Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 25, 1915, Page 6

THE BEE ARCRIBALD AIR CRAFT GUN| British Have Most Expert Men in Charge of Weapon to De- troy Aeroplanes. | DIFFICULT TARGET IS TAUBE KCorrespondence of the Associated Press.) BRITISH HBADQUARTERS, France, Aug. 1B~A crack and a whish through the alrl No sound s more familiar at the front where the artillery is never silent-- the sound of a shell breaking from a gun musszle and its shrill flight toward the enemy's line to pay the Germans back for some shell they have sent. Only this whish did not pass out over the landscape In a long parabula or toward the German lines. It went right into the heavens at about the angle of a skyrocket—for it was Archibald who Bye tn the Sk, that It seemned almost going somewhers ninety miles an hour. an have all the heavens to to the British it was a sinister, Prying eye. It wanted to sre If they ware Sullding any new trenches, if they were moving bodies of troops or of transport fn some new direction auwl where tho'r batteries were in hiling. That aviator three miles above the earth had many guns at his command, A few from his wireless ani they would loose on the target hie ‘nidicated. Other features of life at the front may but rever the work | of the planes—thase wings of the army's | intelligence. In the hido-ailweox digging | dodging teting of wlege war- | under shell fire it 2f ! Dend Line in Alr, might (y as low as they know all that was wolng on over the lines. They must keoy #o high that througn th lator's & man on the rvad ir the size of descend low s as certa’n as to put your howd over a parapst « trench when the ememy's trench is & hundred yards away. There are in the air no less than on the § i di Archibald, the anti-afroraft gun, asets the dead line. ¥He watches over it as a cat watches a mouse. The trick of apeaking up under the cover of & noon day cloud and all the other man-bird tricka he knows. A counle of seconds after that ormek A tiny puff of smoke breaks about a hundred varcs behind the Taube. A #oft thistle blowing against the blue ft meerts al that altitude; but it wouldn't I8 i weee ahout your ears. Then it would sound 1ke a bit of dynamite on an &nvil struck by @ hammer and you would hear the whizz of scores of bul- lets and fragments nbout your ears. The smoking brass shell case is out of Archibald’s steel throat and another #hell case with its charge slipped in its plack and started on its way before the first puff breaks. The aviator knows what is coming. He knows that one means many, once he is in range. Rushes the Fighting. Archibald’ rushes the fighting; it is the ‘business of the Taube to sidestep. The aviator cannot hit back, except through its aliles, the German batteries, on the earth. Archibald If they knew where he was, But all that the aviator oan see is mot- tled landscaps. From his side Arch-| bald flles no goal flags. He Is of ten| | thousand tiny objects under the aviator's | eve. Archibald’s propensities are entirely peripatetic. He s the vagabond of the army lines. Loocate him—and he is gone. His home 1s where night finds him and the day’s duties take him. Ie is the only gun which keeps regular hours like & Christian gentleman. All the others— great and small, raucous volced and shrill volced—fire at any hour night or day. Aeroplanes do mot go up at night; and when no aeroplanes are up Archi- | bald has no Interest in the war. But he 1s on the alert at the first flush of | dawn on the lookout for game with the avidity of a pointer dog; for the aviators are also up early. Diftienit Task After All Why he was named Archibald, no-| body knows, but i there were ten thousand aircraft guns In the British army every one would be known as an Archibald. When the British expedi tionary force went t6 France it had none. All the British could do was to bang away at Taubes with thousands of rounds of rifle bullets, which mixnt fall in thelr | own lines and with the fleld guns. It was ple in those days for the Taubes. | It was easy to keep out of range of‘ both rifles and guns and observe well, | It the Germans did not know the prog- ress of the British retreat from on high | it was thelr own fault. Now the business | of firing at Taubes is left entirely to Archibald. ‘When you see how hard ft| is for Archibald after all his practice to | get & Taube you understand how foolish | it was for the fleld guns to try to get| one. One Swell Weapon. Archibald, who is quits the swellest thing in the army, has his own private | oar buflt especially for him. While the cavalry horses back of the lines, grow | sleek from inaction, the aeroplanes have taken their place. All the romance and risk of scouting is theirs. They get most of the fun there is in this kind of war- fare. If a British aviator gots n day's leave, he does not take a train or steamer. He rises from the aviation grounds about 4:3 and is at home In England for din- ner and retumns after lunch the next day. All the action the cavalry see is when they go into the trenches as in- fantry. Buch of the cavalry’s former part as | ehibaid. They would take care of | the planes do not play, Archibald plays | That ough to have got him—the burst He keeps off tMe enemy’'s scouts, Do you seek teamwork, spirit of corps and smartness fn this theater of France | Where all the old glamour of war ia lack- | ing? You will find it in the attendants of Archibald. They have pride, elan, | alertness, pepper and all the other appe- tizers and condiments. They are as neat as a private yacht's crew and as lively as an infleld of a major league team. The Archibaldians are naturally bound to think rather well of themseives. | Fins Lively Target. Watch them there, every man knowing his part, as they send their shells after the Taube! There isn't enough waste mo- tion among the lot to tip over the range- finder or the telescope or the score board or any of the other paraphernalia aseist- ing the man who is looking through the sight In knowing where to alm next as & screw answers softly to his touch, Is the sport of war dead? Not for Ar- Here you see your target which is s0 rare these days when British infan- trymen have stormed and taken trenches without even secing a German—and the | target {8 & bird, & man-bird. Puffs of | smoke with bursting hearts of death are clustered around the Taube, They hang where they broke in the still air. One follows another in quick miccession—for ! more than one Archibald ls firing—befors your entranced eye. You are staring like the crowd of a country fair at a parachute act. For the next puff may get him. Who knows this botter than the aviator? He is likely an old hand at the game; or, if he lsn’t, he | has all the experience of other weterans | to go by. [Iis sense is the same as that of the escaped prisoner who runs from | the fire of a guard in A zig-zag course and more than that. If a puff comes near on the right he turns to the left; It one comes near on the left he turns to the right; it one comes under he rises; over, he dips. This means that the next shell fired at the same point will be wide o the target. Neems an Easy Hit. Looking through the sight it seems easy to hit a plane. But here's the daitficulty. It takes two seconds, say, for the shell to travel to the range of the plane. The OMAHA, SATURDAY, gunner must wait for its burst before he can spot his shot. Ninety miles an hour i a mile and a half & minute. Divide that by forty and you have about 100 yards the plane has traveled from the time the shell left the gun muszzle till it burst. 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Close!” Within thirty or forty yards the telescope says. But at that range the | naked eye is easlly decelved about dis- tances. Probably some of the bullets have | cut his plane, but you must hit the man | or machine in a vital spot in order to bring down your bird. A British aviator the other day had a plecs of shrapnel Jacket hit hit coat, its force spent, and rolled into his lap. The explosions must be very close to count. It is amasing how much ghell fire an aeroplane can stand. Aviators are acoustomed to the whizz of thell fragments and bullets and to have their planes punctured and ripped. Though their engines are put out of com- mission, and frequently, though wounded, they are able to volplane back to the cover of their own lines. This One Escapes. To make a proper story, we ought to have brought down this particular bird. But it had the luck which most planes, British or German, have in escaping anti- alreraft gunfire. 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