The evening world., 1919-04-01
By Leo Leroy Graham
iNl0. by Ihe rr,r pabll,.inG 90.

Copyright. 1910. by Tho Pry- Publishing 90.
Tile Now NUrk Evening World.
Two years ago I was an apple
packer out in oregon.
For more than a year I had been
longing TO get away; TO 10 some
where and sec something" Like
many another young fellow. ! wanted
to travel.
Well. I have travelled, and II I
haven't seen ALL the world, l have
seen quite enough. Now | want to
get back 10 Oregon. And when ]
wink into the little house at No. ~
Union Avenue. in the CITY OF Port
land, some day next week, and
mother and have done fusslng and
CRYING over one another, l can name
one happy young American who isn't
going wandering again from his own
firesidc.
Here are some OF my strange ex-
periences in an eventful two years;
Common seaman two and n half
months on an American schooner.
Prisoner seven and n half months
ON the German sea raider Wolf.
Prisoner seven months on German
railroad in the Province OF Schles"ls-
Holstein.
prisoner one month on q farm IN
tho Same province. -.
One of several English speaking
LnrI.oners who went on strike during
tha armlstice deliberations and got
away with It."
Red Cross, protege in Germany
Denmark and Scotland.
SAINT home TO the states Dy tho
American Consul at Liverpool.
Landed In New York penniless'
Couldn't -see" your city at all until
had sold this brief chronicle to Int
Evening World and was able TO walk
into a restaurant confidently.
Eound tho greatest mother in the
! world - again in the Red cross
which is sending me homo.
AL look back over what has beer
written ind that Il is all there-anC
vet the half has not been told. Afte'
7 had been knocked about by the but
end OF bayonets on that Schleswlg
Holstein railroad because 1 did no
understand the orders given To US II
lGermnn, I mastered a working knowl
edge Of that diflcult tongue
Twoa questions have been asked Fl
frequently since my arrival In NeV
York that I am going to answer then
here before / review my experiences
whenever tell about the bum CRU
they gnve us in Schleswig-Holsteil
somebody Ia sure TO ask whether TIL
wns due to their hatred OF us.
Wen, l don't suppose they loved us
hut while We were hard at work ol
, the railroad or on the farm 1 suppos
, we represented something OF valu
, and IL appeared TO me at tho tim
that we Jared no worse than the grea
!. masses OF the people around us.
To illustrate. Hamburg was abou
|, 40 kilometres from our camp at oldes
Zoe and girls OF thirteen and fourteeI
made the round trip TO carry tifty
!, pound bags OF potatoes back TO Ham
: burg. They lodged the railroad :
!, escape the Government inspectors.
am also asked about the attitud
|, Of the German women. We foun
them, as q rsrie, kindly. How the
acted toward Allied soldiers is some
q thing 1 know nothing about We wer
a seamen, non-combatants. That ma
have made a difference. For my part.
n snaIl never forget the old srossmutt'
l.. (vrandmother) VINO always had TEL
kettle and water ready for US whe
:, the Red Cross paclSage came and o.
;. casfonally sneaked some potatoes
!. us. Grandmothers are great institl
~ tons wherever they are.
a Many a night ! fell asleep in IN
r. chamber in a German barn cOuntir
a the money l was going to mako wit
IS my story OF Seven Months on Il
Wolf; a Story OF the Sea Raider"
n returned to civilization TO find thu
= Capt. John Stanley Cameron of Il
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