New Britain herald., 1916-08-22

side the circles or WnlCh the crossed lines were the diameters.
 'We descended until biplanes, cruis- ing below us. looked like hawks.
 "'You must also visit the motor room,' the commandant suggested.
 Through two doors lay the way to the machinists. I could stand it for just two minutes. How men with ear drums and nerves can hold out hours at time and half a day long in that mad hell of sound that shakes the whole body to the marrow l do not understand. These men are heroes even though they merely hold out and do their oily work among the motors. "As we circled about our hall, the landing forces quickly caught hold of the lines and after a few minutes L-X was firmly imprisoned on the wheeled iron block that runs on rails to the hall.
 Mot always is the landing so easy. Many ship has been held in storm outside for twenty-four hours, the men taking relief shifts before 1t could be brought in.
 'It takes much courage and science to steer such cruiser through the air. The commanders all laughed when they read in the English papers that the English planned to salvage | the framework of Lilo sunk in the 1 water of England, in order to copy tho construction. We will make them a present of brand new one and they l would not learn how to sail 1t in five l years.
 1 "I was a guest for nearly a week
 at the airfleet station and even more frequently came officers to the Squad ron Chief with black dispatch cases
 "One evening there was only very ' small company at the table. Almost 1 everybody was under way
 "The good wind for a Journey to i England Is the bad weather wind from the west, for it makes easier the return of the airship to port after 1t
 has done it's work, instead Of driving it back toward England.
 And yet at home Herr Schwepp-
 hauser indignantly asks at his beer
 table, when a brisk fine weather "lno
 blows from the east, Why don't our 1 Zeppelins get busy and why are not l inc fine summer nights made better i use of?
 "Honored Herr Schwepphauser and 1 r-o,,rodas. "I have been present
 ,,ora than once when~ airships re-
 turned from England. And there is 1 ratoicing according as the wind oloWs' And the short summer nights are pro- l ,.i+io,,s for sitting in cafes, but not TOT 1 air trips to Albion.
 l "I1,,yino, inc week I was with the | oi.oruisers one of the commandants 1 had. in five days, spent elghty-elsno | bours in the air and had slept only twenty-four in his bed.
 "Ano+her commanding one Of the o1aar shins with open gondolas, re- t,7,,,od eo frozen that it was necessary 1rs+ to knock off with sticks the ice fro,,, the fur clothes of him and his ,a,o1, bafore they could undress.
 "Rut in my mind, took off my hat .o.+ of all to the one whose first 1-,ords as he leaned out of his gon-
 TT haven't been able to get rid of my eggs
 "He had orders to attack an iron foundry. From afar he saw 1t gleam- ing below, but the increasing stormy west wind prevented him from getting over it. The home journey led him over many a town and village of the land, which seeks to starve out Ger man women and children, but he flew ever them with all his bombs.
 Down on the water front every where stand new and gigantic airship halls. On the day I left the first of some new and splendid monsters came flying from it's airship yards, Others followed and lay ready for sailing. They are large enough to lay fortress in ashes. Woe to you, Paris! Woe to you, London, when your day comes!'