Arizona republican., 1917-07-10
KRUPP MUN|T|ON PLANT MENACED
 BY AN AIR RAID
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 GRAND HEADQUARTERS OF THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE. Sun day, July 8. (By the Associated Press). The most daring air raid yet carried out against the great Krupp munition works at Essen was recounted to a staff correspondent of the Associated Press today by Sergeant Maxine Gal lois, who defied all the German anti aircraft defences and bombarded the heart of the German armament pro- ducing factories with high explosives, crossed the German front line twice, flew over many Rhenish cities and reached home scathless. The whole flight lasted seven hours during which the daring aviator was guided only by the moon and stars and the compass, as the voyage was made in the dark est hours of the night, the destination being reached exactly according to plan. Sergeant Gallois narrated his story in the simplest manner He said:
 Four of us. Lieutenant ArdisSon de Perdiguier. Sergeant Darand, another comrade and myself left our base at nightfall Friday with the intention of reaching Essen. Soon afterWard we ran into fOggy weather and lost sight of each other. l flew at an altitude of l. 200 meters and passed over Metz and Thionville. followed the course of the river MOselle, which. however. rapidly disappeared in the mist
 The batteries fired at me crossing the Rhine and as I passed over Metz searchlights played about the sky. At Thionville I heard another airplane nearby but made it out to be Ardis- sons. Afterward I was compelled to travel by the aid of the compass. the stars and the moon.
 At Treves, I saw a heavy lombard ment, which I calculated was directed at my comrade. Therefor. l knew I was travelling in the right direction. l did not see Cobenz. I the reflection of the moon on the Rhine and found Born. From there to Dusseldorf there was a regular sea of electricity, which increased as I got further north.
 Cologne was a b-aZe of luminosity, and at Dusseldorf there were all kinds of lights. blue. red and white. All the time the anti-aircraft guns fired as I passed, and around Cologne the gun ners were very accurate in the range
 Leaving there 1 saw, like cliffs on the horizon, a brilliant illumination which seemed kilometers in length stretching to the left of Essen. While southWard was another long line of
 lights coming from the factories AR irving over Essen, rose to about two thousand meters. l circled around, searching for a place where the li0hts from the workshops appeared densest.
 Then I threw the first bomb. After counting ten I dropped the second and then the remainder of the ten l car ried, at similar intervals. l could not
 tell whether the bombs exploded, but
 they probably did It was impossible ir1U to Ha flaming furnace chimneys.
 My duty done. 1 turned homeward, not having seen my comrades again.
 The motor worked with wonderful
 regularity all the time l came back
 exactly the same way as l went and was fired at many times.
 T was thoroughly exhausted and
 was suffering from my eyes which
 were affected by the strain and wind
 as l had lost both pairs of goggles at
 the start and was often obliged to put my head outside in order to see the directions.
 When Rearing the base owing tC the darkness, 1 could not tell exactly where I was. l thought possibly was still over the German lines and decided to continue westward as long as the petrol lasted. 1 had a few litres left and was driving onward when suddenly 1 recognized pre- arranged signal and managed to land just at dawn at the same place from which I had departed. The distance covered was 750 kilometers (466h
 miles)."
 The correspondent saw the notes
 made by Gallois during the flight There were just few words and | figures marking the places sighted and the hours of arrival. The last entry is: Essen! It is there!" showing that he reached that point on schedule time
 Sergeant Gallois who is 3S rsars of age. served in the Dragons when the
 war broke out He passed a short time in the squadron and was then sent to the hospital where sick horses were cared for. He tried to exchange to the auto-cannon battery but was told he
 was too old. He applied four times for i the aviation corps unSucceSsfully, but was accepted on the fifth application though he had no knowledge of flying He rapidly learned piloting and over
 came the difficulties in night flying, which enabled him to carry out ms latest expedition with success. He took part in several other bombing 1 flights over the German lines. His comrades, Lieutenant Ardesson and Sergeant Durand, both returned |.
 the French base, having gone as far as Treves, when they found that their supply of gasoline would not permit
 them to reach Essen; so they dropped all their bombs on Treves; before fly ! ing home.
 1 1t is believed that the fourth mar
 reached and bombed Essen, but he has not returned to the base.
 When Gallois landed he was unable l to get out of his machine owing tc l fatigue and semi blindness, but today
 is quite recovered and is prepared tc undertake further expeditions. He to C 1 the correspondent that he had never ] been a great sportsman, except so fal as concerned cycling. but when called | to arms was anxious to do his best | for his country.
 1 The official communication issued 1 from headquarters tells the story O 1 the performances of other bombing 1 squadrons the same day. They are al
 ways busy bombarding the enemy. munition depcts, railroad stations ant 1 gun supplements, to which they arr l largely confining their attention EX- perts say however, that they could a | any moment gather hundreds of air planes, which could proceed in swarm
 and throw many tons of explosive! 1 on German cities that could be easily reached from the French front lines. 1 But the entente allies up to the pres
 ent have refrained from doing this. al
 with them military objectives take frs
 place.