Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-09-14

times, ana IA 4 mao ehc0uhteic0 tue
same person twice ] suppose my con-
duet might have aroused suspicion.
II had first cla observation Of the
damage that @as really dome By our
bombs. One bonb had landed very
near tie mala raaroad statiou aud iG
il bad been only thirty yards nearer
would t8va completely Demolished it.
A tine station was undoubtedly CIR
airmans ob3c.ive I was very much
mlpr l With tho ACCURACY rs a's
aim 1T IS by 90 means aa easy ihing
to hit a building from the sir When
you afe going at anywhere ffom lllty
ta one hundred mites an hoar and are
being shot at from beneath FROM 8
dozen different engIqs unless, of
course, you are taking one Of those
desperate chances and flying SO low
THAT you cannot very we'll miss your
mark and the Huns can't very wen
miss you eitheri
walked by the station and mingled
with the crowds which stood in the
entrances. They paid no more at
tention to me than they did to real Bel
CLANS, ana the fact that the lights
were all out in this city at night made
it impossible anyway for anyone to
get as good look at me as If 1t had
been light.
During the timethat ! was in this
city suppose / wandered from one
end of it to the other. In one place,
where the German staff had Its head
quarters, huge German flag hung
| from the window, and / think would
have given ten years Of my life to
have stolen it. Even if / could have
pulled it down, however, it would have
been impossible for me to have con-
cealed it, and to have carried 1t away
with me as a souvenir, therefore would
have been out of the question.
AS l went along the street one night
a lady standing ON the corner stopped
me and spoke to me. My first impulse
Of course, was to answer her, explain
ing that / could not understand, but !
stopped myself in time, pointed to my
ears and mouth and shook my head,
indicating that l was deaf and dumb
and she nodded Understandings and
walked on. Incidents of that kind were
not unusual, and / was always in fear
that the time would come when some
inquisitive and suspicious German
would encounter me and not be SC
easily satisfied.
There are many things that saw In
this city which, for various reasons, II
is impossible for me to relate until
after the war is over. Some of them
l think, will create more surprise thar
the incidents / am free to reveal now
1t used to amuse me as / went along
the streets of this town, looking In
the shop windows with German sol
dlers at my side looking at the same
things, to think how close / was Il
them and they had no way Of knowing
was quite convinced that IL l were
discovered my fate would have beer
death because l not only had the
forged passport on me, but had beer
so many days behind the German lines
after had escaped that they couldn't
safely let me live with the informa
ton / possessed.
| One night / walked boldly across
park. heard footsteps behind me ant
turning round saw two German sol
diers. / slowed up trifie to let then
get ahead Of me. 1t was rather darl
and got chance to see what won
derful uniform the German military
authorities have picked out. The sol
diers had net gone more than a few
feet ahead Of me when they disap
peared In the darkness like one o.
those melting pictures on the moving
picture screen.