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Show i ' Pays Tribute to Valor If ; of British Troops !!; J Sergeant Major Werner ot- German Avi-j Avi-j " : ation Corps Praises Their ill J Bravery and Daring ? 1 1 , ' ' 7 .' n .urn 1. Mil Ml ; D ' Berlin, Sept. 8. Sergeant Major ; 5 i " !,' Werner of tho aviation corps return- ' I ed today from tho front nfter mak- 1 " ih i ing repeated scouting flights over tho 'III I1 French and British troops. ' ! U 1' Speaking of his experiences he took : ! i il tho opportunity to pay a trlbuto to I j I I ' the valor, bravery and daring of tho ' ! ' ; I j j Biltlsh troops. it i Ej He described as his most thrilling 1 1 1 a flight one In which ho battled with ,' ! J jt li two aeroplanes of tho enemy, ono a j ' R I British biplane and tho other a French monoplane. Both were much faster than his machine which was old and battered. "My two encniles flew beside and about me for a long time," he said. "I expected momentarily thfct they would throw bombs, but apparently they had none. Both of them fired revolvers repeatedly In my direction and I replied with my revolver but none of tho shots wero effective. After nn anxious quarter of an hour I drew them toward tho Gorman lines and they wero compelled to withdraw." An Ominous Quiet Tho wires were silent today and there" was no Important nows from either the eastern or western fronts but tho quiet Is probably only a preliminary pre-liminary to events of great Importance Impor-tance All eyes here are turned ehst-ward ehst-ward to the hard pressed Austrian army ar-my in dallcla, where the Importance of administering a check to the Russian Rus-sian Invhdlng army appears quite as great, from a general point of yler as the vigorous pursuit of the French campaign. The Cologne Gazette correspondent reports from Montmedy In tho French department of the Meuso, 22 miles southeast of Sedan, Uint uerman trains are already running Into Franco as far as that place. The German engineers nro building a railway lino around the city and French prisoners iiro being employed ln clearing tho railway tunnels. Two Military Aviators Dead The death of two military aviators Lieut. Count Uexull and Volunteer Raymond Arthur Breton, Is announced. announc-ed. Dispatches to tho Cologne Gazotio from Bucharest report that thero is n strong sentiment In favor of Russia throughout Rumania. Tho dispatches suggest that tho popular sentiment Is so strong It Is likely to f6rce the government gov-ernment to act. Rumania has 200,-000 200,-000 troops ready for war. |
