Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1919-01-24
XII.
Action at The pardanelles.


made twelve trips 10 the Dardn-
nelles in all, the Cassnrd acting gen
orally as convoy to troop ships but
n trip was much like another. and
! cannot remember all the details. so
] Will give only certain incidents OF
the voyages that you might find inter-
estinE. We never put Into the Dardn-
nelles without being M der ilre-but
besides saying So, what Is there to
write about In that? II was interest
Ing enough at the time, though. you
can take It from mel
CGnlng up TO ~" beach on our
third trip To the Dnrdnnelles. the
weather was rs nasty MS any ! have
ever seen. The rain was sweeping
along In sheets-great big drops. and
driven by the wind In regular volleys.
You could see the wind coming, by the
line OF white against q swell where
the drops hit.
As we rounded the point, the seas
got chopper, and there were cross
currents bucklng the ship from every
angle, II seemed. You could not see
two hundred yards away. the rain
was 50 thick, and the combers were
breaking Over our bows three n min
ute, The coast here Is pretty danger
Gus, so we went In very slowly and
had the sounding line going until Its
whir-r-r-r sounded louder than n ma
chine In action.
l was IN the s%tarboard bow at the
time and had turned TO watch some
,garbles poking at the scuppers 10
drain the water OF the deck. But the
.scuppers had been plugged and they
were having a hard time OF Il. The
officer on the bridge, in oilskins, was
walking M and down, wiping OFT the
business end OF his telescope and try
ing TO dodge the rain. All Of the gnr-
.bies but one left the scuppers on the
l~starboard sidO and started across
decks to port. The other chap kept
on fooling around the scuppers. Then
] saw n big wave coming FOR us, Just
on the ~starboard bow and | grabbed
hold OF a stanchlon aud took a deer
breath and held on. When my head
Ishowed shove water again the other
end OF the wave was Just passing over
the place where the garbies had been.
and the officer was shouting. "un
Ihomme n In merr - He shouted before
the man really was overheard, because
he saw that the wave would get him
! rushed back Ia the port bow and
looked back, for the 4 had carried
him clear across the decks, and saw
the poor lad IN the water, trying "a
fend himself on from the ships side
BUT Il was no 30, and the port pro.
.poller blades Just carved him into bits
on our homeward voyage we re
.celved word again by wireless that
there were Zeppellns at sen. We did
not believe this and II proved 10 be
untrue. hut there were other stories
and taller ones, told us by one Of the
wireless operators, that some OF the
garbies believed. This chap was the
real original Baron Munchausen wher
AZ came 10 EARNING, and FOR a while h,
had me going too. He would whisper
some startling tale 90 "a ana make u,
promise not 20 tell, ms he had picket
lit from some other ships message, nnc
the old Man would sprend-eagle hin
N he found II out They probably
would have logged him. Mt that, n they
mad known he was filling US full Of
wind the way he did.
He told me one time that Henry
lFord hnd invented something or othel
Cor locating subs miles away, and uisS
another device that would draw th'
auh right up 10 Il ana swallow A