New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-04
9 CRAFT SMASHED
in AIR BATTLES
Germans Lose Five Aero
planes, British Three
and French One.
fBy Cable to The 1nbunel

tinues to be one of the most spectacu-
lar features of the battle line IN
France. no less than nine machines on
both sides being brought down curing
to-day's contests. Five OF these were
German, the French airmen getting
three and the British two The BRUSH
lost three machines from the WORK Oh
the German anti-aircraft guns, ana one
French machine was destroyed
The Germans, the British announce.
are apparently using ne" type oi
machine. of which no details are gwen.
II has been found, however, that the
giant German planes, which were so
widelv exploited a few weeks ago, are
a myth so far as the battle line is con-
cerned None Of them have appeared
at is certain, however" says state
ment issued by the French War once
to-day. that Germany has built d.
planes of an exceptional size and power
10 be used as hydro aeroplanes. One OF
these is % metres Us feet across,
with four motors, and able to carry
SLY passengers. Another, ~ metres
1877 feet) across, with three motors OF
2OO-horsepower each, is said 70 nave
been constructed at FrledrlchsnaVeh
and to have flown over Lake Constance;
If so. these experiments must nave nau
bad results, for the machine nowhere
has been met.
"Aircraft of great power on service
on the land front are the two-motoreo
aeroplanes. One is the Aviatik type,
"a metres Us feet) across. II is steered
BY three rudders. 1t has places Tor an
observer or gunner and machIhe
gun behind the pilot and Tor ano'ner
gun-firer on the balcony before Ihe
pilot The other type is Of similar
model, but more rapid in fight. Inc
motors in these aeroplanes are OF ZZo-
horsepower" tn.
Sergeant Charles R, one OF the
companions of Aviator De Ierine' VITO
was killed July 27 while bringing down
his third German aeroplane, descripeS
the death Of the French aviator to-day
"De Terline and three others Oh 49,
lieutenant b, Sergeant D
with the object of stepping the morn
inc reconnaissance Of German aero
nisne We met it about fourteen miles
from our lines at a height OF lZ'ooo
feet. an
"De Terline and Sergeant ID en-
Gagged him first, being on apout tne
Same level. The German tired TO ny IN
snirals. and so escape. | was NIUE
hove him. and dived so as To get De.
low and to his rear l openee IRE -
thirty yards
Collision in the Air.
at was then the accident occurred
which deceived De Terllne. sergeant
D.. not having seen me, came up az
fnll speed on my left. | saw MN com
n
inc but il was too late 10 aNolu MN
He struck me in the rear, carr yihs
away part of the balancing planes Vi
his own machine. We botn plungeu
down giddily. De Terline, seeing US
falling. thought we had been prouen.
down by the enemy and wisheu 70
ayenge us at any price. ne s"oopea
upon his adversary at 1ull sPeeu'
crashed into him and fell with MIN 10
the ground. Lo don't
Lro,v 10 stop the engine and the ma,
cb;ne GUN. which was still firing All
The incidents of my childhood passed
before me in A flash as dropped from
10 400 IN 9. 1000 feet, hanging under the
-aotor and merely held by the strap
Which attached me to the seat linen
Managed TO put over the lever whicn
before had resisted all my enorts' anu
the machine righted, coming down
slowly within our lines. ,.h.
"Tyyo enemy aeroplanes were oroushV
down in the northern section OF our
line" to-day's British report says
conc of which seems to be OF ne"
nattern. Three of our machines were
brought down by gunfre.
During enemy bomb aitacks y"
Belgian towns alone" according 10 tne
Rerlin official statement to-day NJ
teen inhabitants, including nine women
and children. we're killed or seriously
injured in Meirelbeke, south OF Gheht.
Onr aviators attacked the enemy
souadrons and forced them to return
One 81 them fed over Dutch terri
tory. px;,;sb
binlane was brought down south OF
Roulers, and one enemy aeroplane. the
thirteenth for Lieutenant Nintgehs'
southeast of Peronne. One enemy
aeroplane was brought down by our
anti-aircraft guns near Boeslnghe ana
another similarly north OF Arras.
"On the front along the Somme ser
geant Chainat yesterday had two aeflai
encounters with German machines. ana
in each case vanquished his adversary
the Paris War Office announces. These
two new victories make a total OF eight
German machines which have been
brought down by this aviator Another
German aeroplane, attacked at close
quarters by one of our machines, fell
10 the ground and was wrecked at
point near Chauny."