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A company Copy Copy- France holland Italy Spain 1110 by V All aed be Scandinavian countries CHA CHAPTER Continued While Taylor kept himself resolutely resol hidden below decks Chambers throwing throw I ing out the last of oC his sack of oC lampblack lamp lamp- black lifted over on tho the side sido the doomed machine and gave o a a good ex exhibition exhibition ox- ox I of or the thc falling l leaf at Down Down- i down It drifted the daring photo photo- j leaning far out of oC his cage Je I I to catch the thc last the expiring gasps J t stricken en Hanover the thc the last lust of 01 the wicked formation of or hostile machines that had hud dared to cross our frontiers car early In the thc picture And thoa then Just just justas I as he hc was wa prepared to flash Clash on the thc good night sl sign n and entertain the de departing departing de- de parting audience with views of oC the belt hett line lino of ot corsets to be c hat had at reasonable prices at Moc Moe Levys Levy's Emporium just then the thc thereal real climax of oC the pia play did appear Open Ire on Tanks Wc Vc e had necessarily wandered some sorie little distance away from from the thc vicinity o of our aerodrome while firing flaming bullets over o each other so 60 that the falling missiles would not cause an any injuries to lo property or ur persons b be beio be- be f low io Paying little attention as to where wo VO were flying so long lon lonas as open country countr was below beJo us we Wc had not noticed no ro- ro- ro th that lt we were some miles south and anti west of oC our startinG starting pla place c and al ni- ni most Immediately o o er the the edge edgo of or a French aerodrome a puff of real Arch Archy smoke In the o of the Hanover Hano told bId me mc that 1 some enthusiastic outsider was volunteering his his' services in behalf 0 of our little entertainment nt Another nother an and another shell burst before I J could t tt- tt v rn my direction nn and got e started to 10 I place m my Spud pad close to the black maI machine ma- ma I chino chine wearing the iron cross of tile the II kaiser Chambers took In the situation sit sit- i at h f glance He lie pointed down I the thc Hanover's ers nose and hc began an at t ounce once to descend for a landing on the French aerodrome below us At t the same moment mo ment several er French left the tile field and began beSan climbing up to 11 assist 1st 1110 mo In nl my dangerous task of demolishing demolish demolish- ing tho Inc Hanover Diving DI down to Intervene between I them before an any more shooting was as is Ilone done I succeeded In satisfying the tho r l'-r Frenchmen that I r had th the affair well wellin in hand and that the Hanover was at corn com n ng down to lo surrender Without further incident we all landed and got out atour of at I our machines The French pilots Ilot their mechanics and pullus gathered Jathen d about In itu Ina a curious bod body while I 1 laughingly I hurried hur hur- I ned ried over ocr to lo the tile side sido of Reeds Reed's machine machine ma nut- chine and explained to tho the assembly Iho he o of tills this strange perform ance aneo Thc They all laugh laughed d heartily heartH over or their mistake ali all except nee Reed and Thorn Taylor aylor of oC the Hanover er drew crew who from the expressions on their faces seemed to admit that the joke Jolie on them IrUm of or to Getting awa away aay a again the Hanover Hano flow Clow home under m my protection After J it hail had landed 1 I cJ climbed up through the clouds where Jimmy and the mo movie moc c man mall were still waiting for or me There I stunted for or a while In front of tIle the camera giving JI some excellent views 5 of ot an all aeroplane bursting through t the tho clouds an and Some sone up close 10 views iown of all tho tile aerial t that ti 11 Spud I is gap cap capable able abl o of performing da duy duay Captain Cooper departed vIVi his films film for or Paris where he hue to lo turn them o over or r to the them American m authorities and and If Ir permitted taki tak a u. copy of oC them for public in Paris and the United States A da day or two t after atter Christmas on m my way through Paris to New e York 1 I learned that these pictures had turned I out well and would soon be bc shown n In In the tho mo lo pal palaces ces o of the cities of oC I America The captured Hanover Hano was vas flown n Into the American station at Or Orly near near- Paris a few e ow lays days after tho armistice was sl signed and from th there re was as shipped I I to tD America me to 10 be bo placed upon exhibition bitton Major Hartne an and Laurence I L L. Driggs s of New York who were vis visiting Is us at that time flew Jew In ill It from rom Verdun to Paris in a little less than I k 1 I an hour and a halt half One captured d F Fok- Fok machine and an on escort of two Camels and one ono Sparl accompanied accompanied p them for lor or the enem enemy machines still carried the war markings of ot the German air Ir service ser and Inquisitive o Frenchmen along alon- the t II way might be tempted to tr try to capture them a second second sec see ond time So far as I know w these were the only two tco enemy aeroplanes captured cap cap- tur-ed tur b by tho the Am American forces during durin the war The I Fokker came down don upon our field at Verdun Just a da day or two b be hc- hc fore forc the tho end of or ho hostilities an and war WIL way way- turned over O to 9 squadron ni s their Ir capture since sluice thE they operated tInts tills lelu rho Tho pilot had given I cn himself up saying he thought he was landing upon his hs hison own on aerodrome at al He lie had be become ho- ho come conic lost In the fo fog and as the two aerodromes arc are situated along alons th thet edge cd-c of or a rivers river's course his mistake was probable X N. Y V. CJ Germana Give Phonsa to lo I t. t S. S Another nother t two seater a Halberstadt machine came canto down upon the American Amen Ameri can cnn field at th tle supply station f at CoI Co- Co nelles les s under similar circumstance cir cir- I a few Cew days before the armistice arm arm- was HI signed nd Tint In tn this ca case e the tho I capture was as aM a deliberate surrender I The two occupants climbed out of oC their machine and In pure New Ne' ew York patois Informed the thc startled mechanics that the they wished to make a bargain bars with them Tile They Ther were It transpired two Yiddish nid dish h gentlemen of oh German extraction who for or sonic ome years earol had lund been In business business busi- busi ness neRS Ip Ira New York orle Tho The war aT cau caught ht I them in Germany German and the they were perforce perforce per per- force thrust Into the service of ot what I lund had once been their mother country After man many vicissitudes thc they both en entered entered en- en aviation seeking for tor for the of flying over ocr the lie lines JInes and giving 1 themselves thell up Now ow a chance chanco had bad arrived Both of or th them m getting permission slon to cross the tIne lines In the thc ame machine the they had ma made o straight for Cor our headquarters at les DeBts Belles and now offered ored a n a perfectly rood machine valued at not nol le less than In exchange echan o for their freedom Timi lOll and u Il pass bac hack back to lo Harlem I |