Show Bags 3 T euton Planes o- o o o- o oo o- o oa a 4 Falls a s 2 Miles j es Unhurt urt I King of the Aces Destroys German in Less Than Three Minutes I PARIS Sept sep 29 Three 29 Three hr e German I aeroplanes aeroplane brought down in two minutes minutes minutes min min- utes and thirty seconds is the latest I exploit of ot Second Lieutenant Georges I Gun Guynemer mer Incidentally Lieutenant Guynemer lu nemer who Is known as King of the Aces fell feet but escaped unhurt I Guynemer went to the assistance of ot ofa ofa a 1 comrade who was hard pressed h by five rive German machines He brought I flown down own two of them within thirty second seconds sec- sec ond ds and then rising overtook a third which he shot down two minutes later He Ile was looking for the remaining remaining remain remain- ing mg German machines when a shell burst beneath him and stripped the left wing of his aeroplane of or every stitch of its covering lIe He plunged giddily giddily gid gid- dily earthward I gave eave myself up P for err lost he said but after falling feet felt I 1 thought I would struggle all the same The wind blew me over o our lines and like a a. flash I t had a picture of at my funeral and all my good friends following the coffin of tin I continued d to fall and the levers would not budge buds In vain I pushed and pulled right and left I Imade Imade Imade made a last desperate effort all to no purpose and then I saw the field toward which I was dashing down Suddenly something happened and my mv speed diminished Then there was a resounding ct cla clash ash sh and a violent shock I I When I recovered my wits I was in i ithe the midst of the fragments of my mv machine and practically uninjured uninjured I How am m I still alive I asked myself I believe it was the straps which held I me to my seat which saved me I j On September 1 16 i ne i mer was officially v credited with his nis I sixteenth enem enemy aeroplane A week i later he lIe was reported to have brought f I down his seventeenth and eighteenth He lie was wounded In a fight in the air last March and In a subsequent flight was forced to descend between the I 1 French Tench and German trenches but escaped I i i I HERE IJ jERE ERE is the Fokker killer killeri j i I il of the French aviation I corps He has brought down twenty-one twenty German aeroplanes and in many thrilling air battles battles battles bat bat- has had hairbreadth escapes escape from death I P x s t l a O tk w aw G |