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Show HAIL AND FAREWELL. The report that Lieutenant Imel-mann, Imel-mann, champion war aviator of Germany, Ger-many, has been killed stresses the fact that many of the conspicuous hemes he-mes of the present conflict have not lived long to enjoy the glory of their achievements. Their fate recalls the old adage that it is better to be a live dog than a dead lion, but, of course, no genuine hero over looks at life and death that way. If ho did he would not be a hero. Tho fame of Captain von V'eddigen, the German submarine commander who sank three Hritish warships, the Hoguo, I rojfy, and Aboukir, in quick succession, is still bright, although he has been dead nearly a year. After receiving the acclaim ac-claim of the Fatherland he .embarked again and again on the most dangerous undersea missions and defied death once too often. Then there was that remarkable British Brit-ish flyer, Lieutenant Warnct'ord who :ire!y performed one of the most brilliant bril-liant exploits of the war when the tiny hornet on which he was flying stnnn a great leviathan of the air to death. Soon after he had dropped the bomb which destroyed a Zeppelin near Brussels Brus-sels while it wa returning from a raid oxer England he went to Paris and was killed while giving an exhibition flight to make a Parisian holiday. j Only a few days ago General Callieni passed away. He will long be remembered remem-bered as the military governor of Paris v.ho, v.hen Genera! Joffre's armv was hard pressed, ordered the garrison of Paris into the battle and sent them for-v.ard for-v.ard in hundred of automobiles. They struck the right flank of Von KlukY advancing army, forced the German ! commander to divert a large part of his J force from the main attack and thus forced upon the Germans their first great defeat. No exploit of the war was more won-, derful than the success of Lord Kitchener Kitch-ener in raising an army of five million men in Jess than eighteen months. So military organizer ever accomplished so much in sui-h a short time. And just when his work was done he took passage pas-sage on the K'nglish cruiser Hampshire for a mysterious trip to R'ussia. The warship struck a mine and England's illustrious soldier and minister of war sank to his death. In the t'hampagne battle the celebrated cele-brated Major Map-band, wearing the insignia of a brigadier general, walked coolly to his death leading his division in a charge against the Gorman trenches. trench-es. Marchaml, it will be remembered, was Kitchener's rival in the occupatiou of some territory in the Sudan. For weeks they faced each other ready for battle, hut London and Paris settled tho affair and Kitchener and Marchand parted as friends. Then, too, there was Von Spee, the German admiral, who, after sending Cradock and his squadron to the bottom bot-tom of the sea, sailed from the Pacific into the Atlantic, and met his fate at tho hands of an overwhelmingly superior su-perior force of British warships. The names we have mentioned have been ineffaceably inscribed on the tablets tab-lets of fame beside the names of national na-tional military heroes who, in other wars, performed undying deeds and lived to enjoy, like Dewey and Hobson, the plaudits and the gifts of their countrymen. |