The Southern herald., 1918-10-25

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 gun on them
while they were swimming and killed
them. That was just sample Of what
had happened to them.
The men now began running up and
down In a line to keep warm, but l
took little run on my own hook and
treated myself to as much Of once
over Of the ship as / could. / do not
believe the MOewe had more than a
three-fOurths-lnch armor plate, but be-
hind that she had three rows Of Dig
Iron, which made about foot In thick
ness. There was nothing but cable
strung along the deck and when I saw
that l would have given anything to
have had crack at her with 14-Inch
naval. And sure wished hard enough
that one Of our ships would slip up on
U.s. whether we were caught between
decks or not. went aft as far as the
sentry would let me and 1 saw that
she had three spare slx-inch guns un-
der the poop deck and two slx-lnch
pieces mounted astern. The guns were
mounted on an elevator and when the
time came they ran the elevator up
until the guns were on q level with the
poop deck, but otherwise they were
out Of sight from other ships.
For our first meal they slung a big
feed bag half full Of ship biscuit
hardtack-to US and some dlxies Of
tea. After this festival we began
roaming up and down the deck again,
because It was the only way to keep
warm. guess we looked like some
of the advertisements In magazines,
where they show q whole family sit.
ting around Christmas tree in their
underwear and telling each other that
Whosis Unions-the Roomy Kind
were just what they wanted from
Sanity. Only we did not have any
Christmas tree to sit around. We must
have looked funny, though, and would
have had good laugh If had not
been so cold.
We could not go to sleep because
the decks were wet, nor could we sit
down with any comfort for the same
reason. Besides. we thought we might
buck up against British or q French
cruiser at any minute and most Of us
thought we would stay up and get an
eye full before we started for Davy's
well-knOwn locker.
About two bells the following morn
Ing the Moewe's engines began TO
groan and shake her up q bit and we
could hear the blades jump out Of the
water every once in q while and tear
away. She went ahead In this way for
some time and we were hoping she
was trying to get away from a cruiser
and some Of US were pulling for the
cruiser to win and others hoping the
Moewe would get her heels clear and
keep us from getting ours.
The Huns were running up and down
the deck yelling like wild men and
one Of our men began to yell too. He
was dellrlous and after he yelled a
bit he jumped up and made a pass at
the sentry, who shot at him but
missed. The shot missed me too, but
not very much. Then they dragged
the delirious man up on deck and Lord
knows what they did with him, because
we never saw him again. But we did
not hear any sound that they might
have made In shooting him.
Then the Huns began shelling and
they kept It up for some time.
Then they ordered us up on deck
to see the ship they had been firing at
and when we came up the companion
way they were Just bringing the other
ships skipper aboard. It was the
French collier St. Theodore, hove to
of the starboard side with a prize
crew from the Moewe aboard and wig
wagging to the raider.
Then the Huns began shouting and
they rousted US below deck again. The
place where we had been was filled
with smoke. from what or why l do
not know. but It was almost lmpos.
slble to breathe in It. When tho
smoke cleared up a bit the Marathon
started again, for we were still In our
underwear only. One of the boys had
asked Fritz for clothing and Fritz said
the English had tough enough skins
and they did not need clothing. Then
he said; "Wait until you see what our |
German winters are like"
The following morning the engines
began to tear away again and the
guns started firing. After while the
firing stopped and the engines too, and |