The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22

London, October 1.-(Correspondenc
of the Associated ss.)-"Its all
right so long as you can't see EN-, or
hear EN-" said Tommy Brennan of
the royal flying corps; but any man
who tells you BE can fly over an
Archie and get flaming onion
right ahead of him without ducking
and wishing they wouldn't come so
close or make so much noise, has
never been up in an aeroplane Take
it from me-"
Yes put in Gilray, "and every time
you duck your old winger ducks with
you. AS Bren' over there says, it
wouldn't be SO bad if you couldn't see
and hear EN-. Generally speaking
you don't hear them unless one hap
pens to break within 80 yards or SO
of you. It's when you get close TO
them and look right down at them spit
ting fire at you, that's when you have
got to have every nerve in your body
tuned to the minute"
KNOW HOW BIRDS FEEL
III never forget the first time they
got close to me-" declared boy" Tylie.
My only thought was that I would
never shoot a pheasant again. L knew
exactly how bird must feel when a
hunter opens fire"
Brennan wore upon his left sleeve
the gold stripe of the wounded. "Gil'
had been on the official list of the
killed in action some weeks ago, but
somehow or other came back to life.
When Brennan was hit" and finally
came down safely within his own lines,
it was found there were no less than
so perforations in his wings.
Il was so interested in looking over
their trenches L guess I got little
too low" he explained.
There is nothing more interesting in
all London than to sit through long
autumn evening talking to the young
sters of the wonderful aviation service
Great Britain has almost miraculously
built UP since the war began.
"We've got the Germans now where
they have to fire blindly or shoot by
the map" these intrepid men of the air
will tell you. "Of what ue are their
wonderful guns if they don't know
what they are shooting at? They don't
dare send a plane over our lines. They
don't even dare approach. The minute
they show themselves we have an over
whelming number of machines to send
after them and they beat it for home
again as fast as they can go. They
can't take a photograph of our new
positions Their batteries have been
driven from the heights and they can't
observe. 1t is a big difference from
the first days of the war;
"ARCHIE" FOR SHORT
Associating much with Britian's n.y.
ing men one will soon learn that an
Archibald" usually called Archie
for short, is an anti-aircraft gun
"'Archie banks at you,' said Bren-
nan. "Ie goes 'woof. wool, wool He
isn't comfortable to listen to, either,
but it's when you get down little
nearer to earth and the machine guns
get to working that you feel you nave
got to do what you set out to do right
quickly and get started to some quiet
er spot just as fast as the air VIII
get out of your way and let you
through You can't imagine how much
that old atmosphere gets in your way
when you are really in a hurry
When you get on speaking terms Win
a machine gun you know that 1t talks
with a putt, putt, putt" The ordinary
hand rifle, which often takes shot at
YOU when you get too close to the
trenches, goes "crack, crack, crack" just
as everyone expects a rifle to go.
"a flaming onion? Well, that looks Tor
all the world like an eight candlepower