The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-03-22

Austrian soldiers on one side and
Servian on the other We're fighting
across the waterway.
The monitor raised havoc with
the Servians for two hours, the next
afternoon The river sailors were
safe from the Servian rifles and tn"
Seryian machine guns. They work
ed their own machine guns like
madmen. But huge she'll fell on
their deck 1t came from battery
six or seven miles inland 1t kill
ed twenty men. Wolf ordered the
ships big guns into action. But
where should they be pointed2 What
was the range OF that distant bat
terry? Another Serviau she'll felt
near the monitor The Serriana had
the range Oh TIE faTe: T!.oir gn..e.
were trained. Is 1870. .l;.s: % d.
on the narrow river. But there was
rothfng for the monitor 10 train IT.
gums Dti- IL Ht$f me- ".t.'-- - '''
.jl,,,..-.. Nth man who had per
feet eyes.
Il could only shoot at guess, ~
Wolr told ne. 80" br1t 'ctl:c- '"'~: -
--.....c:.i'.s -- l.. @ri I'll! We h!azed
of into the distance but il "aa 4
thousand to one that ". eouiaGl' {:
place a shell near their battery.
Nightiall saved he monitor
'---'-.'--eaS - r4e1 - sam. t.
Wolf TO return to Buda fe9.G, b
land. and take another boat, VIA
BELGRADE, into the Save.
This time the odds were a thous
and to one against him getting past
Belgrade. The river would be full
of mines.
Wolf tried it again. The name
of the monitor was Temesh. In the
night he neared Belgrade. Sentries
on the banks sent the word ahead
to the Belgrade forts. More of the
bridge had been blown down. max
ing a navy barbed wire entangle
ment, on a giant score.
wen go ahead or ward, -
said Wolff Backward is a direc-
ton he doesn't know.
"Or up" said the captain of the
monitor.
Ten minutes later. while the
shells from the fort We're hitting
the water around them. the whole
front end of the monitor was rails
ed out of the water. by an explo3-
ion. 1t was mine,
The monitor sank. or 100 men,
so were drowned. Wolff and the
rest got away in Il small boat. Four
days later Wolf came up to Bel
grade again, In another monitor.
Twice before the run past Belgrade
has meant death. 1t meant the
same thing this time.
Three weeks later he took me in
20 t"ttar room Of tisi,' ~ s,::2,l.4.s and
showed iife 'ti~ttrt:t ). .s@."S;.a. shell
had pierced the armor of the ship,
naa entered tir- @"i!"" room, cut
Thf6'ii'Eii' i ;St,s.f.-. ,..t".....7 then az
pioded, killing t~ei,~ men, whose
torn bodies were boiled by escaping
..;ca.,. Rat Wolf got the boat in
to the Save.
Then came G2 days of blindfold-
ed nghtius. Every day the m5ni-
s-,.-- .'sS+s, III. ~ s. .ryIan she!!a aa1
every day the monitors found them
selves as helpless as the day before
in the matter OF finding the enc
niles Dat. tffTs; .sSs.S!a! : g.
with his machine guns against the
Servians on shore. More than once
at hairpin bends in the Save, he
found the Servians shooting at him
from both sides. His men dropped
off into eternity. often at the rate
OF dozen a day New men were
brought across land from Buda
Pesth. At the end OF the second
month only twelve men remained
of the 80 who had started out with
the flag ship The monitors were
battered like old tin cans. Many
OF the port holes had been damned
closed by shots. Once a shell struck
a turret from which Wolff was d.
recting his fire and the great steel
door was jammed close SO that the
mechanicians had to come and drill
it open before Wolf could be re-
leased. At the end OF 81 days the
Austrian navy department. tired OF
sending men to Wolff only to have
them killed and realizing that the
Servian batteries had rendered the
monitors practically useless WON
was ordered back to Buda Pesth.