Show A 2 BRITISH AIRMEN I ROUT I 14 4 GERMANS I Like Hornets They Attack Attack En En- En Enemy emy En-emy Formations and Drive Survivors Survivor's Home FOE UNWilLING MILLING TO FIGHT From the Front Front Come Coma Wondrous St StorIes Stories Stor Stor- or 1 ies Ics of Dauntless Deeds and Feats I of Aerial Tilting Tilting Britain Britain Now I Commands the Air I British Headquarters In France Out of the high thin air all where the lighting fighting birdmen tl lly ily In a sort of dream dreamworld dreamworld world of adventure have crate no cr within the last lust few du days clays s 's still more moro wondrous stories of dauntless deeds and feats of aerial tilting to spread the welcome glamour of romance over o the more sordId sordid sordid sor sor- did side of the war Above the British lines nud far ar within the enemy territory territory territory terri terri- tory the blue spring skies sIdes have been filled with will daring planes that seem to fl flash sh In and out among the bits of ot floating cloud with the speed of ot the tho vel very sunbeams that sparkle and play pIny upon their silver sides and all but transparent wings I Virtually all nil the visible machines bear the r red d white and blue markings of the allies It Is seldom that hostile battle birds with the Maltese l cross upon up on their spreading wings venture venturo across the fighting lines The British aviators report that It ItIs Itis itis Is difficult Just now to get the German German Ger Ger- man aviators Into close fighting They say that the Germans appear unwilling to engage In tl that at sort of warfare and continually attempt to break brenk off the combats Two fast British machines far In Inthe Inthe inthe the enemy's dom domain ln saw what appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap to be a n great flock of German planes headed toward the British lines The two British airmen climbed a n coupie coupIe couple cou cou- pIe of thousand feet to have a better look at the strangers They then saw that It was a formation of 14 4 machines composed of fighting scouts couts and heavier heavIer heavier ier two probably Intent upon a bombing raid The Tire odds were rath rather heavy against them but the tire British filers fliers decided to have a go at lit the hostile hostile hos hos- tile airmen Two Britons Rout 14 Germans Having faster and ond better maneuverIng maneuverIng maneuvering maneuver- maneuver Ing machines than anything In the German German German Ger Ger- man formation the young Britons played about their 14 enemies like a apall pair pall of giant hornets They dived at them time and time time again firing bursts of machine-gun machine bullets bullets' as they passed With superior speed and climb cUmb the British machines were able to adopt such tactics as a's suited their purpose and from the moment of the first attack attack fit at at- tack the formation of the German machines machines machines ma ma- chines began to break up After two of their thell machines had been set on fire and destroyed and a third sent spinning down to an undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly un un- un- un fatal crash the hostile squadron was completely disorganized the surviving machines turning about and making for tor home Another story has to do with the narrow escape of a young oung British naval airman who sailed on a n recent bright afternoon to strafe strate a German balloon that he saw In the air some distance back ack of the enemy's fighting lines Nowadays os whenever a British plane crosses the lines within a mite mile or two of a German balloon station statton S CIS O. 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S signs ascend and the balloon Is haul hauled d down as ns fast as motor-driven motor winches can drag It The pilot was not to bo be bohus thus hus foiled however When he arrived near the true balloon It was only 20 feet from the ground but he dived for it notwithstanding the protecting machine machine machine ma ma- chine guns that were sending up literal fountains of steel Jacketed bullets balloon began to smoke In several several sev several eral places and the British airman was diving living at nt it again when his engine was hit lit The navy chap managed to get Jet himself home like a wounded pl pigeon en nevertheless crossing the fighting lines Hires at less than 50 feet Being a na naval al alman man he Ire officially described his homecoming home homecoming homecoming home home- coming as limping into port Several other aviators recently attacked attacked attacked at at- tacked German balloons on the ground round The correspondent orr spent most of Sunday on the battle front but saw no German balloons up after British airmen had destro destroyed ed two early In the morning Attacks Howitzer Crew On Saturday afternoon a British fighting scout was Just taking taILing the air all when he saw an archie battery fir Ur- lag Ing ng at a German machine high In the clouds The Briton dellb deliberately began begano t to o climb through this fire to enga engage e tho the enemy but the latter sow saw him coming and streaked for home The followed him for several miles firing all the while vl lle but finally ran out of ammunition One pilot described the sensation of ot passing through gh a firing zone as similar to o that received In a small boat Ing ng b upon the true swell of a passing fast steamer Often OCten the pilots of artillery observIng observing Ing ng machines have been able to catch glimpses of the slow moving heavy howitzer lowitzer shells It is related of one ono British pilot that some time ago aJo he saw a big German howitzer sh shell ll corn cora corning corang Ing ng apparently direct for him It whizzed by harmlessly however but the pilot was so angry that lie he spotted that particular gun dived at ut it and fired an entire drum of ot machine gun bullets at the crew He had not time timeo timeto to o stop to see what damage If any I his ils vengeful net act had Imd caused |