Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-02
Men OF THE AIR GIVE
LIVES FOR THEIR CAUSE
Spread CONSERVATION Among En-
emy's Reserves While Army
Sweeps On to Victory.
ALL IN THE DAYS WORK
Heap OF Blackcncd Metal in No
Mans Land, However, Tells OF
Price One Machines Crew Paid
That Their Colors May Advance.
ny ROGER cnnIiAM.

StMEW liElSE IN FRANCE, october
3l.-Thc Bear WAS sitting in his hut
listening contentcdly 10 the drip Of the
rain on tho canvas roof. An orderly
bun slip. For you as well, sir" lie
said, to n ASurc hiding behind pipe
in a BASKET chair.
What is ii. Bear" asked the
'"H,c Tank. YOU ana are on the
JOB something extra hot BY, INC look
e Wing ii. q. tomorr9~, r2ornlng for
instructions for "a bomb raid. Tender
yin leave Sqnadron ohice at $40
matter Ok fact said Alec ~ wish
it would DC, hate standing By all
9 bs snorlips i. Wi; H.. yell XII, pass ,hs
Of Of tn man Mn"' It's % s III ''F On ''' race
the I'd I'd x ?rss ss,zld Pc H9a
Billet" al East Church. Young man, If
you we're intended by the Almighty
y Ega T MGula Was os IL S'I si. no ffs
counting on his fngcrs Grace lost
II December, 1910. He.nel's Goraon
inanns. but Hemei crashed. Yes. that
'JoHc they were days member my
old Denoiseile? Blind cord for brac-
ing wires. two cylinders, twenty-five
horse powcr-sometimcs, BY James.
she flew though. Got up to fifty feet
FIVE MINUTES FLYING
AND NO MONEY LEFT
Two minutes dying and six months
work. then Gvc minutes lying and then
no money left.
But it was worth IL. Who thought
i would come 70 this? Remember the
discussion At night--Wood versus
Metal,--value OF. steamliae? Stream
lev Al thirty-h i've miles an hour, No
blessed instruments to tell you what
you We're doing either"
lure Juggling on The part OF our
~. I've sun got the propeller we stole
IN the ancestral! hall and burble over
y TO your grandchildren. Used by
So-and-So. Esq. OH an airplane which
few for ten minutes in August: 1912.
We've gone ahead since then. Thirty
hTe horse power. forty miles an hour
and fifty feet up. Now we sit behind
hour, and fifteen thousand feet isn't
Ecry hish. Upwards and EDWARDS.
VINO knows what the next generation
Al a tangent. he added. They'll lie
called the ponc.rs."
Let's look at the night and then
are nigh and moving faster" '0''S
Deuce ,r Of a sizzling 1Ln going on in
To each man his special fear; some
men go back to the, trenches after
Air Force But the prayer quoted IL
muttered hundreds OF times month
rs The pilot struggles down in his COM
Portable quarters, or AS he looks down
a. NJ
feet below him.
ION CUT OFT FOR
THE MEN OF Tue AIR
Twelve pilots stood in semicircle
round Ia desk on which was spread u
large lap.
Perhaps you have heard" said the
Gh" d ,esn that to,morrow is the day
Us this zone. II is our Job TO wreck
stations. trains and bridges in there
DO not leave train ii il is outside
ton to things within. You will leave
the ground At y. NJ, ana follow this
course. If you see no trains YOU will
go down TO about a thousand feet. ar
lower ii you like. and bomb - raiE
way stations: or IL that is already
clear"
49, Thank you gentlemen. Good luck"
They saluted and flied out.
i;Y O'CLOCK. two trains had been de-
rallied. one ammunition train was still
way stations lay in ruins This
hampcrcd the movements of the Ger
man reserves. IT,. British infantry
advanced over = mile on "A ten-nile
front.
Far away on the other side Of that
!acerated strip of land. called no-man's
land. there was heap of blackened
metal from which a little smoke still
drifted.
Official report One Of our machines
is missing"
One from i whole flight. and its
plot alone had accounted for two
Gcrman planes that day.-Copyrish
1918