New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 7, 1917, Page 17

N NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1917, » |~ PRUSSIA HASTENING AR MOBILIZATION "News of Allies' Plans Lends| Spurs to Germans (Correspondence of the Asso. Press) Paris, August 9.—The entrance of #America’into the war and the proba- bility that it soon would be lending the allies tremendous aid in the aer- ial department of the struggle has led Germany to re-organize and strength- en its own aviation branches mater- fally, according to the Temps. This reorganization does not date exclu- (sively from the break with the United *iStates, but rather from the battle of the Somme, but it has been acceler- ated and intensified by the reports 'that hundreds if not thousands of air- ‘planes with the corresponding avia- itors to man, thm are soon to be sup- plied to the Entente forces. The reorganization of the German aerial forces has taken the form of jcreating four principal divisions into which the fliers are now placed, jroughly as follows: 2 1. Army Squadrillas or “Army fliers’ | division” which are directly under the command of the army chief of avia- tion and ‘the work of which consists mainly of expeditions far to the rear of the lines. They also are employed for bombardments, night flights, pho- tographic work, and the airplanes employer are of the most varied type, according to the character of the work they are to do. sRecently captured prisoners say that a recently constructed biplane of the Albatross type is vastly superior to anything heretofore used by these squadrillas. It is equipped with a 260 h. p. motor and attains a speed of from 100 to 115 miles an hour. It can rise to an altitude of more than 2,000 yards in nine minutes, and car- ries two machife guns. The ma- Zhies travel in groups of six or eight, according to the ition; and needs of the army to which they are at- tached. 2. Corps squadrillas or “troop fliers” which are attached to the staff head- quarters of the various German arm- les and which are commanded by cdptains. These generally remain within the sector of the armies to which they are attached and used in general for reconnai photographing trenches, batteri making patrol flights. 3 .Hunting squadrillas, as they are called both by the French and the Germans, are the maln attacking in- struments of the German air forces, pmd for chasing enemy. machines which venture over their lines. They are charged as with the destruction drillas, with about a ‘dozen machines to each. Others in the same category have as their duty the protection of | quarters, and I the large German cities that lie with- in airplane flight of the French and Iinglish, such as Strasburg, Freiburg, Mulhouse, Friedrichshafen, Stutt- gart, Tssen, Cologne and Treves. The pilots of these squadrillas are care- fully chosen from among the best of the German aviators, and their ex- ploits are there are about forty of these squa- | mention In the general staff reports. | | encouraged by frequent { hut the others have 4. "Battle squadrillas or “flotillas” are under the direction of great head- shift from army to army to carry out bombardments on military - establishments behind the front, as well as ever and again upon open towns. Air Units Transferred By Train. There are three of these squadril- las now. Formerly there were more, been dismem- HOBOKEN WIDOW HAS SEVEN SONS SERVING AMERICA AND THE ALLIES LTISDALL_AND Mrs. William J. Tisdall, a widow of 1125 Garden street, Hoboken, N. J., has seven sons in the service of the allies. These are 'distributed among the American, British and Ca- nadian armies. Her sons are: William Tisdall, thirty-eight yes old; John Tisdall, thirty-four years old; Mark A. Tisdall, thirty-two years old; William Ottway Tisdall, twenty- nine years old; Victor Tisdall, of the stationary balloons. ty-eight years old; Edward Tisdall, twenty-five vears old;’ Travers Tis- twen- |liam J. Tisdall 'GRANDSON dall, twenty-three vears old. Henry Tisdall is now serving in the British army. Edward is with the Canadians and Victor is in England with the Scots Canidians. Mark is also a mem- ber of Company A of the Eleventh Regiment of Engineers in the Ameri- can army. John and William are {also with the American forces. The photograph shows Mrs. Wil- and her grandson looking over some Of the pictures of her bo:; ) On the west front, it is estimated, S Mobiliiing by Telephone Scattered all over the country, in every State in the Union, are the train- ing and mobilization camps of the soldiers of the Republic. | Here, men are being specially trained to lead; there, the raw recruits are being whipped into shape; here, men are learning the art of flying and there drilling with the big guns. It has been a part of the task of the Bell Bystem, to supply telephone service and equipment for this important phase of the nation’s military activity and for the many camps where our citizen-soldiers have been temporarily concentrated. Each important camp has its special switchboards with a trained operat- ing force; pole lines linking even the farthest outposts with headquarters, and bringing all under direct central control. Many new lines have been built to give ample connections with the head- quarters of military departments, state capitals and with the National capital. This has required large additions to central office equipment in adjacent towns and cities and large increases in the mumber of operators. The great military cantonments in various parts of the country now under construction, which will house more than 600,000 men, will require a vast additional amount of telephone aparatus and equipment. In addition to the constantly increasing needs of the Government for telephone service and equipment, we must also meet the great and’ growing needs of countless industries expanded and accelerated by the war. Only by the most conservative use of every available resource, can these great demands for telephone service be adequately met. THE SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND ) TELEPHONE CO. jures and weapons. bered and their units attached to oth- er arms of the acrial service. Squa- drillas one and two are generally transported by train fromr place to blace, wherever they are most need- ) ed. There are from forty to fifty ma- chines in each squadrilla, which when complete and ready for action is di- vided into four or five sections. Bach airplane is armed with two machine guns and each carries bombs weigh- ing from 20 to 100 pounds apiece. Some are said to carry bombs, that weigh more than 200 pound While perfecting their service the air, the Germans have also rap- idly bettered their anti-aircraft meas- The millime- ter guns have given way to rapid-fir- ing guns of 105 millimettr calibre and at certain points along the front they use shrapnel guns of 240-millimeter size. ; They possess special bullets destruction of captive balloons but in many instances have used them with great cruelty against opponefits in airplanes. At least one - squadrilla captain, a Lieutenant Eilers, forbadehis men to carry these bullets With them unless they were definitely charged with raiding balloons The Germans, it is said, are con- stantly putting new types of ma- chines into the field. The famous Taube went out of style long ago, and it has now been followed by the even in for | finlly | ! more famous Fokker, which less than a year ago was considered the last jand final word in attacking airplnes. Its inventor, a Dutchman, is now said to be devoting himself to the perfec- tion of a machine with a 260-h. p. motor which will break all records for speed and efficiency . Today the Rumpler seems to be the favorite machine, thoufh those with 160 h. p. | to suit, and yet the machines | hardly stand up under a heavier mo- tor. 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