The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-16
AIR RAIDS ARE
MADDENING, SAYS
WILLISTON BOY
Writes Friend That Blood
Cannot Fight Metal
Forever
GERMANS MAKE
MOONLIGHT RAIDS
Gunners Work Like Auto
mates For Speed and
Accuracy

williston, n. D., Nov. 16.-'Now,
you good old United States Of Amer
lea, come on! We want your money.
men and guns. Everybody is war
weary here and no wonder-blood
can't fight metal forever"
Herbert Teal, formerly Of this city.
has written a letter TO Harry Pey-
ton of the Great Northern hotel OF
Devils Lake, in which he describes
German air raids.
Good old United States" says
Teal, you were a long time start
ing. but make up for IT by sending
airplanes TO blow the blasted Huns
TO h forever. l have been work
ing high pressure II or more hours
a day or night for two years, max
ing good money, and as / am in the
experimental department could
open your eyes quite bit. but am
forbidden to communicate this in
formation to you.
Raids Are Maddsnina.
"At last! Yes, the Germans have
not bombed me to death yet, but
very nearly so. on a great number OF
occasions. II you had to see the eff
fects Of the raids 1t would make
you mad, real mad. In one of the
many raids they hit q school in a
kpoor district in the east end and
blew from 40 to 80 Riddles to bits.
just like a slaughter house. There
| were 537 killed and injured in that
raid and only six Taubes at that. A
little while ago there were 36 Il
counted them) big Gotta type air
tplanes in an II o'clock morning raid.
q beautiful, fine day.
Gunnsrs Like Autonnaties.
The proportionate results from a
feet like that would be awful as
1.-THE Gothes are tremendous ma
chimes and can carry a number of
high explosives. AS you have prob
ably read. we have had moonlight
raids for two weeks, but ut last the
government has obtained a tremend-
Gus number Of Arches (anti- aircraft
Icannon) and we had a real lombard
Ement each time they came. And then
what q noise. The guns throw a bar
rage OF shells which show a trail OK
light or fire. in front Of the planes.
at the rate Of Is to the minute each.
kEancy thousands of guns. each going
Hike that for two and two and one
half hours steady. The gunners are
marvellous, just like automatics for
speed and accuracy and the rain Of
pieces OF high explosive shells In
/ Just like hail and you have to keep
yourself under some kind Of roof for
Tits all UP IL a bit OF the shells hits
you, after falling a distance Of from
10000 to $4,000 feet The guns and
shells make a noise like gigantic
cats (me-youw). accent on the
youw.
BedIam of Noises.
~AIl the time this 10 going on the
IbuzzinE Of the planes is tremendous.
INTENSITY the sound OF millions of
MOSQUITOES and you have an idea OF
the little row they make. the hum
ming and the buzzinE is uneven. way
up and down notes. At night one
can't see them, but when they drop
or IRE the bombs or (much worse)
the aerial torpsdoes. then one knows
there Ii gomething dom up there
and for q sauce one hears machine
gun IRE up aloft. so with II all one
has q proper bedlam Of noise and
II got near q few bombs last week
and got shaking. but by the way,
that big east end explosion was the
limit Of shake-uAs. But after all /
would not miss the show for any
thing, apart from the killing. It is
certainly a wonderful sight worth
coming TO see. LondonerB have seen
something OF war all right. have
relics Of the Zepps and will send
A4GAA " IO9@
Lauds Work Of Scots.
but Harry, we have the Huns
beaten and the little Contemplate
army has walloped the stuffing out
OF the proud warriors. Yes. blooming
bank clerks. gone clean through
them. The world has seen and read
OF how the arrogant, proud and
mighty armies Of the Deutschland
uber allies have been licked by a
scontemptFble army composed OF
pale faced anemic counter hoppers,
but they have British blood in them
and when they move they do not
stop. Yes, quite a surprise for the
world which thought that the Old
Country was played out.
Tt Ia funny but the Britisher fights
best only after he has earned a darn
cd good beating. One can Just bet
that the Huns lick their lips when
they see, say, the Scot Guards COM
I1ng with bayonets up. The Scots
and their hayonets scare the Boches
stiff Some Of these days you might
hear what these brave Scotchmen
have done in this great war even
when outnumbered 20 to 1, with I'M
Minated cannon, food. railways, ma
Shine gums all arrayed before them"