The evening world. Newspaper, June 3, 1918, Page 12

ware on EON NRT RETIN EET MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1918 | a, es a . § Four Months in France MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1918 Daring Feats of British With the 165th Infantry ‘ SeDetreas “Cavalry of the Clouds’’ Spectacular Exploits of British Aviators Terrorize the Germans - | 6é . . °° (The Old “Sixty-Ninth’’) | THEY RANGE FROM CAPTURING A GERMAN TRENCH TO UPSETTING THE DIGNITY OF A i: yor Lettie Cntldren Wheto Gam on bs oe b odoin gad BOCHE GENERAL : | How British Aviators Made Themselves Feared by Their Un- Does—Paying Back the Koha Pons ik vie ac . | expected, Dashing Strokes Described in New War Book \ HOw A BRITISH AVIATOR, | by Capt. Alan Bott, M. C., Now Captive in Palestine. ! CONCLUDING INSTALMENT, GAbrURED AlRM AM AN Ne CH By M i ; : (a arguerite Mooers Marshall } By George H. Benz ; : y 8 M I {™ @ British aeroplane, alone and unaided, captured a German Former Furst Lavetenent, Company % trench; how another British plane put to confusion and flight a dig- | nified’ German General; how a twice-wounded, semi-conscious Brite | 18h pilot plugged his perforated petrol tank with his knee and flew dack to |safety through a hail of machine gun bullets and over twelve milos of | ex my territory—these are tales of the newest, wildest, | most thrillingly romantic of all the war services, told ee NA Written Exclusively for The Evening World. ‘ Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Pvening World). H”* many New Yorkers, especially those in sporting circles, know Mike Donovan? I saw Mike sitting on his helmet up there, He said he didn’t think much of them helmets, because $ he had read where some private stuck his head over the parapet one ‘ | by Capt. Alan Bott, M. C. (“Contact”), in the best and ' x | B i @ay and had it bp off by a Liihdt — stops every officer he meets, | most comprehensive of the books about war flying. H jooks him over with @ critical eye, and tells him | "Cavalry of the Clouds.” ! he ie a “fine pare pu boxing.’ According to a cable message just received by his H ne might write for ages of the doings of the | bublishers, Capt. Bott 1s now wounded and a prisoner { 69th, Then the story would be only half told. They in Palestine, where he has been flying recently. But ' are doing what has to be done because of what in 1916 and 1917 he flew in France as a member of e ' they have seen over there, what they know Ger- | f i 3 i ¢ : i “Umpty Squadron,” which possessed two remarkable ' man domination means, Let me close in telling igh Gs cs (APR ALAM BONT Ss records. According to the Germans, this squadron Ce THe GANT eH ReyAly PHYIM SG SERPS / contained “the most-to-be-feared of British machines.” Its other record " was for the greatest number of casualties, only nine of the original thirty- six pilots end observers remaining after nine weeks of service on the Somme. At twenty-four the author was the patriarch of his mess. The youngest member was seventeen and a half. | Clear, intelligent and touched with light-hearted humor {s Capt. Bott's record of the work of the flying fighters in all its branches—bombing, reconnaissance, contact patrol, aerial fighting and the new aerial war game called “ground stunts." In this last picturesque item of the you what first made me despise, ah, yes, one might as well admit it, hate the Boche; what first printed indelibly on my mind why I was in the war, I was on leave in a city some distance back of the line, It was Sunday and I had an engagement to meet an American ambulance driver in the French segvice, He wasn't at the buge hospital there, but I found him at the station, waiting, as he eaid, for a “load” of wounded, he thought. The train drew in, and down the steps came nurses bearing In their arms little children, small bits of humanity who had been caught A Rn NN AO vor bine in the German rush on French territory, and then saved when the French pushed back the enemy. They were loaded in the ambulance and we drove to the hoepital “Better go in and take a look at| Trenches caved tn, the entrance to them,” said my friend. I did, and tho qugouts partially blocked up. I've been cursing kultur ever since. | Then the gas fumes enveloped the! On the specklors white cots they! area where they fell. A sentry sniffed lay, thirty-one of them, ranging in/it, and turned on the horn, Some, age from four years to twelve. As I/men would be Injured so severely | se4ooked at the first cot, where the teen-| they couldn't adjust their masks, | fest one was propped up, my heart|others took a full breath first. In| seemed to stop beating and tears|cither case the po!son had done its streaked down my face. For this little | work | one, a eirl, was holding out her arms| Again the Toche may have sent to me—and the left hand had been jover plenty of mustard gas, which cut off close to the wrist. The boy|burns the tender and wet parts of ‘ext to her had a foot cut off. the skin, It usually affects damp por- J00%- 7 pelieve the girl threw some stones | tions of the back, under the arm pits, eemt German soldiers, or probably stuck | and even tho fect. Also it will burn | elxaut her tongue to them. out the lungs. It takes very little of | Every one of those thirty-one had|that to do horrible damage, So the been mutilated by the Germans. The|man would become a “casualty, of saat, the eldest girl, told a story of at-| probably not killed, but put out of olMtack that is too revolting to print, She | action. | ‘anid in her Village her aunt had been; But—tt Js the war—the boys of the | similarly attacked, killed and then] 09th will tell you, And they will add | her nude body hung on a meat hook in| that we have @ better method of | the market place. sending gas over than the Germans | In another ward were the women,|and that for every one of our men | Dpome from Belgium, some from Al-| they gas we will get four of theirs. | ©" gace or Lorraine, where the Germans| They went back to a “rest camp"! of? Jad swept into their homes, killed, after their tricks in the trenches, there "their men, hacked down their trees|to recuperate from the nerve racking and then turned on them like beasts.| they had undergone. I can seé them Defamed in body they were, many | back ¢ now, sitting around their with disease that will ultimately kill bunks, making a rush on the Y. M. C. them, but virgins in heart and soul| A. when a new shipment of tobacco or and with a love for France that can | chocolate comes in, falling over each never be killed. | other when some one stands out in the yin other buildings were the men,| middle of one of those snakelike fue soldiers. Some hobbled about on| French streets and yells “MAIL” at, crutches, others rested arm stumps | the top of his voice, | on window sills as they looked out on If your boy is there he will be trying the boulevard, and more turned sight-|t0 get as close to the mail distributor 88 eyes in my direction as I passed | &s possible, As each name js called ho} own the line of cots. Many were in| Seems to lean forward, ‘The mail pile eir little beds, unable to move, diminishes, and his face 1s becoming a Scientific Facts Applying to Questions You Should Be Able to Answer. aerial supremacy which for months has been credited to the Allies, “the perience,” as Capt. Bott's own phrase has it. Here are some of his descriptions from “Cavalry of the Clouds" of ground stunts, or low- BOM RG PMR RAL ES. ; level attacks, by daring British air- MADR THE TROOP INSPROTION a : : y (MOOR LYRA oy woo me Osie, i fF) Hite DS Ry : NA \ i PRL Tee Me : i § Hj 3 men: “The star turn last year,” he says, “was performed by a British machine that captured a trench. ‘The pilot some hundred yards while the ob- server emptied drum after drum of ammunition at the crouching Ger- ‘mans. A headlong scramble was fol- ‘lowed by the appearance of an irregu- lar line of white billowings. The enemy were waving handkerchiefs and strips of material in token of surrender. Whereupon our infantry were signalled to take possession, which they did. “Fighting squadrons soon caught the craze for ground stunts and car- ried it well beyond the lines. One machine chased a train for miles a few hundred feet above, derailed it, and spat bullets at the lame coaches until driven off by enemy craft. An- Jother made what evidently was an |inspection of troops by some Boche | Olympian 190k like the riotous disor- |der of a futurist painting. A pilot | with some bombs to spare spiralled down over a train, dropped the first |bomb on the engine and the second, | third, fourth and fifth on the soldiers | who’ scurried from the carriages.” | But the funniest ground stunt—to |be found, Capt, Bott says, in the Royal Flying Corps section of the general headquarters report—con- Weird Tests for Aero Students Now Believed Useless cont alasel’ ‘om ai was tone an applicant's fitness for av himself blindfolded and his ears after a reconnaissance, was flying | True Romance has hidden a new ex- | mulded it above the said trench for} ;Pump Up pressure. He tried this, and the engine came back to life Atty feet from the ground. At this height be flew, in a semi-conscious condition, |twelve miles over enemy country and |crossed the lines with his bus scarcely touched by tho dozens of doze m guns trained on {t ae “One of our pilots lost rudder, but managed to got back by Juggling with his elevator and abe | Fons. The fuselage of my own machine as once set on fire by a chunk of burning K. E. The flames died out under pressure from gloves and hand, Just as they had touched the dra of ammunition . and all but through a longeron.” eaten But the avi; most of hie rete creed makes him achine, even when h ; © can. ere caaeale “Fight until death” something more than a ; a phr. ; {Wo of the heroic flyers in Capt Bot ‘ | Hall of Fame. One of ¢ eee: Hialnt hese was “Un. * “ Captain in the Northumber- jland Fusiliers, In + o n "Cay. | Clouds” we read avalry of the | “A bullet entere, his thigh He Hane fu | Consciousness in the with two Boches, few minutes tater, | Nd opened fire o about forty ge artery of profusely and lost middle of a Aght When he came toa he grabbed his gui nt Voice tol Jaround. The pilot a” Dllot to look ‘ t did so an, | Maltese Cross bipt falling in flan , f es, But Uncle » had faded into | ness again and he Ws neve: It 18 more than possible that It he bed | Put a tourniquet around his thigh rs stead of continuing the 4, eae have lived." nial Then been sh: there way Paddy, ot Over the heart, recovered his sense. and kept two Boch: “He had He fainted, 8 for ten minutes °s at bay until he reached. the trenches were yo fom the War Department that your | YoU ought to geo him then, “HE . freak tests designed to show| Anderson, as an experiment, had|blesome; the bus, homeward bound| “4 by which time Elaon died “over there” so that we may | Ne screams, If some one Is in his way | Sever see these sights in our own|he walks right over him, gets that y Mal eerntry, have had to be satisfied with | Precious letter, and sneaks back to his! Wheel Turn More Easily? Why Does Oiling Make a\Why Are Some People Light tion are now under suspicion, | plugged with a telephonic connection low to keep a clear vision of the} “!™axine yoursele ian, unde and Others Dark? rogThere seems to be developing a) to the pilot. The latter performed earth; the General was seated In his aeroplane at fre tn an pm 10,000 feet,” s s . ‘ Li {You who have received notification | downcast. Then he hears his name. | ‘ “ bunk, there with the ald of randle > you ction inst assigning too great) certain evolutions, and Surgeon oH 7 . ema Capt. Hott. “Imagine en exclaime f Teucd ecraps of information that nie nk Haars ha AG of 8 ona ue fo F YOU look at what appears to be | PPVHIS difference in the complexion | importance to these tests," says the | derson aitencted to describ eee dienitieg ch a ae aa oy a ond ado you won ‘hat only @ seg. b. friends might have written you. pu in a verfectly smooth axle through | of people is aue to the , Jo 1 of s i ; js . 2 o- | Generals. he British pilot dived o you were in the coy ' » cause was | MS barrack bag for future reference | people o the varying | Journal of th nerican Medical As-| sition in space at various times. He |the c 4 erve ¥ shadows, Imagine untty of }the casualty tist sald the cause waa} Nib twinile b ie Pr Ca ra ref rene @ Powerful magnifying glass you aiaount of plement or coloring sociation: “Haually important in thal waa abie tae, thle Sea eieat aoe (Be: ate the Britis ne ath tired on | eine sag Lake yourselt tebling ze probably this 1s how it hap-| |Back there in tes spa sail will find that the surface of the axle| Material in the cells of which :ie|opinion of some, are the questions of| ing and flying with right wing fists MT od ne ae tegen Hier blood, negtttdly sick trom toss of are ys, d ¥8, the Mc-/is not smooth at all, as you may have| skins of all animals are made, Very} hypersensitiveness to bri 1 4, ; the car, the Boche Genera! jumped |” © what ts lett : | Guires - ’ als a . Ve ens wright light, and with the first spiral downward the a consclousnes: : of your ’ ' t2The German artillery flung a hail | Girea, the Flanagana and the Holo-|thought, but covered with what ap-|lleht peoplo have very little pigment; |tho #urencss of the senso of motion,|to the right. After that Peles from the car. Chauffeur and General/ (1) 700s to be stabbed instatently of high explosive shells into the lines. |ans are plugging away all day, pear to be quite targe lumps or ir- dark people, those with darkithe acuity of visi a8 all rushed through a field into a wood; & pain, Now imagine’ : ; ch learning new. tric nin red {l-}at sea and thought the plan ee evar qa : how you w Only those men necessary to watch | In¢ new tricks, other methods| regularities in the eurtace. If you|¢yes and black hair, have a great deal |lumination, the appreciation of con-| climbing up continuously, whem in{rice ee eee Went home and) ORaten ea coree 9 {were left above ground, the others | of besting the nans when they go,were to examine the inside of the| of this coloring material in their | trast In form, color and light, a rapid) reality it was spiraling d rawling down into dugouts, Mixed | Up again, It's a 10 to 1 bet, as Cope. hub of the wheel in the same way | cells. and accurate judgment of distance, | left. He Dalegea thot fie vid Het in with the explosive shells were |land, or little Zurella, the letter you would find that {t 1s also like| A great many people are neither | direction and size, and, depending on lmentiaven tanto oF ac i ry experi-/ the rumor, which deserved to be true, hundreds of gas shells that sprinkled | writer, would say, that not one of|that. Now, when you attempt to|!Jsit nor very dark. ‘They havo less|All of these, pace, Further, we are| ator is for the erred a ROAR DI yest iy LDA Hie ONAREYAL laughed, “An appropriate supplement was | ¥Ur numbed hand, pull bac! Ing handle, take carota) nck the cook. | machine, allow ing fc arin ee , an SE fire until you s the ground with phosgene or mustard | them but would swap his “good for any |turm a wheel on the axle without oif | {an the dark-complexioned people |told by Assistant Surgeons Parsons | on impressions conveyed through the turned in the direction of the vane (oo ink: into death,” 3 ‘ |time not working” pasa to be Up there |theso little Irregularities or bumpa|@"d more than the light-complex- [and Segar of the United States Novy| eyes for his sense of balance, He | #hed General and plagiarized George | Doutledae, he Clouds" ts pubtishea “aae The bombardment Kept up for anyin the big push right now, grind against each other, producing |!ned people, Waen the nair turns] {iat in many cases the best ratings} Would not discard the equilibration, |RoO°eY Win ® shout Into the une) macay, Page & Compa | ‘\hearlng air ‘Cheertho old thing, > ment has} #8 Aviators were obtained by men] muscle sense, and vestibular reac- red. As this is du this coloring ma wgour, perhaps two or three Daun “Tell them, Lieutenant, it's a dirty | what we call friction, As bie Treen were cut to pleces, t is sreung | ben bt we GOT to clean it up.” elops heat the metal of the axle and | “isap the| Who had made the worst showing| tions, however, until further investi- bewern up as if blasting operation ‘ | ve told you. i the hub expands and the wheel gets |!0%# 1, dark- | Under the Barany balance tests, gation had confirmed these points." aaegeen Koing on there for a week | THE END, stuck. omplexioned people turn gray soon-| “Surgeon H, Graeme Anderson, ate i — —_ er than light-complexioned people. |tached to the Royal Navy Service TALLY STICKS IN OFFICES. home in the daily tale of death and! 2) Sainte tion de. |8ray it is because the ‘a go, my hat, pricel " SAFETY PIN 3,00 The perils of air fixhting are well] That the Hit known, and the knowledge is driven |“OMMUnIcatloy he 0 YEARS OLp. were in constant nations ts ‘| Egyptian searabs ——_____— shown by | t | he Art of Cooking Rice | Why Do We Get “Tired?” ("he structure of the skin showing and ae an sdviear to the prec al] jruouRh the use of tally sticks in pub- | accident from the front and even on | Green 1¢ heniclan pottery and tas 4 . a er eo tr Ow these cells aro made in layers| medical administrative committee ro- /{12,0Mces Was abolished by act of Par |home flying fields Yet a part of the |the + Nsures are found tn S@ROUTHERNERS, who use more|soups, One cup of raw rice makes E htera itael? On the. bran, (2h be seen by examining the skin] cently constituted by Great Britain, | weed . da ATE ey, continued to be! true romance which allures the avi- | As Berton “ rice than other people of the four cups of botled rice, | MUTED MIE Wieeh AN GEOL GE the Tee RTS RRE: in an address before the Medical So- ling Charles Ep ke elit 1684, giv ator is the miracie-working chance | commo ¥ qre falrty » United States, have many good) Other Ways to Cook Rice—Some!a great many times wo Koon fecl| »,From the Book of Wonders, by, Permission | Cty of London last month, presented |in @ specch at the inaugural poy ded ace acdsee ol cae apd bond y pie , Proully showed segmethods of cooking It people profer to cook rice In a double Nired Favery time you move your arm | Hui! Indirial Halieatn, "washington, | the subject from every point of view |the Administrative Reform Ass ae on {aeatruction, even after enemy fire hag) Would still work "old, that fo Boll Rice Southern Style.—Have| boiler #0 that none of the food mate-|the movement 1s registered in the —— based on his extensive experience, |that the national accounts were kept "ach al ome atone age pottery, with th *a auart of water boillin pidly Add | rial ts lost If you cook rice in this prain, and after a number of these SMALL BOY DEFEATS RAM. He corroborates the changing atti-|¥e'Y much as Robinson Crusoe kept his} “In the air BAGO, hon escapes aro] anciant nd or e very {18 Wilevel teaspoon of salt. Wash a cup| Way, uae only 2 1-2 or 8 cups of water | Senta late: ¥en the tirea |, 48 Muster Robert Clore 1 about | (ude toward the equilibration tests, |yrngyy on the desert tsland common enough,” declares Capt. Bott, | “eather kad, w win ity By an : movements are registered the tired . Aged abot il , orde! ant fo’ Aanicas 4 | kin Ch of rice carefully and add tt @ little|to 1 cup of rice, Have the water botl-|feeting in tho arm appears ten, was returning home from achool a ‘It has been assumed,’ he says, ‘that|all the tally sticks. inthe Bach eao? “On several occasions, after a direct | sina} fat a time, @owly, so that the boiling |!ne in the upper part of the double ot Ke ia hat monte yamant : w days ago he was attacked by @ vi- | sound equilibration and muscle sense phen upon two cartloads were set. fire | hit, a wounded British pilot has brought | ——_ = *< oes not stop. Boll for about twenty | boiler, add a teaspoon of salt and al See erate ne ena us Tam as he Was passing through|are essential to flying, so that the| House ee pataee kd meement of the | nig craft to safety, with wings and NUTS" OF | RISREND, " @itnutes or until a n taken be-|CUp of well-washed rice. Cover and|qeroctive cella and that Share eee eaten cuban pemmllre aviator would be conscious of his|way of ‘revenge,’ overheated the meg fusciage Weirdly ventilated and bait] Urisreml makes remarkably mod meen the finger and thumb is soft,|allow to cook over water until the | m mi in tha ood, |W a phous) ee hea been told by his father some | position in space and realize at once Ane burned ne whole building to the the contro! wires helpless. Archie (the AA OR 4 for a sane Yhrain through a colander and pour al stains are soft, When rice ta cooked| seen a certain number the tired (ever attack that tn the event he was/any deviation therefrom and correct eae Sone flyers’ name for the German anti-air olng. Kpe six dierent oy" St ¥ r he rice + in this w | reaca ihe red | evs ncKeG SF & sheep to ile down ese quick 3) fog a a le " ol ed a ot 0 0 Merle hot water through the rice to)!» this way, the product ts more moist | fegiing takes possession of ua, and | the round and ho would escape in- | feng almost impouaitie te dence wiDow IS SUSPICIOUS. craft guns) wounded @ trom ourl tine no ae 6ilbparate the rains, Cover with a| "4m when’ cooked Southern style, 80 |e ets the blood, under the |? found almost tmpossible to detect] As Widow Watts bent industriously | aerodrome In the head and leg, and seria: " Water Boang, Pf “etoth and set in a warm place on the| jr, eer ry [pred lake OF in] Miianes of the brain, goon to work |, emembering what his father told any deviation during flight, ver her washtub she was treated to opening the size of a a hina '. callad the *Bieve for about ten minutes to allow daa liguld ie roaulred. [gutdance of the, brain, oes 10 work /nim and seeing no chance to ercape an] ‘Time and again avintora coming|Pollte conversation by a male friend. ripped. | ' ny! tow hers, ente the the grains to swell, or place it in the| Plenty of skim milk, try this way. {We know that a change takes placo|iuck bY the ram, Robert lay down | out of the K clouds or fog have|APo, presently turned the conversation ‘him, ‘The p 4 : aM ad + that tie upper part of a double boiler over h Use 4 0 afd72 cups of mile to 1 cup |in the blood when we become tired drawing himself up, keeping his feet] found themselves flying one wing| posi! of marriage 2 & Pro | 1g engine p< torrents after hea at become Mirrcr cover, and allow to atoms 30) cei ins eect rice 19, the hot salted | because, if you take some of the {toward a shenns and every time he] down, and tt has been recorded that | yuyhft Yegsure Ye love mere sighed the ‘distant to be reached The nilia ; / ik and coo e ab-| blood fro mal that shor as about to deliver a butt he kic 1 ‘i ; idow, pausing her wringing. j 1 “ a Are sh or ook rice In this way the water | sorbed and the arsine soft, The odie | hontatabavle cane of tatinue and ee lit onthe noe butt he kicked] some have flown upside down with- ad’ the man vowed ne di BING. ne machine planed down toward | Sly Deopte inthe ‘ey mmeRt lareatiy increase atane ea | one ‘si swing it, Th pe a fe inutes there a ailence r paeyy mina cil and t oa ai ha hah alan, # ‘fh which the rice 1s cooked should be|#Teatly, increases the food value of ject it into an animal that shows no| After receiving quite a number of | ¢ye Knowing it, ‘Thus It ts obvious |as thn widow continued her labor, “then German territ The pilot was AM" “20 With garih ed, as much starchy material 161" ti." epared in any of th |{Ured feeling at all, tho second animal | heavy Jolts the tam gave 7 ct] that most of the Impressions which suddenly whe rained her head and asked growing Weak from loss of blood, but | jued ne , the rainbow y co Pi 086 ways will begin to shows signs of fatigue | ar ‘ J control balance come | }m., suapiclously atena TAChiT 5 * ed on innoe 3 WH in it, Use it for thickening roy be used for making many dishes oven though it w Dot active at whee’ | and Toe The little boy was not | control in flying come |My salve lost yer Job, ‘ave yert'a. tt occurred to him that if he stuck hia lshmen 4 ' nnovent Jags r \ nuri—Boone County (KY) Recorder, through the eyes, In fact, Surgeon| Chicago Journal knee Into the hole he might be able ty —Loadon Curon ‘M1 look drab, f 4 { ———