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liners tilaf all New Workers are used
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the Fiorigei were not telling.
Probably something In the trans.
port service, or IN auxiliary cruiser,
or the like" they replied.
But IL this was a transport or an
auxiliary cruiser II was an unusual
one, for there are mighty few boats
afioat the size Of this great gray mon.
ster.
BY daibleta Information about III
vessel In the harhor came to the ears
OF the curious vacation yoyagers after
tiey got ashore, The town Is filled
with kisakl.ciad Tommles, Of course
Appealed TO for 80 name and bust
ness OF the big craft they would usu.
niiy reply: sCawn't sge, sir realty"
Finally we got this far: "1shey call
her Twenty-eight Ten-- Transport
Twenty eight Ten.
Then, at last, l CHANGED to meet and
fraternize with Il Canadian soldier, "a
chap who had just returned from the
other side. wounded. and one who was
glad to get Bit OF news about the
United States (because-thts was con-
tfdentiai---he belonged here himself,
and showed me proudly his United
States citizenship papers which he had
carried with him throughout two
years OF scrapping In Belgium and
France).
That's the Olympic
THAT big hooker ont there? Why,
that's the Olympic r he said. II just
came over in her, and tomorrow
morning she's going out with pretty
full cargo Of Tommies Shes nothin'
but n bloomtn' ferry these daysi''
And that's what she was--the Olym-
pic, the former pride of the While
Star line, sister ship Of the Inflated
and formerly one of the most
luxurious passenger liners afioat.
But now she Is Transport Twenty |
eight Ten.
And next morning, so early that the
dawn-pink hadn't yet shown over the
eastern horizon, the Olympic went OUT |
on one OF her regular ferry-runs. She |
just slipped out, without whistle
blast. without sound, indeed. And |
as my friend In khaki had said, she |
took With her a pretty full cargo of
Now, IL you had rarnbled rbout Halt |
fax the night before and asked pri-
Yates or officers here and there,
What's the big boat taking away |
when she goes 7" you'd have been told,
sOh, few hundred men, maybe; bit /
OF supplies, too. And watching the
Olympic slide of through the semi
darkness you wouldn't have been
greatly impressed.
4 But IL You had had better sources OF
information as had, thanks to my
original T0mmie-pal and some others
you might have learned that inside
the dark gray hull were 1000 men con-
signed to the French front 600 stall
wart young chaps from the forests and
wheat fields and towns OF the vast DO
l1inlon Of Canada for the most part.
That was impressive enough. that
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