The Dolores star., 1915-08-27
ALL ROMANCE Of
THE WAR BELONGS
TO THE AIRCRAFT
The Thrills and the Danger Of
Scouting All Theirs, Says
& Frederick Palmer.
ARCHIBALD IS ON THE JOB
Exciting Work Of the British AntIaIr-
craft Gun Deseribed-sisht Of Asr
opIans Under Shell Fire Never
Loses Its Thrill.
By FREDERICK PALMER.

Ioses us thrill.
By FREDERICK PALMER.
International News Service correspopdent
British Headouarters. France-A
crack and q whish through the air,
No sound Is more familiar at the from,
where the artillery IA never Silent
the sound Of a shell breaking from a
gun muzzle and its shriu fliRht tovard
the enemy's line to nav the German.
back for some shell thew have sent
ONLY this one dtd No. No.. ~, 500,
the laudscape in . i'm. n.-aho,e -.
toward the Co.., It,. =.
right up into the heavens at about
the angle of q skyrocket-for 1t was
Archibald 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. By
the cut of his wings Won knev II vas
. Taube. Just as you know a meadow
lark from a swallow.
So high was it that II seemed al.
most stationary. But II wa. roine
somewhere between fifty and ninety
miles an hour. II seemed tn have
all tho heavens to itself: and to the
British It was a sinister. prytns eve.
1t wanted to see II they were building
any new trenches. IL thew were NOV.
ing bodies of troops or of TRANSPORT in
some new direction, and where their
batteries were in hiding. That avi.
ator. three miles above the earth, had
many waiting guns at his command.
A few signals from his wireless and
they would let loose on the target he
indicated.
Never Ioaes IL. rb,,,,
Other s..tu-a. y, 10. =. ~. ...
NAV ~rov co,n,o,,,.. 49,.
the vorl y, tha nIan. 49, 80.
Of the army. ,rta,Ii~.,oa =, 80.
hide-and.seei d,1.in. "a doa.,n. 80
countartn~ ~ .;os. 1870. ~. 80.
Of a nlane undor sh.,, A.. go. 80.
ta thrill
y A coun,e NJ .econa, ar,or ,h.. .,..S
q tiny nun Of smoke hreal. .hov, :.
hundred wards hebind Tho Tauh. A
soft thistle blow against the blue II
seems at that altitude: but IT wouldn't
II it were about your ears. Then II
would sound like a bit OF dynamite On
an anvil struck by a hammer. and Won
would hear the vhizz of scores Of bull.
let's and FRAGMENTS about YOUR ears
The smoking brass shell case 1. o,,
of Archibald's steel throat and an.
other shell case with. ita char1a
slipped in its Mace and started nm ~.
way before the first nun breaks The
aviator knows what ia coming Ha
knows that one means many, once he
ia in range.
Archibald rushed the f,pht,n1 - 4.
the business of the Tanbe n ado
stem, The aviator cannot hit hacl
except through its allies the German
batteries. on the earth They would
take care Of Archibald 70 thew tnev
where he WAS Rut al, that the avi.
ator can see ia mottIed 1andscane
From his side Archibald flies M coal
flags He ia one of ten Thousand tinv
objects under the aviator's owe
An ~. p.-,,.. r..
Whv he was named Archibald M
bodv knows A bis full name 10
Archibald the archer nossibIv g
comes from some association u,,h
the idea of ar, herv II there were
ten thousand antIaircraft guns in tho
british army avery ono would no
known as Archibald when tho R-,t.
Isb e.neditionarv rorce Won, n
France n b.d none An tho Rr,t,.h
oorId A. n,.. :. h.na 49,. ~. Ta,,h..
,,,th .hor.ond, -, -o,nd. =, aeo HI
las .,.,oh r,;aht ,.1I :, .ha,. 49,