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Show TELLS OF HIS FIGHTING EXPERIENCE. A committee on public Information Informa-tion representative In London says: There are no better sportsmen In' the world than the allied airmen, and American aviators now fighting In Europe always play a fair game, as they learn It from the allies. F. P. Magoun, a former Harvard stu- dent, now a member of the royal air force, recently wounded, tells how the lives of German observers escaping from balloons hare been spared. "We caught three Hun balloons' above the allied grourd In a mist, which prevented their gunners seeing see-ing us." snid he. "It was a cinch. You should have seen them hustle, out their parachutes and abtrc'.oir the balloons. As they came fallloa. down through the air we otmlerl-about otmlerl-about closely but. of course.' didu'J-open didu'J-open fire, as that's against the rules of the game. As soon as they touch- I ed the ground they took cover like rabbits." I Magoun is the only American in I his squadron, having joined in Feb- ruary of last year. He has bagged five German planes. While curry ing bombs for low attack In the recent re-cent offensive, he received a bullet through his left arm ,but managed to return to his own lines. Magoun tells of a companion in his squadron who had one of the luckiest escapes during the war. He was put out of action at 1,000 feet in the air when a bullet perforated his gasoline tank. He was rendered unconscious by the fumes and his machine took a nose dive to earth, but he escaped without a scratch. A section of the royal air force operating in the Ypres salient has lost its only American member, who had been with the squadron only ten days when he went on a bombing raid at low elevation. He was hit by a machine gun bullet and his machine ma-chine fell in flames. He was taken prisoner. The efforts of newspapers to promote pro-mote good feeling between the people peo-ple of England and the thousands of Americans received official backing back-ing when Sir Randolf Baker, member mem-ber of parliament offered to take charge of the American troops welfare wel-fare department of the BrltiBh government.' gov-ernment.' His plans contemplate a continuous program of healthful recreation rec-reation in every American rest camp and training camp in England. Special Spe-cial London theatrical companies will be sent out. An organization known as "Sammy's Blighty League" is being formed. |