The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-10-01
EYEWITNESS
TELLS OF Bat
Tie SCENES
Describes Duel in the Air Between
Operators Of Aeroplanes. 10
Much Like
Siege

London, Sept. 29.-The official
press bureau today gave out a state.
lent which says.
The following descriptive account,
which has been communicated by an
eyewitness at present with the gen
eial headquarters continues and sup
p ements the narrative published yes
terday of the movements of the Brit
ish force and of the French armies
in immediate touch with It.:
Wednesday, September 20 was a
perfect autumn day. 1t passed with
out iny.uent as regards major oper-
atlons. Although the enemy recov-
cred their artillery on the plateau
near Passy nothing more than incon-
Venience was caused.
The welcome absence of wind gave
our airmen a chance, which they
took advantage of by gathering much
information. Unfortunately one OF
our aviators who had been partlcu-
larly active in annoying the enemy
by dropping bombs was wounded in
a duel in the air. Being alone In a
single seated monoplane, he was not
able to use his rifle and while Giro
ling above h German two seated ma.
chine in an endeavor to get within
pistol shot he was hit by the observ-
er of the German machine, who was
armed with rifle. He managed to
fly back over our lines and by good
luck he descended close to a motor
ambulance, which at once conveyed
him to a hospital.
Horses Are Killed
Against this may be set off the fact
that another OF our fiiers exploded a
bomb among some artillery horses,
killing several and stampeding the
others.
On Thursday, September "a, the
fine weather continued, as did the
! in the action, the heavy German
shells falling mostly near Pargnan,
twelve miles southeast of Laon.
On both Wednesday and Thursday
the weather WAS SO fine that many
flights were made by the aviators,
French, British and German. These
produced corresponding activity
t.t,
still and clear was the air toward
evening on Wednesday and during
the whole of Thursday that to those
not especially on the lookout the pres
ence of aeroplanes high up above
them was first made known by the
bursting of the projectiles aimed at
them.
The puffs of smoke from the detona'
ton shell hung in the air for min
utes on end like balls of feecy cot.
ton wool before they slowly expanded
and We're dissipated.
Concentrating Fire
From the places mentioned as be.
ing the chief targets for the enemy's
heavy howitzers it will be seen that
the Germans are now inclined to con
centrate their fire Systematically on
definite areas in which their aviators
think they have located our guns or
on villages where 1t is imagined our
troops may be billeted. The result
will be to give work to local build.
ers.
The growing resemblance of this
battle to siege warfare already has
been pointed out. The fact that the
later actions of the Russo-Japanese
war assumed similar character was
thought by many to have been due
to exceptional causes, such as the
rarrowness Of the theater Of opera
lions between the Chinese frontier
on the west and the mountainous
country OF northern Korea on the
east; the lack of roads, which limited
the extent OF ground over which II
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