The log cabin Democrat., 1916-04-25
PUTS PRICE ON
 HEAD OF DARING
 FRENCH AVIATOR
German Government Wants "Corsair of the Air." Dead
 or Alive.
LEADER OF BOMBING RAIDS
Has Caused Damage of Grievous Kind and With Persistency That Seems to Know No limit-ReWard of
 $6,250 Is Offered.

Paris.-On the head of one man in the French army the German govern ment has put price. This man has caused them damage of grievous kind and with persistency which seems to know no limit
 The sum of 25,000 marks (s6,250) will be paid for Captain X. of the French aviation service dead or alive. The French government has been very careful to avoid giving his name, and it is believed the Germans know him only by description.
 It was Captain K who three success sive times went to Lombard the Ger man powder and ammunition factory at Rottweil, in Wuerttemberg. On each occasion he performed an extraordi- nary feat.
 The sobriquet of "corsair of the air. has been given to him. Some of his ex- ploits partake of the ruthless vigor of the true pirate.
 Captain K is the principal leader of the French bombing expeditions, and he seems like hero who has dropped out of romantic novel Dan ger is his very life, and he plays with it so that his adventures during the war have been almost fantastic.
 He began by being made prisoner as result of an injury to his motor which obliged him to descend in a neu- tral country, but he succeeded in ob- taining his release. When he returned to France he was sent to the eastern frontier for active service.
 Though he demands much from his subordinates, he sets good example himself When he goes out with them for a bombardment each of the ma chimes carries special sign. He takes his position about eight thousand feet above the object to be destroyed. while his companions are discharging their missiles.
 Through his glasses he watches the results and notes the points which have been struck and the actual dam age done and makes a record of it all in his notebook. When the others have completed their work the captain descends in a spiral. aims with preci- sion and delivers the final, and gen erally the most fatal, blows to the enemy property.
 Guards His Flock.
 He waits to judge the effects of his work, and then he starts for home, escorting his men and acting as a @; f,,J lon to ha hnr yiy,ey to the assistance of those who may need it. It is not without having run the most serious kinds of risks that he has become the terror of the Germans.
 During one bombardment he fought with a large German aviatik armed machine was seriously damaged by shots. a number of important parts of the apparatus being cut and torn, but he continued on into German ter ritory and went direct to a railway sta tion and factory which he had set out to lombard, carried out his mission and returned safely to his base.
 The first time he went to attack the powder factory of Rottweil was on March 3, 1915 The journey lasted five hours and twenty minutes Ten minutes after he began the attack on the plant a contlagration was noticed beneath him, and he realized that he had destroyed at least an important part of it. He had brought four large shells with him and he descended very low in order to deliver his attack so that each of the shells struck home. One of them landed in the mixing basin of nitric acid and glycerine and the others fell on the buildings. Flames at once arose and the smoke made column forty-tive hundred feet high.
 His next important bombardment was at the railway station which the Trench authorities indicated as V. To