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Ice Cream Automobile T our lcmc TTEARST’S SENT) AT AMERICAN ATLANTA. GA.„ ST'XDAY. JT'NF. 13, 1915. ONLY14 OF 82 ON EMDEN SURVIVE Want Women Called With Men for War 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 HYPO-NEEDLE ■Hi CURES ARE "OUT OF DATE " Wr guarantee Kgftthat Neal Three-Day Treatment coru ■ gists of harmless vegetable medicines taken by MOUTH ONLY. In a fine pri vate room at ATLANTA NEAL INSTI TUTE 229 Woodward Ave Main 2796. Seal Institutes in 60 Principal Cities DR.J.T.GAULT SPECIALIST (»W mw) 12 lewte Bu'WIn? Atfont# GeenM# 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. ♦ »♦ ah 'XSADEJS. hi xmo'&rxs e/rr HJlKP'S' THAT TIE/ A EARS 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, if Copyright. I* 1 ' bv tire xvheejer Syn- PIIE PATENT BRICK ICE CREAM BOX— empty, showing its pat ented construction, which is a revelation to outing parties. The cream compart ment in the center, sur rounded by ice. keeps the cream brick in perfect condition for six hours. Phone Ivy 2000 Makes a neat package, weighing less than seven ^pounds. ‘ and is easilv carried. packed with a deli cious NUNNALLY Ice Cream Brick, wrapped in parchment paper, so that your hands do not touch cream or ice. It is easy to to remove the brick, use part, and replace remain der in the box where it will keep for hours. When used, throw box away. ICE CREAM DEPARTMENT