Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-04-07
HUGE A|RPLANES
DROP PAPER BOMBS
OVER RICHMOND
Third Liberty Loan Cam
paign Opens With
Enthusiasm.
BELLS AND WHISTLES CALL
ATTENTION OF THE PUBLIC
All Street Cars Are Stopped for
Three Minutes Through,
out City.
PEOPLE FEEL RESPONSIBILITY
Reports From All Sections Of Fifth
District Show Great Interest III
Success OF Loan.
PEOPLE FEEL RESPONSIBILITY
Reports From All Sections Of Fifth
District Show Great Interest i'll
Success OF Loan.

Flying high and fast, two huge air
planes. not unlike those used on the
battle fields OF Northern France, sailed
over Richmond shortly before noon
yesterday. and with their paper am
munition bombed" the city from one
end to the other. Within a dozen min
ntes after the flyers appeared. fire.
bells were Changing. whistles OF indus
trial plants were blowing. automobile
sirens screaming, and the gongs OF
electric cars, which had stopped In the
streets. were setting up terrific din.
Il was such a warning as would go
forth had Hun raiders actually appear
ed, and begun dropping their death
dealing high explosives on Richmond.
Not since the United States enter
ed tho great war-;ust one year ago
ycsterday--and offered it's ineXhausti-
bic resources to the cause OF humanity
and democracy that the Hun and his
Kultur might be wiped forever from
tho face OF the earth. has Richmond
been go moved as on the first anu!-
! vcrsary OF Americas entrance into
the struggle. which marked the open
ing OF the third great drive for funds
| with which TO carry out the country's
war program.
PEOPLE REALIZING
THEIR RESPONSIBILITY
a, no time had the people as fully
realized the responsibility on their
shoulders IN supporting the govern
ment and It's military undertakings.
Unheralded, the Liberty loan raiders
had sailed over the city. travelling in
:t,ll
Hampton. nearly 100 miles away. They
bombed" tho city with paper animunl-
tion, yet citizens realized what great
damage would hcYe been dono had cI-
plosiYes been uscd.
''Rlchmondcrs realize now that we
arc at war" said prominent banker
yesterday afternoon, voicins the acnti-
nlent Of group Of business men. The
American machines few from Newport
News to Richmond in very short
time. and without difficulty. Flights
81 far greater distances are common
occurrences even In this country. while
Ions trips arc now being made by the
flyers In France. 1t may be somc time
before machines that can cross the
Atlantic arc perfected. but We rcmcm-
Der tho Deutschland.
ccilapsible a!rplanc which could be
shipped in submarine like the
Deutschland. or perhaps. a larger sub
ncrsibie. Think how easy IL would be
TO cross beneath the waters OF the
Atlantic and then bomb American
cities from the air. The United States
Is fghtins Germany, and every man.
woman and child should help in the
war. Our job a this moment is SELL
ing Liberty bonds. Richmond, the
Fifth District. the entire country. is
going over the top with a great rec
ord"
MAJOR BROWNS MACHINE
SUFFERS MISHAP IN LANDING
Both planes which bombed" Rich
mond yesterday are Curtiss machines.
one slightly larger than the other. and
equipped with eight and twelve -cylin-
der motors. The larger plane left
Langley Field at 1905 o'clock. the
smaller making its departure some
minutes earlier. The former. which
suffered a mishap In landing at the
Virginia state Fair Grounds, was pilot
cd by Major Roy S. Brown. Junior mill
tary aviator, and carried Colonel VIII
liam L. Patterson military aviator and
COfnmdnQeT OIL the aero
tion at Langley Field, as observer.
The smaller machine was driven by
r,irst Lieutenant THEODORE AFTER. mill
ary aviator OF the signal reserve
corps. with Art Smith, civilian junior
1ying Instructor. who gave thrilling
Exhibitions here three years ago. as
observer. Major Browns plane. while
taking the trip in t. leisurely fashion,
new TO Richmond, distance Of ap-
broximately eighty-five miles, in forty
minutes. The planes sailed over James
own, following in the main the course
bf the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
racks, over Yorktown and Williams
burg, and over the eastern section OF
Richmond. They flew high, and at
racted but little attention until they
arrived in this city.
The planes circled over the city sew
eral times. dropping their Libery
|.bombs" Some OF the messages
dropped from the machines to float
azily down TO the people OF Richmond
wers;
"German bombs have been dropped
on Paris and London. You can keep
hem out of Richmond by buying Lib
erty bonds. Go to-day to your bank
pr trust company.
III German aeroplane were in
sight you would give your all to be
Rpared. Keep them out Of Richmond
by buying Liberty bonds. At your
,ank or trust company. Think! If the
machine you saw flying over Rich
nond to-day were German machine
what would you do? Act! Go to your
,ank or trust company, and subscribe
or as many Liberty bonds as possible
Think Of the havoc German bomb
,ropped from an airplanc would do
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