Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1917-11-08
HARRY PEYTON RECEIVES FINE
LETTER FROM HERBERT TEAL
FORMERLY HERE
TELLS HORROR AS 1T is
YOUNG CANADIAN WELLKNOWN
IN WILLISTON WELCOMES
UNITED STATES HELP

The following letter from Herbert
Teal to Harry Peyton of the Great
Northern Hotel is about the best yet
received telling of the air raids on
London.
"At last!! Yes, the Germans have
not bombed me to death yet, but very
nearly so, great number Of ocea-
sions. l suppose you have read q
deal about the air raids in the papers,
however they don't tell much and !
am thinking that the war will be end
ed with terrible airraids (for it GER
tainly is terrible, seeing that women
and children "get it" also.) If you
had to see the effects of the raids it
would make you mad, real mad. In
one of the many raids, they hit a
school in poor district in the East
End (Poplar) and blew about from
40 to so kiddies to bits, just like a
slaughter house, there were 537 kill
ed and injured in that raid and only
six Taubes at that, little while ago
there were 36 Il counted them) big
Gotta type aeroplanes in an II o'clock
morning raid, a beautiful, fine day.
"The proportionate results from a
fleet like that would be awful, as the
Gothe's are tremendous machine and
can carry number of high explosives
and with incredible luch they missed
most of their object;ves. As you
probably read lately, we have had
daily Tor moonlightly) raids for two
weeks, but at last the government
have got tremendous number of
Arches (anti-craft cannon) and we
had real bombardment, each time
they came, what a noise. The guns
throw a barrage of shells (which
show a trail of light or fire) in front
of the planes at the rate of Is to the
minute each. Fancy thousands of
guns, each going like that for 2 and
2 1-2 hours steady. The gunners are
marvellous, just like automatics for
speed and accuracy and the rain of
pieces of High explosive shells is just
like hail and you have to keep your
self under some kind of a roof for it's
all up if bit Of our shells hit you,
after falling 10 to 10000 feet. The
guns and shells make a noise like
gigantic cats (me-youw) accent on
the youw.
All the time this is going on the
buzzing OF, the planes is tremendous,
intensity the sound of millions of
mosquitoes and you have a little idea
of the row they make, the humming
and buzzing is uneven, way up and
down notes, the very low, of course
at night you can't see them, but when
they drop or fire the bombs or (much
worse) the aerial torpedoes, then you
know there is Something doing up
there and for "sauce" you hear ma
chine gun fire up aloft, so with it all
you have proper "bedlam" of noise
and sights. got near a few bombs
last week and I got shaking up Cor
down rather) but by the way that big
East End explosion was the limit in
Il was so near that too,
just live little ways from there)
But after all l wouldn't miss the show
for anything, apart from the killing
ETC., it is certainly a fine sight and
worth while coming to see it. Lon
doners have seen something of war
alright, what with these raids, Zepps
and aeroplanes, 5 Zepps brought
down and visible to all London. l
have some relics of the Zepps and will
send them to you when l get back
home, 2 years and 2 months away
now.
But Harry, we've got the Huns
beaten and the little "Contemptible
Army" has walloped the stuffing out
Of them "proud warriors" Yes,
back clerks, gone clean
through them. The world has seen
and read of how the arrogant, proud
and mighty Armies of the Deutchland
uber Alle'' have been licked by a
Contemplate little-army" composed
Of pale faced anemic counter -hoppers
etc., but they have British blood in
them and when they move they don't
stop. Yes, quite surprise for the
world, which thought the Old Coun-
try was played out, eh? Its funny,
but the Britisher fights best only af-
ter he's had a darned good beating.
You can just bet that the Huns lick
their lips when they see, say the
Scots Guards coming with bayonets
1p. The Scots and their bayonets
scare the Boches stiff "a fact, they