Arizona republican., 1917-10-03

onerS that the morale of their men has deteriora ted since the beginning Of the battles in Flanders. Divisions which
 have been through one siege on the German front lines sometimes resent
 being used second time in this posi- ton. This marks a striking change from the former attitude of the Ger man troops who have worked as un- thinking machines to carry out un- questioned orders issued by their officers.
 Meanwhile the spirit of the British troops is daily climbing higher.
 The body of the famous German avi-
 ator, Lieutenant Nosse, who' was re-
 gently reported in German official
 communication as missing, has been found within the British lines and
 British airmen have already dropped
 messages behind the German front,
 giving notification of his death. : NOsse was killed September 23 while
 engaged in a spectacular combat with 1
 British airman. It is q peculiar CO.,
 incidence that the famous French air 1 man, Captain Guynemer, lost his life | : about the same time in battle over | enemy territory and was reported miss | , ing until the Germans found and | identified the body ! The opponent of Vosse is one of the 1 --A|A'N 'AA'iiuiit loi itlSH dHldlOlS WHO TOT the purposes of this narrative may be ! referred to as Brown-that not being ms real name. Here is the story:
 number of bri,.sh planes were
 patro;ilng on the twenty lLird flying l ;it helSht Of 1000 feet when one of
 them was attacked by a German red
 nosed Albatross ana a tripiane. Il appeared later that Vosse was the pilot tof the trplane. Two other planes rushed up and engaged these two. with
 a third enemy scout who appeared on
 the scene About eleven other enemy | dlrplaneS Were waiting al a distance t,, join in the fray but did not attack as : some ten British planes were circling l about keeping them off. The third ! enemy scout who had joined in the combat vanished but the Albatross anL the triplane fought in wonderful form 7 Brown singled out the triplane and d hard fight ensued. Brown got in a
 number of good bursts from his ma
 chine gun and several times had to
 change drums on his gun, so furiously !, was he firing.
 For long time the two opponents a clrcled, dived and maneuvered for po- ? sition and so close were they at times :. that only few inches sepa rated their ,ss wings. Eventually Brown got a little | c. n the British airman working his ma t chine gun steadily all the tlme n Vosse passed Browns right wing by n inches and dived. The British airman
 Wheeled into position and observed the German gliding westward with his 1 engine shut off He dived again and d got good shot at his opponent; then =, followed this with a heavy burst from his gun and Vosse did a slight right n hand turn and continued to go-down 1T until he disappeared.
 if This ended the adventure so far as Y Brown was concerned. He flew away, n not knowing who his opponent had been d or what had become Ot him. Later the
 shattered machine was found and the
 body identified.
 There has been much hard fighting
 in the air recently and the aViators
 nave had some remarkable experiences L. One British lieutenant, flying last We'd d nesday, had just forced the enemy to Q pull uown a big balloon when he was n, engaged by machine guns from the '- ground. He dived on the gunners and d fired more than a hundred rounds, dis - perslng the crew, who ried, leaving two a of their number stretched on the r. ground. Continuing onward, the lieu B. tenant had nine separate combats with !: enemy planes. Eight of these were in d decisive, but in the other case he e brought down the German.
 $ In this last combat he got right on It the enemy plane. first killing the ob- @ server, then firing into the pilot and r engines The enemy rlane spun down n to earth. The British airmen engaged
 in still further fighting and returned
 home very much shot about, one bull
 let having pierced the ear pad of his
 flying cap.
 Two more counter attacks were at r tempted by the Germans against the , British lines between the northwest
 corner of Polygon wood and the Menin
 road last night but, as in the case of
 three heavy assaults made during the
 day, the enemy was smashed by artil- l. leryNand rifle fire. Hard local figthing
 occurred at the place known as Cam
 eron Hou/., where the Germans yes-
 terday forced the British back slightly, N but with the exception of two small posts lost in this area, the British line 't was intact this morning.
 n The Germans also attacked during l. the night south of the Ypres Roulers IS railway in the neighborhood of Zonne- e beke, but were repulsed.
 n The last A hours have been bitter y ones for the enemy along the Ypres | battle front. Not only have the Ger n mans suffered a stingng defeat but u this defeat has been accompanied by 5 grleVouS losses in men. The tre- 'l mendous fire to which they were sub e Jected by the artillery, rifles and ma
 | chine guns was a revelation even to those accustomed to watching the mar t vicious work of the great British war n machine.
 North of the Ypres- -Roulers railway II the German artillery played heavily on Il the British front areas. The corre- y spondent visited Westhoek ridge and t the region near Zonnebeke where the U artillery activity was intense. British 5 guns of all calibres were keeping up
 their ceaseless thunder and for every 4 German shell landed in this zone were = hurling back scores.
 5 There is no doubt that the punish Y ment being dealt out % the Germans is tremendous. Every prisoner admits . . hat and appears to be glad to be in The hands of the British.