Show I AIRPLANE IS 1 DIFFERENT FROM OURS i Ii I ILO I LO LONDON DO May a IS The IS-The The airplane circus which was introduced by the I Germans two years ago alO has taken a a notable blo part in in tho the fighting on th the western stern front recently The use of the I word circus in this connection has now become recognized amon among both oth I British h an and French aviators a It J cates virtually a specially organized I troop o of picked pilots whose Job joh is f simply to destroy destro enemy airplanes I These circuses circus are arc complete units equipped quipped with their own transport mechanical mc- mc meI me-I I shops and all aU necessary sons ories Wherever here th there re is fl fighting I to tobe tobe be done the circuses move moe quickly to lo lothe the thc danger er point If IC a bl big attack is isto I llo to be he made by either IUler side Ide the rival rhal circuses are arc moved mo to aerodromes in I that district and each endeavors to toj j prevent the others other's reconnaissance machines ma- ma chines from op operating The circus performs performs per- per ma-I ma forms In fact precisely the functions I. I ot of of destroyed flotillas in tho the navy I The rho first circus was formed by Cap Cap- taut tain Boelke ono one of the early German I j star tar pilots He collected a number of or I picked ed pilots including the fens lens Voss and Schaefer of oC whom thee the I e two latter Jatter have heen been killed within a al Boelke himself himsel was killed in 1916 and the tho el elder er Richthofen took over the circus On the British side the time reply came I In a a. squadron organized by Major Majorr r er which the tle Germans called the Richthofen Antl circus Ultimately Hawker fell Cell In iii a fight with During Durin the tIme fighting of the past few Cew weeks several circuses of or picked pilots haye been C 11 In action on both sl sides es They havo hao reduced fighting in formation to toa toa tofa fa a Inc fine art each pilot manu maneuvering as asTe Te re ct one rone of oC a a. team and rf refusing to be he drawn I n away va from Crom the formation into inlo single single- ln lel le- le a fights l j |