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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-07-12

DO after the war; II ne tnougnt rney
would make Germany a republic, and
much to my surprise he said very Bit
terly, "If 1 had my way about It, I
would make her a republic today and
hang the ID kaiser In the barr
gain" And yet he was considered an
excellent soldier. I concluded, how<
ever, that he must have been a Ger
man socialist, though he told me
so. On One occasion 1 asked him for
his name, but he said that 1 would
probably never see him again and it
didn't matter what his name was. I
did not know whether he meant that
the Germans would starve me out, or
just what was on his mind, for at that
time 1 am sure he did not figure on
dying. The first two or three days
I was in the hospital 1 thought surely
he would be up and gone long before
I was, but blood poisoning set In
about that timeT; and just a few hours
before I left for Courtrai he died.
One of those days, while my wound
was still very troublesome, 1 was
given an apple; whether 1t was just to
torment me, knowing that I could not
eat it, or whether for some other rea-
son, | do not know. But anyway a
German flying officer there had several
in his pockets and gave me a nice e
OF course there was no chance of my
eating it, so when the officer had gone
and l discovered this San Francisco
fellow looking at it rather longingly,
/ picked it up, intending to toss it
over to him. But he shook his head
and said, eff this was San Francisco
l would take it, but I cannot take it
from you here" 1 was never able to
understand just why he refused the
apple, for he vas usually sociable and
a good fellow to talk to, but appar-
entity he could not forget that 1 was
his enemy. However, that did not stop
N of the orderlies from eating the
apple.
One practice about the hospital I'M
pressed me particularly. That was,
if a German soldier did not stand
much chance of recovering sufficiently
to take his place again in the war, the
doctors did not exert themselves to see
that he got well. But if a man had
a fairly good chance of recovering and
they thought he might be of some fur
Their use, everything that medical skill
ITO Be ContInued.J
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-07-12

applet 1 could Just as easny nave
eaten a brick.
When he got no s W out of me,
he walked away disgustedly.
"You don't have to worry any more"
he declared, as a parting shot. For
you the war is over"
! was given a little broth later in
the day, and as / began to collect my
thoughts ] wondered what had hap
pened to my comrades in the battle
which had resulted so dis~astrously to
me. AS / began to realize my plight
1 worried less about my physical CON
dition than the fact that, as the doc
tod had pointed out, for me the war
was practically over. 1 had been in 1t
but a short time, and now 1 would be
a prisoner for the duration of the war
The next day some German flying
officers visited me, and / must say they
treated me with great consideration.
They told me of the man l had brought
down. They said he was a Bavarian
and a fairly good pilot. They gave me
his hat as a souvenir and compliment
ed me on the fight i had put up.
My helmet, which vas of soft
leather, was split from front to back
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-07-12

the largest of all. Although 1 never
looked into this ewing" of the hospital,
/ was told that 1t, too. was filled with
patients lying on beds of straw around
on the ground. lido not know whether
they, too, were officers or privates.
The room in which l found myself
contained eight beds, three of which
were. occupied. by wounded German Of
ficers. The other rooms, l imagined,
had about the same number of beds as
mine. There were no Red Cross nurses
In attendance, just Orderlies, for this
was only an emergency hospital and
too near the firing line for nurses. The
orderlies were not old men nor very
young boys, as / had expected to find,
but young men in the prime of life,
who evidently had been medical stu
dents. One or two of them, / discov-
cred, were able to talk English, but
for some reason they would not talk.
Perhaps they were forbidden by the
officer in charge to do so.
In addition to the bullet wound in
my mouth / had a swelling from my
forehead to the back Of my head al
most as big as my shoe-and that is
saying considerable. 1 couldn't move
an inch without suffering intense pain,
and when the doctor told me that ]
had no bones broken / wondered how
a. fellow would feel who had.
German officers visited me that
morning and told me that my machine
went down in a spinning nos dive
from a height of between 5000 and
1900 feet, and they had the surprise
of their lives when they discovered
that / had not been dashed to pieces.
They had to cut me out of my machine.
which was riddled with shots and shat
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-07-12

Now, e 1 expected any moment
to suffer a similar fate, 1 could not
help thinking of that poor Huns last
look Of agony.
1 realized that my only chance lay
in making an Immelman turn. This
maneuver was invented by a German
n of the greatest who yer flew and
who was killed in action some time be-
fore. This turn, which 1 made success
fully, brought one of their machines
right in front of me, and rs he sailed
along barely ten yards away, l "had
the drop" on him, and he knew it.
His white face and startled eyes 1
can still see. He knew beyond ques-
ton that his last moment had come,
because his position prevented his TAX
ing aim at me. while my gun pointed
straight at him. My first tracer bullet
passed within a yard of his head, the
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-07-12
Luminous Paint Useful.

Many ingenious uses have been found
Of late for luminous paint. Watches
with dials which glow in the darkness
are becoming common, and only the
other day an order was given for 1O0,-
600 marching compasses with luminous
needles to be carried by soldiers at
the front. Immense quantities OF lum-
nous cloth are used by the soldiers
who go over the top. It is cut into
small rectangles about ten inches long
and fastened to the collars Of the uni
forms. The soldiers can thus recog-
nize their own men in an indiscrimi-
nate fight in the dark. The luminous
paint is also smeared on the end or
sharpened sticks which, when stuck
into the ground, make a fairly clear
beacon. Luminous tape is also used
by the mile for a variety Of purposes.
In this way the stretcher bearers mark
the paths they are to follow. 1t has
been found that on a dark night the
luminous paint is visible for only 50
feet. A soldier can dip his hand in the
paint and signal by describing letters
in the air or by wigwagging, knowing
that the enemy cannot see him a hum
bred feet away.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-07-12

Gy . bullet from a machine. gun. and
they examined it with great interest.
| When they brought me my uniform |
found that the star of my rank which
had been on my right shoulder strap
had been shot off clean. The n On
my left shoulder strap they asked me
for as a souvenir, as also my r. f. @.
badges, which / gave them. They al
lowed me to keep my "wings," which
1 wore on my left breast, because they
were aware that that is the proudest
possession of a British flying officer.
1 think 1 am right in saying that the
only chivalry in this war on the Ger
man side Of the trenches has been dis
played by the officers Of the German
flying corps, which comprises the pick
Of Germany. They pointed out to me
that 1 and my comrades were fighting
purely for the love of it, whereas they
were fighting in defense of their coun-
try, but still, they said, they admired
us for our craftsmanship. I had a no.
ton to ask them if dropping bombs on
London and killing so many innocent
people was in defense of their country,
but 1 was in no position or condition
to pick a quarrel at that time.
That same day a German officer was
brought into the hospital and put in
the bunk next to mine. OF course l
casually looked at him, but did not
pay particular attention to him at that
time. He lay there for three or four
hours before-I did take q real good
look at him. 1 was positive that he
could not speak English, and naturally
1 did not say anything to him. Once
when l looked wei in his direction his
eyes were on me, and to my surprise
he said, very sarcastically, what the
hi are you looking at" and then
smiled. At this time ! was just be-
ginning to say a few words, as my
wound had prevented me from talking,
but I said enough to let him know
what / was doing there and how l
happened to be there. He evidently
had heard my story from some of the
others, though, because he said 1t was
too bad l had not broken my neck ;
that he did not have much sympathy
with the flying corps anyway. He
asked me what part of America 1 came
from, and I told him california"
After a few more questions he
learned that / hailed from San Fran
cisco, and then added to my distress
by saying, "Hew-would you like to
have a good, juicy steak right out of
the Hofbrau?" Naturally I told him
1t would shit the spot" but l hardly
thought my mouth vas in shape just
then to eat it. 1 Immediately asked.
Of course, what he knew about the
Hofbrau, and he replied, II was con-
nected with the place q good many
years, and 1 ought to know all about
it,"
After that this German officer and
I became rather chummy; that is, as
far as / could be chummy with an
enemy, and we whiled away a good
many long hours talking about the
days we had spent in San francisco,
and frequently in the conversation one
of us would mention some prominent
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-07-12
EuoIld In british ARMY.

Another wal hospital publication to
hand is with the Wounded" the or
gan of the Brondesbury Park military
hospital. which also echoes those high
spirits which seem the peculiar prop
erty of war hospitals. Its contents In
clude Euclid in the Army" from
which we extract the following defini-
tons:
"An regimental sergeant majors ara
equal to anything, but the side OF any
three sergeant majors, taken together,
Is less than that of any three brigadief
generals taken at random"
"a major has the shortest temper
between two meals"
We should like to see some more OF
these deinitions.-London Globe.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-07-12

tered to bits.
A German doctor removed the bullet
from my throat, and the first thing he
said to me when 1 came to was, "You
are an American
There was no denying it, because
the metal Identification disk on my
wrist bore the inscription:
"P. OBJ.
y. S. A.
r. f. c."
Although I was suffering intense
agony, the doctor, who spoke perfect
English, insisted upon c%onversing with
me.
"You may be all right as a sports
man." he declared, 'but you are a
ID murderer just the same for be-
ing here. You Americans who got into
this thing before America came into
the war are no better than common
murderers and you ought to be treated
the same wayr"
The wound in my mouth made 1t i'm
possible for me to answer him, and I
was suffering too much pain to be
hurt very much by anything he could
say.
He asked me If I would like an
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-07-12

He Was Overcome and Captured by
the Huns.
second looked as If it hit his shoulder,
the third struck him in the neck, and
then 1 let him have the whole works,
and he went down in a spinning nose
dive.
All this time the three other Hun
machines were shooting away at me.
I could hear the bullets striking my
machine one after another. / hadn't
the slightest idea that l could ever
beat off those three Huns, but there
was nothing for me to do but fight, and
my hands were full.
In fighting, your machine is drop
ping, dropping all the time. l glanced
at my instruments, and my altitude
was between 5000 and 5000 feet.
While / was still looking at the in
struments, the whole blamed works
disappeared. A burst of bullets went
into the instrument board and blew
it to smithereens, another bullet went
through my upper lip, came out of the
roof of my mouth and lodged in my
throat, and the next thing l knew was
when l came to in a German hospital
the following morning at five o'clock,
German time.
I was a prisoner of war. -
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-07-12

Californian, or some little incident oc-
CURING hfcle, Wftn WHICH ~ vN-Ns
both familiar.
He told me when war was declared
he was, of course, intensely patriotic
and thought the only thing for him to
do was to go back and aid in the de-
tense of his country. He found that
he could not go directly from San
Francisco, because the water was too
well guarded by the English, so he
boarded a boat for South America.
There he obtained a forged passport
and in the guise of a Montevidean took
passage for New York and from there
to England.
He passed through England without
any difficulty on his forged passport,
but concluded not to risk going to Hol-
land for fear of exciting too much sus-
picion, so went down through the
Strait of Gibraltar to Italy, which was
neutral at that time, up to Austria,
and thence to Germany. He said when
they put in at Gibraltar, after leaving
England, there were two suspects
taken off the ship, men that he was
sure were neutral subjects, but much
to his relief his own passport and ere
dentials we're examined and passed
o. K.
The Hun spoke of his voyage from
America to England as being excep-
tionally pleasant, and said he had a
fine time, because he associated with
the English passengers on board, his
fluent English readily admitting him
to several spirited arguments on the
subject of the war, which he keenly
enjoyed. One little incident he related
revealed the remarkable tact which
our enemy displayed in his associa-
lions at sea, which no doubt resulted
advantageously for him. AS he ex'
pressed it, he made a hit" n evening
when the crowd has assembled for a
little music by suggesting that they
sing "God Save the King" Thereafter
his popularity was assured and the de-
sired effect accomplished, for very
soon a French officer came up to him
and said, Its too bad that England
and ourselves haven't men in our army
like you" 1t was too bad, he agreed,
in telling me about it, because he was
confident he could have done a whole
lot more for Germany if he had been
in the English army. In spite of his
apparent loyalty, however, the man
didn't seem very enthusiastic over the
war and frankly admitted one day that
the old political battles waged In Cali
fornia were much more to his liking
than the battles he had gone through
over here. On second thought he
laughed as though it were a good joke
but he evidently intended me to infer
that he had taken a keen interest in
politics in San Francisco.
When my "chummy enemy" firsi
started his conversation with me, the
German doctor in charge r~eprimandeG
him for talking to me, but he paid nc
attention to the doctor, showing thai
some real Americanism had soaked
into his system while he had been In
the q. S. A. I asked him M day what
he thought the German people would
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-07-12
CHAPTER w.
5rlEsr
Clipped Wings.

Clipped Wings.
The hospital in which / found my
self on the morning after my capture
was a private house made of AziRlx,
very low and dirty. ana not at all
adapted for use as a hospital. 1t had
evidently been used. but a few days on
account of the big push that was TAX
ing place at that time of the year, and
in all probability would be abandoned
as soon as they had found a better
place.
In all, the house contained four
rooms and a stable, which was by far
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-07-12
LAY IN SUPPLY OF OXYGEN
Substance Necessary in Human Body
to Produce Explosions, Otherwise
Muscular Power

You are a whizzbang, a fye-ngne and
a 4~20-howitzer shell all rolled into O.
If you only knew it. You can exp
more forcibly than the 200-pound
shell aero bombs on moonlight
And the only thing that saves :
blowing yourself up every
your life is natures provisiC
tributing the spark throS
system.
, Well. its Ike thiss.
DIR. Ronald G. Macie of A5efdeens
Scotland has discovered that every
muscular movement is accomplished by
an explosion. You are different from
an airplane motor in three essentials,
component matter, design and the man.
ner of exploding.
When an aero cylinder e~xplodes,
just so much gas is gone, not TO be re-
generated within the motor. But when
you WELD the hoe in your war garden,
your muscles of the hand and arm are
propelled by an explosion of part Of
their own substance. The burnt-up
portion is automatically replaced by
natural processes.
If you require a great deal of mus
cular power-if you explode a good
deal, DR.. Macfie explains-you must
eat starchy foods and take all the oxy-
gen you can get.
In other words, 'Iay off" the meat,
eat potatoes and go walking in the
open air at night instead of going to
the movies.
, 1918-05-30

Section 1. That during the present
war every person within the city Of
- between the ages of 1S and
60 years, who is able to work, shall
engage in some useful occupation for
at least five days each calendar week
and for an average of at least six
hours per day provided that this ordi-
nance shall not apply to students while
attending educational institutions nor
, 1918-05-30
A Near Lynching.

Kemmerer Camera: Considerable
excitement was caused late yesterday
afternoon by the report that a man was
about to be lynched for disloyal re-
marks. The fact is, a man who appear
ed to be a foreigner, had been inhaling
the stuff that made Milwaukee famous,
all the afternoon, and finally he spilled
some of the talk that has recently
made Milwaukee infamous. A stranger,
said to be a Pole, and who is well over
six feet in height, put u fist about the
size of a picnic ham all over the fell
lows face, and mussed it up so that
conversation, seditious' or otherwise,
could only be carried on with difficulty.
The Pole announced in broken English
, 1918-05-30
We're I'm the Ring" Too.

A Montana newspaper says: at will
be interesting to Montana dealers in
and the users of gasoline to know that
while the Wyoming oil ring has been
and is mulcting them for an exorbitant
and steadily increasing price for that
commodity, the production of gasoline
in the United States has increased by
almost one-half. According to the lat
est figures of the United States bureau
of mines, the gasoline production of
1917 showed an increase of 81 per cent
over that of the preceding year, but
despite that fact, Montana, next door
to the oil field, is paying "a to 80 cents
a gallon for gasoline at retail, while In
Spokane, 1880 miles from the Califor-
mia fields from which the supply there
is obtained, gasoline is retailing at 24h
cents a gallon.
, 1918-05-30
Stock Meeting Next Week.

The annual meeting of the Saratoga
Valley Stock Growers Association will
occur in Saratoga on Friday of next
week. The afternoon will be devoted
to the business sessions of the body,
and the evening to social pleasures.
The annual banquet for Association
members and their ladies will occur at
the Hotel Wolf at Z 80 p. m, after
which comes the big social event of the
year in these parasitic Stockmen's
annual bali. The Rawlins orchestra
has been engaged to furnish the music
and the dance supper will be in charge
of the Red Cross ladies, the serving
to be done by the ladies' of Cow Creek
and the lower Platte Valley. On ac-
count of the many unusual conditions
prevailing, and the urgent need for
close, cooperation among all stock
growers, it is expected the attendance
at the Association meeting this year
will include practically the entire mem
bership.
, 1918-05-30
The Red Cross Drive.

The Suns prediction last week that
the total donation to the Red Cross
Drive would perhaps go beyond $500
seems to have been altogether too mod
est, the total received from all sources
being $5,6S0.42-almost three times
the quota allotted to this section. OF
this amount, $3,SS1.69 was raised in
Saratoga and vicinity, while $1,79S.95
was turned in from the ~Encampment
country. One-fourth of these amounts
is to be turned over to the local Red
Cross bodies, which will give the Sara
toga chapter $97O.42 and the Encamp-
ment branch $449.73 to add to their
working funds for the purchase of ma
terials, etc.
Last week we published the names
of donators and the amounts given up
to Thursday noon. Following is the re-
mainder Of the list of subscribers in the
Saratoga territory, those from Encamp-
ment not having been received up to
the time of going to press:
$1OO.O0.-M. NJ. Gushing, II. G. Now
ry.
$50.00-J. d. Canary & Sons.
$25OO.-A. W. Hopkins, Foster Lum-
Der Co., B. T. Carroll, G. w. Sisson, w.
G. Forney, VIM. Turnbull.
$15.00.-Mr. and Mrs. G.. f. Holck.
S10.00.-Pete Reaz, G. W Broadhurst,
Don Williams, Robert Casteel, Peter e.
Wilson.
$5.OO.-Neal Harden, Geo. Fryer, o.
Anderson, Ivan Zorale, Pedro Marco
reano, Ivan Butierez, w. ". Hansen,
Mrs. Gustave Jensen ($5.40), Mrs. Ell.
f. Kincaid, Lloyd Alden, Raymond
Ault, Mrs. G. NJ. Wilcox, Riley Burdett,
Ray Riggs, Otis Mowry, George Her
ring, w. G. Miller, VIM. Laid, Oscar
Priquet, Mrs. Stella 7. Ryan, A. M
Lyall, f. NJ. Haynes, Edward Wilson
George Simonis.
Less Than $500. R. Campbell
$3.50, A. b. Walker $1.O0, Mrs. Alma
Wilcox $1.O0, L. A. Barnes $500, Pear.
Wood $3.50, NJ. Christensen $500, =
Wilson $1.O0, Jos. Ed. Kozina $500
Miss Carrie Priquet $500, VIM. Mamma
han il. $3.50, Mrs. Sirois $500.
, 1918-05-30
ANOTHER REGISTRATION JUNE 5.
All Young Men Who Have Become of
Age Since June ), 1917, Must
Register Next Week.

The war department has notified all
local draft boards to prepare for the
registration on June 8 of all young men
in the country who have, or will have,
attained their majority ut any time be
tween June ., 1917, and June D, 1918.
The registration and subsequent
drafting of the young men into the mil
itary service of the government means
the addition of at least 100000 soldiers
to augment the fighting forces of the
United States in France within a pc
riod of not more han six months.
Experts nave estimated the number
of men which this new aw adds to the
army every year at 100000, this figure
being gradually reduced rs the years
of the wal roll onward, the birth rate
necessarily falling down from year to
year as the young men are called to
the colors.
Full information regarding the regu-
lations governing this registration may
be obtained by calling upon VIM. Mace,
the local registrar.
, 1918-05-30
Frank White Ranch Sold.

A deal was ~consummated the first
of this week whereby Joseph, John
and David Rich, all of Cheyenne, be-
come the owners of the Frank White
ranch on Spring creek, comprising in
the neighborhood of a thousand acres
and n of the finest cattle ranches of
its size in the valley. The pur-
chase also included something owe
n hundred head of cattle, a number of
horses and other property. The Rich
Brothers will take possession in the
near future, having some property to
dispose of at Cheyenne and other bust
ness to lean up before transferring
their activities to their new property.
The new owners of the ranch are X
perienced live stock men. having for
merly been engaged in that business in
New Mexico until a year or two ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. White will make their
home in town for the present.
, 1918-05-30
Oil Rights Leased.

The Rawlins Republican reports that
the big ranch owned by Donald Mac
Phail, n few miles west of Saratoga,
has been leased for all oil rights to
the Fort Steele Petroleum Company,
the deal having been consummated by
l. A. Devine, who spent several days
here recently. The ranch comprises
1900 acres er more, and has been at
tracing the attention of every oil man
who came to this section. The Repub.
lican states that preparations are al
ready under way for testing out this
ground, and hat the work of drilling
will 500 be under way.