Arizona republican., 1919-01-12

not think he was interested to that ex- tent.
 We had to leave Quebec with these 15O0 men in that cold warehouse as the boat they expected to take them had fire on it that day and was compelled to lay up for repairs. We were a cou- pie of days getting out of the St. Lawrence and the Gulf of St. Lawrence into the open sea- We had II ships in the convoy at that time. Some were transports carrying soldiers, some were freights carrying ammunition or supplies. Our boat being the largest and carrying the women was given the safest place in it's convoy. We had one cruiser which was for protection against a possible commerce raider. All the boats carried guns of various sizes. Our boat had one siX-inch gun and some smaller ones, among these were guns for firing depth bombs I was very much surprised at the pre- cautions taken against the subs. In addition to heSboat's crew, on watch we had 50 soldiers, told off each with his own particular field to watch and each one had field glass. Two sail ors were up in the ''croWs nest on the forward mast day and night. The captain never left the ridge at night and seldom during the day time. He lad but about three hours sleep a day, and never ate a meal in the dining room with us. Not a single light was permitted to be shown. Flashlights were taken up, cigarettes were not al- lowed to be smoked on deck after dark, nor pipe or cigar, nor to strike a match. Port holes were closed and ot course, air in our state rooms was very bad hence so much sickness. The, doors leading on to the outside prom enade were fixed so that all light from 1 inside was excluded. This was done in l this way: Curtains were hung around l the doors on the inside making a sort l of vestibule. Then immediately on l turning the knob to open the door all | lights inside went out. Now then 1 lights inside were in blue bulbs and were so dim that time could be told with difficulty. There were times when the boats came near colliding be- cause in the blackness they could, or dark nights, not distinguish eacE other.
 The life boats were all prepared witt water food and blankets and were lowered to the rail. We were told of in groups of 40 for each life boat anC their capacity was 55. We had daily drill and every one was rehearsed anC instructed in what to do. We had t( wear our life belts all the time ex- cept when eating and when in bed 4nt then they were to be within reach O our hand. When in most dangerou zones we were to sleep with ou, clothes on. This we did for thre, nights. Submarine losses have no
 been published for some time and tn, precautions taken surprised me yer, much, for the entire crew had
 wholesome respect for the subs.
 was in charge of life boat No. Aha;
 20 women and 20 men with me. Eacl
 soldier had one woman to look after
 Inspections of this ship were mad
 every day. I usually took this vii
 the ships chief officer as Colone
 Healey was under the weather most 0
 the time on board. We inspected tn
 quarters of the men and the food. Th
 food was not very good and had fisI
 every meal, but the most tasteless fis1 l ever ate. We got very tired Cf tn
 food; for a few days we had a guo
 time dancing every evening. The,
 the flu" hit us and peneumonia sol
 lowed and we commenced to hay
 deaths. To make it worse the Re, | Cross nurses were among those wh