Evening star., 1917-12-06

violates the rights Of peoples. assumes
q more and more extraordinary aspect
as. on his flight from Paris to Brus-
schoen and Won Buelow. he transforms
his aeroplane into one or several d.
rigfbles. to become again an aviator
in Germany, where he continued To
exist until April 8. 1915. at which date
from history for all time.
In neutral countries the Volks-
freund adds. great astonishment Is
shown at the calm with which the Ger
error. 1t seems impossible that the
matter should stop there. In view. OF
the important part 1t has played In
the history of the war, it should be
thoroughly investigated
"Wonderful French Flying"
Commenting on these confessions by
the enemy. N. Mortane says:
Were these tardy admissions die
tated by a desire for the truth or by
remorse? Neither one nor the other
seems probable. Let US not look too
tent ourselves with registering these
precious details and discussing the af-
firmations relative to the declaration
Of war spread by the Wolff agency.
which. in publishing them as official,
showed of what 1t was capable.
ION August . it claimed that a
French dirigible had been seen be-
tween Keynich and Andernach. To
suppose that our avfatorS were capable
of such prowess would be ridiculous.
The day following the Germans them
selves denied it. The German agents
telegraphed to Won Schoen that their
eyes had deceived them; that 1t was
not dirigible, but several French
Strange that only after twenty-four
hours did the German officials remem-
Der that the dirigible they had seen
was not dirigible, but band of
aeroplanes. Truly. a curious case of
myopia. But this manifestation of
retrospective visibility in no way at
sected the growing hypocrisy of the
boshes.
"on August 3. 1914. at 1905 pm. Ber-
lin telegraphed to Won Schoen:
flown over Belgian territory, was shot
down as he endeavored to destroy the
railroad near Wesel.'
Hero Goes Unnamed.
THE first pilot brought down since
the war. or even before the war. de-
served to have his name handed down
to posterity. At that time to bring
down an aeroplane was feat of rare
prowess. But even the Germans have
hesitated to give name to the aviator
or mark to his machine. one as imag-
mary as the other. Nor was any French
pilot reported as missing in our SER
vice. But this infamy proves the ad-
miration Germany felt even then for
our aviation. The raid on Wesel rep
resented from 700 to 500 kilometers
420 to $50 miles) without passing over
Belgium. The enemy believed our mill
tary aviators capable of this feat.
Thus 1t was not as well informed on
the subject by its multiple spies as was
to be expected.
This same admiration is expressed
in the Wolff kilograms of August 2,
1914. according to which a French
aeroplane was reported to have bonn
barded Carlsruhe, another Coblentz.
others Duren and Cologne. What ex-
traordinary aerial activity. How proud
our pilots must have felt to be thought
capable Of such great deeds. with the
material they had at their disposal at
the time of mobilization.
The Cologne Zeitung ingenuously
explains the matter in its publication
of August 10:
May Have Been Friends.
1T is true that one or two aviators
were seen over the city. but 1t is not
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