The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1916-04-03


Lieutenant Charles Sweeny of the
| French Foreign Legion returned re
Gently to New York to recover from a
wound received during the French of
fensiye in Champagne last September
| Sweeny is an American. graduate of
West Point and the son of former
president of the Federal Smelling and
Refining company of Spokane, Wash
The following story of most unusual
Dutch treat was told by Lieutenant
Sweeny to Private Casey. New York
artist, also fighting in the Foreign
| Legion:
Sweeny is not a Frenchman even
| though he happens to be in the army
service of France. After his gradua
ton he married Belgian girl and set
htled down In Paris. His wife and two
small children are living in that vicin-
ity at the present time.
Il started out about midnight said
Sweeny, with patrol 10 have a look
at new German bayou between two
fortlets beyond our lines. | strung my
men out so as to give warning of any
German patrol and then led them past
our sentries and the barbed wire.
was some distance ahead of my men
and had got we'll within the German
lines without seeing or hearing any
thing of the Germans.
Bullets Never Came.
"Now. this was not the first time thai
had ever penetrated that far into the
German lines but it was the first time
on such mission that | had not had
to dodge a German patrol and very
often their bullets. These things ran
in my head continually and made me
think that / had fallen into very neat
trap which the Germans had laid for
me. | expected to see them rise from
anywhere any minute and hear the
, banging of their guns and the whis
Ting of their bullets Of | was lucky
enough to hear them. that isl. and
began to wish myself we'll out of my
predicament and back again in the
comparative safety of our trench.
This made me more cautious than
ever. and presently l began to retreat.
2 AS did so round German helmet
bobbed up out of ravine not dozen
yards away. An instant later at the
other end of the ravine another appear
} ed. l squirmed away like a snake and
l got behind the only shelter in sight, a
little scrubby tree. about three yards
away
! "As l lay there quaking. wondering
why the Germans did not shoot-for
: they must have seen mel happened
:. to look up. and there, hanging to a
branch of the tree. was a fat, clean
looking basket. l reached up. the limit
:. on which it hung being only few feet
from the ground. and lifted the basket
down.
q Then in a fash the explanation oil
; the puzzle was clear to me- The Ger
, mans had left that basket there an6
! meant me to have it.
with the basket on my arm, l go
d up. bowed low to the round hats an(
s. walked back to our trench withou
a ever being fired on.
IS Inside the basket was an assert
10 ment of frankfurters and other food
There was also note something afte
this wise:
r. Note In Basket.
y
I'VE have been in front of you TO
10 over year. and it is not against GU
comrades. the French, that we ar
a. fighting. bat against our enemy, tn
to English. Let us join forces agains
In our common enemy. We are not star,
lie ing. as you may well see from the Iii
err tie present we send you herewith
Here was something that set m
as thinking pretty hard | had escape
ae death or capture by miracle, so ia
o. as | could see, and all i'll order that
ne might enjoy hearty meal at the e,
ee pense of the Germans.
d. 4 set the has down in the trenc
rk and fell to W will, and l give 70
my word, Casey, of all the good thing
IS | have eaten l never enjoyed anythin
us more than l did that Dutch treat
lie especially the frankfurters.
III They took me back to the Unite
ht States immediately-ho dogs I'll
brightness of the sea. the yawping
bankers. crowds passing, the noise
thousands of shutting feet-not Il
sort of shutting we hear now, Case
when bugle call or the heavy sour
en- of guns seems the chief attraction
was a great shame | couldn't save V,
i've one.
for The meaning of all this was a pu
100 zle to me until l found out that 0
oil boys had left bundle of Americ:
ty. and English newspapers in the 81
Nj. where | had found the basket. vi
the paragraphs plainly marked
Inn which it was said the Germans we
his starving. And the basket was the q,
ran mans reply.
Now you know how | came TO
ern my hot dogs.
lid.
to WINS :" So"s 0e'ors -. M.
for nne son u 'ne soseinol VI NILSSON