The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1915-09-10
.CH|VALRY NOT DEAD
Old Spirit of Knighthood Main
tanned Among Aviators.
British and German Air Raiders No
tify Enemy Of Fate Of Rival Avi-
ators-Flyers Are Type With
Marked characteristics.
BY FREDERICK PALMER.
international News Service)

| Though it has been repeatedly stat
| ed that chivalry does not exist in this
war" said British aviator. this does
not apply to the British and German
aviation branches. Whether it is the
| individualism of our work and it's nov
city, or whatever it is that is respon-
| sible, something of the old spirit of
knighthood maintains among the
| flyers of the air When a British avi
ator has to descend in the German
lines, whether from engine trouble or
because his engine or his plane has
been damaged by antiaircraft gunfire.
| the next day the Germans report to
us his name and whether he survived,
and If so, whether he is wounded. We
always do the same. 1t has come to
be custom"
The reports are made in manner
worthy of airmen and they are the
only communications that ever pass
between the two foes, which watch
| for heads to snipe at from their
trenches. What is called message
bag is dropped over the British lines
by German or over the German lines
| by a British aviator-sometimes when
| he is in the midst of bursting shells
from the antiaircraft guns. Long
streamers are attached to the little
cloth bag. These, as they pirouette
down to the earth from a height of
seven or eight thousand feet attract
the attention of soldiers in the neigh
borhood and they run out to get the
prize when 1t lands.
It is taken to battalion headquar-
tiers, which wires the fact on to the
aviation headquarters, where the fate
of comrade may be known few
hours after he has left his home aero
drome; and, in another few hours
fate of relative.
THAT is one of the advantages of
belonging to the flying corps say the
British aviators. 1T may be weeks
before his relatives and comrades
know whether a man who is missing
after trench attack or counter-attack
is prisoner or dead. Such little kind
nesses as this don't interfere with
you fighting your best for your
cause; at the same time they take
little of the savagery out of war.
OF course, the rule could not apply to
prisoners taken in trench fighting
only to airmen. There are relatively
few airmen on either side and only
an occasional one ever comes down
to the enemy's lines"
With the first flush of dawn the
British planes rise from the aviation
grounds. All day they are coming
and going, and in the dusk of evening
they appear out of the vague dis
tances of the heavens returning home
to roost
The flyers become a type with GER
tain marked characteristics. No nerv-
GUS man is wanted; and it is time for
any man who shows any sign OF
nerves to take a rest. They seem
shy, diffident, men of the kind given
to observation rather than talking;
men who are used to using their eyes
rather than their hands. 1t is little
difficult to realize that some quiet
young fellow who is pointed out has
had so many hairbreadth esca M
What tales worthy of Ara az
Nights" heroes, who were borne Jenei
on magic carpets they bring, h.ie. ~.
lating them as matter-of-ff ~ Ds
they had broken shoe lsse, IN nu'
their seats $ whirr of r. District NO
they are away on anoths.o' -,
They shy at the mentin
names in print; for that NJ N.,,ass,;ll
sidered good for the spirit. ~ 49,
ne"ose Daan.n =, .n S. Store
.1"y 10y lie.
Some members have luck, ! Ca i,
it, and some do not. L--z.t No 70
no. oe gwen put nus - j Building, in
matic u recent district No. *
He was pilot fiyin Il Clem's
far away from the Brit,;ctown
&c an antiaircraft smell District No. FL
es which was mt nv harts Hall, in Yell
I 0s,h os ,sSom Burkittsville. District No.
' Oc.n % and Pfeiffer's Room,
en- resident ville.
IRE than two Ballenger, District NO. 70
urther alleges Culler's Hall, IN
Walter, aban- Praddock. District No. 2.
said abandon School Building,
IS continuous continuous Brunswick, District No. IS,
ND rs Ts" p;n I-At Mayor S OF
sn,,,o n,atr;mo. wick.
Il an order of Brunswick, District No. rs
he defendant, 2-At Town Ho
Brunswick.
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cult Court LOT fer's Hall, in w
I. ,onv Of this Or The said polling place
newspaper W. pub Primary Election will be
Maryland, once O. clock in the morning o.
weeks before the will be kept open until si'
giving notice to afternoon of the same
dent defendant time the polls will be clio:
2 him to be and BY order,
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