Bisbee daily review., 1915-02-25
TREMBLE AT WAR BIRDS
 FLIGHT
Woman Missionary Tells of Panic Which Seized Turk ish Town When Aeroplane Leaves Cruiser for Flight.

or small port near Beirut over the arrival of a British cruiser and its ac- companying aeroplane is described in a letter from a young woman mission ary.
 "A two-funnelled cruiser came in sight from Che south at nine o'clock this morning" she writes At once there was great excitement Every body who had a roof went up on it and crowds hsed the seashore. Pan ic-stricken Moslem women. carrying bundles and babies. ran for the or ange groves. Carts belonging to an orange man tore mp the street loaded with dishevelled distracted soldiers. while their officers galloped alongside
 War i'm this corner of the world is like opera boune Sections of Bed ouin cavalry in swirling groups of thirty or forty pranced by, yelling yociferously Then the High Com mauder his great self half stepping out of his vehicle, dashed past in bis carriage. recently captured from an English lady resident in the city All were making for Che trenches to the south among the sand hills
 Meanwhile. however, the cruiser had passed the southern end of the city and was opposite the northern suburbs. That was most troublesome for the commander the Bedouius and the soldiers an had 10 rush back down the streets and frighten her away from the north end of the town. Their tactics were evidently effective. for the cruiser turned slowly and came back again to the south. Of course they an followed her there The boat stopped and anchored op- posite the northern end of the town
 Then came new development A meat. small thing like a brown bird. dropped over the side of the cruiser Iinto the sea. skinned the water and ] Igrsccfuuy rose up into the air The soldiers hid under cactus hodges and , fired their rifles at it. the Bedouins |aauoped about shouting and firing. 1 the Commander himself fired at it. but 1t paid no attention. lt lowered over the town a few moments and then disappeared toward the interior.
 .The town waited and watched the lmououless wership An hour and a half passed and Che aeroplaue re- turned. It seemed to circle affection lately around group of English build | ings to which the commander had transferred his household at the be. ginning of the war That was a try ling coincidence, SO immediately more orange carts were brought and the
 Commanders baggage, every scrap of Iit including also some things cap tured' from the former English .0ecu
 pant was taken away off inland to a |place of safety
 "On flew the threatening brown
 bird. circliug thc German colony. Tho German consul gave orders. and the colony was evacuated at ince. But Ithe aeroplane scared harmlessly back
 again, southwards towards its nest . on which everybody thought it wa'
 going 10 drop.
 "It dropped A shout of joy wen up from the soldiers in ambush unde
 the cactus trees, for it had dropped In , to the sec. instead Now 1t woul, sink. lost forever. The shouting th' shootisg, the imprccauons. were talk isg effect and the Commander order e ed more of it to complete the des |, trucuos of the brown bird
 But the aeroplane was darting lik
 am arrow straight through the water g leaving a shiny white track behind ii IIt came alongside the nest; crau
 stretched out its long arm and sentl
 drew it up. and in a few moments
 disappeared.
 " Now what neXt2 wondered th g loulookers Why nothing reple ,, the cruiser Her tunnels began { smoke uriously she turned her bac on us all, and very slowly moved o D toward the horizon But the crow i- could not get over the marvel or lh u aeropane. I'm the air it can fly. O
 the water it can walk said a tall Mo ' lem. What can you do with thin n like that3 Let us go home.
 y But disaster followed close on th
 heels of the brown birds visit fc " that very afternoon several peopI pr were arrested by order of the Con .r mander It had been a day of h' n. sunshine. and some had uniortuuat
 ly, put their sunshades up But th
 Commander was a bright man, and D c. knew at once that they had been si t. mailing to the aeroplane So thC were an taken to the Governmel
 House some were nogged. some wei h imprisoned for a day or so- some wei
 merely advised that they must men ,s their ways"