The Carlisle independent., 1918-11-21

of the bridge, to jump overheard But
 the minute 1 let go of the wheel the
 vessel fell off of the course, and they
 noticed it, and Badewitz sent five of
 them up on the bridge and three
 others to the side with their revolvers
 to shoot me if I should reach the Wa.
 ter. I think if l had had any rope to
 lash the wheel with l could have got
 away and they would not have known
 it.
 When the five sailors reached the
 bridge one of them jumped for the
 cord and gave cur siren five long
 blasts in answer to the tug. The tug
 was about to launch a torpedo, and
 We whistled just in time., One of our
 men was looking from the f1ddley, and
 he saw the Huns making for the life
 boats. so he got two or three others
 and they all yelled together, Don't let them get away., thinking that they would get the boat over and leave the ship, and trying to yell loud enough for the tug to hear them. BadewitZ took this man and two or three others, whether they were the ones who yelled or not, and beat them up and put them in irons. l thought there was going to be mutiny aboard, but it did not come of. and l am not sure what the Huns were SC excited about.
 The other four sailors who came up on the bridge did not touch me, but just kept me covered with their re- solvers. That was the way with them they would not touch us unless Badewitz was there or they had bayo- nets. The old bull himself came up on the bridge after he had beaten ur few men, threw me around quite a bit and kicked me down from the bridge and slammed me into the coal bunkers. I felt pretty sore, as you can imagine, and disappointed and pretty low generally.
 After while we heard the anchor chains rattling through on their way to get wet, and we pulled up. Then every German ship in the Baltic came up to look us over, I guess. They opened Up the hatch covers, and the Hun garbies and gold-stripes came aboard and looked down at us, and spit all they could on us, and called { US all the different kinds of swine in creation. They had them lined up and filing past the hatchways-a1 of them giving us the once over in turn Maybe they sold tickets for this show it would be like the Huns.
 At first We were milling around try. ing to get out from under the hatch openings and the shower of spit, but some Limey officer sang out, Brit. ishers all Don't give way" and we stood still and let them spit their damned German lungs out before we would move for them, and some Cor. nishmen began singing their song about Trelawney. Sc We made out | that we did not know such a thing as | a German ever lived.
 We got better acquainted with Ger man splitting later on, and believe me, they are great little spitters. not much l on distance or accuracy, but quick in i action and well supplied with pmmu- | milton. Splitting on prisoners is the l favorite indoor and outdoor sport for l Germans, men and women alike.
 When the show was over, they 1 rousted us up on deck and put us to | work throwing the salt pork and can ned goods into two German mine-lay- | CTS. While We were at it. a Danish l patrol boat came out and tied along i side us, and some of her officers came ! aboard and saw us. They knew we | were prisoners-ef-war, and they knew [ that vessel carrying prisoners-of- l war must not remain in neutral wa ters for over twenty-four hours, but | they did not say anything about it.
 That night two men named Barney I Hill and Joyce, the latter a gunner | from the Mount Temple, sneaked up | on deck and aft to the poop deck 1 There was a pair of wooden stairs [ leading to the top of the poop deck, and Joyce and Hill lifted il and got | it over the side with a rope to it. The | two of them got down into the water l all right, but Joyce let out a yell be- cause the water was so cold, and a German patrol boat heard him and flashed searchlight. They picked up Joyce right away, but Barney was making good headway and was almost free when they dragged him in. They beat them up on the patrol boat, and [ when they put them back on the Yarrowdale Badewitz beat them up some more and put them in irons. Then he began to shoot aI their feetf with his revolver, and he had . sailor stand by to hand him another revol- yer when the first one was empty. Then he would gash their faces with the barrel of the revolver and shout, I'm Badewitz. I'm the man who fooled the English" and shoot at them some more.
 All the while the sailors were cele- 1rating, drinking and eating, and yell ng, as usual, and the whistles on all he German ships were blowing, and