The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-11-17
WAR AIRMEN ARE
Interesting SET
neYAB FILTERS TELL OF SENsA-
TONS CONNECTED WITH OP-
GRATING MACHINES.

him without ducklng ana WISHING
they wouldn't come so close or make
so much noise, has never been NJ
in an aeroplane Take it from me.
YES" put i'm Gilray, land every
time you duck your old winger ducks
with you. AS 'Bren' over there says
IL wouldn't be so bad if you couldn't
see and hear 'em. Generally speak
ing you don't hear them unless one
happens TO break within 80 yards or
so OF yon. It's when you get down
close to them and look right down at
them splitting fire at you, that's when
you .bave got to have every neFye in
your body tuned to the minute"
I'll never forget the first time
they got close to me" declared Boy
Tylie. my only thought was that
would never shoot pheasant again,
II knew exactly how a 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 age, but
somehow or other came back to
life. When Brennan was hit and f.
nalIy came down safely within his
own lines it was found there were
no less than so perforations in his
wings.
' II was so interested in looking ov-
er their trenches guess | got lit
tie too low" he explained.
There is nothing more interesting
in all London than to sit through
long autumn evening talking to the
!. youngsters of the wonderful avia-
ton service Great Britain has almost
miracuously 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 use are their wonderful guns if
they don't know what they are shoot
ing 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 ov-
erwbelming number OF machines 20
send after them and they beat 1t Tor
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
shey can't observe. 1t is a big diff
ference from the first days of the
war;
Associating much with Britain's
flying men one will soon learn that
an archibald" usually called car
chic" for short, is an antiaircraft
gun.
"'Archie' barks at you," said Bren'
nan. "He goes 'woof. wool, wool
He isn't comfortable to listen TO
either, but it's when you get down
a little nearer to earth and the ma
chine guns get to working that you
feel you have got to do what you SET
out TO do right quickly and get start
ed TO some quieter spot just as fast
as the air will get out of your way
and let you through. You cant
imagine how much that old atmos-
pbere gets in your way when you are
really in a hurry"
When you get on speaking terms
with a machine gun you know that
II talks with putt, putt, putt
The ordinary hand rifle, which often
takes n shot at You when you gei
too close to the trenches, goes "crach
crack, crack" just as everyone ex
poets a rifle TO 90.
"A flaming onion? Well, that looks
for all the world like an eight-candlo
power electric light buh coming a.
you. Then all Of sudden it break.
into nice little ribbons Of fire that
dart and float through the cir like
so many blazing serpents. They ar,
very disagreeable these onions Theii
one desire in life is to set you ablazC
and explode your petrol tank Ono
thing the American always has TO re
member over here is that gasoline
or Just plain gas" as the motorists
and flying men call it at home, ha'
no place I'm the English lexicon. 1t il
petrol" just as, Lieutenant. although
spelled lieutenant, is pronounced
''ieftenant."
Several of the young wing" subal
tern were waiting for the "Hicke
boos" 70 come over the other nigh
when they fell into heated discus
sion as TO whether you would rath
er have a shell break right ahead o
you, right beneath you or right owe
you. There were those who con
tended it was best to have it breal
right in front, for then the eXpro
sion would spread the fragments ant