The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-11-01
1on may 30 sure that that man never
20 much - looked at an unexpodsd
shell after that.

. much ~ looked 1t an unsxplodsd
shell after that.
During the time I was at the front l
put six automobiles out Of commission.
According to an estimate made after a
year of war, the average life Of an au-
tomohile is eight days and the life OF a
horse is about thirty hours.
The first auto l lost was due to en-
CINE trouble. and l had to abandon it
Tor the salvage companies to take care
of. The second one was destroyed by
Il shell In the city of Ypres while | was
having some dinner. The third one |
lost during the scrap for hill GO. | got
stuck in the middle Of a field, and as it
was ia doubtful position | set fire to it
and trusted to luck that had done the
right thing. The other three were used
up by the fearful condition Of the roads.
We knew several days before the at
tack came on hill! 60 that there vas
something in the wind. Our mining
and tunneling companies had been
working day and night, and l noticed
that the artillery seemed to be concen-
IIo%AlS LII SA0I VNAAAly. AACCAAOASS
ments were brought up, and everything
seemed to point toward some doings In
the near future.
Two days before the attack came on
I was warned to hold myself In readi-
mess to take a motorcycle machine gun
into action, but I was not told any-
thing about when I was likely to be
wanted.
Hill 60 itself had hardly any right to
be called q Hill, for 70 me it looked
like "a little rising ground and that's
all, but we had ninety-two batteries Of
artillery playing all over it, and they
kept up the >heaviest possible bernhard
.ment for 't~hirty-fve minutes. When
you think Of 068 cannon pouring shells
into such q small place as one little hill
It may give you some idea Of what we
gave the Germans whe were 'trying'to
hold It against U.S.
The bombardment stopped :as abrupt
~ as it started, and an Dol As it ended
the mines we had laid under the hill
were set of. The earth seemed to
tremble for q moment, and then came
a great rumbling roar, followed by an
upheaval Of earth which seemed to
reach the clouds. The amoment the
mines had been set of our chaps left
their trenches ON the dead run, and
they charged across the crater where
hill 90 had been but a few moments
before.
TheEheavy artillery fire we had. given
the Germans had partly de1noralizea
them The explosion of the mines fin
ished9th job, and they fled like sheep.
Our machine gun was pouring steel
into them for a few moments, but we
had to stop, as our own men were pur-
suing them, and 1t was not safe to con-
time our fire any longer. 1t was all
over in q very short time and, while
we had to stand by all night, our work
did not last long during the actual
battle.
Soon after this battle 1 secured my
first "leave" to go to England for a rest
of eve days, and though this is sup
posed to be a story of experiences
while on the fighting front, I will re-
late: something that happened while l
was in Glasgow. Scotland.
OF all the cities in the British isles
Glasgow has sent more men TO the
front than any other in proportion to
her size. The business firms of the
city. encourage their men to enlist and
do all they can to make things easy for
them ito leave their families. In many
asses firms continue to pay men their
salaries while they are at the front.
has sent thousands, and their places
are taken by ON while the men are
away.
Not only are there ONE conductors
on the street cars, but women drive the
cars too. When one arrives at the sta
ton In Glasgow 1t seems very odd to
have woman step up and ask to carry
your bag. Women have taken the
places of the porters in the stations.
Scotland has responded nobly to the
cOuntry's call. In many of the small
villages the entire male population mas
gone to the a excepting, Of course.
the men who are too old or those VINO
are physically unfit.
In the British isles during this war Il
great many of the ONE have been
helping recruiting by walking the
streets and putting a white feather in
the buttonhole of every man they meet
who is not wearing khaki.
l wa standing just outside the Gen.
trail station in Glasgow when a woman
walked up to- man who was standing
near me. and without a word she pulled
q white feather through his buttonhole.
He was a great big fellow, and she had
to DO some reaching to get at him. He
smiled when he saw what she had done
and said "Thank you, madam" very
politely.
That was like waving a red flag be-
fore a bull, and she grew crimson and
started telling him what she thought
Of him. He listened until she was all
through, and then he asked, Have you
another one of those feathers, by any
CHANGER K
"Yes, l have, you coward" she snap
ned. and she mt another feather on