Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-18
HIGH PRAISE GIVEN
INSTRUMENTATION
lieutenant Hiddleston Declares
Red Gross and Salvation
Army Great Help to Men in
France.

THE bigness Of the whole war, and
the gigantic operations carried on
made an impression on my memory.
to be sure" said Lieutenant r. D.
!. Hiddleston, son of Mrs. d. M. Hid
dleston. OF this city. who has returned
home for S0-day furlough, but what
will remain in my memory forever
was the wonderful, self sacrificing
work of the Red Cross and the Sal
walton Army over in France"
mo matter whether the men were
cropping on all sides from the terri
BILE fire, or II the sector was quiet, the
lassies of the salvation Army went
about their work fearlessly and calm
ly, and the Red Cross labored night
and day that the boys Of America
should be cared for.
The happiest woman in the word
was Mrs. Hiddleston this morning, and
her face was sunshiny and radiant for
had not her boy come back from tina.
living hell over there? True, he left
his left leg as a sacrifice to his coun-
try and flag, but there was no re-
greet on his handsome face; he was all
man. And his sentiments were beau
tifully expressed in these few simple
words
Il was always ticlkled to death to
be an Americana am proud now to
have fought for America alongside
the bravest boys in the world--the
Yankee ARMY
Lieutenant Hiddleston went in the
army in 1912. and worked his way
through merit up to his present posi-
ton. He left for France about a year
ago, and was in the hardest part Of
the whole campaign from start TO
finish.
At Scissors, ST. Mihiel and Argonne
forest, he and his men fought the on
coming hordes of Boches tooth and
nail until their machine guns got 50
hot it was almost unbearable to handle
them. Then they grabbed their guns,
went over the top, and made the Ger
mans run. Run as hard as they
could, with the Yanks right after
them.
AMERICANS SUPERIOR.
At Soissons he said that the Ger
mans clambered over their TRENCH top,
and began to come across No Mans
Land in droves. The Yanks did the
lunexpected-they climbed out OF theirs
and met the Boche half way. And
Lieutenant Hiddleston says that the
superiority of the Yankee over the
German was never better demonstrat-
ed than in that fight, for, though ont
numbered two to one, the Yanks rout-
ed the Germans completely and took
hundreds of prisoners
Another incident that he tells shows
the wonderful genius of the Yank IN
picking up new ways to improve
things. The French rs millimeter gun
i hi n ttFt
sion had them behind them. The
Yanks found out that they could load
the guns on the recoil instead of
waiting for them to stop recoiling af-
ter a shot. Shortly after, n German
officer was captured. On being ques-
toned, he said that he wanted to see
two things before going to the prison
camp; one a good square meal like
the Americans were reported to eat
three times daily. the other, he want
ed to see the Yankees operate those
B-inch machine guns they had. He
meant by that, the French 75's the
boys had been firing so fast by their
methods. The Germans thought we
had new kind of 3 inch machine
gun.
WOUNDED THREE TIMES.
Lieutenant Hiddleston was wound
ed three times in action. The first
time, he jumped over a trench to get
at German, and was injured in the
leg by a high explosive shell. The
second time, he got 1t In the right foot
by some more high explosive. The
third and last time. when his left leg
was shattered, n millimeter shell
burst close to him and he knew no
moro until he woke I'm in the care of