Show Shoots Down Three Aeroplanes In Two And Half Minutes After an Unequaled Feat French Aviator Falls 10 Feet and Is Unhurt flARIS DARIS Sept 29 Three 29 9 German r aeroplanes brought down clown In Int t two o minutes arid and thirty seconds by bya a stopwatch Is the latest t exploit of or Second GeOrges Gerges Incidentally n Lieutenant Gu Guynemer nemer who Is known as King of tho the Aces fell Cell feet teet but escaped unhurt Guynemer went to the assistance assistance assist assist- ance of ot a comrade who was hard pressed b by five German machines He brought down do two of ot them within thirty seconds and then rising overtook a third which ho lie shot down two tt minutes later He was looking for tor the remaining two German machines When then a shell hell burst beneath him n a-n and stripped tho the left lert wing of ot his aeroplane of or every even stitch of or Its Its' covering cO He plunged giddily e earthward f I I gave raVe myself up for lost he ho sal said but after falling feet teet I though I would struggle all the ame same The Tho wind blew me over o our lines and like a flash I had a picture picture pic plc- ture of ot my funeral and all my good friends following the tho coffin I continued to fall and the levers Would not budge In vain I pushed and anti pulled td right and left lett I Imade Imade Imade made a last desperate to effort all to tono tono tono no no purpose and then I saw the field toward which I was dashing down Sudden Suddenly something happened happened happened hap hap- and my speed diminished Then there was a resounding crash and a violent shock When I re recovered recovered re re- re covered my wits I was In the midst of tho the fragments of ot my machine and practically uninjured How am amI I still alive I asked myself I believe bellevo be- be lieve It was the straps which held me mo to my seat scat which saved me rue On September 16 Lieutenant Guynemer Guynemer Guy Guy- nemer was officially credited with his sixteenth enemy aeroplane A week later he was reported to have ha brought down his seventeenth se and eighteenth He was wounded In a fight tight In the air all last March larch and ina In Ina a subsequent flight was forced to descend between the French and German trenches but escaped |