Show Hun Order Shows Fear Of Wild West Germans Get Hol Holiday day for Each Ninety Ninety- first Prisoner By John F. F Ryan Staff Reporter for The Telegram LA FERTE BERNARD France The Huns learned to have a wholesale wholesale whole whole- sale respect for the of the he Wild West Vest division Witness this document dated date October Octo- Octo her ber 30 and signed by a German general general gen gen- eral found on a wounded German officer of of- captured by the One Hundred Seventh field artillery in Belgium Early tomorrow we must be ready to meet a hostile attack Opposite our sector lies the Ninety first American division For each prisoner brought in the division will give eighteen days days' extra leave Signed VON BELOW The German division had the correct dop dope The attack did begin the next morning after that order was written And the American intelligence division learned that these same German German Ger- Ger man troops had been opposite the Wild West Vest in the and Argonne-and feared them for good reason But they got only one prisoner A Aman Aman man from the One Hundred third Sixty infantry was the only Wild Westerner captured In Belgium and he made his way back to the American lines two taro weeks later when the armistice had ended hostilities The Wild West Vest division didn't know whether to be glad or sorry when word came that the armistice had been signed November 11 That's the way Captain G G. A. A Pande put it We were driving right through the fhe Huns he sal said They just couldn't stop us We hated to stop going going- though ot of course It was a rather pleasant sensation to hear the Huns had surrendered I FOOD WAS FAR BEHIND I The tenth of November had been beena a hard day We Ve had driven the Germans Germans Ger- Ger mans across the Scheidt river and were all set with pontoons to cross and take the heights on the other side from the city of Audenarde Everything was prepared for an attack attack at- at tack the morning of the We had gone so fast the field kitchens hadn't come upP up P Personally I was pretty tired and so were the men In my company I Iwas Iwas was pointing out to platoon leaders what we were expected to do The attack was to begin at 10 Just J 1st then came to me with an order postponing the attack ShortlY afterward another runner arrived with an unofficial announcement that an armistice had been signed And then thenan an orderly came up ATTACK POSTPONED Company K was lined up I went out and announced that the attack had been postponed They grinned They could stand a little rest Then I announced that the armistice armistice armi- armi stice had been signed And they grinned a little more Then I told them I had just received I word that the tle kitchens had come up and there would be breakfast You should have heard the howl of delight I The breakfast bell beat the armistice all hollow News of the armistice had come via messages dropped by airplanes and by wireless The Wild West Vest remained where they were until November 18 They rhey were were not required to do police work In Belgium but were withdrawn to Dunkirk at the northeast corner of France where they remained until December 28 when the movement began began be- be gan to the embarkation area at La LaFerte Ferte Bernard I |