Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-28

BY HERBERT COREY.

DARIS,-Guynemer had what calls acct
- dent. Just bullet through the heshy of
- both legs. In eight days. he says. he will be
of the Paris hospital in which he has been i'm
INJURED for healing purposes, and back the front
again.
THE medecin chef has promised it," says Guyne-
mer, his eyes shining. There is why 1
should not ride old Charlie by that time do not
you comprehend, steer with my legs"
If you lived in France you would know who Guyne-
is. The picture this slender boy from college
is the illustrated magazines columns Of
the daily and in the windows of the shops. He
is the most celebrated airman in France-unless the
most celebrated airman in France is Navarro There
is the Navarro school of thought and the Guynemer
school of thought along the bouevards Partisans of
the two waggle their hands busily other and
shout and close the argument by drinking health to
the pair.
Guynemer the first French airman to bring
down five enemies. His touches eight, and
he has done it all in four months. Navarro has also
brought down eight German fiers, according to one
count. of computation only allows
him credit for 1t is this that gives to the
drinking shop debates pair 1t is astonishing
how much energy can be wasted the interpreta-
ton of facts which have been set forth
communlque An avdence OF the standing of the pair
is that the rule Of anonymity has been waived by
censor for both France is following their fight
supremacy with almost breathless interest.
Guynemer was wounded during that tilt in the air
before Verdun when in day there thirty fights
between the iiers of the two nations. This was the
most wonderful day of air fighting the world has ever
seem Once before the French fought eighteen sepa-
rate duels in the sky Guynemer was in that tourney
too but it did not at Verdun The
score was eVen-tnree machines side crashed to
earth-but the French won the fight They kent the
Germans out Of the air. That the al-mportant goal
in air hghting when single ier may informa-
ton That would derange all army's plans
Navarro a temperamental, uncertain sort of chap
given to brooding and RACES. Guynemer is just
opposite He is only twenty-one years old, this boy.
Tall slender dark he has only recently sprouted that
which all soldiers it their duty to
He is quiet modest reticent youngster com
plete stranger the moods of genius. When he is
ho,
is His eyes shine, his hands in illustration of
his meaning he leans forward glow of interest.
Then he reapses into blushing silence.
1T accident" he said the interviewer who
pressed him to tell Of the in which got his
wound.
The German plane driving a him, it appears
head-on, as the other man understood the
story. They 5000 feet or more high Ordinarily
the course of battle lines marked by lit
tie solid, white clouds where snrapnel bursting.
In this ca neither fire fear of hitting
its champion The birds French call
them had heavens themselves.
dived and wheeled and circled about
other. If you have ever seen pair of angry swallows
scrambling in air above barnyard will have
idea of what aerial fight sometimes like.
Each tries maneuvre range of others
gun and into position which he can drive his own
bullets through the pilots body observer not
count He has the unenviable position of the innocent
bystander In this the German the best of it,
Guynemer wounded. first time the
younGster has ever been touched
$50 1 held on and dved." nearest other
man could get to what happened next
Guynemer not quite unconscious when he
TO the ground. Both legs had been pierced, the
bones were broken. He had merely lost a great
deal of blood suffered great deal of pain During
all endless dive to safety he tortured by the
thought that high above him the German was wheel
ing and soaring, for all world like eagle that
had driven a maraudng hawk earth. Guynemer's
eyes snap when he thinks of that humiliation. His
teeth click together in The boy does boast
it is obvious that he nOpes-when the eight days
have passed-to get his revenge.