New Britain herald., 1918-03-21

I1lS eApeIlellCeS compass every klnu of air duty, and at the age of twenty he was decorated twice for bravery).
 By Leonard M. Reno
 How to escape an anti-aircraft bar rage is moot question. Most air
 men think that aerial acrobatics are the most effective artifice. Others hold that when an anti-aircraft shell bursts near the machine the anglo of flight should be changed so slightly as to be imperceptible to the gun ners below.
 Too violent maneuvering is prima facie evidence that the placing of the first shot was dangerously accurate The gunner will be encouraged to slight correction of his range. On tho other hand, by sneaking away with a Slight elevation or change in the direction of flight the aviator leaves the gunner uncertain of the effect of his initial shots. The latter method is deliberate system of out guessing the gun crew. while the for mer entails the possibility of blum dering into a shot instead of work ing systematically away from it.
 The German ace works quite frank ly on the theory that the best way
  number him four or five to one. One of the circus works ahead and at lower level. Stimulating flight, he will turn and permit Frenchman to pur- sue him. Then out of the clouds or down from a greater height, swoop the rest of the group. The odds are gainst the Frenchman, who is nat ural1y assailed from every angle.
 arY, Iroo rIo 1t great height The air planes are divided into three general classes for three types Of work.
 The "spotting" or "contact" planes fly at a height of 2.5oo to 5000 feet where they can detect the placement of enemy batteries and receive sig nals from their own trenches. They are not fighting machines. The first protection they have is the second patrol flying another 4,000 feet or so over their heads. These machines are commissioned to intercept any enemy planes that may have pene- trated the barrier of the fighting squadron above.
 The most thrilling work. both to the ina gination of the civilian and to the flyer himself, is the top patrol of fighting machines. A battle here is grim business The penalty for any miscue Is tumble of 10000 feet or more. Most of the great fights, as for instance, that between weismann and Fonck. have been fought at that height.
 (By sergt Major Thomas W. Sargent
 Company C. Field Artillery
 Sergeant Sargent is an old soldier. He has had seventeen years in the Imperial service and about three years with the Canadian forces. His medals are varied-first the Chinese l decoration which dates back to the Boxer uprising, an English Long serv- we medal, and the Meritorious medal, ! lated August II, 1917.
 Don't you believe that the actions ! of the Germans in this war are any hing new. I saw Germans in China ] n 1900, the Germans, as we'll as Jap 1nese, Americans, Italians and others. Tn fact we were under the German general for while until our English general took over the command.
 I can tell you this; the German 1 soldiers have not treated the Bel 1 sians any worse than they treated !
 
 Tien-Tsin. They were just as bad | hen as they are this day. I shot ! Town four Germans on the streets of l rien-Tsin for what I saw them do ng to women and children. couldn't 1 stand it. Not much notice was taken l of it then. When we went to the re- lief of Picking they were permitted l o loot shops and do as they pleased. 1 o4 nr-St aces on the face of the earth today. l
 It was hot fighting in those days, 1 ,oo. There was no such thing as sur I 'ender there. It was kill or be killed. 1 Now all the Germans have to do Is % hold up their hands and shout l 'Kamerad.'
 Now fourteen Or fifteen years later | see the same kind of Germans do- ng the same kind of things they did l II Tien-Tsin and Picking. I shall 1 1ever forget an incident during our 'etreat from Mons. We were retiring because our ammunition gave out. There on the road, trying to get away, were an old gentleman and his wife, m old French couple about seventy years of age. They begged of us to ,ake them along. I did not know what to do. I did my utmost-tried ] every way, but we just had to leave them. X few days later we got am- : munition and went back. We went l over the same road. And there, alongside the road I saw that old 1 man and woman, lying there, just cut to pieces.
 That retreat from Mons was the 1 DlOodiest fight I was ever in. I'm 1 not swearing; l mean sanguinary. There was one battery which we were 1 sent to relieve which was literally cut to pieces. Only two Gunners and a | major were left. We re- lieved them and got the German bat l tery which was a matter of two and | 1 half miles away We ca,ptnreH if 1