El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-09-30
The German Observation
Balloons Disappear From
Flanders Front.
NEW METHODS ARE
: REDUCING LOSSES
Britain's Army Is Now De-
clared Greatest Fighting
Force In History.
BY YIGGIo ToEPFER.

ONDON, Eng. sept SCI have
again visited the long British front
- in Flanders and France, and what
Z yhave seen there has convinced me
that the defeat OF Germany is newt
able and that British losses. owing to
the methods used, viii be comparatively
email
Won our way We passed BY several
field hospitals, immense camps. march
ing and resting troops. cavalry as well
as infantry. supply columns. ambu-
lances. field kitchens and many other
units II the enormous traffic between
the bases and the firing line. Every
thing was in motion, every road was
being used to its utmost capacity. but
nowhere was there q sign Of excite
ATuent OF undue haste
Big Guns a Factor.
As We got closer 10 the front we
passed number Of the monster guns
UGH as only Germany possessed at the
beginning Of the war
The moment We reach the edge of
he plateau the tune changes The
nurmur Of guns disappears and the
voice Of each single piece is heard
elearIy and distinctly in gigantic
rhorus Of a thousand steel voices
There is something overwhelming,
something indescribably powerful in
what we witness.
on the nearest slope We see a long
row OF trees outlined black against
the background There Is something
STRANGE and uncanny about these trees.
They shoot up from the earth sudden
liz. disappear again just as suddenly
and new trees spring up close 10 them
y endless succession
These are not trees at all but mere
" columns of smoke, dust and dirt,
thror-n up by the exploding shells.
The Giving row Of trees is waving back
I'D 18th. II shows where the Ger
man trenches lie on the hillside
German Balloons Disappear
But who is 1he conductor OF this
chorus IF a thousand gunsZ giant
standing on the edge Of one Of the
clouds might we'll be thought swing
balloon floats majesticslly above an
other plateau not far from US It's
observers see the striking Of every
shell and the results are immedia tely
felephoned 10 the commander Of each
particular gun Half a dozen OF these
Kite balloons are visible from where
We are standing. but not a single Ger
man balloon. These have all been de-
stroyed OF driven away BY British guns
or aviafOrs-
On my first visit to the front I saw
every day German sirplanes over the
British lines This time I have not
seen q single German flier over our
lines And still If the Germans have
ever been in need Of observations from
the air OF artillery positions. move
-G1ents Of troops and ammunition col
umns. Il must be now
What strikes me especially IS the
evident superiority OF the British ar
tiliery. The foremost artillery men in
the world. as the French und0u btedly
are, have placed their best models at
the disposal Of their ally and the prac-
teal Britons have improved them.
everything is now tip-top with the
most perfect constructions based on
che experiences made during the war.
The English have not been tied down
- old models 70 preserve uniformity.
Livery thing Is newly created and the
famous - centimetres howitzers which
astonished the world at the siege OF
Liege. are as nothing compared to the
new English monster guns
Carefully Planned Organization.
tEyerythlng we see and hear from the
plateau where We are standing is the
result Of a carefully planned British
organization which has been evolved
from nothing Tt mas often been said
before the war that the Germans were
the only people who knew how to or
game Those who think so now have
no Idea Of the gigantic work Of the
orga IMITATION which has been done be
hind the French as well as behind the
British front In less than two years
England has created an army with all
its complicated appurtenances and ma
Ghinery which is more than equal to
the one which II has taken Germany
more than 80 years TO organize and
prepare.