The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-11

aviation service since the war began. making Improvements of a most inn portant character, while it possessed certain advantages over the French flying corps at the outset.
 The reasons fer the superiority of the Germans in what was considered before the war a French ~spec1alry will perhaps become public in the parIla- mentary debate that is imminent. One aviator attributes the difference to the fact that while the French follow ed aviation a sport, the Germans took it up seriously for practical ap- plication to the requirements of the army He points out that the Ger mans were flying at night long before the war began, while the French be- gan their nocturnal trips only after the war was several months old.
 The same authority warns against the assumption that the results ob- tained by the French flying corps are negligible. Whatever may be the Foundation for criticism of this branch of the service,, he says, the results obtained in some ways have been done far more appreciable than what. the Germans have done. He recalls that during the battle of the Marne, September 8, 1914, aviators destroy- ed half of the artillery of the 18th German army corps in the region Of Triaucourt
 This exploit was all the more re- naarkabIe since the French had never appeared to arrive at any results in experinents made with the combined maneuvers of artillery and flying ma chimes before the war One of the last notable attempts made in 1912 during the maneuverS resulted In the tFeoretic capture of the opposing army of an entire flying corps Dur ing the French 1naneuvers of 1913, the flying corps, used under modified conditions. acquitted itself more cred n 1n neriYr hint of the utility of the corps in ac- tuaI warfare. Consequently, as com pared with Germany where it seems the experiments were more sign1f1- cant, aviation as a service 1n the army was apparently neglected The. idea Of protecting flying corps with steel armor, at one time considered, was abandoned and was only taken up again after German armored flying machfpes had been captured
 The French also stuck to the nono-1 plane until they had captured enough of the German biplanes to give them demonstrative proof that they were superior for most different kinds or air work. The French also learned from the Germans that security at great height is fa1Iacious. Fragments of shells reach them even at height of 35OO yards, while at 1,SOO yards it is often more difficult for the gum ners to get the range The fire at that point IS g0nSTa1ly IOO 11ASn-
 Again. at the beginning the French aviation service used the same type of machine for all kinds of missions. All at once they discovered that the German machine that made raid on a metropolitan center or military point was not the same as the ma chine that regulated the fire of the artillery The result of this was the beginning of a classification of air craft with reference to special adap- tibiIity-
 marked difference in the tactics em- spfoyed by the German and French airmen. The former appeared 70 avoid contact with the latter, either with a view of concentrating thelr CT forts upon other objects than indi- vidual combats or with the idea that the encounter might not be equal. The. exclamation now given by a competent authority is that the Germans lost their best aviators at the very out set of the war This fact was dis closed by the notebook of German aviator killed near Verdun, February 4i this year. As early as September I2 1914, the Germans had lost Fur stenair, Neumann, Dallurg, Beauheu, Gresch Jahnow. Koch, Blutgen, Hey den and Baudissin. This is further confirmed by German aviator, made prisoner, who said that they had found the greatest difficulty in re- T7I7 these
 This seems to explain the French claim that with less efficient material French aviators accomplished more tangible results, such as the destruc- ton artillery, the blowing up of am r7a11nition8 depots; destruction of Zep- peTns, and Zeppelin sheds, and dam age to the enemyss field works. The French army is said to have ample proofs to this effect in orders of the day issued from the German general headquarters, impressing upon me officers and men carefully studied ways of avoiding dangerous arms of the French flying corps.
 There seems to be more esprit de corps among the airmen than in any other branch of the service Gnd greater mutual courtesy between of ficers of the different armies The most recent manifestation of it was fine dropping by Corporal Kandulski of the German flying corps, of wreath upon the spot where he har brought the celebrated Pegoud to earth, bering this inscription: '"To Pe- goud, our enemy, who died like hero. Signed, his adversaries.
 Tn September, 1914, a German pf< lot established this precedent by dropping in the French lines a cour- 4eous notice to the effect that Lieu tenant Fouret had been made pris- oner at the camp of Chalons- Later on a German aviator dropped behind the French lines 3, letter from the Ay,ilot Senooue who had been captured Inv the Germans. In May of this year when Thauron and Blancpain were brought down by the. German artil- 1ery. a German aviator flew over the lines and dropped a paper giving the circumstances, and terminating with these words: s'Thauron and Blancpain died the death of the brave Mill fary honors were accorded to them when the well known artist Daniel de Losques was killed in an aerial combat during the return Of his squadron from the attack upon Sar- rebuck one of the enemy's f1oti1la dropped q notice stating .sDe Losques