The County Democrat. (Tecumseh, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, January 3, 1919 Page: 3 of 8
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Albert RDepe:
EX-GUNNER AND CHIEF PEtT\^FICE^.’^^W^
MEMBER, OF THE FOREIGN LEGION OF FRANCE
CAPTAIN GUN TURRET. FRENCH BATTLESHIP CASSAKD^
WINNER OF THE CROIX DE GUERRE
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GUNNER DEPEW SEES WONDERFUL WORK OF BRITISH AND
FRENCH NAVIES IN GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN.
Synopsis._Albert N. Depew, author of the story, tells of his servlre
Tn the United States navy, during which he attained the rank of chief
petty officer, first-class gunner. The world war stmts soon after he
receives his honorable discharge from the navy, and he leaves foT
France with a determination to enlist. lie Joins the Foreign Legion and
Is assigned to the dreadnaught Cussard. where his marksmanship wins
him high honors. Later he Is transferred to the land forces und sent to
the Flanders front. He gets his first experience In a front line trench
at Dlxmude. He goes "over the top" and gets his first Gwman In a
bayonet fight. While on runner service. Depew Is caught In a Zeppelin
tmld and has an exciting experience. In a fierce fight with the Ger-
man* he Is wounded and Is sent to a hospital. After recovering he Is
ordered back to sea duty and sails on the Cassard for the Dardanelles.
CHAPTER XI.
Action at tha Dardanelles.
I made twelve trips to the Darda-
nelles In all, the Cassard acting gen-
ially as convoy tp troop ships, but
osa trip was much like another, and
I cannot remember all the details, so
I will give only certain Incidents of
tha voyagea that yon might find Inter-
acting. We never put Into the Darda-
nelles without being under fire—but
besides saying so, whnt 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
.msty ns any I have
rain was sweeping
•eat big drops, aud
i ;n regular volleys, to go. I said on our other trips no
wind coining, by the
gainst a swell where
-weather was
ever seen,
along In sh>
•driven by t’
You could
line of wl
the drops h.
As we rounded the point, the seas
got choppier, and there were cross
currents bucking the ship from every
angle. It seemed. You could not see
two hundred yards away, the rain
was so thick, and the combers were
breaking over our bows three a ruin-
ate. Th^ coust here is pretty danger-
ous, so we went In very slowly and
had the sounding line going until Its
whlr-r-r-r sounded louder than a ma-
chine gun In action.
I was on the starboard bow at the
time and had turned to watch some
garbles 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 oilskins, was
walking up and down, wiping o(T the
business end of his telescope and try-
ing to dodge the rain. All of the gar-
bles but one left the scuppers on the
starboard side aud sturted across
decks to port. The other chnp 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 n 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 garbles had been,
and the officer was shouting, "Un
homme a la incr!" He shouted before
the man really was overboard, because
he saw that the wave would get him.
I rushed back to the port bow and
looked back, for the wove had carried
him dear across the decks, and saw
the poor lad In the water, trying to
fend himself off from the ship’s side.
Bnt 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 at 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
garbles 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
some startling tale to us and make us
promise not to tell, as he hnd 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.hlm, 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 a lot of other yarns
that I cannot remember, but I did not
believe him because I saw he wi»
picking out certain men to tell certain
yams to—thnt 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 Brest 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 hnd been
cut up by the propeller. I pretended
that, of course, he knew nil about It—
that the Old Man had had this garby
pushed overboard because ho was too
free with his mouth. But this did not
seem to do any good, so I hnd to think
up another way.
When we were out ’two days I got
hold of our prize Uar again. I figured
that he would be superstitious and I
was right. I said that of course he
knew that a ship could not draw near
Cape Uelles aud get away again un-
less at least one man was lost, or that,
If It did get away, there would be
many casualties aboard. I said It had
always been that way nud claimed
that the Old Man had pushed this
garby overboard because someone had
one had been sacrificed and that was
the i 'on we had suffered so much,
and tout the Old Man lmd been called
down by the French 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 had to tell him. Ei-
ther he thought the Old Man knew of
his yarning or else he did not think
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 Into a provision hold.
There was our lying friend, with a
?ife belt on, another under his heed,
and the bight of a rope around Mis
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
\ erythlng, because I noticed them
looking pretty hard at me—or nt 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 from
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 hnd a lot of sand piled up against
the wheelhouse and after we dived
pretty deep one time and bucked out
slowly, there was not a grain of sand
left. It looked like 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 hung out
when he could. The pans and dixies
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 sitting under them
during a heavy sea. That made him
superstitions, toe, and he disappeared
and was not found for two day* But
he was a landsman and not used to
heavy weather.
When we got to the OalltpoU 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 fleet
felt happy and fairly confident of vic-
tory. We lay off Cape Helles. and It
was there we received the news that
there were submarines lying around
Gibraltar. Then they were reported
off Malta. We got the news from Brit-
ish trawlers and transports. Our ofll-
cersAald the subs could not reach the
Dardanelles without putting In some-
where for a fresh supply of fuel, and
that the silled fleets were on the look-
ou. at every place where the subs
might try to put In. nut they got there
Just the same.
Then tbe British superdreudnaught
Queen Ellsubeth. "the terror of the
Turks," came In. She left England
with a whole fleet of cruisers and de-
stroyers, and all the Limeys said.
"She’ll get through. Nothing will stop
bcr.H
One of the boys aboard of her told
me he bad no Idea the Dardanelles
would be ns hot a place ns he found
It wus. "Guw blimey,” he said, "what
with dodging shells and submarines,
you cawn’t ’elp hut run onto a bloomin’
mine. Ill don’t mind tellin’ you," he
said, “thut HI was scared cold nt first-
And then III thinks of what ’Oly Joe*
(the chaplain) told us one service.
‘Hln times of dynger, look hupwards,’ |
•e says. So III looks hupwards, and
blimey hlf there wasn't a bally plane
a-droppin’ bombs hon us. 'What price
hupward looks, Oly Joe?’ I slugs out,
hut he weren’t nowheres near. Blarst
ine, there weren’t nowhere you could
look without doin’ yer bloody lieye a
dirty trick."
When the Queen Elizabeth entered
the Dardanelles, the Turkish batteries
on both shores opened right on her.
They had Ideal positions, and they
were banging away In great style. And
the water wns simply thick wlM
mines, and for all anybody knew, w th
subs.
Yet the old Lizzie sailed right along,
with her band up on the main deck
playing, "Everybody's Doing It.” It
made you feel shivery along the sp'ne,
and believe me, they got a great hand
from the whole fleet.
They say he.' Old Man told the boys
he was going to drWe right ahead and
that If the ship was sunk he would
know that the enemy wus somewhere
In the vicinity. Well, they were lieuded
right, but they never got past the
Narrows. They stuck until the last
minute though, and those who went
up( went up with the right spirit.
“Are we downhearted?” they would
yell. “No!” And they were not, either.
They did not brag when they put It
over on the Turks, and they did not
grouch when they saw that their Bed
Caps had made mistakes. Their motto
w-s, “Try again.” and they tried
day after day. I do not know much
about the histories of armies, but I
do not believe there was ever an army
iike that of the allies In the Gallipoli
campaign, and I do not think any
other army could have done what they
did. I take off my hat to the British
army and navy after that.
It was hotter than I have ever
known it to be elsewhere, and there
was no water for the boys ashore but
what the navy brought to them—some-
times a pint a day, and often none at
all. The Turks had positions that you
could not expect any army to take,
were well supplied with ammunition
nnd were used to the country’ and the
climate. Most of the British army
were green troops. It was the Anzacs
first campaign.
They were wonderful boys, these
Australians and New Zealanders.
Great big men, all of them, and finely
built, and they fought like devils. It
One day, off Capo Hellas, during
our seventh trick at the Dardanelles,
we sighted a aub perl scop, Jual about
dinner time. The I’rlnce George aud a
destroyer sighted the aub at the same
time, and the Prince George let go
two rounds before the peri»et>|*e dis-
appeared, but did not hit the mark.
Transporta, battleahlpa and crutsera
were thick around there, all at anchor,
and It waa a great pluce for a aub
to be.
In no time at all the destroyers
breezed out with their tails In the
air, throwing a smoke screen around
the larger ships. They hunted high
and low. all over the spot where she
had been sighted and all around It,
thinking to ram It or bring It to the
surfuce, so we eould take a crack at
Onr Part in Feeding the Nation
(Special Information Service. United States Department of Agriculture.)
BUTTER MAY BE MARKETED BY PARCEL POST
PREPARE BUTTER
BEFORE PACKING
Experimental Shipments Made of
Dairy Products by Use of
Parcel Post.
PRE-COOLING IS ESSENTIAL
Above, Actual Parcel-Post Shipment of Three Pounds of Butter Wrapped in
Parchment Paper, Several Thicknesses of Newspaper, Corrugated Paper-
Board Carton and Heavy Wrapping Paper. Below, Three Stages of ■
Parcel-Post Package of Butter.
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ter. Waxed paper may be used for th*
second wrapping. As a further protec
tlon to the print, it should be placet
In heavy manila paraffined cartons
which may be obtained from folding
I paper box companies for about one
I half cent each when unprinted or at s
I slightly additional cost when printed at
a stock carton or with a special private
brand.
Shipping Containers for Butter.
Corrugated fiber board shipping con-
tainers of various sizes may be obtain-
ed for shipping butter.
These boxes or containers practically
Insulate the butter and furnish much
protection against heat. Further pro-
tection may be obtained by wrapping
the container in stout wrnpptng paper,
The whole should be tied securely with
a strong cord.
Some persons ship butter by parcel
post In Improvised or “home-made” con-
tainers. Clean, discarded, corrugated
paper-hoard cartons are obtained from
the grocer or other merchant at small
cost or frequently without cost. It 1*
possible to cut a piece of paper board
In such shape and size that when It Is
folded It will form a satisfactory car-
ton.
The subject Is discussed in detail
In Farmers’ Bulletin 930. “Marketing
Butter nnd Cheese by Parcel Post,”
available for free distribution by the
United States department of agricul-
ture, and suggestions regarding parcel
post business methods arc contained In
the department’s free bulletin No. 922,
“Parcel Post Business Methods.”
May Be Marketed Satisfactorily When
Extreme High Temperature* Are
Not Encountered—How to
Pack for Safe Carriage.
Experimental shipments by the bu-
reau of markets. United Stntes depart-
nent of agriculture, Indicate thnt well-
made butter, thoroughly chilled before
“Un Homme a la Mer!”
was hand-to-hand work half the time; ,
hardly any sleep, no water, sometimes
no food. They made a mark there at j
Gallipoli that the world will have to
go some to beat.
Our boys were on the Job, too. We
held our part of the works until the
time came for everybody to quit, and
It was no picnic. The French should
be very proud of the work their navy
did there In the Dardanelles.
On our sixth trip I saw H. M. S.
Goliath get it She was struck three
times by torpedoes and then shelled.
The men were floundering around In
the water, with shrapnel cutting the
waves all around them. Only a hun-
dred odd of her crew were saved.
"I Saw H. M. S. Goliath Get It"
It. All the rest of the fleet—battle*
ships and transports—weighed anchor
at once and steamed ahead at full
speed.
It wns n great sight. Any new ship
coming up would huve thought the
British and French navies had gone
crazy. We did not have any fixed
course, but were steaming as fast as
we could In circles and hnlf circles,
and dashing madly from port to star-
board. We were not going to allow
that sub to get a straight shot at us.
but we almost rammed ourselves
doing it. It was a case of chase-tall
for every ship In the fleet.
But the sub did not show Itself
again that day, and we anchored
again. That night, while the destroy-
ers were around the ships, we slipped
our cables nnd patrolled the const
along the Australian position at Guba
Tepe, but we did not anchor.
The following day the Albion -went
ashore In
nnd as soon ns the fog lifted the Turks
let loose nnd gave it to her hot. A
Turkish ship came up and, with any
kind of gunnery, could have raked her
fore and aft. but the Turks must
have been pretty shy of gun sense,
for they only got In one lilt before
they were driven off by II. M. S. Can-
opus, which has made such a fine
record In this war.
Then the Canopus pulled In close to
the Albion, got a wire hawser aboard,
and attempted to tow her out under
a heavy fire, but us soon as she started
pulling, the cable snapped. The crew
of the Albion were ordered aft and
Jumped up on the quarter deck to
try nnd shift the bow off the bank.
At the same time the fore turret nnd
the fore six-inch guns opened up a
hot fire on the Turkish positions to
lighter the ship and shift her by the
concussions of the guns. For a long
time they could not budge her. Then
the Canopus got another hawser
aboard anil, with guns going nnd the
crew jumping ami the Canopus pulling,
! the old Albion finally slid off and both
I ships backed into deep water with
j little harm done to either. Then they
J returned to their old anchorages.
At Cape Ilelles every one was wide-
awake. We were all on the lookout
for subs nud you could not find one
man napping. Anything nt all passed
! for a periscope—tins, barrels, spars.
Dead horses generally float In the
j water with one foot sticking up, and
| we gave the alarm many a time when
J It was only some o!d ting on his way to
| Davy’s locker.
On the Cnssnrd the Old Man posted
j a reward of 50 francs for the first man
j who sighted a periscope. This was n
good Idea, but believe me he would
I have hnd trouble making the award, ___
for every man on the ship would be ,)Uttpr produces a soft, oily condition
------- -v--------^ the fin,s)le(j produet which is unde-
sirable. In manufacturing butter on
the farm or in a factory the buttermilk
must he removed and washed out, and
the proper amount of salt must be In-
corporated evenly. For the satisfae-
tion of customers it Is Important that a
good nnd uniform quality of butter be
produced.
Preparation for Parcel Post.
The methods used In preparing but-
ter for parcel post shipping depend
largely upon the local conditions and
the stvle of package used. To Insure
delivery in the best possible condition
butter, after being packed or printed
nnd placed in cartons, should be chilled
or hardened thoroughly before it is
.owing nay u.e “"T" dipping nud packed in suitable eon-
the fog, south of Guba Tepe, , J may J marketed satisfactorily
by parcel post when extreme high tem-
peratures are not encountered.
Although many of the experimental
shipments were made during the heat
of summer, only 14 of the 454 ship-
ments, or 3.1 per cent, were received
in an unsatisfactory condition. These
results are attributed to care In prop-
erly packing the butter In suitable ship-
ping containers, nnd to the pre-cooling
ir thorough hardening of butter at the
creameries before shipment. The dis-
anees traveled by the butter ranged
from 187 to 536 miles and the hours
in transit from 18 to 00. Shipments
were made In all months of the year.
Condition of Butter Important.
As parcel post shipments of butter
are likely especially during the sum-
mer to be subjected to conditions which
ruay cause deterioration and Injure the
quality of the butter. It is highly de-
sirable that every possible precaution
be taken before shipment. Particular-
ly is this true of farm-made butter, be-
cause conditions affecting its quality
and condition usually cannot be con-
trolled as easily on farms ns in cream-
eries. However, farm-made butter
should be marketed just as satisfac-
torily ns creamery-made butter when
it is properly made and properly pre-
pared for shipment.
It Is necessary to maintain proper
{ ESSENTIALS FOR SUC-
t CESS
t —
H Successful parcel post market- ^
ing of butter requires that ex- £>
W treme care be taken to Insure ^
the delivery of a satisfactory
product to the customers. The
following are a few of the im-
portant considerations in mar-
keting better successfully by
parcel post:
1. A uniformly high-quality
product should be produced.
2. It should be properly packed
in neat and attractive packages.
3. The shipping container used
should amply protect the butter
from deterioration and damage,
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4. The packages should bear
conditions in the care of the milk and ** the n(i(iress of the sender nnd be
cream and the making of butter If a • 4, {)rnp,,riy addressed to the cus-
marketable product Is to be produced. *’ {Qmer.
Too much importance cannot be given 4, The most expeditious mail
to the maintaining of clean eondi- | * se.-vice from the mailing office
t ons in the stable and In other places «, should be used to Insure the de-
where the milk, cream, or butter are | ♦; llvery Qf the butter in the best
produced or kept, for they absorb odors j < condition.
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cool place. High temperatures should
always be avoided, as heated cream or
sure to see It at the same time. Each
man felt sure he would be the man to
get the reward. The 14-pounders were
loaded nnd ready for action on a sec-
ond's notice. But the reward was
never claimed.
Depew gets into a hot place
when he volunteers for service
in the trenches at Gallipoli.
After a battle he finds his pal
a victim of Hun frightfulness.
The next Installment tells the
story.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Martial Law.
Mnrtlnl law is not a law at all In the
usual sense of that term; It la really
the abrogation of law. It Is an order
that supersedes civil law, and Is em-
ployed in time of extreme peril to the
state or municipality from without or
within, when the general safety can-
not be trusted to the ordinary admin-
istration of government, or the publlo
welfare demands the adoption and ex>
ecution of extraordinary measures.
shipped. ,
One of the most satisfactory ways of
preparing butter for shipment Is In the
form of regular one-pound Points. The
standard print measures 2%x2%x4%
Inches. A hand butter printer or mold
should be used in forming the prints.
Each pound print should be neat y
wrapped In regular butter parchment
or psper. A second thickness at roch
.taper has been found to add materially
to the carrying possibility of the but-
Keeping Milk Cool.
Ja parts of the country where
nntural ice is plentiful, the dairy farm-
er should:
1. See that his Icehouse is properly
constructed to hold all the ice needed,
as well as to save the greatest per-
centage of that stored.
2. Build cooling tanks, properly situ-
ated, insulated and covered so that
loss by radiation is reduced, and large
enough to hold the full milk cans but
not so large as to give too great a
volume of water to cool.
3. Use cool, running water In order
to save ice by reducing the tempera-
ture of the milk to approximately that
of the running water before adding the
ice.
In an educational milk campaign,
carried on In the New England states
during the summer of 1916, the dairy
division of the United States depart-
ment of agriculture found more than
100 dairies where, by a little more at-
tention to details with equipment al-
ready possessed, the average dairyman
could deliver milk to the railroad sta-
tion at an average temperature of 54
degrees F., a reduction from 63 degrees
F„ and with an enormous decrease la
bacteria.
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