The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-08-08

tanker which. according to the Com
mander, had sunk in so seconds. The
next day we seemed to have got out
of the track of steamers. and | went
into the coming tower and saw the
officers amusing themselves by shoot
ing at gulls or at empty bottles.
BRITISH SUB NEAR.
by this time the vessel evidently
had reached the extreme outward
point of her voyage, and on our re
turn trip three Norwegian ships were
stopped for fresh food. Just after this
there was more excitement due to the
discovery that British submarine
was in our vicinity. The crew could
hear her. and they seemed in great
fear lest she should attack. Again
we remained submerged until night.
THE submarine was equipped with
POWERFUL wireless apparatus, and ev-
cry day, about 9 p. m. remained on
the surface in wireless communication
with the base. One of the officers
kept a record of these messages. One
night the news arrived of the Ameri-
can declaration of war. 1t was eager
ly discussed by the crew, some of
them expressed the hope that they
would be allowed to so on submarine
service in the Gulf of Mexico in order
to escape the severity of the North
Sea.
Eventually the submarine arrived
at Heligolan1 and was taken ashore
and handed over to military guard.
Ny only food was crust of bread. a
piece of cheese and some very weak
soup. After remaining there day
and a half 1 was taken to Wilhelms-
haven where again there seemed to
be shortage of food. and afterwards
to Brandenburg, a workingman's
camp, in which remained until Oct
8. 1t was at this camp that ! got
the news of the murder of prisoners
who were forced to remain in a hut
which had caught fire. When 1 ar
rived at Brandenburg was put in a
large hut quite alone.
MY first night was a terrible ex-
perience. 1t was bitterly cold. and
had no covering. was over run by
rats, so that l had to give up any
thoughts of rest and tramp the floor
until daylight. That morning l was
given two dirty blankets. and an old
mattress stuffed with paper and card
board, on which to sleep. Here / came
in contact with 800 victims of the
Moewe. and subsequently was trans
ferred to a special part of the camp
set apart for captains of the mercan-
tile marine, of whom there were about
40. The food was of the coarsest pos
sible character. From Brandenburg /
went to Holzminden, an officers camp
for all British, where the food was
much better but we were obliged to
pay considerable sums towards our
while on our way to Holzminden
one of the party produced tin of but
ter which we shared with the Ger
man officer in charge. The tin had
been emptied. and was about to be
thrown out of the window when the
officere begged for it and carefully
ing butteE Later was transferred to
Strohen where instead of current coin
of the realm they issued stamps as
camp money. From Strohen | went
to Heidelberg, and while there at
Christmas time we saw the attacks
by our aviators on Mannheim. Three
German aviators who took part in re
pelling the attack were killed while
trying to alight.
Il was transferred to Switzerland
and eventually released and enabled
to reach England, June 10.
''At Brandenburg we were made to
suffer various indignities, and were
made to harness ourselves to carts
which we had to draw thru the streets
to the station or postoffice TO fetch
our parcels and any commodities to
camp. 1t was at this camp also that
/ saw 800 Russian soldiers working
in the last stages OF consumption. The
poor fellows could not get enough to
eat and they would eagerly scrape dis
carded tins in the hope of finding par
ticIes OF food. have even seen Ger
man soldiers do the same thing. We
were glad to search the cinder paths
in the hope of finding coke or coal
with which to cnak oiir fond