Show I AMERICAN AIRMEN I CONTROL AT FRONT NUMBER OF PLANES BROUGHT DOWN OVERWHELMINGLY IN INS S FAVOR OF OUR BOYS I Aerial Activity Increasing Daily Dally With Boys From America Leading Way French and Italian Forces Go Forward Forward Making Big Gains Paris Control Control of the air no iong fonger r belongs to the Germans along the Toul Tout sector Aerial activity there seems to be bo Increasing dally daily b but t the Germans are not permitted to prowl about freely Fighting American airmen have locked wings with the enemy ant at present the tally of machines brought down Is Is- overwhelmingly in their fa favor or In n fact they have had bad such good fortune fortune fortune for for- tune that they are wondering whether it can cnn keep up without change They are no passing by a n single chance to get at the enemy The German airmen have parted d to fly In flocks at a great height Early Monday 1 morning for instance five of them came over together at meters meters met met- ers 2000 above the ordinary fire tire of the archies archles The alarm was given promptly but the Germans Germans' were keeping a sharp lookout and as soon as they saw v five American pursuit planes climbing to meet them they tu turned ned and started home lome rapidly Major Raoul Lufbery who had be been S m regarded as the tile best aviator In the American air service was shot down and killed Monday 1 morning by a bIgGerman big bigGerman bigGerman German Which which he lie was was attack- attack Ing Lufbery j jumped from his machine machine ma ma- a chine when yards ab above ve the ground He had eighteen victories to toils his ils credit In sh sharp rp operations around French troops made an important advance advance ad ad- vance on a front of more than two miles mlles and captured over prisoners prison prison- ers ens according to Field Marshal Halg's Haigs report from British headquarters in France French and Italian troops have made an advance of twenty kilometers twelve and a halt half miles on the western western west west- ern era end of the Macedonian 1 front the war office announced Monday 1 Parts of northern France have become become become be be- come within a short period thickly populated with Amer American can fighting troops and great American training camps and depots are springing up where two months ago only British khaki was normally seen |