The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-01-03
BOY
SAW TRANSPORT.
SUNK BY A SUB
Henry Rhud Home from Wars
With Memories of Excit-
H. -.
ing Experiences.

With vivid memories of trans
port torpedoed at sea, the rally of de-
strOyers to the rescue, the dropping of
depth bombs and the appearance Of
the tolltale trace of oil on the sur
face, the transfer of hundreds of boys
in khaki to boats of the convoy, with
out the loss Of man, and finally Of a
majestic vessel slipping dramatically
into the sea, Sergt. Henry Rhud of
Aircraft Acceptance Corps NO. ! is
homo from the big air camp at Fails
worth hear Manchester, Eng. '
Nd II Was on the voyage over that Ser
geant Rhud witnessed the torpedoing
of the transport Persic, sister ship of
the .Canopic, upon which he made the
return trip. The attack was made off
the Irish coast. The torpedo hit the
boat amidships and she sank. rapidly,
but not until every man Of the more
than thousand men on board had
been safely transferred to the destroy.
ers Which Immediately ,flocked about
her. Depth bombs were dropped rap.
idly within q wide radius OF the.
stricken vessel, and the commander
of. the destroyers fleet was confident
that the submarine was hit. +'' y
Sergt. Rhud went over on the .'rraz
Csc MOnteZ,, formerly the German
liner Won Buehlow, but now flying the
'E4rhgpCse: flag. He landed. at a big
ifekelYthg camp near the cave from
RkfffN Cromwell beseiged Windsor
casti3,a ana went thence to Failsworth,
near Manchester. Here he was EN-.
gagged in receiving and assembling the
aircraft which came over knocked
down. from America. Among these
were the new American bombing
planes capable of dropping three tons
Of explosive.
I'VE must have been tough
bunch" said Sergt. Rhud today. eve
slept on wet decks all the way over;
at our first camp in England we had
the same sort of sleeping quarters.
and we experienced the same sort Of
night lodgings; but there was very
little illness, and practically no fu in
our bunch On the way home in the
Canopfc, with loo men and'~40 Off
GERS aboard, we came through what
the captain and chief engineer de-
clared the worst seas they had ex-
periencel in 90 years. The boat was
on her beam.ends most of the time.
and often she dipped so far that 1t did
not seem, possible she ever. would
come up. The welcome we received
at Boston,, however, made up for any
hardships we had encountered on the
way over. Ours was the first trans
port to reach Boston. and the town
certainly turned out for us and gave
us a genuine American homecoming"
Sergt. Rhud arrived at lEoston on
the Canopic December IL, remained
there nine days and then was trans
ferred to Camp Dodge. where he was
mustered out December so, leaving
for home the same day.
Boston News Comment
Writing in The Boston Evening
Globe Of the. coming of the Canopic.
Lawrence J. Sweeney says:
From out Of the gray, hazy. frost
bristling atmosphere Of the east this
morning there emerged gigantic. fan
tastically painted ship. From the very
depths of the -harbOr, borne on what
slight wind was stirring from the
northeast, there was hitleous. discortl-
ant. but altogether gladstone din Of
whistles and bells and sirens and horns
that grew in volume until it became
ear-spitting and awning. Finally the
ghostly outline of the majestic ship
took definite form and the cause of all
the excitement became appa rent.
She was the White Star line steam
ship Canopic. proceeding proudly to
Hoosac Tunnel Docks in. Charlestown.
to unload the most precious freight
ever: brought to Boston under the
Union Jack of Great Britain-the first
group of American fighting men to re-
turn to Gods country from the war,
ravaged lands Of the other side of the
Atlantic. =" =
MEN OF s. STATES ABOARD
Aboard the ship were more than 100
Americans. every one of them fighter,
who had gone forth to prove that q
democracy can fight. Practically every
mothers son Of those khaki-clal.
Handicapped and knacksack-laden
lads, had to do with aviation--there
were fiers, mechanicians, apprentices
and ground school men.
And they fepresented IS states Of