American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-11-16

cu tndl lhty were Ou lutlI way even
then.
/ decided to wait around and see
what happened, so | pulled in to the
side of the road. | had hardly stopped
when / heard a rush and rattle that
sounded like an old fivver in the dis
lance. Around the curve dashed eight
horses on the dead gallop. pulling an
eighteen FOUNDER behind them. They
dashed by, but about fifty yards ahead
of me they swung around and trained
that gun on the church.
There was a moments pause, and
then she spoke. and away went steeple.
Germans. machine gun and all. The
first shot had been a direct hit, and it
couldn't have been better if they had
tried a thousand years.
1t was the very next day after this
event that / got into as tight a fix as |
ever care to find myself. l was order
ed to take three officers to a place call
ed KENNEL. | had been there before,
and from what I had seen then | wasn't
eager about making the trip again.
We started off about / o'clock and
expected to be back by 3. l noticed as
I came to the KENNEL road that there
were two sentries on duty there, but
as they only saluted the officers and
didn't say anything l thought no more
about it. Now. KENNEL lies at the foot
of a hill and is tucked in between
| Mount Noir and Mount KENNEL. 1t
would be a coy little place I'm peace
| time, but it is an awful trap to get
! caught in when there is a war on.
l sent the car up the hill as fast she
could go, and it was a long climb. AS
we went over the brow and started on
the down grade we ran right under the
nose of the German artillery observers.
This road was officially closed. and
those sentries should have stopped us.
Well, it scared me so that 1 went
down that hill so fast those officers
must have thought they were in a para
chute. AS we entered the village the
shells commenced to drop in on us, and
we ran for the nearest shelter, which
happened to be a brewery.
There wasn't much left of the place
anyway, as it had been in German
hands, and we had shelled them out of
it. and when we had taken it they had
shelled US out Of it. Anyway, we left
the a and crawled into the cellar. II
was wet and filthy, but it looked just
like heaven to me that day.
We lay there in all this filth hour
after hour. while the shells literally
poured in all around us. They GER
tainly wasted a lot Of good ammunition
trying to get us. but the best of it was
that they didn't succeed. One of the
officers remarked during a moments
silence that the crown prince of Ger
many must have made his h~eadquar
ters i'm the place when it was in Ger
man hands. Another officer replied
that he wished the crown prince wa
there now.
We lay there till the fire let up
which it did about > o'clock. l wa
worrying about getting back, and
was also wondering what had becOm
of the car. If it was gone we nigh
. just as well kiss ourselves gOodby, 70
: our chances of getting u on foo
would be slim.
> When the fire had abated we cam
out and looked around. The enem.
: certainly had made a mess Of the place
: for even the top story Of the brewer.
! had been shot away from over GU
l heads. | went to look the car over. an
you can just believe l was relieved t
7 find that, aside from having a fey
l holes through the body. it was a
/ right.
z The officers decided to wait until
was dark before CHANGING to run bach
= l didn't know what was going to hal
: pen to us. / wasn't very familiar wit
i the road, and l was afraid they wOul
T have some kind of barricade up q
have a few machine guns trained on u
or something equally unpleasant.
q l certainly was dreading that rid
back. but there was no other way on
and we were between the devil an
5 the deep sea. 1t was at a time like tia
e that | wished that l had never see
u the British army. l turned the ci
a around. and as soon as it was dark "
e got in and started. | opened her u