Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-09
s. GERMAN AEROpLANES
DESTROYED BY FRENCH
Record of First Year Shows Work Of
Some of Aviators and Results
of Raids.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
PARIS. July 25.-During the first year
or war, so far as accounts have been
rendered to the public. thirty-five Ger
man flying machines, not including dl-
rigible balloons, were brought to earth
and destroyed by French airmen. The
day he was obliged to alight behind the
German lines and was taken prisoner,
Roland Garros. the we'll known civilian
aviator. held the record with three
machines to his credit. He has since
been surpassed by Lieut.. E C,
who has brought down four.
Garros used a special armament plan
ned by himself, with machine gun,
regulated to fire across the axis of the
propeller. In the first ten days with
this machine he brought down his three
victims.
what single airman is able to ac-
push against land forces is indi-
Gated by the case of Adjt. ", re-
ported by jacques Mortane, sporting
writer. and volunteer in the aviation
soIps. as having in single day drop
peu Twelve three and one-haif-inch
smells and 5000 steel darts upon bat
series OF mortars that he destroyed al
| Norroy. shells and 1000 darts on the
| general headquarters at Thiaucourt,
snells and 1000 darts on Pagn-sur-
moseile, q shells and 1000 darts al
rahnes and shells and 1900 darts a,
Ina odn bly-a total of 80 shells and 49,
600 darts.
Some Aviator Damages.
1t is generally impossible for the air.
| man to know exactly what damage he
mas done, except in the case where
bombs cause CONGREGATIONS. In va.
rlous ways. however, details of the re-
suits of some bonn ba rdment shave he.
! come known.
At the headquarters of the German
crown Prince at Rivigny, October %
| nIteen men were killed and thirty-s six
morse and twenty-five men wounded
me men were mostly officers.
At the general headquarters of EN-.
peror William, November ], two of the
| emperor's aids-de camp were killed.
In the destruction of military train
at Aeebrugee, December II, forty sol
diers were killed and 100 wounded.
az, Az the Headquarters of the Prince Of
Wurttemberg, Gen. Garnereich and two
| lieutenant generals were killed
May 81 the airmen killed forty-fou
soldiers and wounded thirty at the
derman aerodrome at Gontrade.
IN o"ciai details have been given of owe
loo air attacks upon German camps
| aerodromes, railway communications
etc. but they are only a part of VIVA
the attacking flying corps has done
| 1t often happens that the raider doe
| not come back to render account How
| many French airmen have beer
brought down 1T is impossible to state
/ the French give out no figures of thei
| losses.
Accidents Reported.
A number of accidents are known
! however. and among them some tina
| give vivid impression of the, danger
run by the bombarding section of TIL
flying corps.
Capt. D was about to take the al
! Tor raid, and the machine-gun mai
with MIN was preparing she'll at 1SO
| meters high, when he awkwardiv ,et !
| fall upon the frame. The shock ex
ploded the projectile and blew the an
paratus and men to pieces
A similar accident occurred to TIL
| English aviator, Capt. c.. While h.
| was taking aboard his supply of am
| munition a bomb fell to the ground
| exploded, destroyed the machine, tn
| pilot and twelve machinists who wer
standing by.
| NJ P. caught in the clouds Of
severely cold day, came out at
| height of 1000 yard. so benumbe,
| that he lost control of his machine an,
| fell to his death.
| Lieut.. n was accommodating will
an observer whose scarf became un
wound in the wind and caught in tn,
propeller. precipitating the machine t,
the ground.