New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-15


tcaus have been ripped up and houses
generally have been pillaged.
at Is stated on unimpeechable au-
thoritv also that the inhabitants have
been much i'll treated.
Interesting incidents have occurred
during the fighting. On September 10
part Of our Second Army Corps Cd.
vanced into the north and found itself
marching parallel With another In
fsntry force ut ,some little distance
away, At hrst il was thought this was
another British emit. After some tina,
however, Il was discovered that 10 was
a body Of Germans retreAting.
Measures promptly were tA6sn 70
head OF the enemy, who wero surround
cd and trapped In . sunksn Sad where
over 400 men surrendered.
ION September 10 . small party
under . non-eommissionOd oflesF was
cut OF and surrounded. After Q dsS-
perate resistance II was decidSd 10 20
on lighting TO the end. Finally the non.
commissioned officer and one man only
were left, both Of them being wounded.
"The Germans came up and shouted
20 them; Lay down your arms The
German commander, however, signed to
them to keep their arms AID then asked
permission to shake hands with the
wounded non-commisioned officer, who
was carried OF on his strotcher with
bis rifle by his side
The arrival Of achievements and
the continued advance have delighted
our troops, who are full Of seal and
| anxious to press on.
Tribute Paid 70 AViatoyR.
zone Of the features Of tho cam
/ obtained by the Royal Flying Corps. In
regard TO the collection Of information
II is impossible either to award too
much praise to our avistors for the
way they have carried out their duties
or to overestimste the value OF tho In
| telligence collected, more especially
during the recent advance.
/. "In due course certain examples Of
what has been effected may be specified
and the fsrresching nature Of the re-
suits fully explained, but that time has
not arrived.
That the service Of our Flying
Corps, which has really been on trial,
| are fully appreciated by our Allies Is
| shown by the following message from
the commander in chief Of the French
armies received September by Field
Marshal Lord Kitchener:
"'Please express most particularly TO
Marshal French my thanks for the SER
vices rendered OH every day by the
English Flying Corps. The precision,
eHsctitude and regularity Of the news
| brought in by its members are evidence
Of their perfect organization and also
OF the perfect training Of the pilots
and the Observers
ITO give a rough idea Of the amount
/ of work carried out it is sufficient to
/ mention that during q period of twenty
days up to September 10, q daily aver
age Of more than nine reconnaissance
( flights of over 100 miles each has been
maintained.
The constant object Of our avIators
has been to effect all accurate loca-
ton Of the enemy's forces, and, incl
! oentally, since the operations cover so
large an area, Of our own units.
I Nevertheless, the tactics adopted
for dealing with hostile air craft arc
TO attack them instantly with one or
more British machines. This has been
so far successful that in five cases
/ German pilots or observers have been
shot while in the air and their ma
chimes brought to the ground. As a
consequence the British flying corps
has succeeded in establishing an indi-
vidusl sscendency which is as SER
yiceable TO US as it is damaging to
the enemy.
! How far it is due TO this cause it
is not possible at present to a-cGrtain
definitely, but the fact remains that
the enemy have recently become much
less enterpriSing in their fights.
Something in the direction of the mas
terry of the air already has been
gained in pursuance of the principle
that the main object Of military
aviators is the collection Of informa-
/ ton.
Bomb dropping has not been in
dulged in TO any great extent. On one
occasion a petrol bomb was success
fully exploded in a German bivouac at
night, while from diary found ON
dead German cavalry soldier II has
been discovered that a high explosive
bomb thrown at cavalry column from
one of our seroplanes struck an am
munitiOn wagon. resulting in an ex-
plosion, which killed fftecr Of the
enemy