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Show lAWATfli FACE i GREAT DANGERS ; Tell Stories of Narrow Escapes While Flying t Through Mountain Pass to Villa Territory. At tho Front in Mexico, General J. J. Pershing's Camp, April 2, by Aeroplane Aero-plane and Motor Truck to Columbus, N. M., April 5. American army aviators avi-ators related stories of narrow escapes es-capes while flying through one mountain moun-tain pass to Villa territory. This pass Is considered tho most dangerous along the route and an aviator who flew through yesterday said: "I skimmed the wagon road all the way over the pass, and sometimes I thought my wheels were touching the ground. Whenever there was a rise In the road I had to go up to keep from hitting the ground and when the road dipped tho wind currents carried car-ried my machine down Into the dip." Another aviator arriving last night from this pass Bald his fingers and shoulders wero lame from the strain of handling his levers to keep the plane fairly level. He was rocked first to one side and then to the oth- Gl Viuut, UUL KJL UlU JJUOO U3 Vt UU1U rise into air so dense he barely could see the nose of the plane. He dived about one thousand feet to get below the clouds as the altitude waB too great to permit of his rising above. Aeroplane Mall Service. At the Front in Mexico, General J J. Pershing's Camp, April 2, by Aero-plano Aero-plano and Motor Truck to Columbus, N. M.. April 5. The United States mall service trucks to Mexico was one of the first branches of the service to be perfected. Letter mall traveling by aeroplane has outstripped even food in celerity of transportation. A correspondent at the front who was hungry for coffee and bacon and sleepless at night for lack of onough covers to keep out the mountain cold, received a letter from London, England. Eng-land. It was a Tat letter. When opened open-ed It contained a clothing advertisement advertise-ment with two samples of suiting material ma-terial no |