Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-04
BRITISH BOMBING RAIDS
HAVE FIXED 0BJECT|VEs
Germans Compelled to Keep Large
Aerial Force ut Home for
lehincland Defense.
MANY FLIGHTS MADE BY NIGHT
Pun AirInen Alone Drop Bombs Pro-
miscuously Oh Women and Chill
drcn-Rcd Cross Serves ms Bulls
Eye.
ny WINi: UP.


FRANCE. November 3.--Imagine n
summer night on an aerodrome OF the
independent force Of tho British royal
For tho pilots, If not 70 the me
chanics who tend the airplancs Gas good
trainers tend II race horsc) most of the
day has been q time for rest and rec
rration. This squadron flies chiefly by
night and rests by day from the haz-
ards OF antiaircraft guns. QucstinE
searchlights and German aircraft ris-
ing to sudden ncarncss in the gloom
Now in the dusk the British Flyers
conc hurrying across the ground 10
up In an ordered row. The lying men
are heavily muf1ied despite the mild
snayity of the summer night. It is
e01 TbS w Sn 20, dem where ere; they are goins
chimes. and engines are started and
ricd ~ siSal, mechanics jerk out
me blocks from the wheels; the air
plane gains momentum: the roar OF
the engine changes its note. and quick
~ the first machine Is in the air One
after aothcr they leave the ground.
the eastward sky like n flight OF wild
shouted in the uncertain moonlight.
rheE are out TO bomb in the British
way. which Is not the German way.
10 the German airmen any building
or any light on the entente side OF
the lines offers what he regards as
as his buil's-eyc. The British set out to
bomb Il specific objective which has
been located exactly on their maps.
losne. owing TO cloud. the other day.
to detect the specific and always milf
tary detectives which they have orders
plagarizinE the German method of
miscellaneous murder. abandon for that
time AN objective they cannot clearly
see. and pass on 10 Il second objective
or which they can make sure.
There is no blind brutal bomb
dropping on cloud hidden towns on tho
~ Ia -
81 some military establishment. when
the certainty is that other bursts will
be on women and children. That
the Hun airinen.
over $ or c or Nj. where
ever may be situated n munltion cen
The German scarchlights begin 10 peer
Into the sky. Below German gun crews
stand by their guns. ~ British squad
The raiders come. at fair height.
unseen as yet by the sea-chlght
Watchers but not unhcard. The silent
OF Inventors.
Forrard OF the fuselagc the observer
scramhics on hands and knees into the
the bomb sights and release levers
The metal bar OF his sisht runs on TO
the objective. lie signals TO the pilot
Down sweeps the machine. tho rush
OF upward air shrickins through the
sparS; then smartly levels again The
observer pushes the bomb lever for
ward slowly. back and fro-seven times
in all Behind him he hears the clash
Of the falling bombs. Tiny spurts OF
flame shoot ont into tho daCknc be-
neath and blaze 70 Jury Of red-sash-
ed rolling banks OF smoke. Peering
down the observer watches thu aames
light UP the countryside In pitilcsss de-
tail while the wide wing-sweep OF the
raidinS airp!anc wheels over and the
machine heads once more towards the
West
All our machines returned safely"
reports the communiQuc. But from
what an inferno OF dazzling search
lights rays. bursting she'll and fam
ing cha in-shot they return And from
among enemy airplancS. TOO. for tho
aggressive pcrtinncity OF tho Il. A. r.
independent force now obliEcs Ger
many 10 withhold from the French
front. much OF it's aerial lighting
strength. many gunncrs and guns and
huge stores f--ammunition. for the
protection OF the Rhine towns, any
one among which is liable to attack
at any hour.
In the same way the supplies OF
every kind Of stores and munitions
for tina, same front arc continually
being destroyed and DELAYED by tho
bombing attacks OF the r. A l.. in
dependent forcc.--CopyriGht 1915
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