The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1918-12-05


| hold Of our prize liar again. I figured
that he would be superstitious and I
was right. I said that Of course he
Knew that ship could not draw near
cape Helles and get away again un-
less Mt least one man was lost, or that,
III 1t did get away, there would be
many casualties aboard. I said 1t had
always been that way and claimed
that the Old Man had pushed this
garby overheard because someone had
to go. / said on our other trips no
one had been sacrificed and that was
the reason we had suffered so much.
and that the Old Man had been called
down by the French minister of the
navy. 1 told him the Old Man would
PICK on whatever garby he thought
he could best spare.
That was all l had to tell him. FL
ther he thought the Old Man knew of
his yarninG or else he did not think
hIilseir or much account, for he dis
appeared that very watch and we did
not see him again until we were on
the homeward voyage and steward
happened to dig into provision hold.
There was our lying friend, with
life belt on, another under his head.
and the blight of rope around his
waist. fast asleep. Why lie had the
rope do not know, but he was scared
10 death md Thought we We're going
TO chuck him overheard Mt once.
think he must have told the officers
everything, because 1 noticed them
looking pretty hard at me-or at least
1 thought 1 did; maybe 1t was my
conscience, If l may brag about hav-
Ing one-and 1 thought one of the lieu
tenants was just about to grin at me
several times. but we never heard any
more about 1T, or any more yarns from
our wireless friend.
The fourth voyage was pretty rough.
too. The old girl would stick her
nose into the seas and many times !
thought she would forget to come out.
We had lot OF sand piled up against
the wheelhouSe and after we dived
pretty deep one time and bucked out
slowly, there was not Il grain of sand
left. 1t looked like the sea was lust
Kidding us, for we were almost into
quiet *P.er, and here 1t had just taken
one sea aboard to clean up the SAND
During the whole voyage you cou,u
rot get near the galley, which was
where our wireless friend hung out
when he could. Tie pans and dixics
hanging on the wall stood straight
OUT when the ship pitched, and several
heavy ones came down on cooks
h"nd while he was sitting under them
during heavy sea. That made him
superStitious, TOO, and he disappeared
and was not found for two days. But
he was landsmun and not used to
heavy weather.
When we got to the Gallipoli penin-
sula the fifth time our battle fleet
and transports lay Off the straits. We
could not reach the little harbor on
the Turkish coast, but the whole fleet
felt happy and fairly confident of VIC
tory. We lay Off Cape Helles, and 1t
was there we received the news that
there were submarines lying around
Gibraltar. Then they We're reported
Off Malta. We got the news from Brit
ish trawlers and transports. Our ofil-
GERS said the subs could not reach the
Dardanelles without putting I'm some
where for fresh supply of fuel, and
that the allied fleets were on the look
on: ut every place where the subs
might try to put in. But they got there
just the same.
Then the British superdreudnaught
Queen Elizabeth, "the terror of the
Turks" came in. She left England
with whole fleet of cruisers and de-
strOyers. and all the LImeys said,
"Shell get through. Nothing will stcp
her"
One Of the boys aboard Of her told
ME he had no idea the Dardanelles
would be as hot a place as he found
1t was. "Guw blimey." he said, "what
with lodging shells and submarines,
you cawn't 'elp but run onto bloomln'
mine. HI don't mind tellin' you" he
said, "that Hi was scared cold ut first
And then Hi thinks of what oily Joe
(the chaplain) told US one service.
Hin times Of dynger. look upwards
e says. So Hi looks upwards, and
! blimey hif there wasn't bnlly plane
a-drOppin' bombs hon us. What price
hupward looks, Oily JOeT I sings out
but he weren't nowheres near. Blarst
Inc. there weren't nowhere you could
look without dom yer bloody heye a
dirty trick"
When the Queen Elizabeth entered
the Dardanelles, tho Turkish batteries
on both shores opened right on her.
They had ideal positions. and they
were banging away In great style. And
the water was simply thick with
mines. and for all anybody knew, with
, subs.
Yet the old Lizzie sailed right along,
with her band up on the main deck
playing, "Everybody's Doing It." 1t
made you feel shivery along the spine,
! and believe me, they got great hand
from the whole fleet.
They say her Old Man told the boys
he was going to drive right ahead and
that II the ship was sunk he would
know that the enemy was somewhere
In the vicinity. Well, they were headed