The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-10-18

artillery had been sent for, and I learn.
ed that they were on their way even
then. j
I decided to wait around and see
what happened, SO l pulled In to the
side Of the road. had hardly stopped
when l heard a rush and rattle that
sounded like an old livver 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 I
ever care to find myself. I was order
ed to take three officers to a place call
ed KENNEL. / had been there before.
and from what l had seen then l wasn't
eager about making the trip again. j
We started off about / o'clock and
expected to be back by 8. 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 ] thought no more
about it. Now. KENNEL lies at the foot
of a hill and is tucked in between
Mount N0ir and Mount KENNEL. 1t
would be a coy little place in peace
time, but it is an awful trap to get
caught in when there is a wal ON.
sent the car up the hill as fast she
could go, and it was q 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 a officially closed, and
those sentries should have stopped us.
Well, it scared me so that l 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 car and crawled into the cellar. 1t
was wet and filthy, but it looked just
liEn hoo Won fn mo thof 6ov
We lay there in all this filth hour
4ss9 hose, Wills the shells literally
poured in all around Us. They cer.
tainly wasted G lot Of good ammunition
trying to get rs, 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 %headquar-
tiers in the place when it was in Ger
man hands. Another officer replied
that he wished the crown prince was
there now.
We lay there till the fire let up,
which it did about 8 o'clock. I va
worrying about getting back, and l
a also wondering what had become
Of the car. If it was gone we might
just as we'll kiss ourselves goodby, for
our chances Of getting out on foot
would be slim.
When the fire had abated we came
out and looked around. The enemy
certainly had made a mess of the place,
for even the top story Of the brewery
had been shot away from over our
heads. l went to look the car over, and
you car just believe ] was relieved to
find that, aside from having a few
holes through the body, it was all
right.
The officers decided to wait until 1t
was dark before CHANGING to run back,
I didn't know what was going to hap
pen to us. I wasn't very familiar with
the road, and 1 was afraid they would
have some kind of barricade up or
have a few machine guns trained on us
or something equally unpleasant.
l certainly was dreading that ride
back, but there was no other way out.
and we were between the devil and
the deep sea It was at a time like that
that l wished that l had never seen
the British army. I turned the car
around, and as soon as it was dark we
got in and started. I opened her up