The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-11-03

that the procession of German inn
provements in planes and engines
moves so swiftly that the allies are
all compelled to hustle constantly to
keep from being outdistanced. When
ever the French and British catch up
with German construction the Germans
produce something new and still bet
ter.
Work With Land Forces.
Equally important, he declares, the
British have much the most accurate
notion of what the flying service is
about. They coordinate it with their
military operations most effectively.
They have less fear of the daily report
Of comparative losses on both sides.
They use the aircraft for certain spe-
cific purposes; when the bit of infor-
nation that is wanted is accounted OF
more value than the chance of losing
some machines, why the British serv-
ice goes after the information.
At the end of the day it may be
necessary to make report admitting
that more British than German ma
chimes were lost; but what of that?
The needed observation was taken, or
the highly important photograph was
secured.
'"The British operate their service
not with a view to saving their ma
chimes, not with notion of avoiding
dangers as much as possible; especial
ly not with the idea that to lose more
machines than the enemy loses is
showing of inferiority, a sign of de-
feat.
1.-THE British aviators are not spoiled
with laudation and heroics. They re-
gard themselves very much as so
many Tommies in the trenches do.
Their business is to go up when they
zoe told and get what they are sent
for; just as Tommy's business is to
hang on till hades freezes when he's
attacked and to go over and never stop
when he's ordered to attack. Neither
one of them feels particularly enthu-
siastic about his job as a means to
winning hOnors or distinction; he
doesn't think much about that part of
it. He attends strictly to the job.
''It's the sporting instinct that makes
these Britishers such good flying men.
They're the greatest daredevils in the
business; do anything, and get away
with things the Boche wouldn't think
of trying. They don't look on their
work as a great series Of personal adj
ventures but as part Of an organized
with objects a good deal
bigger and more important than the
interest of any one man.
$50 the British don't take so much
interest in the individual feats of Prov
ess of favorable fiiers. Air duelling is
not the object of flying. The object
is to get the information ones sent
for and to get back with it.
GAS soon as a flier crosses the line
he must count on the great danger of
being shot down by these guns as well
as on the chance of meeting an en-
envy in the air and having to fight him.
Disregard Losses.
"Of course all this means losses, and
when they've toted up at the end OF
the day or week or month this part of
the showing may indicate that the
Boche has had all the best of it.
"But if there could be pitched into
the scale on the side of the British
service the results gained, the value |
Of information gained about the en-
envy and of information he has been
from gaining about our own
ines, the showing of movements ac-
planned because of superior
of positions taken or ar
illery fire accurately placed, of sol
liers' lives saved because of better in
diligence about the ehemy's, weak
)laces-then the showing would be
OF different.
Suppose a set Of photographs is
leeded by the staff showing some sec
ion of the enemys line perhaps a con-
siderable distance back Of the front.
70 have those photographs may decide
whether a particular move is to be I'M
ertaken and how; SO the airmen are
ent after em. Maybe two or three
will be brought down and their ma
hines smashed up; perhaps some be-
ind the enemy's possibly some
ody will fly for the last time. The
oint is that if one camera gets back
nth the pictures wanted the thing has