The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-05-31
.FALLON boy RETURNS FROM
TRIP THROUGH war ZONE
Spends Months on Seas Infested
With Submarines and Mines In
Vessels Carrying Contraband

To have spent the last couple OF
years in the war zone, sailing
through the mined area that fringes
the countries bordering on the North
Sea and to have Just quit his ship
which was torpedoed by German
submarine shortly after he left 1t, Is
the experience of a Fallon boy, De.
witt Rushby, who has Just returned
from the seat of the Old World war
Young Rushby is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. William Rushby, who re-
side on a ranch north of town. A
couple of years ago he left Fallon
to see the world and from all ac-
counts he has had his wish fulfilled
to an extent seldom accorded to one
of his years. Arriving in New York
and impelled by love of adventure
he shipped aboard the steam
freighter Hermes destined for Mar
vic, Norway, with cargo of gun
cotton and railroad materials with
Russia as its destination.
The outward bound trip was de-
void of anything unusual and after
spending a couple of months in the
Land of the Midnight Sum-" during
which the Old Sol did not appear
above the horizon for the extent of
his stay, his vessel was loaded with
a cargo of iron ore for Manchester,
England. Owing to the fact that
the North sea is in the war zone and
thickly strewn with mines the
Hermes took a course that hugged
the shores of Norway northward for
about 700 miles within sight of some
OF the most beautiful mountain and
coast scenery in the world They
then crossed to the north of Scot
land, passing the Shetland islands
and down the west coast of Scotland
touching at Belfast, Ireland, through
the Irish sea to Liverpool and
lH6uCe 10 hduCueSler.
During the voyage from Narvic to
Manchester occurred an incident
that illustrates the suspicion and
watchfulness that surrounds every
thing pertaining to the handling of
a vessel in the mined area. His
vessel, steered by a Danish sailor,
was threading it's way through a
channel marked by a line of buoys
which defined the zone of safety and
outside of which was the mines. The
Dane at the wheel directed the ship
straight for the mines A ships of
ficer saw the maneuVer and grasped
the wheel, meanwhile ordering the
engines reversed, just in time to
avoid striking a mine. The Dane
protested his innocence and claimed
he had become confused, but was not
again allowed at the wheel.
At Manchester Rushby decid-
ed to change vessels and after some
difficulty which was Strengthened
out by the American consul he ship
ped on the Manchester Engineer, a
large English vessel bound for New
Brunswick and American ports. The
last of the cargo was discharged at
Philadelphia, where Rushby took
leave of the sea and headed once
more for the peaceful fireside and
the pursuits of peace, tired of war
and wars alarms
At Manchester he received his
first experience of the terrors inspir-
ed by the German Zeppelin raids. He
was attending a moving picture
theatre when the alarm was sound
ed, the lights extinguished and the
city shrouded in darkness. The
streets were crowded with knots OF
people discussing the Zeppelin raid
which was reported as due in the
city. However, it developed that
the dreaded visitors came no nearer
than Is miles of Manchester. Young
Rushby was informed by soldiers
that the city of London had been Sc
verely bombafded in the several
raids that had taken place. full ac-
counts of which had been suppressed
by the strict censorship that prevails
throughout the United Kingdom, and
the extent of which must remain a
matter of conjecture.
Mr. Rushby learned before leav-
ing the East that his ship. the Man
chester Engineer, which he had quit
ted at Philadelphia, was torpedoed
on her homeward voyage by a Ger
man submarine. and he is now
thanking his lucky stars for the
"hunch' that impelled him to quit
while the quitting was good.
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