Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-10
FLIER TELLSHOW
HESHELLED ESSEN
Frances Latest Air Hero
Describes Daring Raid
on Krupp Works
TRIP TOOK SEVEN HOURS
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN THE
FIELD, July 10

WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN THE
FIELD, July 10.
Frances latest aerial hero'is a territorial,
a stolid, substantial individual thirty-elght
years OF age, formerly a prosaic hardware
merchant He is Sergeant Galos. The
feat which brought him fame was his right
to Essen, center Of Germanys great Rrupp
works. and bombardment of that Industrial
| city.
There could be no more apt illustration
! Of the military value Of Frances terri
| torials-the men originally discarded for
military service because OF age-than Ser
| geant Gallois. Called from his store at the
| start of the war Gallois was modified into
| the dragons and given charge of a hospital
! for sick horses. He was dissatisfied. Hs
| wanted more belligerent Job. So he
| pleaded for a chance to enter the aviation
| corps French officers fatty rejected him
! because he was too old" But Gallois kept
| pleading and year later he finally got into
| the air service. He was efficient and
courageous in scores Of raids as soon as he
| began to fly.
1t was Gallois's own idea TO bombard ne
| Krupp works. He volunteered for the flight
| with three aviators The army officials
| approved the scheme as a reprisal against
German raids
The four aviators started Friday night.
I'VE flew a third OF the way across
France in order to reach a favorable start
| Ing point" Gallois said today I'VE started
! at 9:15 Fridays evening, and crossed the
| German lines at an altitude of 600 feet.
| under heavy bombardment 1 first sighted
| Metz, then Thionvile. At the latter place
| an aeropane going in my direction passed
| me. He was undoubtedly one OF the French-
| men going to lombard Treves Owing to
| the fog l lost my way shortly afterward
| and steered by compass until approached
a city where scores of anti-aircraft guns
| were bombardng the air furiously. / guess
| this was Treves, where the French air
squadron had evidently just finished bonn
| harding
"A moment later this French squadron
| passed me, returning TO France. All of us
were terrfcalIy bombarded. 1t wasn't very
| long until lost my way again in the fog
| but finally 1 the fash of moonbeams
| on water and knew It was the Rhine. 1
| followed this until I reached Coblentz,
| which appeared illuminated like a triangle
From there north the flight was easier,
| because my route was endlessly illuminated
by fires of hundreds and hundreds of fac
tories and furnaces. The latters fires
were often red green blue or white in the
intensity of their hurry TO produce German
military supplies / went from Coblentz to
Bonn, Cologne, and Dusseldorf, then headed
eastward. the flaming factories and fur
naces constantly increasing in numbers.
Then 1 came to Essen. It was unmistak-
| able in its countless furnaces turning night
into day and making 1t impossible for me
| even to see the flashes Of guns which were
constantly aimed at me- l was obliged
to ascend TO 5000 feet there and selecting
the point where the furnaces seemed dens-
est, l dropped my ten bombs and headed
for home via the Rhine and the Moselle
81 got back just seven hours after start
ing"
Gallois said he drank "alcoholized cof-
fee" and ate some sandwiches and chocolate
during his flight He landed almost blind
from the pressure Of the wind on his eyes
having lost his goggles early in the flight
One Of the four who started out with
Gallois has not yet returned. He was with
a squadron of three which got lost in thu
! fog and stopped to lombard Treves.
t LONDON July 1O.-Berlin's Official reporI
e on the recent air raid upon Essen, the homt
e of the Krupp plant, says that only two
bomb holes were found. Six other bombs, II
= is declared smashed windows in a village
twenty-five miles from Essen. Bombs also
= we're dropped in the villages Of Speecher
a Ehrang and Oberemmel, where child wal
killed. and on Neunkirchen, where a mar
was killed on a suburb Of Diedenhofen
where a family Of three were killed and OF
was set on fire.
One airman who attacked Treves wal
brought down near the Saar. 1t is an
: nounced, while another airplane was de
r stroyed and its pilot made prisoner Th'
| report concludes:
For what reason the open and militarily
unimportant town of Treves was bombed Il
incomDrehensible."