Show E aiga L E S ferocious birds are used in fighting airships airship men in aeroplanes Aero planes helpless when attacked unique methods of teaching warfare now being dem dein onit rated in france parts parla france A new anil and more terrifying phase ot of aerial warfare I 1 Is 3 promised french officers are train arg li a eagles to attack aeroplanes aero planes I 1 in n the air and tiring bring them crashing to the ground experts have concluded that it will be extremely difficult to hit bit a flying aeroplane acro plane although several special weapons have been devised for this purpose under present conditions apparently an army must either fight aeroplanes aero planes with aeroplanes aero planes or ar permit them to flyaway fly pway untouched after doing all the win harm they can and after spying yang out the ardys dispositions even with the pursuing aeroplanes aero planes disaster Is more probable than success to the pursuer but it has been found that a slight injury to the driver ot of an aeroplane will destroy his bis control and send him toppling to his death the late cal braith rogers a brilliant aviator Is said to have met cledeath his ble death because a seagull accidentally flew against hi him m and disturbed Ms his control of his bis machine it such a modest sized bird as a seagull could wreck an am aviator what could an eagle do dot wo we all know something of the power of these thes e tremendous birds in tho the alps they frequently carry ott off young sheep and beat ot off men who attempt to interfere with them afew days ago an eagle near washington conn attempted to carry oft off a baby the child of a farmer named matthew J crowley it required the combined efforts of mr air and mrs crowley and several other persons to save the ibe baby the swiss eagle as more powerful than any American bird tike tha french aviation officers stationed at nice which Is within a few miles of the alpine home of eagles have trained six great eagles the officers ceril havo have constructed machines machii ies resembling pero aero planes in shape but supported by balloons to these they attach chickens mice and all sorts of live prey that the eagles lovo love the aeroplane balloons are then sent bent fiand up and the eables cables are let loose with fierce crlos cries and napping flapping at 0 their ings they attack an aeroplane and tear the living prey from it in their eagerness they fight one another and the aeroplane Is sometimes turned upside down in their struggles it Is inconceivable that any men in an aeroplane even it there were three or fouron four of them could retain control of their machine in the face of at such an attack one after another the eagles attack all the aeroplane balloons until they are wrecked their trainers feet feel certain that they will now attack real ner P planes with men in them with the same ferocity no one who has watched an eagle only on the ground can have any corf coal caption of its power the bird Is at a disadvantage on the ground because it was made to hy fly and not to walk and because it does not develop the full power of its tremendous wings until it has had space in which to work them it has great difficulty in rising from the ground like a great ship it needs room in which to maneuver but in its natural realm the upper air the baglo will be capable ot of upsetting be any flying machine it can fight with its beak claws and wings a at t once |