The Prescott daily news., 1915-08-27

From Place to Place In a Private Car - Aeropianes Can Withstand Much Shell Fire.
 A crack and whish through the air. No sound is more familiar at the front where the artillery is never silent-the sound of shell breaking from gun muzzle and its shrill flight toward the German line to pay them back for some shell they have sent writes correspondent from the Brit ish headquarters in France.
 Only this which did not pass put over the landscape In long parabola on toward the German lines. It went right up into the heavens at about the angle of a skyrocket, for 1t was Archi- bald who was on the job.
 Six or seven thousand feet over the British trenches there was something as big as your hand against the light blue of the summer sky. This was the target-a German aeroplane.
 Wings of Intelligence.
  may grow commonplace, but never the work of the planes-these wings of the army's intelligence. If they might fly as low as they pleased they might know all that was going on over the lines They must keep up so high that through the aviator's glasses a man on the road Is the size of pinhead,
 Archibald. the anti-air craft gun, sets the dead line. He watches over 1t as n cat watches a mouse. The trick of sneaking up under the cover of noon day cloud and all the other man bird tricks he knows.
 A couple of seconds after that crack a tiny puff of smoke breaks about a hundred yards behind the taube The smoking brass shelf case Is out of Arehibald's steel throat and another shell case with its charge slipped ill its place and started on its way be for the first puff breaks
 Archibald rushes the fighting It is the business of the taube to sidestep. The aviator cannot hit back except through its allies, the German bat teries, on the earth. But all that the aviator can see is mottled landscape From his side Archibald flies no goal flags
 Archibald's propensities are entirely peripatetic. He is the vagabond of the army lines. Locate him--and he is gone. He is the only gun which keeps regular hours like q Christian gentleman All the others fire at any hour night or day. Aeroplanes do not
 1 at night, and when no aero go ur are up Archibald has no inter planes war.
 est i'll the IS named Archibald mo- Why he W. As his full name is body knows Archer, possibly it Archibald, the association with the comes from some
 idea of archery.
 Has His Private Car.
 Archibald, who is quite the swellest thing in the army, has his own private car built especially for him. While the cavalry horses back of the lines grow sleek from inaction, the aeropanes e have taken their places All the TO- ma%hes and risk of scouting are theirs.
 Such of the cavalry's former part as the planes do not play Archibald plays. He keeps off the enemys scouts. Do you seek team work spirit of corps and smartneSs in this theater of France where all the old glamor of war Is lacking? You will find it in the attend ants of Archibald.
 The ssport of war is not dead for Archibald Here you see your target, which is so rare these days when Brit ish infantrymen have stOrmed and taken trenches without ever seeing a German, and the target is q bird-,l man bird Puffs of smoke with burst ing hearts of death are clustered around the Taube. They hang where they broke in the still air One follows an other in quick succession-for more than one Archibald is f1ring-beforc your entranced eyes.
 It is amazing how much shell fire an aeroplane can stand Aviators are ac. customed to the whizz of shell frag- ments and bullets and to have their planes punctured and ripped. Though their engines are put out of commission and frequently though wounded, they are able to volplane back to the cover of their own lines.
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