The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1916-04-29
PUTS PRICE ON
HEAD OF DARING
French AVIATOR
German Government Wants
"Corsair CT the Air. Dead
or Alive.
LEADER or Bombing RAIDS
Has Caused Damage Of GrieVous Kind
and with Pers istency That Seems
TO Xnow No Limit-ReW3rd Of
S6,250 Is Offered.

Paris.-On the head of one man in
the French army the German govern
ment has put a price. This man has
caused them damage OF a grleVOuS
kind and with persistency which seems
TO know no limit.
The sum OF 25,o00 marks (s6,25o)
will be paid for Captain y. 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.
1t was Captain Y. 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-
PLOTS partake Of the ruthless vigor
of the true pirate.
Captain X. is the principal leader
of the French bombing expeditions,
and he seems like a hero who has
dropped out Of a 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 a result of an injury to his motor
which obliged him to descend in neu-
trail country, but he succeeded in OBJ
tanning 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 a good example
himself. When he goes out with them
for a bombardment each of the ma
chimes carries a 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 1t 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
orally 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 q
faithful dog does to the flock, hurryine
to the assistance OF those who may
need it. 1t is not without having rur
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
with two machine guns. His whole
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
ton and factory which he had set on
to lombard, carried out his mission
and returned safely to his base.
The first time he went to attack thu
powder factory of Rottweil was OF
March 3, 1915. The journey LASTED
five hours and twenty minutes. Tel
minutes after he began the attack OF
the plant a conflagration was noticed
beneath him, and he realized that h,
:. had destroyed at least an importan
part of it. He had brought four larg
shells with him and he descended yer,
low in order to deliver his attack S,
that each OF the shells struck home
One Of them landed in the mixinj
basin OF nitric acid and glycerine ant
the others fell on the buildings
Flames at once arose and the smOk
made a column forty-tive hundred fee
high.
His next important bombardmen
was at the railway station which tn
French authorities indicated as V. T