Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-20
AMERICAN FLIFRS
ON A BIG AIR RAID
Lafayette Squadron Took Part in
Concentrated Attack
ONE CORPORAL is MISSING
No "6eeflsss" Days, But Consumers
Are Advised to Cut Down
Quantity Used


sector Of the battle front, the Lafay-
cite iliers had the most thrilling days
fighting they had yet experienced
last Friday. The days work com
prised four patrol fights i'm connec-
tion with the great air raids ON Ger
man bases in which III airplanes took
part with a total of eighteen Ameri-
can machines in the air and twelve
separate duels,
Lieutenant Lufrey participated in
all four fights and had two battles i'm
the morning, both against odds and
terminated by the retreat( OF the
enemy In the evening. supported by
Lowell and Parsons,h he fought for half
an hour against four Albatross two
seaters. The contest included six
duels, beginning over the French lines
and ending over fifteen miles behind
the German front, clear proof OF the
aggressive tactics OF the Americans
Three of the enemy were driven down.
more or less out of control and then
the survivors ned. When ne landed
Lufbery had twelve bullet holes in his
plane all fired at close range without
wounding him or piercing a vital part
of the motor
The Lafayette boys are greatly ag-
grieved because certain persons in
America falsely represent themselves
as members of the squadron. A par
ticularly fragrant case is mentioned
in detail They allege one Clarence
Glover came to France last January
to join Norton's ambulance. He
broke his arm crankng a car and re-
turned to America, where il is charged
he posed as a Lafayette airman. ON
the strength of this, so they were n
formed, he was the guest at a dinner
given by the Aero Club. at which he
described the latest types Of French
machines and gave details of his fly
ing and fighting the Germans
No Beefless Days. But Eat Less.
The hotels and restaurants through
out the country will not observe
beefless day each week as had been
planned because Mr. II. c. Hoover. the
Food Administrator, believes that such
a day would disarrange the trade rou-
tine OF all persons and concerns that
have to do with meats from the stock
yards and packers to the neighborhood
corner butchers, including transporta-
tion and refrigerating interests. Mr.
Hoover instead has asked that the
hotel men generally conserve meat
wherever possible and reduce portions
and prices accordingly. In announc-
ing yesterday this change i'm the food
conservation program John Nee.
Bowman, President of the Biltmore.
member of the United States Food Ad-
ministration, said that within few
days the complete food plan would be
sent to 1900 hotels and 10000
restaurants.
Uses LifebOat As DecOy.
News was received here yesterday
from England of the attack made upon
an American steamship on August 3
off the coast Of ireland by a big Ger
man U-bOat which used a ships life
boat as a decoy, and missed hitting the
liner with torpedo by very narrow
margin There were 600 passengers
on board the steamer
According to eyewitnesses. who
were on deck at the time the incident
occurred, the liner was about ninety
miles off the Irish coast on her way to
a port in England II was ten min
utes past o'clock at night, and on ac-
count of the bright moonlight every
object could easily be distinguished
on the water as the vessel zigzagged
on her course at a speed of eighteen
knots
On entering the danger zone all pas
sengers were warned not to disrobe
that night and to have their lifebelts
with them when they went on deck for
| exercise. The lookout man I'm the
crows nest at the foretopmast head
sang out: Boat four points away on
starboard bowl"
The Captain and his officers on the
bridge looked through their glasses
and saw that it was a ships lifeboat
| of an extra large size bobbing up and
down with the lazy swell of the sea
and apparently unoccupiedo
| Going at eighteen knots. the liner
rapidly overhauIed the boat and
passed it about 600 yards away so that
every one on deck could see plainly
that there were no occupants in the
drifting small craft.