OCR Text |
Show DESCRIBES DEATHLY STRUGGLES IN AIR French Aviator Tells Story of Seven-' Seven-' teenth Victory Over German Flying Machines. Special Cable to The Tribune. PA R T S, June 10. Difu tena n t a-varre a-varre thus describes bringing down his sixteenth and seventeenth aeroplanes of the foe: The first one was flying over Yauquois at 3000 yards" I was 2l'0 yards above. I played various tricks round and over the enemy, who emptied his machine gun upon me with'out effect, but I was then coming down and getting within rartse of any anti-aircraft guns. The only thing was to glide doTvn upon the enemy. Mv first machine ma-chine gun fire scrapped his motor, my second killed the observer. I glided down once more and killed the pilot. The cnemv machine then drop'prd dead in front of our trenches. This was my sixteenth. My s e v e n t r-e n t h was an Albatross. Alba-tross. When I met him I was below be-low him. He threw bombs, which . I luckily escaped. I climbed up and attacker, and he never even replied, re-plied, why T do not know. He seemed to be unarmed. Anyhow, I he upset and fell straight "down into the woods. f |