Show n A ITIL 1 tr 34 G TP L A N ild S TERRIFY p 0 ID ENEMY JL d I 1 I 1 london tho progressive a effective I 1 ness of the nelles both in ili the c construction of airplanes lilt anil in the air clr lighting lins has never before been more clear ly proved in the lie recent operations on tile alio western front 11 in last months offensive tho ilia harrying ot of german caa felry marching infantry and transport by low flying airplanes was tile first example ot of it really large scale genie coun ter from the air prom from n it II A F cheer of long ex per lence it wal IV prieva it Is now it n deliberate method of clr fighting not conducted on oil the tip nod run rim principle of one swooping dive to earth bringing tile tho into close cloie rifle range only tit ill the lowest point of the dive but by machines willed fly low until I 1 their heir ammunition Is exhausted so low that pilots have identified tile regimental insignia of the troops attacked so low that the airplane wheels have been to aklin tile earth transport columns broken up the object of these low bow niang pilots pilot has bee to disorganize tile germans by by a gut buc tell en hurst of fire at close range and very they have done it especially when breaking up tip transport columns and causing stampedes or 0 frightened horses but the method lias has developed until nov it british airplane will ny fly along not liot merely across it 1 l trench tren cli machine running gunning it and such a thing may happen as fit leamel I 1 where airplanes and tanks coi co i operated to such purpose unit that tile infantry advanced upon nit an already quite disorganized galli zed enemy it Is ili routine work for tile tho low flying airplane to interrupt german gernian working parties far beld behind iiI ilia lines machine machina gun flee fire und and when ono one remembers that the asame anine parties tire likely to be bombed in r billets from 1 ilia lie nir by night their heart for work t inny 0 lly to be imagined for built both day and night tile tho bombing ot of railways airdromes aird romes crimps and dumps goes on and tins this la Is almost by tho ilia wa any Y the soldier cornea before supply find it Is ilia soldier who Is tile tho objective of the low flying n airplane the soldier who suffers ers iti in person and morale by tile ceaseless bombing of billets it Is s tile aggress aggressive ivo air war nr ot of tho ilia entente which steadily and accumulatively depreciates the lie mora morale leof of the german sold soldier lor and an ammunition dump was blown ill what thrilling stories may lie behind many ot of brief stereotyped 0 phrases phrase aln in the communication I 1 an ammunition dump jil was blown up and much else besides sprays thern them with bullets bullet alere Is just ono one little incident told by L Wohn walmsley sley of the it A ari P which way inny servo serve by way of Il lustra tion the germans were reported to bo be colic e nt tit nt aliv lie village of X A little censer was ans run out and the pilot ordered to te ten n minutes minutest 1 flying brings hill ahlm to tato trench lines and tho the deafening noise of battle drowns even tho the sound of the engine the Gern germans ians are attacking and a long ragged gray line of piled up c corpses ol 01 which the airman nt at first mistakes for sandbags sandbars sand bags browa tho the terrible price they artro paying but sheltering behind this ghastly rampart of human flesh are living giuna and the pilot dives down until mil II 11 he lie is la only 50 feet above them then as lie he skims over the line lie ho opens iro fire with both guns gun s pouring out a hall of 0 f death that lint soon visibly thickens the inanimate gray masses hut but there theio la Is even more important work nt at land the village of X la Is quickly ron reached ched the market square Is crowded with artillery and ammunition carts diving to n height of less than BOO feet tile airman drope a wini bomb lint and turns just juht in time to avoid t lio to force of the concussion caused by the lie explosion that follows A direct hit bit lias has been mado made on tile lie cart and the I 1 havoc I 1 aboc wrought in ili that market square bailles description lon the roads leading from the village are now Pare carefully fully recon nolt erett there As Is no sign i of life until n tj I 1 n large wood la is reached here it ft Miu adron it of uhland Is found A second secand bomb Is landed right in alig midst of them mid end in n few seconds the adjoining fladds are brown with tom beding horses |