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, • THE STANFORD WORLD Gunner Dep - ew Ex -Gunner and Chieffetty Officer, U.9. Navy Member of the Foreign Lesion of France Captain Gun Turret.French Battleship Cassard Winner of the Croix de Guerra Copyright, 1918, by Reilly sod Britton Co., Through Special Arrangement With the George Matt hew Adams Service By. Albert N. Depew DEPEW GOES \OVER THE TOP\ AND GETS HIS FIRST GERMAN IN BAYONET FIGHT. Synopsis.—Albert N. Depew, author of the story, tells of his sets:lea In the United States nay, during which he attained the rank of chief petty officer, first-class guniter. 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 dreadnaught Cassard, where his marksmanship Wins him high honors, Later he is transferred to the land forces and sent to the Flanders front, He gets his first experience in a front line trench at Dixtnutle. Legionaries vow vengeance when Germans hide behind Bel- gian women and children. CHAPTER VI—Continued. The lieutenant came brnek with the stretcher bearers and he esked one of them, so the boy could not heft- him, if the boy would live. The stretcher bearer said: \I don't think so. One through his chest and right leg broken.\ The boy, had kept quiet for a while, but all of a sudden he yelled, \Give me a cigarette!\ I handed lam a ciga- rette butt that I had found in the dug- out. We were all out of clgarettets So they lit it for „him and he kept quiet. As soon as they could they got around the corner of the fire bay with him and through a communication trench to a field hospital. The lieu- tenant and I walked a little Way with hien and he began to thank us, and he told the lieutenant, \Old man, you have been a ,father and a mother to And the lieutenant said to him: brI;ou have done well, old boy. You • have done more than your share.\ When they started into the commu- ideation trench the boy began to ocrettin again. And the lieutenant acted like a wild man. He took out • his cigarette case, but there were no cigarettes in it, and then he swore and put it back again. But in a few min- utes he had the case out again and was swearing worse than ever and talking to himself. \The boy isn't dying like a gentle- man,\' he said. \Why couldn't he keep quiet.\ I do not think he meant it. He was all nervous and excited and kept taking out his cigarette case and putting it back again. The other officer had gone on to in- spect the sentries when the boy rolled * Into the trench and a polite came up to tell us that the officer had been hit. We walked back to where I had been and there was the officer. If I bad been there I would have 'got it too, I guess. He was an awful mess. The veins were sticking out of his neck and one side of him was blawn off. Also, his foot was wounded. That is what shrapnel does to you. As I crawled past him I happened to touch bis foot and he cursed me all over the seace. But when I tried to say I was merry I could not, for then he apolo- gized and died ,a moment later. There was It silver cigarette case sacking out of the rags where his skle had been blown away and the lieutenant crossed himself and reached in and took out the case. But when he pried open the case he found that it had been bent and cracked and all the cigarettes were soaked with blood. lie swore worse .than ever, then, and threw his own case away, putting the other officer's case in his pocket. At this point our own artillery be- gan shelling and we received the order to stand to with fixed bayonets. When we got the order to advanee some of the men were already over the para- pet and the whole bunch after them, and, believe me, I was f:19 pale as a sheet, Just scared to death.' I think every man is when he goes over for the first time—every time for that matter. But I was glad we were going to get some action, because It is hard to sit around in a trench under fire ond have nothing to do. I had all I could do to hold my rifle. We ran across No Man's Land. I cannot remember much about it. But when we got to the German trench I fell on top of a young fellow and my bayonet went right through him. It was a crime to get him, at that. He :was as delicate as a pencil. \- When I got back to our trenches after my first charge I could not sleep for a long time afterward, for remem- bering what that fellow looked like and how my bayonet slipped Into him and how he screamed when he fell. He had his legs and his neck twisted ander him after he got it. I thought about it a lot and it got th be almost a habit that whenever I was going to Sleep I would think about him and then all hope of sleeping was gone. Our compapy took a German trench that time and along with another company tom hundred prisoners. We bad to retire because the men on our sides did • not get through end we were being flanked. But we lost a lot of men doing it. When wo returned to our trenches our outfit wee simply all in and we metre lying around in the front line, dire a bunch of old' rags in a narrow alley. None of ukshowed any signs of life excePt a working party that was digging with picks and shovels at some bodies that had been frozen Into the mhd of the trench. I used to think all the Germans were big and fat and strong, and, of course, some of the grenadier regiments are, but lots a the Roches I saw were little and weak like this fellow I \got\ In my first charge. It was a good piece of work to take the prisoners and a novelty for me to look there in the face—the fellows I had been fighting. Because, when you look a Hun in the face, you can see the yellow streak. Even if you are their prisoner you can tell that the Huns are yellow. Maybe you have heard pigs being butchered. It sounded like that when we got to them. When they attacked us they yelled to beat the band. I guess they thought they could scare us. But you cannot scare machine guns nor the foreign legion either. So when they could not scare us they were up agaiast le and had to fight. I will admit, though, that the first time Fritz came over and began yell- ing I thought the whole German army was after me, at that, and Kaiser Bill playing the drum. And how they, hate a bayonet! They would much rather sit In a ditch and pot you. I admit I am not crazy about bayo- net fighting myself, as a general prop- osition, but I will say that there have been times when I was serving a gun behind the front lines when I wished for a rifle and a bayonet In my hands and a chance at Fritz man to man. It was in this charge that our chap- lain was put out of commission. As we were lined up, waiting to climb on to the fire step and then over the par- apet, this chaplain came down . the line speaking to each man as he went. He would not say much, but just a few words, and then make the sign of the cross. He wail in a black cassock. He was just one man from me as we got the word and stood up On the fire step. He was not armed with as much as a pin, but he jumped up on the step and stuck his head over the parapet and got It square, landing right beside me. I thought he was killed, but when we got back we found he was only wounded. The men who saw it were over the parapet before the order was given and then the whole bunch after them, because they, too, thought he was killed and figured he never would know how they came out about their vows. All the men in the company were glad when they found he was wily wounded. While half of us were on the firing step throughout the day or night the other half would be in the dugouts or sitting around In the bottom of the trench, playing little games, or mend - Stuck His Head Over the Parapet and Got It Square. lag clothes or sleeping or cooking or doing a thousand and one things. The men were always in good humor at 'such times and it seemed to ;no even more so . when the enemy Oro was heavy. If a man was slightly wounded down would come the rifles to order arms, and some poliu was sure to shout. \Right this way. One franc.\ It was a standing joke and they always did It. The pollu who did it most was a Swiss and he was always playing a joke on somebody or imitating some one of us or making faces. We were all sorry when this Swiss \went west.\ as the Limeys say, and we tried to keep up his jokes and say the same things and so forth. But they did not go very well after he was dead. Ile got his in tile same charge its ... which the chaplain was wounded. He was one of the bunch that charged beforq the order was given, when the chaplain got it, and was running pretty near me until we 'got to the Roche wire. I had to stop to get through, though must of it was cut up by artil- lery fire, but be must have jumped it, for when I looked up he was twenty or thirty paces ahead of me. We got to the Germans about that time and I was pretty busy for a while. But. soon I saw hint again. lie was pulling his bayonet out of a Roche when an- other made a jab at him and stuck him In the arm. Then the Roche made a swing at him with his rifle, but the Swiss dropped on one knee and dodged it. He, kept defending himself with his rifle, but there was another Ger- man on him by this time and he could not get up. The corporal of our squad came up just about that time, but he Was too late, because one of the Boehm; got to the Swiss with his\bay- onet. Ile did not have time to with- draw it before our corporal stuck him. The other German made a puss at the corporal, but he was too late. The corporal beat him to it and felled hint With a terrific blow from his rifle butt, The Huns were pretty thick around there just as another fellow and my- self came up. A Roche swung his rifle at the corporal and when he dodged it the Roche almost got me. The awing took him off his feet and then the cor- poral did as pretty a bit of work as I ever saw. Ile jumped for the Boche, who had fallen, landed on his face with both feet and gave it to the next one with his bayonet all at the same time. Ile was the quickest man I ever saw. There were a couple of well-known savate men in the next company and I saw one of them get under Fritz's guard with his foot and, believe me, there was some force in that kick. Be must have driven the German's chin clear through the back of his neck. We thought it was pretty tough luck to lose both the chaplain and the vil- lage wit in the same charge, along with half of our officers, and then have to give up the trench. Every man in the bunch was sore as a boil when we got back. CHAPTER VII. Stopping the Huns at Diamude. I was standing in a communication trench that connected one of our front- line trenches with a crater caused by the explosion of a mine. All around me men of the third line were coming Up, climbing around, digging, hammer- ing, shifting planks, moving sandbags up and down, bringing up new timbers, reels of barbed wire, ladders, cases of ammunition, machine guns, trench mortars—all the things that make an army look like a general store on legs. The noise of the guns was just deaf- ening. Our own shells passed not far above our heads, so close were the enemy trenches, and the explosions were so near and so violent that when you rested your rifle butt on something solid, like a rock, you could feel It shake and bum every time a shell landed. Our first line was just on the out- skirts of the town, in trenches that had been won and lost by both sides many times. Our second line was in the streets and the third line was almost at the south end of the town. The Huns were hard at it, shelling the battered reniains of Dirmude, and to the right stretcher bearers were working in lines so close that they looked like two parades passing each other. But the bearers from the com- pany near me had not returned from the emergency dressing station and the wounded were piling up, waiting for them. A company of the 2rne Legion F,tran- gere had just come up to take their stations in the crater, under the para- pet of sandbags. A shell landed among them just before they entered the cra- ter and sent almost a whole squad west, besides wounding several others. Almost before they occupied the crater the wires were laid and reached back to us, and the order came for us to remain where we were until further orders. Then we got the complete orders. We were to make no noise but were all to be ready in ten Minutes. We put on goggles and respirators. In ten minutes the bombers were to leave the trenches. Three mines were to ex- plode and then we were to take and hold n certain portion of the enemy trenches not far off. We . were all ready to start up the ladders when they moved Nig's section oybr to ours and he sneaked up to me and whis- pered behind his hand, \Be a sport. Doc; make It fifty-fifty and gimme a chance.\ I did not have any Idea what he meant and he had to get back to his squad. Then the bombers came up to the ladders, masked and with loaded sacks on their left arms, \One min- ute now,\ said the officers, getting on their own ladders and drawing their revolvers—thouseh Most of the officers of the Legion charged with rifle sad bayonet like their men. Then—Boom I Slam! Bang 1—tin4 the mihes went off. \Ail:!\ and then the parapet was filled eith bayonets and men scram- bling and crawling and falling and get- ting up again. The smoke drifted back on us, and then our own machine guns began ihnead of us. Up sward the front the bombers were fishing In their bags and throw- ing, just like boys after a rat along the 0' om. The black smoke from the \Jack Johnsons\ rolled over us and prohal !e there was gas, too, but yoU could hot tell. The front lines had taken their trenches and gone on and you could see them, when you stood on it para- pet, naming about like hounds through the *sem* , commuelention trenches, hornless out dugouts, disarming pris- oners --Very scary -looking in their masks and goggles. The wounded were coming back slowly. Then we got busy with our work in the dugnuta and communication trenehes and fire bays, e ith bayonets and bombs, dig- ging the Boches out und sending them \west' And every once In a while a Fritz im one side would step out and yell \'Stuttered while, like as not, on the other side, his pal would pot you with a revolver when you started to pick him up, thinking he was wounded. Then we stood aside at the entrance to a dugout and some Bodies canto out in single file, shouting \Kamerad\ • The Bombers Were Fishing In Their Bag and Throwing. for all they were worth. One of them had his mask and face blown off; yet he was trying to talk, with the tears rolling down over the raw flesh. Be died five minutes later. One night, while I was lying back in the trench trying not to think of any- thing and go to sleep the bombs began to get pretty thick around there, and when I could not stand it any longer I rushed out into the boy of the lire trench and right up against the pares pet, where it was safer. Hundreds of star shells were being gent up by both sides and the field and the trenches were as bright as day. All up and down the trenches our men were dodging about, keeping out of the way of the bombs that were being thrown in our faces. It did not seem as if there was any place where It was possible to get cbver. Most of the time I Wag picking dirt out of my eyes that explosions had driven Into them. It you went into a dugout tho men already In there would shout, \Don't stick in a bunch—spread out !\ While you were in a dugout you kept expect' lag to be buried alive and when you went outside you thought the Boehes were aiming at yo e direct—and there was no place at all where you felt safe. But the fire bay looked better than the other places to me. I had not been there more than a few minutes when big one dropped in and that bay was just one mess. Out of the 24 men In the bay only eight escaped. When the stretcher hearers got there they did not have much to do in the way of rescue—it was more pallbear- er's work. A stretcher bearer was picking up one of the boys, when a grenade land- ed alongside of him and you could not find a' fragment of either of them. That made two that landed within scratched. twelve feet of me; yet I was not even When I got so that I could move I went over to where the captain was standing, looking through a periscope ever the parapet. I was very nervous snd excited and was afraid to speak to him, but somehow I thought I ought to ask for orders, But I could not say a word. Finally a shell whizzed over our heads—just missed us, it seemed like, and I broke out: \Whitt did you see? What's all of the news?' and so on. I guess I chattered like a monkey. Then he yelled: \You're the gunner officer,, You're turn in time—I've lo- onted their morthr batteries.\ 1 Depew has an exciting experf• ence in a Zeppelin raid, as told In next Installment. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Get Wise. Vanderhoof herald—if you feel that the whole world is against yon, get In line; the world may be right about it. —Boston TranscrlOt. SUNDAYSGIOOL LESSON (BY REV. P. II, FITZWATER, D. D., Teacher of English Bible In the Moody Bible Institute at Chicago.) (Copyright, 1918, Weslitrn Newspaper Union.) LESSON FOR '1..'1 3 TEMBER 29 REVIEW. SUBJECT—Wlmt It Means to Ito n Christian. SELECTION FOR READING—I John 3:1-21. (10I.DEN TEXT—My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but In deed, and truth. ---1 John 3:18. Perhaps the best way to review the lessons -of this quarter will he to take the several lessons and note their bear- ing on the subject chosen for review; namely : Whitt it means to be mm Chris- tian. In order to get the best results. itesignment should be ninth' of the sev- eral lessons; to different part let to come prepared to give the teaching of the following Ilnessszngg:t suggested a s 8 ub a jet i l. ' ossi r b it io tt way of presenting the matter. Lesson I. It means that each indi- vidual must exercise feint in Jesus christ as a personal Saylor. cete may have his Meth opened by the Lord while listening to the Word of God at in stated meeting, like Lydia, or he convinced through the manifestation of the mighty power of (html, as the Philip/Min jailer. In mmli en See it is the one Saylor and the one faith. Lesson II. It means that those who have heftily exercised faith Iii the Lord Jesus Christ will attentively read God's Word. Even a great statesman like the Ethiopian Emmy)) will la• bil/SS141 iii its rending, for the NVoril of Doll converts the soul, makes wise the sum- o., puts glatinese into the heart, en- lightens the eyes, stalstles the long- ing soul, warns agnitimt (inflows, owl brings reward to those who obey its precepts. Lesson III. It means n life of per- sonal prayer and communion with God. The one who has become a child of itiel has the glorious prIvilege of coin- ing to hint with his needs with the as- surance that God will supply them. God is more willing to give to hie chil- dren than any earthly father is to his children. Lesson IV. It means a life of obedi- ence to the Word mind will of God. Prompt anti definite tibedlenee,*111 bo rendered, even to the separiition from business, and the flea of nature, when such Wand In the way. Peter, Andrew, James and John obeyed, anti It meant to them great spiritual blessings. From fishing for fish, they were promoted to fishing for men. Obedience to God pays. The disciple of Christ will treas- ure up his words. Lesson V. It means growth In grace. Jesus himself grew in wisdom S1111 in stature, anti in favor with God mind man. Merely accepting Christ Is not enough; there must he growth. Lesson VI. It menns n life of help- fulness to others. One who MIR been made n partaker of the Divine nature will, like him master, give himself in helpful service to others, lie will he a neighbor to the needy and unfortunate, even as the Good Snmaritan. Being good in himself, he will he doing good to others, lie will use every opportu- nity to do good. Lesson VII. It means attendance at the place of worship, receiving the teaching of the Word of God, partak- ing of the communion, and rendering service In some capacity In the church. Lesson VIII. It means confessing Christ before men, and waiting with expectant hope for the coming of Je- sus Christ from Heaven. The grand Incentive for faithfulness in witness' log for Christ Is the assurance that he will come again. Lesson IX. It means flint we will give of our possessions to the poor rind needy, love our enemies, and refrain from censorious Judgment. God esti- mates our gifts, not by their size but by what we have left. Lesson X. It means that one will strive to conquer his evil propensities, not allow covetousness to master him as ;I s la Ahab. and separate himself from those who walk in darkness. Ile will exercise great caution lest he be- come overcome by the devil, Lesson Xi. It wimps being holy and trite. In order that we may preserve from corruption the , great mass of men and enlighten those in darkness, preaching the Gospel to every crea- ture, conscious that the presence and power of Christ.will abide. Lesson XII. 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