New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-30
WINGS 8 PLANES
IN TWO MINUTES
French Filler Then Falls
10000 Feet, but Escapes
Unhurt.

London, Sept. 2e-Three German
aeroplanes brought down in two min
utes and thirty seconds by a stop
watch is the latest exploit Of Second
Lieutenant Georges Guynemer, Of the
French air service. Lieutenant Guy
nemer, who is known as King Of the
Aces" fell 10000 feet, but escaped
unhurt.
Guynemer went 70 the assistance Of
a comrade who was hard pressed By
five German machines. He brought
down two Of them within thirty sec
onds and then, rising, overlook a
third, which he shot down two min
utes later. He was looking for the
remaining two German machines
when a she'll burst beneath him and
stripped the left wing Of his aero
plane Of every stitch Of It's covering.
He plunged g.ddily earthward:
81 gave myself up for lost he said,
but after falling 5000 feet | thought
would struggle all the same. The
wind blew me over our lines and Ike
a fash I had picture Of my funeral
and all my good friends following the
coffin.
Falls 10000 Feet; Unhurt.
81 continued to fall and the levers
wouldn't bulge. In vain | pushed and
pulled 20 right and left. | made a last
desperate effort, all 20 no purpose,
and then I saw the field toward which
was dashing. Suddenly something
happened and my speed diminished.
Then there was a resoundlng crash
and a violent shock. When | recov-
cred my wits I was in the midst Of
the fragments Of my machine and
practically uniniured. / believe II was
the straps holding ne 10 my seat
which saved me"
on September Is Lieutenant Guy
nemer was officially credited with MS
sixteenth enemy aeropiane. A week
later he was reported 20 have brought
down his seventeenth ard elgh teenth.
He was wounded in a fight in the air
last March and in a subsequent flight
was forced to descend between the
French and German trenches, but es-
capped.
There is little abatement in the
aerial activity along the West front.
Yesterday French pilots shot iown
TWO Fokker aeroplanes near Rheims,
while the British fiers reported the
explosion OF a huge ammunition dump
within the German lines south OF
Bapaume.
On the East front Russian squad
ron raided several enemy posts near
Sonorgon, and in an aerial battle fol-
lowing the raid brought down four
German machines Two Russian aero
planes we're destroyed ty the enemy.
A German airship attacked an aeria!
station and defence batteries on the
Gulf Of Riga.
The Russian official statement on
aerial operations says:
IN the region Of Boruny and Krevo,
southwest of Smorgon, our ayistors
made raid on points IN the rear OF
the enemy's lines. Bombs we're success
fully dropped az various places. csus-
ing explosions and fires among the
enemy's stores. Bombs also were
dropped on wagons, on narrow gauge
railway stations and on motor car
transports.
During the raid an aerial fight took
place. as the result of which four Ger
man aeroplanes were brought down.
One OF our machines. after fight with
two aeroplanes of the Albatross type,
fell in the enemy line. IN addition we
lost a machine Of the Moran psrasol
type"
The French report reads:
Yesterday a Fokker aeroplane was
attacked by our pilots and crashed 10
the ground north OF Rheims. Another
Fokker was hit and badly damaged and
Owed headfrst into its own line.
The British statement says:
-
Bertincourt) and southeast Of Bspaume
our aeroplanes observed a huge explo-
sion. as II a large ammunition dump
had blown up. The smoke assembled
5000 feet