Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1925, Page 25

SKILL AS DRIVER - SAVES KING'S LIFE| Boris Takes Wheel of Bus, Speeds From Range of Bandit Guns. Br the Associated Press SOFIA, B April 16.—King Boris of Bu probably owes his ife to the fact that he is an expert automobile driver. Tuesday. when his car was attacked from ambuscade by a band of alleged communists and the chauffeur wounded, the King seized the wheel, and in a measure managed to steer ti chine partly out of the danger (he steering gear was damages ever, and in & momerg 1 hit « telegraph post. Veanwhil King's assailants, continued to fire on the » automobile, and they, with revolve were with the only flight yards down the from Orchanie to a little copse a road that leads Sofia. \ide Plans Escape. M. Titcheff. director Museum, al dy bleeding pro- fusely from a body wound, but he ontinued to defend the King. Almost immediately shot through the be. came unc - was some dist from the King and the others, apt. Stanatoff, aide de camp, urged Boris to make a bid for safety and run toward an utobu: ils, which the few minut ambuscade. cover King's retreat Boris wished to uttempt to carry Litcheft’s body with him of Sofia was had . anatoff although oft The King and his aide ran toward | the driver of which w oring to turn but w ed by the narrow road. The King took the chauffeur’s place, turn- ed the bus and speeded off downhill, pursued by the bandits, who fired and hit the bus, but without serious damage. Drives Troops to Scene. Arriving at Orchanie, the King has- mobilized a platoon of troops,and, remaining at the wheel of the auto us, hurried back with an officer and s to the place of the ambus- The bandits were robbing the ltcheff und the servant. surprised and one was The others fled and, aided wi hor: , escaped <'s ca during the af- d with admiration by itnessed the attack. One o the autobus admitted the shots he hastily um of money into the road. On returning, urs later, he failed to dis- cover the place, but the King, who had remained on the spot, directing operations. showed him where it was. Finally, after all had been cleared up, the King drove another car back to Sofla and reported to the government what had occurred. Sister Not in Party. The King's sister, Princess Budoxia, was not & member of the party, al- though she usually accompanies her brother everywh Boris spends much of his time motoring about Bul garia, visiting the and search: He wa on one of thes expeditions when his car ran into the ambuscade. Who the bandits were, whether they planned to kill the King or whether they wished only to rob the autobus is a mystery After a thanksgiving service yester- day morning an unprecedented mani- festation took place in Sofia. Thou sands of persons of all classes ac- rutot ba T cade. bodies = 55 Hanover = | party Marine aviators of the ation Group at Quantico, Va., 3 day, before a small but distinguished audience, won another victory for military aeronautics with a remark- able exhibition of bombing, machine- gun firing and pursuit emulation, the prime factors in the new aerfal war- fare method known as attack avia tion. Arranged especially for Senator Frederick Hale of Maine, chairman of the Senate naval committee, the demonstration, produced . fn short notice, also was witnessed by Secre- tary Wilbur, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Robinson, Rear Admiral { William A. Moffett, chief of the Bu- reau of Aeronautics; Maj. Gen. John Lejeune, commandant of the Ma- rine Corps, and their aldes, at the Marine Corps Flying Field, about two miles below the Quantico base. Fly From Washington. Senator Hale, Mr. Robinson and Admiral Moffett flew down to the base from the Naval Air Station in a large seaplane piloted by Lieut. A. J. Willlams, and another seaplane flown by Lieut. W. D. Thomas, com- manding officer of the station, carried two newspaper men. Immediately on arrival of the p plane and Secretary Wilbur the yacht Sylph, three Martin bomb- long since obsolete, carrying de- fective and imperfect bombs and antlquated bomb sights, took off to reach an altitude of 6,000 feet. One of the planes was forced to return because of a broken connecting rod, soon another bomber was in the r to take its place. A battleship outline made of buovs was in the river about 400 yards from shore and was attacked by the bomb- rs from the high altitude, flying in nd. Although only a short distance away from the target, the officlal had confidence in the bombers not to overshoot the “battleship” and bomb the spectators least one direct hit was scored. while a neat pat- tern was lald all around the outline. The spectators were convinced great | damage could have been rendered a [live target, y tained damaging charges. rty | by | | Lays Smoke Screen. After the Martins had passed over and prepared to land, five De Havi lands attacked the target from 3,000 a Martin bomber laid a smoke screen across the target. The constantly shifting wind broke up the curtain to a great extent, but three of the five De Havilands carried out their origi- nal plan of diving through it to the water’s edge, releasing the bombs and Zooming. The *ship” was attacked from all positions and theoretically that part of the superstructure which the Martin bombers had failed to damage was laid in ruins. ot satisfied to let the attack stop there, two more De Havilands dive onto the target, while machine gun- ners in the rear cockpit peppered the deck with shots. The rat-tattat of the guns was plainly audible above the roar of the motors, and within the outline of the target the water spout ed up as each bullet struck home. The accuracy of the fire from the swift moving airplane astonished the vis- itors. The pursuit angle of the exhibition was not as active as the bombing, claimed the King, who appeared on the balcony of the palace. The march past the building lasted two hours. When the premier communicated the news to the Sobranje the members a great display of sympathy sovereign. The diplomatic corps_called at the palace to con- gratulate the King, the town was be- flagged and shops were closed. ovided the bombs con- | feet with equal effectiveness, and then | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY. APRIL 16, 1925. MARINE AVIATORS DISPLAY SKILL AS BOMBERS IN QUANTICO TESTS Distinguished Company Watches Effective Destruc- tion of ““Battleship” and Gets Th Sergeant’s Daring Parachute Jump. ill From three Voughts acting in the capacity of fighters, hanging around at about 8,000 feet as f to protect the Martins and De Havilands from attack by en- emy planes. Makes Parachute Drop. The concluding feature—drill of the planes by radio—was about to begin when the audience received a distinct shock by Sergt. J. D. Nickels, who jumped from a De Haviland at 1,000 allowed himself to fall, “like a *'as Gen. Lejeune expressed it, before pulling the rip cord of the parachute. Sergt. Nickels fell about 500 feet before the silken ’chute un- folded, letting him gently down to earth. With five De Havilands circling above in V formation, Capt. Francis known as the * dio shark” at Quantico, drilled the formation by talking into a field telephone while the od around in amazement. into eschelon formation,” Plerce, and these phone, ‘were relayed to the plane by Sergt. O. A, Cote. The leading plane then leading gave the MOTHER ! TFletcher’s Castoria preparatory command and on receipt of the word ‘“execute” from Capt. Plerce the formation snapped into eschelon with the facility of a com- pany of soldiers. Secretary Wilbur took up the telephone and after listening to the roar of the motors via radio and telephone wire, said to the leading plane: “This is the Secre- tary of the Navy speaking. I com- gratulate you on’ your wonderful ex- hibition.” Senator Hale Interested. Senator Hale exhibited great in- terest in the exhibition from start to finish, and later declared “it illus- trates what we've been hearing about all Winter.” He confessed his enthu. siasm for aviation, brought to that recently by his first airplane at Philadelphia, but admitted his family was not as enthusiastic over his flving as he was. The pilots of the first aviation group who participated in the exhi- bition were: Capt. Harry H. Shepherd. First Lieut. Lester N. Medaris, First hman, First e A\ Mortgage Loans for sale by ' J.LEOKOLB Main 5027 923 New York Avenue \ 1237 Wisconsin Avenue Lieut. Stanley E. Ridderhof, First Lieut. George H. Towner, First Lieut. Laweon H. Sanderson, First Lieut. Franklin _G. Cowie, Second Lieut. Horace D. Palmer, Second Lieut. Thomas L. Cagle, Second Lieut. Willlam O. Brice, Marine Gunner Eimo Reagan, Q. M. Sergt. Bengamin ¥. Belcher, Q. M. Sergt. Archie Pas- chal, Q. M. Sergt. Harry L. Black- Assigned to Active Duty. Second Lieut. Gustave J. 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