Show SPOILING 11 LINI HUNS SLEEP desultory bombing distracts antiaircraft gunners drop two and flit away when ariti settles down wake him up again behind the british lines in france one of the most exciting tasks to which assigned Is desultory bombing over one spot for an hour or more the object Is to dla als tract the attention of the antiaircraft defenders of a given district A machine carrying a dozen or more bombs bomb sIs Is employed for the work the airman a pilot and an observer approach their target cautiously with engines throttled down the craft glides nearer and nearer below all Is quiet no german searchlights are sweeping the sky when the attackers ire are almost over their object a rocket rises anil and bursts into a cluster of red stars the machine has been discovered at once six or seven searchlights throw their beams aloft the pilot looks at its his watch it Is time to begin bombing he flies steadily on although a barrage of bursting shells lies now in front of him the observer looks through the wires of his bomb sight he thrusts his lever forward and releases two bombs A few seconds later he se sees eithe the flash of their explosions and hears bears two dull roars lie he signals to the pilot and tle the machine sweeps away from the fiery ring of shells and searchlights A few miles away the airplane flies to and fro altop at top speed the puzzled searchlights vainly feel fed thes the sky kyIn in all directions and then one by one pre are switched off then the pilot quickly returns toward the target another bomb a dropped As it explodes the searchlights reappear and the barrage Is renewed while through the shell bursts are threaded the chains of green flaming globes so mu chused much used by the germans again the machine flies away awa and this time to bewilder the sold leis lets below the observer vei fires a white verey light which slowly drifts down rand and fades out all the searchlights follow it lt until it dies repeatedly return to the attack bombs are dropped at in intervals ter until the end of the hour hen the machine departs flickering fires and clouds of smoke telling of the havoc wrought by the bombs |