Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-08
ARCHIBALD MAKES WAR
ON FRYING AERIAL EYE
Name Given TO Antiaircraft Guns
Now in Use in British
Army.
ON LOOKOUT LIKE POINTER DOG
Other Features of Life at Front May
Grow Commonplace, but Never
Work OF the PlancS-Thcsc Wings
of Ainy's Intelligence.

i'tl res itlI"nce OF Associated Press.
r 7 : II II e DQuA RTERS
FRANCE. July lS-A crack and a
whish through the air. No sound is
moro familiar 1t the front where the
artillery IS never silcnt-the sound Of
shell breaking from a gun muzzlc and
its shrill flight toward the cnemys line
10 pay the Germans back for some she'll
they have sent
Only this whish did not pass out over
the Landscape in a long pa:nbola or
toward the German lines. II went right
up into the heavens 4; abou; the angle
OF skyroCkct-for i; was Archibald
who was on the joh
six or seven thousand fcet over the
British trenches there was something
as big your hand against the light
blue of tho summer sky. This was the
target-German aeroplnnc. ny the cut
OF its wings YOU knew II was a Taubc.
just as Won know n meadow lark from
n swallow
SO high was ii TINT il seemed almost
stationary, But it was going some
whore between fifty and ninety miles
I'm hour. II seemed 10 have ali the
heavens 10 itself: and TO the British 1t
was sinister pryinc eye /; wanted
To see II they were building any new.
trenches II they were moving bodies
Of troops or OF transport in some new
direction. and where their batteries
were in hiding. That aviator three
miles above the earth had many wait
ing guns at his command. y few sig
nails from his wireless and they would
let loose on the target he indicated
Other features OF life at the front
may grow commonplace. but never the
work OF the plancs-ihcsc wings Of the
arn,y's Intelligence. In tho hide and
seek digging and lodging and counter
ing OF siege warfare the sight Of
plano under shell fire never loses its
thrill.
II tho planes might ny as low as they
ilcascd they might know all that was
going on over the lines. They must
keep up so high that through the avi-
. tors glasses a man on the road Is the
size OF IL pinhcad. To descend low is az
certain death rs to put Your head over
pa-aPct OF n trench when the cncmy'a
trench is only hundred yards away.
There arc dead lines in the air no less
than on. the earth.
Archibald. the anti-aircraft gun, sets
tho dead line. He watches over il rs n
cat watches a mouse. The trick of
sneaking up under the cover Of noon
day cloud and all the other m0n-hird
tricks he knows.
\ couple OF seconds after that ar-s!;
n tiny puff OF smoke breaks about a
hundred yards behind the Taube. y
soft thistle blow against the blue II
seems at that altitude; but II wouldn't
II +. were about your ears. Then II
would sound like n bit Of dynamite on
an anvil struck by a hammer and YOU
would hear the whiz OF scores of bull
lets ana fragments about YOUR ears.
The smoking brass shell cas-" is out
Of Archihald's steel throat and another
she'll case with its charge slipped in
its place and started on its way be-
fore The first puff breaks. The aviator
knows what Is coming. He knows
that one means many, once he is In
range.
Archibald rushcs the lighting: it is
the business of tho Tauhc TO side step.
The aviator cannot hit back except
through it's allies. tho German bat
teries, on the earth. They would take
care OF Archibald # they knew where
he was. But all that tho aviator can
see is notified landscape. From his
side Archibald flies no goal nags He
IS one OF ten thousand tiny objects
under IN. aviato-'s eye
.A-chibn!d's propensjtias are entire
y pe-ipatetic. re iS the vagahoad ot
The army lines T-ocz;" him. ana he
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