The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-09
GARROS, AVIATOR
 OF FRANCE BRINGS THREE AEROS DOWN
Holds Record in First Year of War, During Which 35
 Were Felled.

Paris. Aug. 9.-During the first year
 of war, far as accounts have been
 rendered to the public, 35 German ny
 ing machines, not including dirigfbie
 balloons, were brought to earth and
 destroyed by French airmen. The day he was obliged to alight behind the German lines and was taken prisoner, Roland tGarros, the well known civil ian-aviator, held the record with three
 machines to his credit. He has since ben surpassed by Lieutenant B. G., who has brought down four.
 Garros used a special armament planned by himself with a machine gun regulated to fire across the axis of the propeller. In the hr1t ten days with this machine he brought down his three victims. What . single airman is able to accomplish against land forces is in dicated by the case of Adjutant V., reported by Jacques Mortane, sport ing writer and a va1unteer in the aviation corps, as having in a, single day dropper 12 1-2 inch shells and 5000 steel darts upon batteries of 1 mortars that he destroyed at Norroy, 8 shells and 4,o0o darts 4en the general headquarters at Thiaucourt, shells and 2.000 darts on Pagn-sur-Mose1le,
 4 shells and 2.oOO darts at Pannes and
 shells and 2,00o darts at Cha.rbly La total of 32 shells and 1s,Oo0 darts. It is generally impossible for the airn1en to know exactly what dam
 age has been done, except in the case where bombs cause conflagrations. Tn various ways, however, details of the results of some bonbardments, have become known. At the headquarters of the German Grown Prince at
 Rivigny, Oct. 22, Is men were killed and 36 horses and 22 men wounded.
 The men were mostly officers. At the
 general headquarters of Emperor William, Nov. 1, two of the emperor's 1 aides-de-camp were killed. In the destruction of a military train at Zee brugee, Dec. IT, 40 soldiers were kill 1 ed and 100 wounded. At the head
 quarters of the Prince of Wurtem- berg, General Garnereich and two 1 lieutenant generals were killed. On l May 31, the airmen killed A soldiers and wounded 80 at the German aero- drome at Gontrade.
 Official details have been given of l over 100 air attacks upon German camps, aerodromes, railway eornrnun- l lications, etc., but they are only a part of what the attacking flying corps has done; it often happens that the account. How many French airmen have been brought down it is impos-
 sible fo state; the French give out 1 no figures of their losses. A number 1 of accidents are known, however, and
 among them some that give a vivid r bonbarding section of the flying
 corps. Captain D. was about to 1 take the air for raid. and the ma
 chine gun man with him. was pre-
 pairing a shell at 1.sOo meters high,
 when he awkwardly let 1t fall upon l the frame. The shocks exploded the 1 projecti1e and blew the apparatus and
 men to pieces.
 A similar accident occurred to the
 English aviator, Captain c. While he
 was taking aboard his supply of ann 1 munition, a bomb fell to the ground,
 exploded, destroyed the machine, the
 pilot and 12 machinists who were
 standing by.
 I P-, caught in the clouds. on a severely cold day, came out at
 a height of 1,2oo yards. so henumbed
 that he lost control of his machine and fell to his death.
 l lieutenant N, was reconnoiter- 1 ing with an observer whose scarf be- l came unwound in the wind and caught | in the propeller, precipitat4ng the
 machine to the ground