The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-03
POUNDING AWAY
AT TEUTONS
fContfnuod from Paeel1

herald1ng tho opening OF the Flanders
offensive.
Tho youngster swept far over the en-
envy territory and then swooped back,
flying within few feet of the ground
He spied q detachment Of German in.
fantry crossing bridge and promptly
let loose with his machine gun. Utter.
~ disregarding the hail of rife fire
they turned on him, he circled back
and forth. barely over their heads. his
machine gun rafting away. He saw
four or I'VE corpses before the Ger
mans gave way and sought shelter in
nearby bitches.
The airman snooped around little
more. found his quarry too well cover
ed up-and then winged hlythely on
his way.
Next he swooped over an open motor
car on a wide road, letting loose his
machine gun ire at an officer in the
tonneau. The machine turned into a
side road and its driver opened wide
the throttle. The officer turned against
his adversary. few feet aloft and be-
gan firing with his automatic revol-
YER
The "war baby" felt he would not be
so unsportsmanlike as to return the
officers feeble pistol fire with his ma
chine gun, so he stopped the latter and
from the air staged a revolver duel
with the flying enemy Suddenly the
automobile was damned to a stop.
The British plane, fifty feet above and
twenty-five feet behind, could not stop,
but the aviator hurriedly circled back.
Then he saw his adversary being hur-
riedly dragged into house. Mean
while perfect rain Of anti-aircraft
shells and machine gun bullets spat all
about the plane. The pilot whirled
around a few times, shot up into the
skies and disappeared into the clouds
and by and by came home unframed.
Nearly all Of the aerial fighting on
the day Of aviation wonders OF which
the foregoing was Just an incident.
was at attitudes of less than 200 feet.
The clouds hung SO low that flying
had to be at this level II the aviators
expected to see anything. One fight
Close to the first line trenches begar at
200 feet aloft and ended at fifty when
turn and side-sltp down to death.
Another British aviator impudently
ran his machine along the ground OF
German aerodromes behind the lines,
actually firing his machine gun
through the open doors of the sheds.
Rising again he dropped bombs over
three sheds and silenced the enemy
machine guns and arches" The
same pilot machine gunned two Ger
man officers riding along a road on
horse back and later dispersed col
umn of 200 troops and crashed down
one Of two enemy planes that rose TO
do him battle. Then he swooped back
to let his machine gun fire play death
in a crowd OF Germans who had as
sembled around the wreck Of the Ger
man plane.
HIndenburg ls Praised.
COPEN HAGEN. Aug. 3.-Expressing
his "boundless thanks" Kaiser Will
helm telegraphed Field Marshal Hin
denburg comforting on him the Cross
and Star of the Royal Order of the
House Of Hohenzollern.
7 take pleasure, my dear friend
marshal" he said, rat the conclusion
of the third year Of the greatest Of all
wars, in which, with brilliant strategy
and art, you have defied superior
forces Of the enemy and cleared the
way for our armies victory, in express
ing to you my fboundless thanks"
German Night Drive.
LONDON, Aug. ga German
drive against Infantry Hill, east Of
Monchy LePreux, was successful in
part, last night. Field Marshal Haig
reported today The enemy temper
arily held portions Of the British
front line.
early at night the enemy renewed
his attempt to drive us from Infantry
HILL" the statement said. "On
half mile front he succeeded temper
arily In possessing himself of por-
lions of our front line. At two points
our counter attack regatned part of
The lost ground"
Russians Evacuate.
PETROGRAD, Aug. 3.-kimpolung,
pne Of the strong strategic points in
Bukowina, toward the southernmost
end of the Russian line, has been
evacuated by the Russians, it was
announced today. The war office an
nounced the retirement under pres
sure of the Austro German forces.
Further retirements of Russian
forces across the frontier river
Zbrucz eastward into Russia from
Gaicia. was likewise made public
Between the Dneister and Pruth
rivers and the Carpathians. the otti-
rial statement admitted enemy occu-
patton of Falkei.
[Kimpolung lies close to the noun
tain chain which divides Bukowiua
from Roumania, about hfty-five miles
south of Czernowttz.1
Austrians Make Capture.
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 3.-Capture of
Czeronwitz by Austrian troops today
was announced in Vienna dispatches
received here.
[Czernowitz is an important city in
one Of the southern pivots
Of the Russian line.
Birds Eye View of He'll.
[By W. S. Forrest, United Press Staff
Correspondent