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ONLY14 OF 82 ON EMDEN SURVIVE
Want Women Called
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FRENCHGUNS SPREAD
LOST ONE MAN EVERY DAY
! London Mass Meeting Headed by
Mrs. Pankhurst Urges New
Policy on Government.
FLIGHT IN STOLEN VESSEL
.German Seamen Received Cordially and Given j
;; Supplies by British on an Island Where News;
; of the Great War Had Not Yet Penetrated.!
ON LONG DESERT JOURNEY j
. | LONDON, June 12.—At a ma*s meat-
I WOULD rather go to the bottom or the sea J | ing held In London uader the chairman-
than to fake another journey through the j j ^igu.t'ot^'LJWs'^pted® rel*fng U ™V‘
desert.
company
Continued From Poo* 1.
yr%M in the early part of September
-** On# of our craw, mint years ago,
bad worked there and knew the place
.wall That evanlng this sailor told
'■oor captain that he knew of hi# per
sonal knowledge that there were sev-
■*eral oil tanka near ih# entrance to
rha harbor
„„ This was good news. »o we waited
iill dark, and about .10 p m. we stole
Into the inner harbor, and after locat
ing the tanks with searchlight
shelled them
ir Before the ehore batteries had time
To Are on us, we had cleared, off to
the #e«
■ The following morning we could
■till see the flames far off in the horl-
-jton Thus we destroyed millions of
gallon# of oil belonglrg to the enemy
In the early part of October, per
haps on the 10th. we reached an Is
land in the Indian ocean
V This Und is called Diego Garcia,
and is one of the group called G hag os
Islands These Islands wero origl-
-ttally Spanish, but now they are Brit
ish possession#. I^ater we learned that
there were not more than 36 or 40
Europeans and about 80ft or 400 hun
dred natives there. This island !s
jdtuated halfway between the Afn-
ran coast and Sumatra
Islanders Are Deceived.
When we entered this little water
Inlet, we learned that no one In that
ocean desert were yet aware of the
breaking out of the European war.
We at once sent a small crew to
the shore and established friendly
relations with the British residents;
no we coaled all day long from a
steamer which we had captured pre
viously In the Indian ocean. We
could have easily captured the island
and seised all the coal and provis
ion# there but we needed urgent re
pairs on our machinery; so we wished
to stay piere for a few days in peace.
Some of our engineers repaired one
v>f the motor boat# belonging to the
British residents, for which they re
ceived baskets full of cocoanuts.
These people live a simple life and
.from the beginning we fell In love
with the place.
♦* Toward the end of October, late in
the afternoon, we were about nine or
ten miles off Penang.
We hoisted our dummy funnels,
jgxul once more we made our ship look
Mike a British cruiser; then wo made
for the entrance of the harbor, where
stood an unknown cruiser and many
ships behind.
We M earned toward her until we
were within 600 or TOO yards, and
then we sent her two torpedoes, both
of which took effect and the unknown
cruiser, w’htch we later found out to
be the Russian cruiser Jemtchug.
sank immediately.
At the time we had fired the two
Torpedoes, had -^likewise sent her a
salvo of 100 shots. Otir shots also
sent to the bottom several sailing
ships in the harbor
French Destroyer 8unk.
After this we steamed out of the
harbor as fast as we could.
On leaving Pena rig. we were steam
ing at full speed, and about 86 miles
Out. we met a steamer Just then
we sighted a warship in th« horizon,
which we took to he a large British
cruiser Rut after tiff* early morn
ing mirage had settled, we found out
that It viss the French destroyer, the
Mousquet We aproached her with
in 8,600 yards and then we sent a
salvo to her We Immediately sank
her And saved 86 of her crew
Just then we sighted another de
stroyer making for us from the direc
tion of Penang We wet* chased by
this unknown craft for shout five
hours, but we finally got rid of her
In a terrible rainstorm
With full speed >fce made for tho
Indian ocean, and after destroying
many ship# we again returned to the
Ghagos-Keeling Islands group, to
destroy a wireless station, that was
on November 0.
The British officers in charge of the
wireless station were evidently ex
pecting a British cruiser
I was wearing a British uniform.
Thus I approached the commander of
the wireless station and informed him
that their operation of the wireless
had interfered with the movements of
the cruiser * . ,
Wireless Station Raided.
While I was talking to him. who
had come halfway from the station
toward the place where we had land
ed. another detachment of mv party
had already marched to the station,,
and as previously arranged, rounded
up the British who were connected
with the station.
We first placed them under strict
guard, and then we begin to destroy
Jhe station the beet we could with the
material at our command
fU' I had made all arrangements to
I surprise the wireless officials before
* thev could send out distress signals.
’However, they already had sent out
|signals not knowing this, we
Kept at work for about an hour and
\ a half
a I wti informed that beside the
tireless, there wgre three submarine
Tiables from the island These cables
r _ ' s
are to Rodriguez, to Batavia and to j
Perth. Our party cut three cable*, j
ana we thought we had destroyed the !
whole three But in reality we had
only destroyed one real cable, to v
Perth, the other two cables we had
cut were dummies
At 9:SO we had scarcely finished
our work, when we suddenly hoard
the whistle of the Emden. ordering
us on ooard, in distress
We made for our ship fa*t a *
we could, but upon our arrival at the
shore, wo found out she was steam
ing at full speed toward a cruiser
In the horizon.
Forty - THre# Are Marooned
At that moment you can imagine
our disappointment to #ee our ship
desert us. leaving us to the mercy of
those whom only a few hours before
we had put under a strong guard
“that
j we men and women her«* assembled ask
. the Government to establish obligatory
[ would rather take a change itt a Hacking a war service for both men and women. '
. . . , . „. ^ ,j§ r , ftT , n th#»r L Mrs. Pankhurst declared that at least
baUle-oruiaer In ati open boat >b<tp * jy SOO.OOO German women were making
>r men through the sj.irttful desert '"“""i'W vf *nd .he urged ad
. <, British men and women to register
On the Ihird day of our desort journey * we lost ' themselves, at Government bgencles for
, . , ., loci f! such service as they were fitted to per-
another comrade, and on the fourth aay we iosi. > form
three; but during the last of the Journey we lost j| g*s —
one man per day.
At the outskirts of.a small town we encoun-
si r .
tered a band of mounted Arabs who were up In
arms against the Turks, Like wolves they hung
on our trail for two days. The Mils saved us.
"On April 21 we reached Vamdo on the Red
Sea coast. Our number had been reduced to
twenty, some of whom were wounded. ’ —Lieuten
ant von Muecke. ,
Graphic Eye-witness Account of Bombardment
Is Given by Bertelli—Praises General Sar-
rait’s Conduct on the Firing Line.
There we were, forty men and three
officers.
After 20 minute# of rapid confer
ence. we had decided on our next ;
move, when, at about 9 30, we heard
the first shot fired by our ship Emden i
at the distant enemy. Then another,
and another one followed. We noticed j
the enemy’s ship did not respond for
some time, until she had maneuvered.
As we watched our ship fire, with
every shot sent by her. our heart#
throbbed Then the enemy began to
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About an hour after the firing of the
first shot the Emden was on fire. She
whs making for Keeling Island, which
Is about fifteen miles from the Direc
tion islands, where we were stranded
We realized that all our hopes to be |
reunited to our comrades were gone. ;
In fact, we did not care ot Join our
unfortunae brothers who were about
to fall Into the hands of the enemy. 1
So we hurried the four maxim guns -
which we had landed from the Emden j
for the purpose of destroying the wire- j
lew# station on board a schooner called
Byashe. Just about this time we no
ticed that the enemy ship which had
defeated our Emden had left her and
was pursuing another distant ship.
While the enemy ship was thus ab
sent from the Immediate vicinity of
the Emden. which was now beached
near the Keeling Island, two cutters
and a launch belonging to* our ship
were making toward the island. We
were sure tnat they were coming to
our assistance.
8urvivora Join Party.
Having thus been Joined by the
remnants of our destroyed ship,
which brought our number# to seven
officers and 76 men. and having re-
provisioned the 70-ton schooner
Eyashe, we started on our perilous
Journey, and set #aM for the highways
of the Indian Ocean.
After five days’ sailing toward the
ast, we came across a Danish steam
er, hound to Australian ports. We
prevailed upon the Danish captain to
relieve us of the #l%k member# of our
crew. So the crew of our miniature
fleet was reduced to four officers and
60 men
The Danish captain alho told us
that he had a cargo *or the Christmas
Islands, and that he waa going out of
the regular trade route to touch that
British IslajodL
We thought tt would he wise not to
go to the Christmas Inlands, hut turn
northeast toward Java, the Dutch co
lonial possession.
During this Journey, after we hail
left the Danish steamer, we lost three
of our men, who we buried at sea,
and after many vicissitude*, havln
already traversed nearly 900 miles,
on November 30 we sighted the shores
of Sumatra. Fearing enemy ships, for
some time we kept a good distance
from the shores.
Finally, on December 4 we dropped
anchor at Hog Island, a small Dutch
Island on the northwestern shores of
Sumatra.
I went ashore with two of my men.
one of whom spoke T>inieh and the
other Dutch, and what surprised me
the most was that the few Europeans
belonging to the island had not yet
head of the great European conflagra
tion. There was one German, who
waa horn in the Straits. He was a
tobacco exporter and had for many
year# delighted in the scenery- of that
lonely island, and. being quite pros
perous. he made long visits to It in
his own private steam yacht. He
knew of the state of war between
Germany and almost all the rest of
Europe
German Gt : ves Up Yacht.
He received us*like the good Ger
man he was. and put his 85-ton yacht
at our disposal.
You may imagine our Joy upon re
ceiving this patriotic offer, coming
from a German whose grandfather
had left the fatherland many years
before.
But before making the transfer Ae
suggested that he could easily obtain
sufficient ammunition for our four
maxim guns, which was necessary to
defend ourselves against Chinese pi
rates we might perchance meet In
those waters on our wav across the
Indian Ocean to the Arabian shores,
where we told him we were hound
Leaving several members of our
crew- with hi# family, and the bulk of
It in our miniature fleet. I accompa
nied him to Batavia. Sumatra, where
onr German brother filled his yacht
with provisions and necessary ammu
nition. Then we returned to Hog Is
land and named our new ship Emden
II, and after giving our German broth
er a draft, drawn on the Imperial Ger.
man Treasury, and leaving with him
one of our officers and seven men.
who were Germans born in the Ori
ent, we left Hog Island on December
22. Our crew was three officers and
40 men. One of the officer# and seven
men who staved behind did so be-
cauae they said they could get to the
Straight settlement and incite the na
tives against their British officers.
Thev personally knew many of the
native soldiers belonging to the Brit
ish straights settlement troop#
Toward the end of Januarv we be
gan to fear for the future behavior of
our ship.
Earlv in February our shin began
to 16ok like a tramn Just out of the
woods. Whenever we caught favor
able winds we *to»n*ed our engines
and set sail, and the weather was.
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Says War Decreases
School Attendance
PHILADELPHIA. June 12.—Attend
ance in at leaxt two of the public school
districts of this city ha# showed a
markekd kdecrease because of the Eu
ropean war according to Albert H.
Raub, Associate Superintendent of Pub.
lie Schools. The territory moot effected
is that bounded by Chriatlon and
Bfoad streets, the Delaware River and
League Island. The district adjoining
• bounded by Christian, Brown and Broad
i streets and the Delaware, has showed
a falling off.
| In September the attendance in the
i lower district was aW-it 26.400 At
the present time it falls short of that,
number by more than 2,000
Germany Completes
1 Submarine a Week
l/)\DO*\'. June 12.—-The Morning
Post's naval corre#pondent says he ha*
obtained authoritative confirmation of
the report that Germany 1# completing
a new submarine every' week.
“A considerable proportion of these,”
#ays the correspondent, “come from the
Antwerp yards, and are being sent to
sea under the neutral waters of the
Scheldt.
“The evidence is strong that the Ger
man submarine# in the Dardanelles
made the journey to the Mediterranean
by way of the Atlantic, a distance of
3,400 miles, equal to a trip across the
Atlantic."
By C. F. BERTELLI.
(Special Correspondent of Th« Sun
day American, Who Accompanied
General Sarrail to the Firing Line.)
WITH GENERAL SARRAIL’6
ARMY THE ARGONNE, June 12.
Flying the magic pennant of the com-
mander-in-chief of one of the French
armies. General Sarrail'a automobile
rolled swiftly from St. Menehould, the
a-y “ ol ‘
huge heap of ruins. All the treee on
the slope of the plateau have been
WILL CUT err
tblie: beads*-*#
moat of the time, favorable for the
season.
Heavy Seas Hamper Ship.
But the sailing of the ship taxed
the capacity of our crew to the ut
most. We had plenty of fuel, but the
heavy sea# had already told on the
Emden II. which was not built for any
kind of ocean voyage.
We had to make a atop somewhere
in order to scrape off the seaweeds
that had plastered the lower pnrt «-f
the ship But we were almost In the
middle of the great Indian Ocean.
To the south spread thousands of
miles of Immense water#; we didn't
dare to turn north for fear of cross
ing regular ocean trade routes, which
meant that those waters would be
frequented by enemy ships. Bo we
had to keep away from the channel
halt
The safest thing for us to do was
to proceed west and slightly north
Thus wc could hope to make the
Arabian shores. Of cnurnc. then, our
real troubles would begin. For the
entrance to the Red Sea., we knew,
would be guarded by the enemy
ships, especially by the British
On the 6th of February wc were
approaching the Bombay-Zanzibar
ocean trade route, which run# from
Bombay southwest. Ho we decided to
paint off the name of our ship We
also had the ensigns of all nations,
and we were well prepared to hoist
any flag, similar to the one any
steamer might hear.
But all our precautions proved un
necessary. for we only met several
sailing ships far off on the distant
horiaon
Decide to Run Gantlet.
Nevertheless, we needed repairs, and
we needed them very badly. X nless
we landed somewhere, we would soon
perish in the mid-Indian Ocean
So we again decided to run the gant
let to meet the enemy ship rather than
go to the bottom of the sea.
On February 10, at last we decided
to turn north and make for the Lak-
ka Diva group, British, on the south
western coaast of India, and on Febru
ary 14 we aighted land in the north,
late in the afternoon, and It was not
until next day. about 3 p. m.. when we
were enabled to effect a landing. This
wah 8chuheliphars Island, which ia
about 200 miles west of Cochin, India.
We spent about four hours seeking
some sort of an inlet where we could
attend to some pressing repairs on our
ship. But before dark we were re
warded with such an inlet as we were
seeking
On February 15 I ordered all hand#
to rest. and. with the exception of the
two lookout men. whom I ordered to
stay on deck, the rest of the crew
went to sleep.
F*rom February 16 to February 20.
all handa w’orked on the ship, when
once more we judged her fit to con
tinue her voyage to the Arabian
shores.
From that time on our struggles
again began with nature. We battled
day and night, often without rest for
days, and without sleep we sailed on
and on I will not attempt to tell the
story of those 31 days, because tt
would take pages and even books to
tell It all.
At last, on March 20, after 22 days
on the ocean, we sighted land once
more
Mountains Ar« Sighted.
The Hadramout Mountains, which
skirt the entire Indian Ocean coast
line of Arabia from the northeast to
the southwest, began to rise in the
north, a# though from the depth of
the Indian Ocean But wc had to sail
three day# before we could reach its
shores.
At last, on the 23d day of March, wf
landed at Makallah.
During our last voyage we had lost
three more of our members, whom wc.
had buried at sea Thu# officers and
37 men landed at Makallah. a city be
longing to our Turkish ally.
At Makallah we abandoned our ship
for a paltry sum to a Portuguese mer
chant. and began to look for a resident
consul.
At last, through the assistance of
the Portuguese merchant to whom we
had sold our ship, we had arranged
with several of hi# caravan driver
frichd# to give u# safe conduct to Ho-
deiga, on the Red Sea.
On the 29th day of March our party,
now 40 men, all told, and accompanied
by our guide, started on our journey to
El Ahkaf desert. f
Once arrived at El-Ahkaf, our trusty
Arab handed us over to his relative,
another swarthy black lord of the des
ert. and he started on his journey to
Makallah.
The next evening, shortly after sun
set, we again started on our long jpur-
ney to Hodeida, a 400-mile journey. 300
miles of which was through the des
ert.
But at the very last moment, instead
of going southwest to Hodeida, we de
cided to take a northwesterly course
and end our desert journey at Sada-
El-Gha.ll.
Guido Wants a Rifle.
After the first night'# Journey, when
we had made two huts, or twenty
miles, our guide took u fancy to one of
our rifles and in so many gestures he
had uh understand that unless we
parted with one of our rifle# he would
immediately return to his black lord.
We did not consider It wise to put one
of our modern rifle# in the hands of
our day-old friend. We had to let him
nave hi# way and return to his black
lord of the desert.
We knew that our destination lay
due west, and, beside#, as we marc hed
boat than lead another company of
men through the spiritful d«sert.
On the third day of our second des
ert Journey we lost another comrudeT
but on the fourth day we lost three;
but during the Ioit journey we lost
one man per day. At last we arrived
at Sada-el-Ghall
After stopping at Sada-el-Ghall two
day#, and after receiving several let
ters from the Turkish officers to the
nearest tribal chief, we once more
started on our journey, this time aJong
the Red 9fea coast, now and then see
ing the water# qj-the Red Sea.
(>ur number was by this time re
duced to 28 men. Rut from that time
on our'tragic journey began.
Arabs Chase Fugitives.
No sooner had we arrived at the
outskirts of the small town of Aba
Arish than we encountered a strong
body of Yamen Arabs, who were op
in arms against the Turk#. As soon
a# we had sighted them we changed
our course from we/t to north. They
were all mounted Arabs, and 'he
country we were by this time travel
ing was hilly, which enabled us to
save ourselves from extermination at
the hands of these Yamenites. Nev
ertheless. two of our comrades were
killed and four slightly wounded. Like
wolves, they hung on to our track for
t\vo day#, arid the third day we began
to know something about the local po
litical condition; or rightly speaking,
the Arab tribal feud.
The Arab# who were for two days
on our track belonged to one of the
southern tribal sheiks. When they
had followed us through a certain
area, they came in contact with the
wild followers of another tribal sheik,
nnd we also found out that they
fought each other as zealously as they
would like to fight the Europeans.
So. after following us for two days,
they turned hack for fear of meeting
U.S.the Peacemaker,
Asserts Colonel West
MINNEAPOLIS. June 12.—Colonel
George OntiUntHii West declared that
England does not desire to draw the
United States into the war. because
England realize# that, this country is
the ultimate peacemaker. The colonel
is the husband of Mrs. Patrick Camp
bell. appearing here. He is on a fur
lough from the army because of
wounds.
“There is very little that the United
States could do in case of war.” he
said. “The British navy in capable of
controlling the seas.”
Colonel VVe#t said he could see no
sign of an end to the war.
Queen to Help Make
Soldiers’ Gas Masks
ROME, June 12.—The Dowarer Queen
Margherita has accepted the chairman
ship of a committee made up of more
than 2.000 ladies of the nobility and aris
tocracy who are to undertake the task
of supplying the army with masks to
ward off the asphyxiating gases used bv
the Austro-Germans.
The mask has been invented by Sena
tor Ciamician. who is professor of chem
istry at Hologna University.
German Diver Goes
3,300 Miles Unaided
th« blooms being trained to shape out
their ideas of the war Thus you come
upon “Long live France," “Down with
the Germans,” etc., writ in lilies of the
valley and pansies In the depth* of
this wood.
Entering a communicating trench,
we wound our way slowly and silently
for some 800 yards til) we reached s
hilltop commanding a perfect view of
Vauquois. From a prosperoua village
BERLIN. June 12.—Captain Persins.
the naval expert, writing in The Berlin
Tageblatt in praise of the German sub
marine that sank the British battle
ship Triumph off the Dardanelles, says
that this small undersea boat mutt
have cruised* upward of 3.300 miles from
the North Sea around Gibraltar to the
Dardanelles and all under her own
power, without stopping at a supply
station.
Krupps at Work On
Blazing War Terror
AMSTERDAM, June 12.—The Amster
dam Tijd learn# that the Krupp gun
works are engaged in construction of a
new pattern of cannon designed to hurl
big charges of burning material, the
projectiles constituting a blazing burst
of withering flame.
line. Except for the two rifles cockjd
near the wind screen, close to the
hands of the driver and orderly, noth
ing distinguished this limousine from
the smartest turnout to be seen in
Fifth avenue in the height of tba
season.
The driver 1s Jacques Marcelle. the
most popular chauffeur to serve smart
American society women on a visit to
France. The staff officer accompany
ing General Sarrail was the head of
a princely French house, while the
drivers of two automobile# in the rear,
both privates, were, one a viscount
and the other a baron.
On either side of the well-kept road
the wonderful Argonne woods open
now and then to reveal wonderful
visits of growing crops, and pastures
carpeted with spring flowers. Here,
at least, there Is absolutely nothing
to indicate that we are within a few
thousand yards of the deadliest war
of all time.
Burial Place of 2^50 Heroea.
Beneath this sunlit slope 2.250 he
roes He buried, officers and men to
gether. Rough wooden crosses rose
ur in serried rows, each of them
bearing a tin plate on which the
name of the dead soldier was
stamped.
From now on the high road is un
der direct German fire, and we must
leave the car and proceed on foot un
der cover of the wood. W* walk up
hill. along a winding pa%. till we
suddenly come upoi] a battery of four
o-lnch guns, so cleverly concealed
that it was not until we almost stum
bled across them that we knew they
were there.
General Sarrail turned to me with
a smile at my surprise “I defy the
Germane to discover this position,” he
said.
These guns have been here, in ac
tion every day, for the last eight
weeks, and they have never been dis
covered. although the German shells
have raked the wood all around. I'll
show you something.”
Sarrail 8«en at Hit Beat.
A crisp order, and one after the
other in quick succession the guns
crashed out their 40r-pound shells
against some German position on the
other side of the hill.
It is in the field. In actual contact
with his men, that General SaVrail is
seen at his best A tall, handsome
man of 59, with a small, pointed,
white beard, which he is in the habit
of stroking reflectively when wres
tling .with serious problems, he com
bines the energy of a soldier with the
contemplative and reasoning powers
of a student. He is a stem discipli
narian, hut unerringly just and al
ways kind to his men, who both love
and respect him. He Is one of the
youngest army commanders In
France, and earned his promotion
from army corps general for his mas
terly handling of his forces during the
battle of the Marne.
Joffre picked him for one of the
most dljcult tasks along the whole
front—the holding of the Argonne—
and after his brilliant success pro
moted Vm on the battlefield ofVaube-
court.
Gamp of Gunners Lika Holiday
Ground.
Leaving the battery, we proceeded
through the woods, and everywhere
encountered battery after battery of
three, four and, five inch guns. The
gunners had built for themselves rus
tic cabins, over which flowered ever
greens are now climbing. Their quar
ters look for all the world like a holi
day camping ground, and but for the
presence of the gray monsters by the
side of their huts, one would envy
them their lot. They have laid out
flower beds all around them, some of
shot to pieces and burned by gunfire.
For the last two months this hilltop
v has been a bone of contention between
the armies. Each occupies one alope
and half the top, ajid the fronb-Line
trenches are twelve feet apart.
General Gives Order®.
“We are now going to bombardHJie
place," the general explained to me “I
have given orders for the German po
sition to be shelled with all our bat
teries You will notice how feeble the
German reply will be. We hardly ever
have casualties, and we are always
able to inflict sever# losses. Yoru are
going to see a vivid example of how
we wear out the Germans.”
He made a sign to the jehief of
staff, and cabalistic order* *ere Im
mediately transmitted by tele
phone to all the 'batteries. Then
the guns spoke. First the woods rang
with the fierce harking of the famous
“Seventy-fives." They were soon
joined by the deeper roar of the four
and five inch cannon, and the crest of
the Vauquois Hill was deluged with
smoke, fire and lead.
As I watched the effect through the
telescope the earth seemed to quiver
under the terrific impact of *cores of
shells bursting simultaneously. It
*eemed to me impossible for any liv
ing thing to escape this hurricane of
fire, and I remarked to the general
that his own men must run some ri*k
from this cannonade, since they were
only twelve feet from the German*
Mortars Add to Destruction.
“No risk whatever,” replied the
general. “We have the range to the
fraction of an Inch and the accuracy
of our guns is such that shells now'
never go wide. But this is nothing."
he added. “Watch now.”
More mysterious orders were, whis
pered in a telephone, and I was star
tled by the tremendous roar of a huge
mortar right behind us and the
screech of it* 90-pound projectile a» It
sped over our heads. A huge column
of earth and stones and black smoke
rose from the top of the opposite hiH.
and the muffled sound of the explo
sion reached our ears Again and
again the mortar belched shells which
shrieked over us and exploded, to the
accompaniment of the fire of other
guns of all size* which came from
everywhere in the woods around u«.
The crept of Vauquois seemed a* if
it' had suddenly been lifted up by a
hidden volcano. The slope occupied
by the French was also almost hidden
beneath a cloud of smoke sent up by
the hand grenades and bombs hurled
by the Germans at our trenches
Spectacle Is Awe-Inspiring.
While these missilep were aimed
with remarkable accuracy and soon
smashed out of all shape one of the
French communicating trenches, it
was evident that the Germans had
made up their minds to husband their
ammunition. Their batteries were re
plying in desultory fashion, and, as T
ascertained from the official reports
at headquarters that night, all their
»hot# had gone astray and the French
suffered no casualties
As seen through the glasses, the
spectacle was at once magnificent and
awe-inspiring. A puff of wind cleared
the view for a moment and revealed
to my vision the fearful havoc
wrought in the German trenches by
French guns. The tree bearing its
human scarecrow had at last been
shot down, and in its place I »aw a
huge crater. Many Germans had evi
dently been blown up and buried by
the earth that tumbled down from
their breastworks.
Firing gradually slowed down and
finally ceased after about an hour.
due west, anu. beside#, as we man nea rnev uirnea ‘v
toward the west we found the climate }u. hand belonging to another tri >e.
wo# b^ginnieg to get somewhat cool. We were about to rejoi/'e over our
vild at the rate of twenty discovery of the fact regarding the
local tribal situation when we Sight
ed another Arab-hand
We trav
miles per night and slept, of slug
gishly dosed about, in the shelter of I
the hut during the daytime.
On the second night of our journey
over the desert two more of our com
rades succumbed to the heat.
I must confess l began to fear the
desert spirit. With our hands we dug
grave# in the sand and buried our
brothers together. God bless them,
and may never apother person trod
those horrifying desert sand# to ^ee
the sand heap we erected!
I from that time on began to feel a
chill. I began to fear the desert night.
We knew* we all had that feeling, hut
we were too proud to communicate
our feelings to one another; yet«every
one of us knew that everyone else
knew each other’s inexplicable fear.
Call It cowardly! Cowardly, call
tt whatever you please, but there Is
something in the desert that fright
ens one. The Arab will tell you it is
spirit# traversing the desert. You
may not believe-them. I did not. But
one must experience the journey in
order to hear the whisper of the
spirits.
Like Frightened Children.
It Is better that the Arab travel at
night, for no one can sleep under the
desert sky. ,
Often during our march we would
stop suddenly, and, like frightened
children. w r e would crowd against each
J other We would all feel that we saw
I something; in proof of it. we would
feel the tremor of It; we would again
resume our march Sometimes we
I would walk a little'faster and often
I we would h# seized with some unseen
1 fear, and from which we would run
j I would rather go to the bottom of
jtho sea than to take another journey
, through the desert
\ 1 would rather take a chance in at
tacking a battle cruiser in an open
■ a
a ins
>re we sought shelter in the
and made good use of our
Once
mounta
guns.
This hand kept at us more resolute
ly and also took heavy toll; they
killed five of our members and slight
ly w'ounded, two. Yet they did not
pursue ns more than one d«y
Only Twenty Are Left.
Thus, on April 21 wc reached Yam-
do. on the Red Sea coast Our num
ber had been reduced to twenty, some
of whom were wounded Their wound*
were not so serious as to stop them
from continuing the rest erf the Jour
ney.
At Yamdo we met Turkish officers
who spoke German. They assisted us
to procure horses and insisted that we
should enjoy their hospitality for sev
eral days. But we realized that our
slightly wounded men needed a sur
geon's care #o we ’.eft Yamdo for Me.
din#, which is the terminus of the
Hedjfcz Railway that runs north to
Damascus.
We wouid have arrived in that city
in tfiree days, hut on the second day
after we had left Yamdo we were at
tacked by a band of Bedouin Arabs,
who surprised us -during our mid
night march.
During the encoon’er our wounded
brothers were all killed.
The remainder of us arrived at Me- J
die# on Apr!’ 27. (
We boarded a train that afternoon
Train* on the Hediaz Railway run |
like th* tramn steamer —that is when - |
ev*»r the shlp mo nt justifies the tr'n
Tt took us 6A hours, from Medina to
Damascus and' out oY the original 75
men ^nd 7 officer# who had left the
Wmden only H Of ns ire left,
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