The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-10

in deadly fight with two of ours. One Il
of the German machines is alight So
also is one of ours. Both start to
fall to earth, and they fall among
the already terror-stricken soldiers.
A Hundred Machines in Combat
Soon there is battIe-roya1 raging.
Nearly a hundred machines are en-
gagged in combat The Germans fight
well, but the enemey easily get the
worst of it, and are gradually fore
ed away.
Meanwhile our machines continue
the work of fighting the Gereman in
fantry. Bombs are still being drop
ped, and a number of our low-flying |
machines are at work with machine
guns. Whole battalions are put to
flight, suffering terrible casualties as
they fly. The road beneath US is
Uttered with dead. Wounded are
trampled under foot in the mad
scramble for safety.
ly along the road. We see strange
objects moving down the road some
distance ahead. We recognize them
as cavalry on the march.
We descend Glow and drop bombs
as we descend. With the explosions
horses and riders are blown to bits
in all directions. The surviving ami
mails turn and flee in terror before
this new foe. Riders are pitched in
to the road.
We get still lower and fire away
as fast as we can with our machine
guns. One by one horses and riders
are knocked out, and verey soon there
are no more to be killed.
Our next move is along the rail-
road. Trains are running with little
more than half mile between them.
They are heavily laden with supplies.
We get over the first train and drop
bombs. There are explosions beside
the track, but the train moves still.
That won't do. Another try. This
time success beyond doubt.
The train seems to buckle up in
the middle, the end coaches mount
on top of the front ones, and all dis
; appear in a blaze and roar.
On comes a second train. We
wonder whether it will be necessary
| to waste bombs on it, or will it crash
: into the wreckage of the first. Even
as we wonder the second train runs
7 full speed into the first, and there
: is the tremendous roar of a collision,
= followed by a series of explosions.
5 By now the Huns have had time
to stop the trains following, and we
, dart forward to pounce on them. We
, get our bombs home. A series OF
roars and flashes are heard and seen
= and we know that our task is well
done.
We cross the railway under heavy
fret rom the enemy. guns, and move
. in a westerly direction. There is q
r. signal. We are over German resi-
camp, where troops who have played
> their, part in the two days battle are
resting after their exertions. We des
cend low and drop bombs. Grea
4 glares rise up from below simultan
:, eous1y with the noise of many ex
!, plosions.
% Out of camps and huts terror
- stricken figures run. Our low-flyin!
- planes are after them. Bullets whis
. tie about the ears of the terrified
Huns, thus rudely awakened from
l. their sleep and their dreams of vic
- tory and peace. Hundreds of the ter
y rified figures are shot down.
~ Our aeroplanes now rise into tn
:. air again, and are off after a new oh
a. jective. This time it is a, slow-mov
~ ing convoy of guns and fodder TIL
n guns are to batter our lines on tn
- morrow. The fodder is for tn
!, horses that are to carry the Kaiser
:, warriors along in pursuits of GU
10 sorelytried infantry probably tn
- same horses that we encountered cal
lier in the evening.
We drop bombs along the who
- length of the column. Horses an
men, guns and fodder, all are blow
~ to bits by the explosions, but still tt
3 rain of bombs continues until thel
are neither men nor horses to /
seen. The whole column is wiped GU
AS we pass from this scene
q wreckage enemy machines appea
"a They give battle, which lasts for full
q an hour. We destroy outright eigl
teen enemy machines, and force
least six others to go down. Tv
of our machines are driven down
flames, and one is damaged but ma
ages to get home all right.
All the way back we are fired
by the enemy gunners, but their fl
is ineffective. We pass over the
lines, and see their infantry no
h about in readiness for the great ba
tie that is to be renewed on the mo
& row. Little do they know that Il
munitions and the men on whom tn
s have been relying will not keep try
IS with them on the morrow. Little
Is they know that we are overhead, al
8 little do they expect the showers
Il bombs that descend in their midst.
q On that part of the line the ba
tie was not resumed according
plan" the next day, and our infant
were able to make the withdrawn
necessary as a sequel to the surpri
of the first day without being ham
cred by the enemy.
That was the end Of perfect da
for our air service. May we ha
many more such.-(By the Intern
tional News Bureau, Inc.)