The Twin City star., 1918-05-11
YOUTH is VICTOR
OVER NOTED HUN

In France in April, 1917. He brought
down % Germans for certain-he
actually saw that number crash-but
ne drove down many more out Of con-
troll. Among the % were the German
superfyers Voss and Schafer.
The story Of the defeat of voss,
who had been credited with being the
greatest airman Of all the armies, is
thrilling. When Rhys Davids went up
with squadron Of six and four Ger
mans were sighted, 1t was not so easy
! as 1t seemed, for Voss was among
them, and he took on three of the
British machines. Two Of these he
put out Of action, causing them to re-
turn home with their engines full of
lead. The third was the boy from
Eton.
Voss and Rhys made a duel of It.
The Hun was in triplane, and there
was most tremendous fight. The
story Of it was afterward told to the
family by an officer acquainted with
the facts.
II want to give Voss all credit"
says Miss Rhys Davids, sister Of the
brave young airman, In repeating the
story. HE had a fearful fight with
the three for twenty minutes. and
then my brother and Voss wheeled
round and round; and then, suddenly,
Voss crashed to earth.
"Yes, my brother spoke Of one or
two narrow escapes. On the very first
time he went up out there something
made him turn round, and to his as
tonishment he saw Hun On his tail.
If he had not glanced round at that
moment he would have been killed.
Worse still, his gun jammed, and for
ten minutes he had to get out of this
machines way by rolling and turn
ing. Then suddenly, to his amaze
ment, the Hun turned tail and went
home. That was one Of the narrowest
escapes he had.
my brother was inclined to fly
recklessly low, and that is probably
how he met his death in October, last
year. We knew he was missing, and
we hoped and hoped for eight weeks
before we had any practical certainty.
Shot "Painted Banana"
"He had very often been in a big
fight Of 25 on each side, and when he
wrote home about such, he said: All
you can think of is pumping lead into
any machine you see and looking out
and avoiding collisions. just missing
each other by perhaps a couple of
feet. He used to laugh when he saw
the, German machines painted up like
an unripe banana. He described one
Of these machines, and said that when
it came toward him he chuckled with
laughter at the curious appearance of
it, and then let fly. He brought the
painted banana down."
And now young Rhys Davids has
himself been brought down. But he
lives memory of schoolboy British
pluck that can never die.
Among other raiders mentioned In
the Gazette is Lieut.. r. a.. Ayre, r. f.
c., who during one Of his ''many sue
cessful raids" bombed an enemy air
ship shed, and on another occasion
bombed a railway station from a
height Of 500 feet. He also deraile,i
part Of "A train and poured machine
gun fire on its occupants. The mill.
tary cross is awarded to him.
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ratus for promoting the play spirit
among the troops in their leisure
hours.
The Y. NJ. G. A. has established a
chain of huts and dugouts along the
front lines occupied by American
troops "over there" and is meeting the
needs Of the Sammies as they take
their places in the Lorraine trenches.
The Y. M. G. A. huts on the Russian
front have been demolished by German
guns and the $50 secretaries there have
retired before the advance of the Huns
and are now established In Siberia
awaiting an opportunity to return to
Russia.
Farmer Kills Wild Cats.
Live Oaks. Cal.-Wing, a farmer
near here, recently killed two large
wild cats along the Feather river