. On second thought he > Jaughed as though it were a good joke, but he evidently intended me to infer| that he had taken a keen interest In “} politics in San Francisco. | cs When my “chummy enemy”. first Startel his conversajion with me, the’ German doctor in charge reprimanded | him for talking to me, but he paid no ie attention to the doctor, showing that ,, Some real Americanism had soaked | jato his system while he had been in| @ ‘the U. 8. A. Tasked him one day what! "s he thought the German people would} 4 do after the war; if he thought they & would make Germany a republic, and ® much to my surprise he suid yery bit- terly, “If I had my way about It, 1 would make her a republic today and | $+ hang the d—<d kaiser in the bar-| gain.” And yet he was considered an excellent soldier. I concluded, how-} ever, that he must have been a Ger-| man socialist, though he never told me! ® 80, On one oceasion I asked him for his name, but he said that I would probably never see him again and it! didn’t matter what his name was. I did not know whether he meant that the Germans would starve me out, or just what was on his mind, for at that! time I am sure he did not figure on! % dying. The first two or three days/ * Twas in the hospital I thought surely; ,he would be up and gone long before | *.1I was, but blood poisoning set in| about that time, and just a few hours > before I left for Courtrai he died. . One of those days, while my wound * was still yery troublesome, I was © - given an apple; whether it was just to torment me, knowing that I could not eat it, or whether for some other rea- | son, I do not know. But anyway a German fiy!ng officer there had several | in his pockets and gave me a nice one. Of course there was no chance of my tr; eating it, so when the officer had gone | _ and I discovered this San Francisco IN’ fellow looking at it rather longingly, | no I picked it up, intending to toss it Be over to him. But he shook his head -; and said, “If this was San Francisco wi I would take it, but I cannot take it st; from you here.” I was never able to fo Wnderstand just why he refused the apple, for he was usually sociable and Wi a good fellow to talk to, but appar ently he could not forget that I was his enemy. However, that did not stop one of the orderlies from eating the né apple. th One practice about the hospital tm- 4 pressed me particularly. That was, if a German soldier did not stand G much chance of recovering sufficiently [Tt to take his place again in the war, the doctors did not exert themselves to see that he got well. But if a man had ™ a fairly good chance of recovering and *d they thought he might be of some fur- p) ‘her use, everything that medical skill | could possibly do was done for him. | I don't know whether this was done under orders or whethér the doctors 0 Just followed thelr own inclinations | in such cases, My teeth had been badly Jerred up| i * > | | | a 0 THE CASPER . \ SET. DAILY TRIBUNE ty fronr (ie THAT hoped Tat T MISH | man linee wd Drew themseves up as | have a chance to have them fixed) prisoners, but that is not the way of | when I reached Courtral, the prison) the R. F. CG. where I was to be taken, So Tasked| 4 battle of this kind seldom lasts; the doctor if it would be possible for | many minutes, although every second | me to have this work done there, buf.| seems like an hour to those who par-j J. B. GRIFFITH Candidate for County Commis- | ‘sioner, on the Republican | ering about mine. he was, of course, intensely patriotic do was to go back and aid in the de-| San} | did | wounded. | you finally wing your way home alone. the man) didn’t seem very enthusiastic over the, -@ war and frankly admitted one day that! he very curtly told me that, although | there were several dentists at Cour-| trai, they were busy enough fixing the/ teeth of their own men without both-/| He also added that I would not have to worry about my | teeth; that I wouldn't be getting so) much food that they would be put out) of commission by working overtime. I} Wapted to tell him that from the way things looked he would not be wear-/ ing his out very soon either. j My condition improved during the | next two days, and on the fourth day | of my captivity I was well enough to | write a brief message to my squad- ron, reporting that I was a prisoner of | war and “feeling fine,” although, as a} matter of fact, I was never so de- pressed in my life. I realized, how-) ever, that if the message reached my comrades it would be relayed to my mother in Momence, Tli., and I did not | want to worry her more than was ab-| solutely necessary. It was enough for her to know that I was a prisoner, She not have to know that I was! I had hopes that my message would be carried over the lines and dropped by one of the German flying officers. That is a courtesy which is usually practiced on both sides, I recalled how patiently we had waited fn our airdrome for news of our men who had | failed to return, and I could picture my squadron speculating on my fate. That is one of the saddest things connected with service in the R. F. C. You don't care mftch what happens to you, but the constant casualties among your friends are very depressing. You go out with your “flight” and get into a muss. You get scattered, und when your formation is broken up Perhaps you are the first to land. Seon another machine shows in the sky, then another, and you patiently wait for the rest to appear. Within an hour, perhaps, all have shown up save one, and you begin to speculate and wonder what has happened to him. Bas he lost his way? Has he landed at some other airdrome? Did the Huns get hjm? When ddrkness comes you realize that, at any rate, he won't be back that | night, and you hope for a telephone | call from him telling of his where- abouts, If the night passes without sign or word from him, he is reported as miss- ing and then you watch for his cas- ualty to appear in the war office lists. One day, perhaps a month later, a message Is dropped over the line by the German flying corps with a list of | pilots captured or kiiled by the Huns, and then, for the first time, you know definitely why it was your comride failed to return the day he last went over the line with his squadron. I was still musing over this melan- chely phase of the scout’s life when an orderly told me there was a beauti- ful battle going on in the air, and he | volunteered to help me outside the hospital that I might witness it, and I readily accepted his assistance, | That afternoon I saw one of the gamest fights I ever expect to witness. There were six of our machines against perhaps sixteen Huns. From the type of the Britsh machines I knew | that they might possibly be from my own aerodrome.. Two of our machines had been apparently picked out by | six of the Huns and were bearing the brunt of the fight. The contest seemed to me to be so unequal that victory for | @ur men was hardly to be thought of, and yet at one time they so completely outmaneuvered the Huns that 1 thought their superior skill might save the day for them, despite the fact that they wete so hopelessly outnumbered. One thing I was sure of: they would never give in, Of course, it would have been a com- paratively simple matter for our men, when they saw how things were going against them, to have turned their | when I was reported missing, | subsequent | the war eventually, if we don’t slo: ticipate in. it, and eyen onlookers 5uf- fer more thrills fa the course of the struggle than they would ordinarily experience in a lifetime. It is appar- ent even to a novice that the loser’s fate is death, Of course, the Germans around the hospital were all watching and rooting for their comrades, but the English, ; Coo, had one. sympathizer In that group who made no effort to stifle his admira- tion for the bravery his countrymen were displaying. . ‘The end came suddenly. Four ma- chines crashed to earth almost simul* taneously. It was an even break—two of theirs and two of ours. The others apparently returned to their respective lines, The wound in my mouth made it im- Possible for me to speak, but by means of a pencil and paper I requested one of the German officers to find out-for me who the English officers were who | had been shot down. A little later he returned and handed me a photograph taken from the body of one of the victims, It was a picture of Paul Raney of, Toronto, and myself, taken together! Poor Raney! He was the best friend I had and one of the best and gamest men who ever fought in France. It was he, I learned long after, who, had checked over ‘all my belongings and sent them back to England with a signed memorandum—which is now in my possession. Poor fellow, he little realized then that but a day or two later he would be engaged In his last heroic battle with me a helpless on- looker! The same German officer _ who brought me the photograph also drew | a map for me of the exact spot where Raney was buried in Flanders, I guarded it carefully all through my adventures and finally turned it over to his father and mother when I visited them in Toronto to per- form the hardest and saddest duty I | have ever been called upon to execute —to confirm to them in person the tidings of poor Paul's death, The other British pilot who fell was also from my squadron and a man 1 knew well—Lieutenant Keith of Aus- trafia, I had given him a picture ‘of myself only a few hours before I start- ed on my own disastrous flight. He was one of the star pilots of our squad- ron and had been in many a desperate battle before, but this time the odds were too great for him. He put up a wonderful fight and he gave as much as he took. The next two days passed without incident and I was then taken to the intelligence depactment of the German flying corps, which was located about an hour from the hospital. There I was | kept two days, during which time they put a thousand and one questions to |me. While I was there Iturned over | to them the message I had written in the hospital and asked them to have one of their flyers drop it on our side | of the line. They asked me where I would like to have it dropped, thinking perhaps I would give~my alrdrome away, but when I smiled and shook amy head, thes did rot insist upon an answer, “T’'ll drop it over ——,” declared one of them, naming my airdrome, which revealed to me that thelr flying corps is as efficient as other branches of the service in the matter of obtaining valu- able information. And right here I want to say that the more I came to know of the enemy, the | more keenly I realized what a difficult task we're going to have to lick him, In all my subsequent experiences, the fact that there is a heap of fight left In the Huns still was thoroughly brought home to me. We shill wi up too soon, in the mistaken idea that the Huns are ready to lie down, The flying officers who questioned me were extremely anxious to find out all they could about the part America noses down, Janded behind the Ger- j Ho: 66 squadron, qf LEVEN Togy | 2/Lieut. A.0'Brie ; P ants Pre. Comb. Right Shirt. Towels. Pr. Short Pr. Puttees Pra. Breeche Pr. Trousers Belt. ee Tunic. Pr. Ankle Bo Pr. Goggles. Sam Browne 3: Cane. Box Dentrifi Blankets. OPP HOPE PPP EPO Pr HORDE are Royal Fiying | 4% --E_1t nm, R.F.G. (S}R.) Reported missing 17-8-17 suite Pyjamas, Shirt. inations. Strap. Suit civilian clothes. ee et American Tunié. ots. British Warm Coat. alt. Ce. PH leony Yirerr« Commands Royal F. No. 66 Squadron, ‘lying Corps. Photograph of Official Memorandum, Belongings of Lieutenant O’Brien, tenant Raney When O’Brien Was Giving an Inventory of the Personal Which Were Turned Over to Lieu. Reported Missing on August 17, 1917, ticket for the 2-year- j { } { \ Win the war first, and after we shall have done that I am in favor of any public policy, consistent with reasonable taxation, that will secure! jand maintain for Casper and Na- trona County the industrial suprem- acy of this great Western Empire.| I favor a system of improved high-| ways leading to the oil fields; where | possible, the employment of conyicts | upon our public roads; the strict en | forcement of the “work or fight’) rule by compelling all bums and loaf-| ers to go to work at some useful oc-| cupation or put go work on our} streets or highways; the elimination | of party polities in the administration of our county affairs; and any pro- gressive policy that will contribute to the health, wealth and happiness | of our people.—Adv, z ; a te | ROMAN POET IS. FEARLESS AIR. FIGHTER, CLAIM Hailed as One of Foremost Figures in Aerial Warfare Despite Age of Over Fifty Years | LONDON, Oct. 25.—(Correspon-| dence of the Associated Press.) —The | air expolits of Gabriele d’ Annunzio, | the Italian poet, novelist and drama-| tist, have taken a strong hold on, the British public‘ imagination, and| he is acclaimed here as one of the world’s foremost ffgures in aerial warfare. The London papers, which recently have been devoting consid- erable space to the daring Italian, express surprise thaf a man of his! age and temperamént was able to make so remarkablea success as an airman. Few expected, the Daily Ex- |pres says, that the “dandy Roman |poet” woul become .an air fighter jafter passing his 50th birthday. | Above all, it is pointed out, he is jan inspiration to his people. His deeds during the war are known to all the world, but few outside Italy |realize that he has“Béen the great- est public orator of his country since the* war began. His, speeches are full of prose music, and the -icesange which he dropped over Vienna ‘was written’ as only a poet and a soldier could write. D’Annunzio as a squadron leader is said to be not only fearless, but untiring. Routine bombing and! chasing have no attractions for hita.| His fertile brain \g cpnstuntly at. work devising new methods for har-| rying the enemy in unexpected direc-| jtions. That is why the Austrians! hate him so intensely. It is believed here that his fate) jwould be dire if he fell into the, enemy’s hands, and Londen is quite | ready to credit the story that h+ car-| |ries in his tunic pocket a Ititle } ial |of poison, CDQUGLAS FIRM DECLARES | 10 PER CENT OIVIDEND _ DOUGLAS, Wyo,,, Oct. 25.—The first annua) stockholders’ meeting of the Chicago Hide, Fur & Wool House was held at the offices of the com- | pany here and it was voted to declare |a 10 per cent dividend. Fred Hildebrand and John Pexton | Were elected additional directors of | the company and the officers for the coming year were elected as follows: | President, George D, Bercu; vice | president, Louis D. Bercu; treasurer, |. D. Zimmerman. The secretary | will be appointed by the president in | the near future, -At the meeting it was voted to purchase $1,000 worth | of Liberty bonds and preparations | are being made to buy heavily of the | next issue. The Chicago Hide, Fur & Wool | House, Inc., is by far the largest bu: | ness organization in operation in th: city. The business has been built up | from a partnership which at the start | searcely required the time of the two Bercu brothers, the founders. Since | that time rapid strides have been |made and about a year ago the co! | poration was formed with a capitali- zation of $250,000. At that time a number of stockmen of the state | Were admitted as directors and it is be that the company is now doing Sa aaa LSN RSME | is goltig to play in. the War, but they | evidently came to the conclusion that America hadn't taken ‘me very deeply into her confidence; judging from the | information they got, or rutfed to get, | from me. | At any rate, they gave me up as a bad Job, and I was ordered to the offi. cers’ prison at Courtral, Belgium, | TO BE CONTINUED | present campaign marks the first time in the history of the state when} OBE fi ATO Political Chicanery and Trickery of Wyoming’s Gover- nor Holds No Parellel in the West; Home | Town Paper Labels Him False | ing has had s accused by their political oppon-| ents M4 evan beens vakePatitde: be having i disqualified i lack | of business ability and failure to espouse principles which alone can} command the respect of the people of the state and nation, but the tiv of all these and offered proof of deceitful political cunning that’ holds no parallel in western politics. a The Cody Enterprise, Democratic newspaper which is support- ing all other Democratic candidates in the present election, has tuned down Governor Houx cold, without a word of apology, notwithstand- | ing the fact that it is his “home town” paper. ‘Where there is much smoke there must be some fire,” in the popular vernacular, but the latest proof of the political chicanery and trickery of Wyoming's chief executive is exposed in a letter made public by Robert D. Carey, Republican candidate for governor. Be it said to the credit of Mr. Carey, that he gave Mr. Houx ample opportunity to retract his political slander before this com- munication was handed to the newspapers, and only a policy of double crossing and deceitful conduct on the part of his opponent would have prompted hii to act otherwise. The substance of the entire letter is that Robert D. Carey offered to accept the appointment as lieutenant-colonel in the Wyoming Na- tional Guards after his letter to Governor Houx declining the appoint- ment on good and sufficient grounds. But there was not a word from Governor Houx to this effect in challenging the loyalty of Mr. Carey. All of which indicates that he does not believe his personal appearance—that of a villain in a fourth-rate blood and thunder drama. Here is the letter of Mr. Carey. It speaks the truth: October 21, 1918. “Hon. F. L. Houx, “Cheyenne, Wyoming. “My dear Governor Houx: “Today I noticed in the Cheyenne Leader,-a page advertisement in which was published a letter which I wrote you declining an ap- pointment in the Wyoming National Guard. “While there is nothing in the letter of which I am ashamed, knowing that any fair-minded man-who reads the letter will agree that my reasons for declining the appointment were good and sufficient, I believe that if part of the correspondence is published, ‘all of it should be published. “Since this letter came from your private files, you of course, are responsible for its publication and I would suggest that you also ' publish your letter of July 20th, 1917, which was in reply to my letter | 79: declining the offer in which you say@ “I fully realize your position and while I would be very glad to have you identified in this capacity, I cannot, under the circumstances, insist upon it, . loyalty and of your desire to serve your country, and I certainly appre- ciate it very much, but under the circumstances will not urge upon you, the acceptance of my offer to appoint you to this position.” . “7 suggest that you at the same time publish a statement that after writing the leter declining the appointment, I called upon you at ‘our office and informed you that in spite of my reasons for ‘ing, Toul accept the appointment offered in the Wyoming National’ Guard and you informed me at that time that you had wired Burke Sinclair and that he had accepted the vtec “If. you desire to play fair, I feel certain that you will do as I have suggested. “Very truly yours, (Signed) “ROBERT D. CAREY.” Cooking like you want it—at The Harvey. ‘ 10-21-tf efi SC RS CARD OF THANKS .I feel impelled to offer by thanks lend appreciation for the more than Mc- | generous kindness rendered me during 10-18-6tx/| the sickness and death of my little |girl, Rose. Who knows that her sweet | See Ben. “A Look Means a Lot.’’| innocense may be more to our lives oe |now than it has ever been before- Try our compartment plate lunches. | MAY COLLINS. White House Cafe. 10-26-50t | “A Look Means a Lot.’’) ——_§ —__ —__—_ -—_—__||_ See Ben. over a million-dollar business each} oot, RSS | year. The concern has been a big White House Cafe serves you} advertising medium for Douglas as right. 10-26-39t Portraits made at your home. Crory, Phone 559-J. — CAREY OFFERED T0 AGCE lam thoroughly convinced beyond a doubt of your SATURDAY, OCT. 26, 1918 PT APPOINTMEN DECEIT OF HOUX TOO RANK FOR PUBLIC APPROVAL |. SOCIETY | Eastern Star Red Cross r Workrooms Now Open . The Eastern Star workrooms for the Red Cross are again open after being temporarily closed on account of the influenza epidesaic, but the de- mand for work seems to be more ur- gent than the semi-quarantine that has been placed on public meetings so that it was deemed best to use the rooms again. The rooms are large, well lighted and well ventilated and it should en- danger no one’s health to spend an af- ternoon sewing for the soldiers who need the articles made in the work- rooms. The women feel that the so!. diers are not stopping their efforts to whip the Hun and they should be even more zealous to work for the soldiers’ welfare. Members of the Eastern Star will find the workrooms open every after- noon except Saturday with some one in charge of the sewing. ee Elbert Majors Marries Aurora, Missouri, Lady M. Elbert Majors of this city was united in marriage to Miss Josephine Schnoor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Schnoor, mine owners of Joplin, Missouri, the ceremony being perform ed October 16th at Aurora, Missouri, where Miss Schnoor made her home. Mr. Majors is well known in Ces- per where he has been associated with his brother, Tom Majors, in the sheep business. Mr. Majors will return to Casper with his bride and they will be at home to their friends at 316 S Maple street, after November first. Mr. and Mrs. Majors will visit at Col- orado Springs, Denver, and in Kansas before returning to Casper. pea Sa lt 3 ° | When you are hungry think of the | White House Cafe. 10-26-3t —_—_—_ 7 Money to loan on everything. The Security Loan Company, Room 4, Kimball Bide. 10-1-tf The ist your property with us. 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