The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02

Der it was After a while it disappeared into the water and then we saw no other light for many hours.
 "The lifeboat was about half filled with water. for it was leaking and besides the waves were sweeping over the boat. The waves were so strong that they tore the shirts off our backs We were rocked by the sea for hours it seemed. You couldn't see thing and we knew that we were hun dreds of miles from land. It sure did seem like we were going to die,
 SAW A SMALL LIGHT
 ''When the night seemed the black est and the winds were bowling about us someone saw a small light on one side and soon afterward another. We prayed that these were boats coming to our rescue. but we didn't know whether the wireless operator had sent out the call for help or not. The lights grew bigger and bigger, so we knew that there was a chance.
 ITO make sure that they would sec us, we lighted the red fires in the boat and, after having been adrift for eight hours. we were rescued by the British patrol boats We found that they were not looking for us. Brit ish troop boat had been torpedoed the day before and the trawlers were looking for the troops in the lifeboats They heard later that the Germans had shelled the lifeboats and sunk them, too.
 After three days we reached Malta The Americans among the 150 saved went to the Home for Seafaring Men there and had our picture taken with the American consul. He did every thing he could for us. He is the man with the derby and the cane,
 The British government took us in charge. It sent us to Marseilles, France. from Malta. We stayed there two days, but did not see anything much, for we didn't have much money and stayed at the hotel Then we went to Lyons. Stayed there two days and then went to Paris.
 DIDN'T LEARN MUCH FRENCH
 It sure did look funny to see the wom- en running about the streets in pants, driving drays and running street cars l didn't learn much French. s'Parlex vous Frenchais'-that means How do you feel" That's about all I know. The streets were filled with Ford ambulances going and coming from the front, which was about 50 miles away. There were lots of wounded French soldiers in Paris The women on the streets could speak a little English. They told us to stay out of the war and prayed for us not to get into it. There wasn't a chance though, they could have saved their breath
 Tt looked like mighty near all the Frenchmen were killed for the last call had been issued and they were training little boys that didn't seem to be more than 12 years old. They were going to use them to fight against the Germans, they said
 "We went across the channel to South amption and drought every minute that submarine would get us. In England we were transferred to Birmingham. We 60 oyy mn atl nrlyi incr in, ha etc aol plants there. They smoked cigars just like men, and they said that the street car people were going to partition off the cars that they could have a smok- ing room of their own
 MANY MEN IN LIVERPOOL
 '1n Liverpool, there are as many men on the streets as in Birmingham. Eng land doesn't look like it is having war. The women and men asked us why we 6idn't enlist In France, they wanted you to stay out, but in England they wanted you to get in it. We saw the German prisoners. They were in camps surround CT by fences of barbed wire that is charged with electricity. The British soldiers say that they are fed better than themselves.
 Finally, we left Liverpool for Boston on the British steamer The Devonian. We came mighty close to getting sunk again, TOT the captain was cHdSeu TOT 4V IIllieS by a submarine just off the Newfound- land coast H escaped though by heading for Devil S Hole. IL IS called this be- cause the seven tides meet there and 1t is so rough that it would tear sub- mar rine to pieces.
 We finally landed in Birmingham last Monday and, believe me, we are here to stay"
 Finley lives at 1902 Twenty ave- nue, in Ensley, while Dewey Simon is also a resident of that place. They are both minors. being IS and 20 respectively.