The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1919-01-16
(Connevd From Last Weok)
CHAPTER XVIII.
"Pack Up Your TroubIes.n -
lEht e,S, by Reilly and Britton Co. Thror1,
bpcciAi Ar angsnent With lilo fsan,1a 1ooE
hAattsew Adams Service.


bnck into the bunkers. Bndewitz went
across to the west side I'm a launch
with Joyce and Hill and a guard of
snilors. They were to be shot the
next morning, with some others. at n
public shootisg.fest. The rest OF us
wrapped ourselves In Jumps of coal as
best we could and tried to sleep.
In the morning crowds OF Germans
came aboard US and were turned
loose on the boxes In the hold. It
was sight to see them rip or the
covers and gobble the snlami and 9TH
er stun that we carried. Table man.
ners are not needed when there is no
table, l guess. but II you had seen
them, you would say these Germans
did not even have trough manners. I
have seen hogs that were more fin
icky.
While they were OF it, hand to hand
with the chew, giving and receiving
terrible punishment, we prisoners
were mustered on deck. counted,
Kicked ONO tugs and transferred to
the "cs- bank, where the mob was
waiting for us My wounds, US you
r"r 'in' Ginc wore In pretty baG
state by this ti'na. and were getting
more painful every minute so that
1oun! ] WAS getting ugly mnd anxious
Tor an argument. l knew that II
stayed this WY 1 would probat ly
never come out alive, for there is
every chance you could want to pick
quarrel while you are prisoner
that Will mean freedom for you-but
only the freedom OF going west, which
] was not anxious to try.
When we got near the west bank,
on the tugs. we could soc that we were
up against battle with our arms tied.
Over half the crowd was women and
children, I should say, and the rest
were labOrcrs and old civvies, and re-
serve soldiers. and rOughnecks gem
ernlly. We could see the spit experts
the spit snipers. deployed to the
front. almost.
AS we went ashore, the lombard
mcnt began, and we were not only
under fire Of spit. If you could call 1t
thnt, but also OF rocks and bottles and
sticks and most anything that could
be thrown.
All this time. ''lest you forget" we
had no shoes, and no clOthing-only
what had once been our underwear.
1t Is all right to be COney Island
snowbird and pose around in your
bathing suit in the drifts, because you
are In good condition. and last but not
least, because you do not have to do
II. Figure out the other side Of 1t
for yourself.
They marched us into q field where
there was nothing much but guns and
ammunition and snow, and set us up
in something like skirurish formation.
We stood there for some time, and
then we saw lot Of Huns with the
new long rifles coming toward us.
yelling just as they did In battle, and
we thought sure we were being used
for practice targets. 1t is a good
thing they halted and stopped yelling
when they did. or we would have
started for them to fight 1t out, for
we were not the kind that likes to be
butchered with hands In the air, and
we would have been glad for chance
to get few Of them before they got
US. But they did halt. and then sur
rounded us. and drilled us away
through swamps and woods and shnl-
low water or slush. The women fol-
lowed, too, and there were plenty OF
bricks and spit left. Women as well
as men are the same the world over,
they say. I wonder7 You can just
picture the women OF, say. Rockland.
Me-, following n crowd of German
prisoners that way, can't your Not!
But OF course the women OF ROcknnd
are pretty crude-no kultur at all
and GOtt never commissioned Presi-
dent Wilson to take the lid or the
strafe pot for him.
They drilled us along the docks. and
1t looked as though the whole German
navy was tied up at Sw!nemunde.
We saw many Of the ships we had
heard about. among them being the
famous Vulcan. the mother-ship for
submarines. There were many sail
ors loafing along the docks. and they
gave the women hand with their
days work. They were no better with
a brick, but they had more ammunition
when 1t came to splitting. One OF them
tripped young boy by the name Of
Kelly. and as you would never doubt,
Kelly picked up rock and crashed
the sailor with 1t. He was then bay
oneted twice in the left leg. We be-
gan singing then, our popular favorite.
"Pack up your troubles" ETC., and
when they heard us. how the swine
staredi
Then they drilled us past the Ger
man soldiers quarters. The men were
at rife practice, aud guess all of us
thought how handy we would be as
targets. But when we got near them,
they quit practiciDg and crowded
around us yelling: "'Raus Zuruck /"
Finally we got to the top Of the
hill. and were halted near the bar
racks while an officer read the mar
tial law Of Germany to us. At least
we thought maybe that was II.
Finally they let us into the bar
rncks, and the first thing we saw was
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