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Show VMscGlIany Airmen Are the War Heroes. Aeroplanes have been called "the eyes 1 of the army on trie French and Belgian battle fields. The general idea of their ! work is that they fly hiffh over the oppos-! oppos-! ins; lines, take observations and maka pictures, send wireless dispatches, light i an occasional enemy plane thousands of feet up. and the like. The men in the aircraft do nil thne thincs, but. in later engagements particularly, par-ticularly, they are doing a great de;ii more. Apparently they have grown tired of being eyes and nothing more, for accounts ac-counts of the recent fighting in Flanders show them in expjoits which for audacity p f','1 '!rir; r- s-:rr rs t"e fab!1? of t.e kn'-.'h's ol ,irci,-ni. ! N-T do t ' ' ." do iiil 't: ir f:n';t!!U r.ich j l.i a:r, .(-: on : th::-3 c: e: j down ei:u?H the . r.nv; viri':a!!v nut Le e,to :iv1, - iidsp on'i. on h-?a ;k. i an;. k ra.lr.-'ai t-ilr:s cr : ;it rlos. Ilv ; C0h:rr.n5 of i :: fa r. r--, and Uiki- :ri' hinv R".ra at i'Iosc- r.i'iL;.t. T).e follow hilt .io-ir.s .io-ir.s of n.rrni.-n ;; th taking nf Sien-c( Sien-c( -k a rjd FM?.: s.-ho.-He is from ' i correspondent of t:.- London Ti-e?:" "Individ .in ! narra :i w-s are told nf t hf-mosf hf-mosf t : imim cr n-Tipf ion. One man who went off meL a iJerrpari n:aiii lie below t.e doiii's, and a fmlu fol'.ov. ---i whi-di r;; ngrd rio-. n to vitr..n fi'i y !''! of the ground, when the enemy machine f-:de-sli.'H'-d ar.d .Tpr'ned. Another v;.s!'..:-d an a-.-odi-.jm- and r'hv-d Siv.o the sheds from , a level i,t-i';w ih.-ir roofs and riive.1 on I and silenced a i mm ch ine - un widen fired on him from the around. "Another, who went ont shortly before five in the momma:, heu-an a hap-n- tiiv by flnst patrolhrg roads and canals end firing on and s--;it tcring any troops he j ?av. Hp then visited an aer. Irome. rhicu lie found asleep and wakd it hv drooping j a bomb on the shed. The place beyan to buzz like a Irive while lie flew around at a height of Hurry feet, dropping a bomb now and again on the sheds and "firing "fir-ing into them through the doors with his machine gun. ile went off occasionally to change his drums or fix his bomb lewr, and each time he came back and flew round agairi, silencing the ma hine suns which opened on him, and once act ually bumping the ground while firing into the sheds. Then lie went on and chased some officers on horse back and scattered a body of 20Q troops. He met two hostile aeroplanes and shot down one and the other bolted. He went to see the machine he had crashed, and, finding that a crowd had gathered round it, fired into them and sent them Hying. Then he paid another an-other visit to the aerodrome, and afterwards after-wards went off and chafed a passenger train on the railway with his machine gun till lie ran out of ammunition. Then he turned and jogged home." |