The Prescott daily news., 1915-08-28

Anti air Craft Gun, Which Is Removed From Place to Place In Private Car - Aeroplanes Car Withstand Much Shell Fire.
 A crack and a whish through the air. No sound is more familiar at the front where the artillery is never silent-the sound of a shell breaking from gun muZzle and its shrill flight toward the German line to pay them back for some shell they have sent, writes a correspondent from the Brit ish headquarters in France.
 Only this which did not pass put over the landscape in a long parabola on toward the German lines. It went right up Into the heavens at about the angle of 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.
 Other features of life at the front 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 it as cat watches 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 d hundred yards behind the taube. The smoking brass shelf case is out of Archibald's steel throat and another shell case with its charge slipped in its place and started on its way be for the first puff breaks
 Archibald rushes the fig lting. It is the business of the taube to sidestep
 
 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 a Christian gentleman. All the others fire at any hour night or day. Aeroplanes do not
 " at night and when no aero go ut are up Archibald has no inter planes war
 est in the IS named Archibald no Why he W. As his full name is body knows Archer possibly 1t Archibald, the association with the comes from some
 idea of archery.
 Has His Private Car.
 Archibald, who is quite the swelest 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 aeroplanes have taken their places. All the TO- mances 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 sport 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 d German, and the target is bird-a 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 flring-before 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 yolplane back to the cover of their own lines.