The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-12-20

seen in my life at that moment, tell
YOU. So we took our time in start
ing our games again as it took us
about an hour to get over our scare
and then that night we were all in bed
and about 1880 I was in my state
room in bed and all at once heard
the same four short blasts of the
whistle. You can imagine / lost no
time in getting up on deck to find the
red lights all burning and this was
against the rules as we were not al
lowed to show any lights at all, SO
ran down the starboard side and ask
ed one of the ships crew what was
the trouble and also noticed that the
convoy had left us and this / did not
like as we were left at the mercy of
the sub. He said the steering gear
was broken. Well here we were all
alone, drifting with the mighty waves
OF the Atlantic and they are not small
at times either and that night thew
were big ones, but here we drifted till
next morning about ZOO a. M, when
they at last got the gear all o. K.
and we started full speed ahead. And
| tell you, we sure did take ride that
morning and about p. m. we caught
UP with the balance of the convoy, but
it was fortunate that nothing happen
ed to us but we were in a dangerous
position at. that time. Among it alt
it was very interesting trip all the
time, and | want to tell you | want
to cross the Atlantic one more time
and that is back home and then will
say to the old girl on the Statue Of
Liberty, if she ever wants to see me
any more to turn around, as | am not
coming back any time soon, do not
think
We have had the pleasure of travel
ing something like 5 hundred miles in
France, besides all the ether travelling
we have done. | tell you we sure
have had a lovely trip ever since we
left Camp Wheeler as we have not
had any hardships at all and, too, we
have had lovely chance to see many
things OF interest. | want to say that
Scotland is one more pretty country,
and as we pulled up the Clyde river
into Glasgow it was the prettiest sight
| have ever seen in my life and that's
no joke. We are Brest now and you
can get map of France and see
where | am. We are right on the
coast at point that divides the Bay
of Biscay from the Atlantic So you
see l am having chance to see lots
of the things we used to study about
in school. Another thing I will tell
you about among many | will never
have the chance to write about but
will tell you when | return, and this
one is here at Brest You have
studied about the great Napoleon.
Well, his old barracks are here and
| have had the pleasure of sleeping
in one of them for one week and |
would not take anything for the ex,
perience, His old torture chamber is
here and | went through it and here
| saw where they used to put the
criminals to death by dropping them
through shoot about go feet high
down on long knives and then into
the ocean,. and once you dropped
man through it you never saw him
any more. / was also in the dungeon
which is 200 feet below the water lev
ell and it took me something like 3
hours to go through with the guide,
and YOU have a small lamp that you
carry with you as it is some dark and
il you ever make a mistep you are
liable to go down with the mighty
waters of the ocean as it empties out
IN the ocean. | also went in the
Chamber where the French put the
British Spy in prison in 1871 for 7
years, and the only means of getting
his food to him was chute that they
let down with string and after this
prisoner was in there for months
the people that were feeding him no.
ticed that his food had not been
touched for three days and they be-
gan to dig out the doorway which
was feet thick made of stone and
after they succeeded i'll getting the
down they discovered that this man
was dead, and here now you can see
that he with his naked hands had dug
something like four feet deep into
this wall trying to free himself be-
fore he died, and you cannot imagine
how interesting this place is. I only
wish you all could have made this
trip with me. l will have things to
remember as long as live that I am