The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-12
FRENCH ARMY OFFICERS ARRANGE TACTICS FOR AERIAL WARSHIPS|

non, one at either tip, with a rapid fire mitraIeuse in the middle ust above the pilot. The recol of the can on does not jar the craft, owing to an automatic device, explanation of which is not permissible.
 The ather type, cruiser-aeros or Eavions de chase. mount one in cam oon in the middle and just ahead of the pilot. These cruisers can mount almost straight up from the ground at the rate of about 200 meters in two minutes, so that they can go straight up to an enemy soon as he is ob- served. instead of mounting slowly on long curves as of old.
 But France is not stopping with these new devises, and her engineers and constructors are inspired with the thought of a>rich prize of 50,000. francs for al still further advance, which will realize 200 kilometera an, hour with four motors two pushing and two pulling.
 The .sesquadrille'' or squadron is only the unit of organiza ton, and 1t Is in assem mbling that the real fighting manoeuvres are accomplished. The directing head of the organization is here in Paris, connected with the Ministry of War. Here all the orders are given and the service regulated The machines themselves are at aero Y names of these places being withheld from mention. Here they are gathered in hundreds and given their final tests before going to the fighting line
 But it is ont the fighting line that the real manoeuvres begin The aero parks for actual service are a short distance in rear of the fighting forces each park at the front being made up of four -.esquadrilles So that, as each teesouadri1es'' have nine aeros of various forms the four tesqua dri1les' of each park comprise 36 aeros, in cluding batf1ep1anes, cruiserplRnes and. scoutpIanes In turn, these parks back of the line are connected so that these equipment of 26 machines in each, can be rapidly brought together for a concerted attack or defense As these parks stretch from end to end of the long battIe-Iine their number and aggregate of aircraft must be very large. As stated. the. concentrations of 65 fighting craft have already been carried out. and much larger concen- trations are in view.
 The fighting tactics have developed a number of interesting phrases It is a strange fact that one of the most useful devises has resulted from the ca pture of the enemy aero This brought to light fine instrument of precision, made by a weII-known op-
 
 records with exactness the moment and place when an aeropAane Is pre- cise1y vertical above a given point on the ground below That is. there is no trusting to the eye and when the instrument shows the vertical point. as, for example. an enemy battery be- low a bomb dropped from the aero plane is certain to hit the exact point 1t is. in fact. an aerial rangefinder. showing the exact moment when bomb will strike a given spot
 Another strange device used in these battle tactics is a battery of 12 small glass bottles. set in ,a wire rack within easy reach of the operator. The lat ter flies over the enenyss lines, the purpose being to signal back to. his own batteries how their shots ar talk ing effect thus giving them the exact range. The little glass bottles con- tain a liquid which expiodes five sec onds after the cork is drawn, emitting a little round puff of smoke, or q short trail of smoke. This is aerial teIegraphing The smoke puffs are dots; the smoke trails are dashes. Thus the pilot talks back to the faraway battery, in dots and dashes of smoke, telling the watchers that their shots are two, high. or two low. or too far