The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-12-28

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y was not case Of all dressed up an,
| no place to go!
linen L swan bard and caught IN I,
e the Limeys who had jumped first. The,
e were asking each other If they wer,
;. downhearted and answering, "Not :
DIT OF it, me lads" and trying to sing
rack up your troubles In your old xii
Dag, only they could not do much
singing on account of the waves that
shpped into their mouths every time
they opened them. That was lust like
Llmeys, though.
some OF the boys were just climbing
up the Jacobs ladder on the Moewe
When the old Georgia let out an awful
roar and up went the deck and the
natches high in the air in spIinters
one Fellow let go his hold on the lad
uer ana went down and he never came
up. The Germans were making for tba
Moewe in the lifeboat and we reached
1t just before they did. Up the ladder
we went and over the side and the
hrst thing we caught sight of was the
German revolvers in our faces drilling
us all into line.
The lifeboat brought back the ship's |
papers from the Georgia and we had
toll call. They kept us up on deck in
our wet underwear and it was very
cold indeed. Then the first mate and
the old man and one of the German
officers called off the names and we
found we had fifty missing.
The Bocbe commander had COLL
enough to say that he was NOT there
TO XIII men but to sink all ships that
were supplying the allies! He said
england was trying to starve GERMANY
put that they would never succeed and
tlat Germany would starve the allies
very soon.
AFTER roll call some of us asked the
oefmans for clothes, or at least a
pace to dry ourselves in, but Fritz ]
tould not see us for the dust on tbe
ocean and we just had to stand there +
IND shiver till we shook the deck al. j
most. Then I went and sat down on +
ne pipes that feed the deck winches I
Lhey mad quite head of steam in
mem and L was beginning to feel more U
oh1ortable when / got a good clout Y
lohgside OF the head for sitting there Y
no irving to keep warm. --.5t-yz-os a )
Ternan garby and he started r;ffIing r.
le all the various kinds of schwein- d
unde he could think of and he could n
hink of a lot. D.
FINALLY they mustered us all ON j.,
hother part of the deck, then drilled u
$ down into the forecastle and read III
ne martial law of Germany to us. It
t least l guess that is what it was. VI
might have been the "Help Wanted q
LOG Catchers" column from the Ber u
Lokal Taggabble for all most of us eS
new or cared. 1t shows what cards >"
lie Germans are-reading all those
'ur-to-the-pound words to us SILVER IN
g garbies, who did not give dime 81
dozen whether we heard them or not co
ritz is like some other hot sketches w
Is funniest when he does not mean Nv
be. Every German is a vaudeville so
lit when he acts natural w;
There were hammocks there and we I'LL
lmped into them to get warm, but the u
ermans came down with their re- M
lvers and bayonets and took the ne
away and poured water on =,
e decks and told us to sleep there. III
ley could not have done a worse vi
ok than that. wa
Ihen they put locks on the portfolios ~,
q told us that anyone caught fiddling 80, '
IN the locks would be shot at once. ~,
us was because we might sight a ~
ltlsh or French man-of-war at any -,
ne and as the Moewe was sailing un- ,za
: the British flag and trying to keep NV,
of trouble they did not want us ~
the ports signaling our own war n
ps for help. If they had bucked a.
of the allied ships and had fight n
would have died down there like
S. w
NJ, NJ an(
Voltaire, Mount Temple, Cambrian shi,
nge and the King George and had Fro
crews Of these vessels between off
KS with US. These men told us oro,
- 49, ~. -ii"n" were treating them was
1t looked to me as though the eve n
G would be spent in playing games +bo,
a pleasant time would be had by ~.
not pa.
witt
he crew Of the Mount Temple were NOT
oeck working when the raider sud- sihl,
ly opened fire on them. Two or s,no
'e men jumped into the water and ator
Germans turned gun on them md
lie they were swimming and killed aeke
n. That was just sample of what tbe
happened to them. ana
he men now began running up and he s
in Hne 10 Keep warm, but Gerr
a little run on my own hook and III
ted myself To as much Of once bepo
Of the ship as could. do not guns
70 tne moeWe had more than a firm,
e-fourths-inch armor plate, but be- afte,
that she had three rows of Dig of N
which made about foot in thick Britt
There was nothing but cable and
lg along the deck and when saw with
l would have given anything to airpl
had crack at her with 14-inch mob;
!. And sure wished hard enough WI
one Of our ships would slip up on tbe s
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