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 kegs on their shoulders and down into No. , hold with them.
 Mean time the Germans saw us UT on the boat deck and came up after us. And over went the Limeys. Bu, l waited and one or two more waited with me. When the Germans came TIT to us they had their revolvers out and were waving them around and yelling, "Gott strafe Englandl" and talking about 'schweinhunde." Then the first thing knew, was kicked of into the sea. I slipped off my trousers and coat and clogs, and, believe me. il was not case of all dressed up an6 no place to goi
 Then l swan hard and caught up to the Limeys who had jumped first. They were asking each other if they were downhearted and answering, Not 2 bit of it. me lads and trying to sing Pack up your troubles in your old Xiii bag" only they could not do much singing on account of the waves thai slipped into their mouths every time they opened them. That was just like Limeys, though.
 Some of the boys were just climbin; up the Jacobs ladder on the Moewt when the old Georgic let out an awfu. roar and up went the deck and the hatches high in the air in splinters One fellow let go his hold on the lad. der and went down and he never came ol-f- +t,x Moeve in the lifeboat and we reached it just before they did. Up the ladder We went and over the side and the first thing We caught sight of was tht German reyo1vers in our faces drillins us all into line.
 The lifeboat brought back the ships papers from the Georgic and we haf roll call. They kept us up on deck il our wet underwear and it was very cold indeed. Then the first mate an6 the old man and one of the German officers called off the names and We found we had fifty missing.
 The Roche commander had gal enough to say that he was not there to kill men but to sink all ships that were supplying the allies He sai6 England was trying to starve Germany but that they would never succeed an6 that Germany would starve the allies very soon.
 After roll call some of us asked the Germans for clothes, or at least place to dry ourselves in. but Fritz could not see us for the dust on the ocean and We just had to stand there and shiyer till we shook the deck, al. most. Then 1 went and sat down op the pipes that feed the deck winches. They had quite head of steam in them and I was beginning to feel more comfortable when I got good clout alongside of the head for sitting there and trying to keep warm. It was a German garby and he started calling me all the various kinds of schwein. hunde he could think of and he could think of lot.
 Finally they mustered us all on another part of the deck. then drilled us down into the forecastle and read the martial law of Germany to us. At least I guess that is what it was. It might have been the Help Wanted Dog Catchers'' column from the Der lin Lokal Taggabble for all most of us knew or cared. It shows what cards the Germans are-reading all those four-to-the-pound words to us shiver- ing garbies. who did not give a dime a dozen whether we heard them or not. Fritz is like some other hot sketches he is funniest when he does not mean to be. Every German is a vaudeville skit when he acts natural.
 There were hammocks there and we jumped into them to get warm, but the Germans came down with their re- volvers and bayonets and took the hammocks away and poured water on the decks and told us. to sleep there. They could not have done worse trick than that.
 Then they put locks on the portholes and told us that anyone caught fiddling with the locks would be shot at once. This was because we might sight a British or French man-of-war at any
 
 der the British flag and trying to keep out of trouble they did not want us St the ports signaling our own war ships for help. If they had bucked any of the allied ships and had fight we would have died down there like rats.
 The Moewe had already captured the Voltaire, Mount Temple, Cambrian Range and the King George and had the crews of these vessels between decks with us. These men told us how the Germans were treating them and it looked to me as though the eve ming would be spent in playing games and pleasant time would be had by all-not.
 The crew of the Mount Temple were on deck working when the raider sud denly opened fire on them. Two or three men jumped into the water and the Germans turned a gun on them