Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-21

carrying Australians For fifteen or
sixteen days. the trip was a tedious
zig "a gging north and south, east and
west that submarines might not fol.
low the course of the ships. All Of
the. soldiers aboard had the notion
that they We're lost. This was espe-
cially true of those who suffered from
NAL de mar, and they were very free
TO eSclaim that they never expected
TO reach shore again. But the cap
tain knew his business. and proved
the fact, when. two days from shore
the boats met a convoy of subma-
rine chasers which escorted them to
| Liverpool
The battery disembarked at the
great English port and was sent to
| winchester, where II entered rest
camp, Colonel DeBremand said that
| the very first remark he heard his
men make came from Willard Hird,
who exclaimed upon seeing an Eng
/ fish car, where's the other half?"
| While the men were in Winchest.
er, they were taken on a visit TO the
| famous old castle, and with true
American instinct. began their mad
search for souvenirs. Parts Of the
castle became parts of the battery
and caused n little trouble later OF
which. as Colonel DeBremond said,
we will speak of again.
/ 1t was in Winchester that the men
saw the first effects of the war. They
saw that the English were suffering
! Suffering and smiling. They were
1 hungry and there was somewhat of
a feeling of despondency that came
| with sorrow. But, in spite of it all
! they We're true British subjects and
| with bull dog tenacitv had determined
| to win in the end. They were willing
To make sacrifices demanded of
them for their own future happiness
and that of their posterity
1t may be well to add here that,
while in LIVERPOOL. the battery met
the Leviathan, which had just brought
$4,000 troops to England To say
that 1t was n surprise is to put il
mildly. Then men had been told she
was sailing for Panama and they be-
| lieved il. The ruse was one of many
which the United States censor had
played upon our enemy and now that
the war is over and these things can
be revealed we are going to make
some startling discoveries. We will
find some of our criticisms unground-
ed.
the channel in cattle boats. flat
barge-like affairs which had been
used before the war TO move cattle
from one country to another The
men We're put into the pens and TAX
en- over to France. A good many
had touch of seasickness on the
rough wates but arrived in good
shape.
And but a little while after the
battery arrived haEty little Eng
lishman came rushing up to Colonel
De Bremond, waving large sheet
of paper and exclaiming in loud ac-
cents that the key to the castle of
Winchester had disappeared. Great
excitement resulted and the battery
was lined up for inspection The key
was found. Two of the men, think
ing it would be nice trophy to
show to their grandchildren, perhaps,
had taken il with them. 1t was
about a foot long, nicely inscribed
and would have been fine, had the
people of Winchester understood
Americans. But the article of con-
tention was returned to the English
and thu International difficulties
averted
! The men landed on French soil at
lie Havre. The first thing that i'm
pressed itself upon them here was
the absence of young men German
prisoners were busy at the unloading
work on the wharves, old men help
| ed. there were some women working,
but the only strong men, young men,
were in uniform and on furlough
| from the front Most of these had
! long boards and looked extremely
| tired.
In lie Havre the Americans had
their first taste of wars depression
and tears. Five out of six women
were in the deepest of mourning.
There was little rustic in the business
world. The air was permeated with
| a funeral atmosphere.
| From this city the men were sent
to training camp. They did not go
| in Pullmans, by the way. The cars
| in which they travelled were marked
eight horses or forty men,"
| Here they underwent two and
half months training in heavy ar
tillery work. They gave up their
| light guns, weighing 5000 pounds
each, for pieces, that would tip the
scales at $4,000 pounds and shoot a
9S-pound projeetile. This was some
change for the men, and they hated
to part with the guns they had back
in Roswell. They had hoped, also,
| to be able at any rate to use the ia
nous French seventyfive, but the
call for heavy artillery was great.
At this camp. their instructors
were four of the best mathematic-
ians in France. Morning, noon and
night they studied increasingly, look
| ing into every single detail of the
great work. They learned the lesson
of modern warfare; hitting an OBJ
,