The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-09-18
LIEUT.. WERNER
TELLS Of FLIGHT
over CITY PARIS
He Was the First German Aviator 10
Circle Over Paris Dropping
Deadly Bombs


Germany, via London, Sept. b.
Lieut.. Werner of the Imperial Ger
man Flying Corps, who was the first
German aviator to fly over Paris,
boarded our car and rode forward
with us.
His story of the fighting quite fit
in with all we have been led to ex
pect in modern warfare. Werner
from Hanover, and before the Wa;
was widely known as sportsman
He is first class tennis player, bu'
his chief claim TO fame is as an anna
teur flyer. He had been running hi
own aeroplane in a sporting way TO
ever six months when the war brok
ont. He Immediately put himsel
and his machine at his country's ser
vice. He is small, fair. quiet NOV
ing man. who wears a monocle.
He tells of most astounding adven
lures in curiously impersonal way
He speaks English. but his style
that of German official report.
At the battle of Mons Lieut.. Wer
ner lowered over the contending ar
mics throughout the day. He ]
high in his praise of the stand mad
there by the English. They hel
their ground until they wer
fmothered under German artiller!
fire.
AT lie Cateau, where Werner fol
lowed the retiring forces, sendinf
word of their every movement, tn
English were taken in the fanl
and driven out, but this flyer hat
nothing but admiration for the fight
ing qualities of the British ant
French.
He does not take seriously into &C
counting the wonderful success
which has favored the German army
He put it down to, first, the heavy
artillery; second. their field kitch
ems; third, their marching ability
and, fourth, their flying corps
These. he contends, are the main fac
tors in the German superiority.
His most extraordinary story wa
of his flight over Paris. Attached
to the army of Gen. von Kluck
Lieut.. Werner was directed to A,
over the French capital and dror
bombs where they would do tn
most damage.
The Eiffel Tower, with its wireless
apparatus, was to be his special oh
cctive. Safety requires that
aviator hold to an altitude of from
5000 to 5000 feet. Werner say
that at that height 1t was impossible
to distinguish any particular build
ing because of the haze and smok
that always accumulates above b
city, adding to the difficulty of lOcat
ing certain points. but he had n
difficulty in making out crowds
people who filled the streets, starin
up at him. To these he droppe
sheaves of newspapers denying tina
the Russian army was at the gates
Berlin, story widely circulated il
Paris.
Then. after some hesitation, i
dropped two bombs. That they wer
both effective he felt certain. On
building he saw in flames. but wins
his second shell accomplished h
could not state with certainty, f.
Of that moment two hostile hyin,
machines bore down on him ont O
the haze. One was t Bleriot mono
plane, the other a Bristol double
decker. as he called it.
Lieut.. Werner made for highe
attitudes. The English machine h
knew he could outfy, but he wa
not sure Of the Bleriot. This wa
bearing down across his course Q
an angle and slightly above hin
Keeping straight on toward th
German lines. Werner trusted /
the 7peed of his own machine to ral
ahead of the Frenchman. He SUI,
eeeded, but so near were the m;
chimes that the pilots exchanged r.
solver shots Neither made hit
Werner o'nd his Tauh quickly on
distanced the Bleriot and when Il
outer Notifications of Paris we,
reached the latter turned back.
The German repeated his bon
cropping next day, but no hosti
flyers were encountered.