Evening journal., 1917-01-27
ENGLISH ADMIRE FOE
IN mass FICHTINC
scorn Him. However, for
His Present Brand
of War
AMERICANS AID
IN AIR FIGHTS
BY LORD NoRTHcLIFFE
Copyright 1917 by the United Press)
copyrighted In Great Brittany


copyrighted In Great Brittany
HEADQUARTERS OF THE CAN
adam ARMY IN FRANCE. Jan. q.
There Is little bitterness against
the enemy among the Canadian
American and British soldiers. They
admire him in mass fighting and for
his machine-like discipline but they
have no use for him in the kind Of
warfare now going on.
you will find the Canadians and
Americans a thinking, Independent
army" remarked a distinguished
British general who had given me
permission to spend this very inter
esting day-and so l found them to
be- They had brought to the stock
Of vitality and knowledge embraced
in the wonderful citizen armies Of
France and England and the qualities
inherited by generations which have
spanned the North American conti-
nent with its railroads, chained Mia
CARA, linked up the worlds cities and
armies by the telephone, lit dugouts
with incandescent lamps, cheered
them with canned music" and
brought a thousand other mechanical
ideas to perfection.
II you take a map of the United
States and go up and down the
American lines In France you will
ind no city great or small, which has
not sent a flying man, a bomber, an
artilleryman, sniper, or a dispatch
rider to help destroy Prussian despOt-
ism. In the United States you haxe
probably heard more Of the spectacu-
lar part OF the American work-that
which enthalls the whole world-the
new art OF fighting in the skies.
/ confess, indeed, chat, although
have spent many weeks at war. the
spectacle OF winged fighters high in
the sunlight is one that holds my
attention as nothing IN the world ever
has In peace times. When one was
younger, one has been thrilled by a
close baseball or football match
but when sheltered. perhaps In a
trench, one sees two specks ap-
preaching each other and with a pair
of strong glasses gradually realizes
that one of the specks is an Ameri-
can, who has given up everything
home, prosperity. and probably life
to throw himself into a foreign army,
and that the other is a brave German,
doing what he conceives to be his
dtuy-one realizes that here are two
combatants worth watching.
Very rarely do the Germans ven
ture over our lines and one has to
be very far forward nowadays to get
good view Of q fight between the
Allies, and the enemy in the air.
! have had that good fortune several
times. The air fighting OF 1914 bears
as much resemblance to the alright
ing OF 1917 as an old steam autOmo
= bile 10 the SIX cylinder OF today
. There Is a perpetual match In speed
ing up between the enemy and the
Allies. Four or five miles an hour
extra pace means everything. It's
not an Increase Of engine power to
, over 200 horsepower that brought
about the change so much as the
wonderful progress IN the art OF fly.
ing itself and II is Just here that the
Anglo-Saxon and the Frenchman beat
the slower minded German. II is
Just this reason why German soldiers
letters are now so full OF complaint
7 about over-cautiOus German aviators.
; When Pegoud invented looping the
loop the people asked why? What's
the use of it2 Pegoud was a very
} considerable inventor as we'll as a
. flyer, Is the answer. Looping the
} loop is a useful maneuver and II has
been succeeded by this extraordinary
J development the nose dive" in which
an airman seems to fall like a stone
3 for a thousand feet till the specta-
3 tors hair rises from his head IN hor.
2 ror-then suddenly the machine fiat
= tens out and scoots away and you
= find II only a trick after all
I talked with one OF our wounded
= boys-he was Just 19-who had faller
a 5000 feet owing TO his ruddef wir,
Il connection being shot through. BY
a miracle his machine Strengthened IT,
i self out automatically within a hun
n dred yards OF the. ground and the boz
. Is alive and will fly again I aske,
!, him his sensations. He IS probably
the first man in the world who ha
!, fallen 5000 feet-more than ten time
the height OF the Woodwork Building
h. He said that for a long time-wha
seemed like hours-he knew he wa
~ falling at a tremendous speed ant
then he lost consciousness. As I'm
a. dream. ne found himself being pickle
~ up out OF the wreck OF his machin
n by people who thought he was dead.
AT the beginning OF an air figh
eI there is maneuvering for position
T. and feintlng az in boxing. There are
as rule, two men In each machine
% pilot and an observer. except II
the smaller types, in which the wing
'e are clipped down TO nothing to &c
n extra speed and climbing power
Il knowledge OF the engine and plan
e power. quickness OF direction, accur
acy OF shooting with the Lewis ma
le chine gun are essential TO the piloi
Is His observer is provided with som
n, form OF a pistol and often with bombs
" Rival planes, like giant hawks, hove
\. around above OF below each other Il
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