The Dermott news., 1919-01-02
CHAPTER XVH-Continaed.

had lost their heads completely; in fact Had gone violently aF#l ly. and tHs rest of us Weae Hrml af them. We We're all thI8k.aE oa ahe tel tha- miahf occur aas m#ee between tae YaraHdale auH some uftr vessel and we tHeW we Uage in EE5 zEa'i9st pt9ce for fhs vessel I4 he struck. Even thaHah NJ were ao5 hi amta~tius # the ship vcre#SfHbrg WI al moi fhtll the Germans uault rive us a chaaaa ta escaRe. We H@#aI ffa@ vhT= =thes had said that #e# #9saaH# ee da#H HfGh Che ship. And zUlu- down aA q ship .n winch you area prisoner k aa#za llt- fereut from going down 0tth One for which you haze ben a=aJe4 Nou arrive at thR sE5ge p.aae. but fHe feel Ing is different.
 Some of Us thought af nycrpawertus the crew and 5aH4H- the=He~>oi Ht4 eur own hands. and we got the rest of the sane or nearly saae men together and tried to get Up a scheme for doing 1t. l was strong for tHe plan and SD were several others, hut thp Limey ot- INtI9 A4lO N t.At Nt##A k4N iz4f 7N'NA against it. They said Che Germans were taking Is to q neutral country, where We would be tuterued which was just what the Germans had told us. but what few otas believed.
 Then some others sad that II we started anything the Germans would fire the time bombs. We replied that at least the Germans would go west with uS. but they could Hat see that there was any glory ia that. For my self. thought the Grrmaa~ would not fire the bombs 0ndl tHe Hst minute, and that We would have chance at the boats before they sat atz ot us anyway. There waea= only thirteen German sailors eR board. besides their commander This last Hun was named Badewitz
 So the pacttistS ruled. because We could not do anything ealeSs We e#Vere all together. and thore aaS u9 uatuy. They said we were hotheaIs rae rest of Us. but l still th.Hk We eaHIa have made q dash for it aHH o}eHFe#ered our seHtrieS, and either gone over the side with tbe HGenoats or taken over the whole ship. + would have been better for us if ve bad tried, and if the nacit>ts had known what was coming to us they would have Bred the lime bomas themselves rather than go on ufa that future. How ever chat is Spdt milk.
 We were not allowed to open the porthales vbfle#0e Vere#n tha bunk CTS. under penalty at 35ath, and there fin the dark. ii that staa#a- mir. if I9 no wonder many of us went crazy. Among Us vas q feltae named Ear ringfon, about six feer rali and weigh ing 250 pounds lie seemed t8 b. au right mentally but some of us thought afterwards h. was cruzy. Anyway. l do hot blame hlm for what h. dJa. Harrington rushed lii tho fdaey and opened tbc door. There Was a German sentry tHere aud Har- rinstan made I sRils aH him and then grabbed his haFoutt. The sentry yelled and seme others came down from the brlaec aud shot Harrington through the haHd. After they had beaten Harrington pFafty bat5y. the bull of The bunch. Eade@irl himself came over and hammered HarrHstaH all around lAa deck. Then the4 put him ia irons and t5oS him tn the chart room
 The next daf We were sitting in tbe fiddjeg getting warm when lha door opcued and there was t1aeWt1z. Ur yelled "Horaus." and began firing at us with a revolver, 50 We beat it back onto the coal Pretty soon he door opened again. But if Was only a Ger. man sentry. He threw down not, It was Wr.tten in English and read. Pick out eight men for cooks" So we picked out eight men from the va rious vessels and they went on deck and rigged up galley aft.
 But we did not receive my knives, forks spoons ar plates. The first meal we got was nothing but maearo- nj, piled up on pieces of cardboard boxes. Then We appointed four men to serve the macaroni, and they got four pieces of wood the cleanest we could find, which waS not very clean at that, and they dug around in the macaroni and divided up and put 1t in our hands We had to eat it after that from our grimy fingers, Those who were helped first had to go farthest back on the coal to eat it. and those who were helped last got less, because the dlviders got more careful toward the end and gave smaller portions.
 But We did uot get macaronl very long. A cook from the YoItaire was cleaning a copper dixie that the mac aroui had been cooked in. and he was holding Il over the side when tbe yes sel rolled heavily, and dropped the dixie Into the briny \ sentry who saw him drop it forced him up to