Show FRANCE GAINS SUPREMACY IN AERIAL WORK I I Builds Up 1 Quickly Flying Service That Holds Germany Germany Ger Ger- many in in Check Paris Aug AuS' 24 Frances France's Frances France's arm army of at he tho air Is becoming moro more formidable each ach month Factories are being enlarged en- en and running overtime o Improvements Improvements improvements Im Im- im- im on tho the motors and on the equipment of ot the planes are being ma made e constantly while pilots observers observers ob ob- ob- ob servers ser and are being trainer trained b by the hundreds In aviation schools Franco France means menns to build up such an aerial arm army that the Germans Ger- Ger mans nans themselves cs will la lay no claim to tosu su supremacy I With motors motor of or from fifty to horsepower realizing a 30 speed of ot Id kilometres kil an nn hour and an elevation of ot 2000 feet some or Hof the French pilots before tho war war thought tills this branch of ot ho tho arm army was vas near perfect In 1910 the they hey were planning to regulate artillery artillery artil- artil lery ery fire b by airplane the aerial photograph photograph photo photo- graph and aerial observation In 1911 1011 tho the airplane dropped Its first projectiles In 1912 It carried machine guns and In 1913 camo came night flights and ind organization of ot escadrilles s under the command of ot the tho aeronautical department de department department de- de of at tho the arm army Tho The classes and the bombardment Ideas were not envisaged envisaged ls en age aged In the plan The war surprised the I French rench aviation aviation avia avia- tion lion for It didn't have ha an Idea of ot Its practical role The OO pilots were m mostly gentlemen of ot sport Only two planes were equipped with machine guns A demand J. J a d for tor 10 guns suns was o re- re U to HJ flay because the number re requested requested re- re quested was considered excessive And re-I re even those finally decided lcd upon were not delivered for tor several eral weeks Few Flyers In 1011 J. J So two or three without l definite functions went l to the front at atthe the tho outbreak of the war to hunt their places Tho They started work much as ns the they would have ha hunted game ame as ns sportsmen They The were compelled to reI rely on Individualism Bu But t today with motors motorS' of ot horsepower horsepower horsepower horse- horse power with a speed of more than kilometres an hour with airplanes carrying three or four tour machine guns with machines equipped to carr carry bombs bomb with hundreds of at pilots and with the personnel of ot an escadrille of ot moro more than ten times the prewar size sll the French have ha a vast ast aerial or organization The They have an nn army of ot the air Enemy French aviation tOda today is superior to that of at the enemy In the tho Clr first t five o months of 1918 the French lost in battle hattle bat hat tle 1 planes while they destroyed German machines In May fay for tor every ev ev- Cerr every ery err Ictor victory Inside t tile the French lines there were twelve vol the ellem enemy lines This proves pro that not only do the French dominate t the ho boche bache but the they seek battle over O his ground Bombing squadrons are arc showing ac activity c ac- cUlt U lt day and night In January 70 kilos of ot G explosives were dropped on enemy towns towns' and bases In February February Feb Feb- fi kilos in March kilos In April Aril and In May Thus In keeping the German aviators aviators avia la In photographic photographic photo photo- tors tora on their thell own on territory graphic work wort over the tine enemy's bases and md centers In bombing hl his depots and I harassing his troops and In directing artillery the French rench cavalry of or theair tho the air has gained a n. supremacy which It H Intends to hold P |