The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-07-13
FRENCH AVIATOR CARRIES DE-
STRUCTION TO BIG ESSEN
MUNITIONS PLANT.
MANY wORKMEN KILLED
Most Far-reaching Aero Raid Yet
Made, Birdman Makes Safe
Return.

Amsterdam, July 1O.-Les Nou-
'velles, of Maestricht. Holland. re-
ports that Dutch workmen who were
laid of at the Krupp works on &C
count of the destruction of buildings
in the recent French air raid. assert
that a quarter of the Essen plant
was destroyed. The material is
placed at millions of francs, and 1t
is said that one hundred employees
were killed and hundreds of others,
including forty-five French prisoners,
wounded.
One and possibly two French air
planes dropped bombs on Essen last
Friday. The official German report
of the raid said only two bomb holes
were found.
Tells or The Raid.
Grand Headquarters OF the French
Army in France, July S.-The. most
daring air raid yet carried out
against the great Krupp munition
works at Essen was recounted to a
staff correspondent of the Associated
Press today by Sergt. Maxine Gall
dis. who defied all the German anti
aircraft defenses and bombarded the
heart of the German amarent-pro-
.ducing factories with high explosives
crossed the German front line twice,
flew over many Rhenish cities, and
reached home scratches.
The whole flight lasted seven
hours, during which the daring
French aviator was guided only by
the moon and stars and the COM
pass. as the voyage was made In the
darkest hours of the night. the des-
tinat.on being reached exactly &C
cording to plan. Sergt. Gallois mar
rated his story in the simplest man
ner. He said:
-Four of us, Lieut.. Addison dc
Perdiguier, Sergt. Durand, another
comrade, and myself, left our base
at nightfall Fridayy-with the inten'
ton of reaching Essen. Soon after
ward we ran into foggy weather and
lost sight of each other. l flew al
an altitude of / 200 meters and pass
ed over Metz and Thionville. follow
ing the course of the river Moselle
which, however, rapidly disappeared
in the mist,
Missed Their Mark.
1.-The batteries fred 1T me crossing
the Rhine, and as passed over Metz
searchlights played about the SKY
At Thionville / heard another air
plane nearby, but made 1t out to b'
Addison. Afterward / was com
PEELED to travel by the aid of the com
pass, the stars and the moon.
AT Treves saw heavy lombard
ment. which calculated was direct
ed at my comrade. Therefore,
knew was travelling in the righ
direction. i did not see Coblenz
1 saw the reflection of the moon oil
the Rhine and found Bonn. From
there to Dusseldorf there was a reg
ular sea of electricity which increas
ed as | got further north.
Cologne was a blaze of lumino
sity. and at Dusseldorf there were al
kinds of lights, blue red and white
All the time the anti-aircraft gun'
fired as l passed, and around Cologne
the sunners were very accurate II
the range.
Leaving there, l saw, like clift
on the horizon, a brilliant iilumina
ton which seemed kilometers II
length stretching to the left of Essen
while southwark was another Ion,
line of lights coming from the fac
tories. Arriving over Essen, ! ros'
to about 1000 meters. l circle'
around, searching for place wher
the lights from the workshops seem
ed densest
"Then thew the first bomb
After counting ten l dropped the sec
ond and then the remainder OF tn
ten | carried, at similar intervals
l could not tell whether the bomb
exploaded, but they probably did. !
was impossible to distinguish thei
effect, owing to the flaming furnac
chimneys.
my duty done, turned home
ward, not having seen my eomrade
again. The motor worked Wit