Show FLYERS BREAK ALL AERIAL RECORDS allied aviators perform sensational speed and distance feats GO FROM ENGLAND TO ITALY Cador Cad nals call for airplanes and pilots li IQ answered by great britain and france few ac are reported paris so many speed and lind distance records have been shattered and set and then surpassed again by allied aviators that it Is doubtful it if the best performances will ever ener be straightened out and set down don on the official books but ala aviators tors have been flying from points in england and in france to the italian front every day as the british and french wae war offices have outdone themselves in their efforts to re enforce the french ail aviation atlon bervice pilots just breveted and there were a certain number of americans among them soared loto into the air and fol following loning the lead of an instructor or some veteran aviator set their course for italy loutas who ho had not sat in an airplane two months before duplicated the feat of roland garros which i startled the world a few years ago the traversing of the italian alps nights of and COO miles with out stop were common occurrences and in all cases the average speed maintained was considerably more than miles an hour one of 0 general Cad first re quests to the french and british was tor for re in airplanes and pilots the germans had assembled several score of their best fighting and bombarding escadrilles on the italian front and bad had struck suddenly rud denly in a body in one day the german formations had practically cleared the air of italian fighting aircraft and they followed up this advantage by s nd ing over into the italian lines jines squadron after squadron of bombing machines machine incendiary bombs and aerial to torpedoes me were rained orf oer the italian aviation fields and the hangars and italian aircraft burned together both the french and british general staffs realized that without its eyes the italian army might wander into traps and pitfalls and they gave the order at wee to re enforce the italian avla tiel service with their own es the order ent out to nil all the aviation camps and schools in england and france within a few hours the orders were being executed pilots having haning passed pasted their brevets nere mustered out on the fields they were told to wear two leather and rubber junion suits instead of the single garment they usually wear ear the gano line tanks were filled and they wt wire re instructed to follow the leader then they soared off in long coveys coneys all headed toward the italian alps cover vast territory some of the british machines clear across england traversed the channel then soared over france and scaled the alps and proceeded straight on to the tagliamento line without ever descending french machines flew fiew from remote corners of the republic over the great mountain range and across the plains of lombardy to udine arriving there before the italians were forced to retreat from that strategic railway center I 1 may not even vaguely indicate the number of airplanes that were sent from I 1 ranee rance and england but I 1 can state that the number of accidents tt as as low as the average total for a day at any of the big aviation schools |