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Show UJ FRANCE HAS BEST SC0UTS IN AIR Paris. Aug. 2S. 6:20 p. m.-The value J of aeroplanes in scouting work Is a ' subject of discussion among technical ' observers. "Our military aviators are rendering render-ing invaluable service, ' the Temps I says, quoting an authority r,n aviation i whose name Is omitted for military' I reasons The paper continues: "Our aerial forces are infinitely su-I su-I perior to those of Germany Besides, j some hundreds of military aviators and all f our be6t civilian airmen are ; in the service Brindejonc. des Mou-llnals. Mou-llnals. Roland Garros. Eugene Gilbert and Jules Vednnes are all at the front Vedriues has Just competcvl a raid with an apparatus of extraordin ary power. Something more will be heard of this later "The experience of our air people shows that an aeroplane Is safe from bullets when 1000 yards high, and at 2000 yardB an aviator can observe accurately ac-curately with the naked eye As our flyers can guide a machine with one nana and use glasses with the other, the masses of the enemv cannot es cape observation. "The most difficult thlnp Is to determine de-termine commands by discriminating among the uniforms. One danger to the FYench airmen is from our soldiers, sol-diers, who have not learned to dls tinguish our aeroplanes from those of the enemy. I would suggest that we do not fire on air craft at all unless Sure of their identity." The Journal de Malne-ol-LoIro at j Auglerg publishes a letter from one Of the French frontier fortresses In which the writer complains of the) loneliness of the life there. It would seem that the only sport of the garrison gar-rison is to watch for German aero planes and fire upon them Three German airships are said to have been brought down while the aviators were throwing bombs. Poles Enthusiastic. London, Aug. 28. 9 30 a. m.Antoine le Zwua, the Polish author, haa sent the following telegram to the Spectator Specta-tor "The mobilization was carried on In Warsaw with Indescribable enthusiasm. enthusi-asm. I-'or the first time since the partition par-tition of Poland our peasants took an active part in a national movement There are more than 400,000 Poles In the Russian army." |
