Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-11
BRITISH AIRNEN
 SUPREME NOW ON
 WESTERN FRONT

WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, July 10, (By the Assocldtec Press) ).-SgperioTi III the ar rests with the British living men toOay. There have been times when slignt addition to either one side might up the balance but now BTltisn alrmen are supreme.
 The British have bounded hostile pilots until the greater part or their battles have occurred east Of the Ger man lines and in numerous engage ments great numbers of hostile ma chimes have been destroyed. One Brit ish aviator alone has sent p crashing to the earth in the last few months.
 The work Of bombing squadrons has been growing and the British are reaching further and further into Ger man back areas. Day and night squa- drons of British planes have kept up an almost endless bOmoardment or ml- portant positions and their accuracy in bomb dropping IS testified to ill scores of photographs of destructive hits.
 AiTdromes and other vital obJectiTes have been effectually bombed. The loss of life among German troops in concentration camps has been heavy. Captured documents bear testimony to this and prisoners admit it.
 The British sometimes come within 1 fifty feet of the ground to loose bombs. The Germans seldom venture below | 10000 feet because of anti-aircraft defenses. A pilot who attacked two | German trains near HeTmles obtained a direct hit on the first train and then | blew up the track in front. Diving on another train, he knocked two | trucks off the track with explosives. | Having stalled these trains he raked | them with his machine gun. Incident | ally, he opened fire with his machine gun on seven other trains shortly att erward with good results.
 There have been few infantry bat | ties recently On the British front i'll which airmen could play a striking 1 part, but in the combined Australian l American attack south of the SOmme on July 4, the British pilots did out standing and invaluable work. Germa;. | infantry columns, concentration points, ammunition trains and bat teries were heavily bombed through out che engagements and numerous machine gun and battery crews were knocked out by these low-flying ter TOTS. Even individual infantrymen were run down and shot by pilots who swOoped and swiTled over the field like dragon flies.
 An example of the methods employ ed was seen southeast of LamOtte-En- Santerre. Here a British pilot blew up German lorry and blocked a highway crowded by marching troops He then began a whirlwind of machine gunfire against the unprotected rifle men, who probably suffered more casu alties in the next five minutes than they did in all the rest of the battle.
 The German Rirmen were doing lol of low flying that day, as is their GUS tom during battle and they were thor oughly outfought, many of their planes being destroyed.
 Out of scores of aerial combats re gently, there have been some that pro duced unusual features. On July 4 g battle royal was fought between the British and twenty hostile planes Despite the fact that the British were greatly outnumbeTed, they came out victorious. Three of the enemy ma chimes had been destroyed and another driven down out of control when the fighting ended. while all the Britiss returned safely.
 On July l, near Braye British cap tain, who was leading an offensive patrol, dived on a German biplane ant pumped a stream of bullets into Il while sitting directly on its tail. 1h' enemy went down almost immediately in flames. The captain then fired a another German, who went down yer tically. but what happened to the HuI was not determined Then the cap tain, with three other planes. attacked a great German fleet of about fortl machines.
 The captain so Tiddled one eneml scout plane that one of its wings fel off and crashed like a stone. He neX wheeled on another scout and shot ! down out O. control with bursts iron