The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1915-08-26

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Anti air Craft Gun, Which 10 Removed
From Place to Place In a Private
Car Aeroplsnes Can Withstand
Much Shell Fire.
A crack and whlsh through the
afr. No sound Is more familiar nj the
front where the artillery Is never
silent-the sound OF shell breaking
from a gun muzzle and its shril 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 long parabola
on toward the German lines IL went
right up into the heavens at about the
angle Of skyrocket, for Il was Archi
bald who was on the Job.
Six or seven thousand feet over the
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. II they might
fly as low as they pleased they might
know all that was going on over the
lines. They must keep up 50 high that
through the avlator's glasses n man on
the road is the size Of pinhead
Archibald. the anti-air craft gun, sets
the dead line. He watches over Il as a
cat watches n mouse The trick OF
sneaking NJ 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 pun Of smoke breaks about a
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
for the first pun breaks.
Archibald PUSHES the fighting. II Is
the business of the taube 10 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 notified landscape
From his side Archibald flies no goal
Tags.
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 Christian
gentleman. All the others fire at any
hour night or day. Aeroplancs do hot
60 up at night, and when no aero
planes are up Archibald has no inter
est I'm the war.
Why he was named Archibald no |
body knows. As his full name is
Archibald, the Archer, possibly II
comes from some association with the
idea Of archery.
Has His Private Car.
Archibald, who is quite the SWEETEST
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 aeruplanes
have taken their places. All the TO
mances and risk Of scouting are theirs.
Such Of the cayalry's former part rs
the planes do not play Archibald plays.
He keeps Off the enemy's 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 a
German, and the target Is a birl-a
man bird. Puts 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 I'm quick succession-for more /
than one Archibald Is tirlng-before
your entranced eyes.
II IS amazing how much shell fire an |
aeroplane can stand Aviators are &C.
customed TO the whizz Of shell frag- |.
ments and bullets AMI 20 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