East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-03-14
INT nf Pain and Mienn tn romfnrii
The Great Canadian Airman
Tells Lot About What Others
Did, but Little of His Own.


sihye ssngie handed he has anticipated time
IN hasiae shot Is or 10 Germans to death
Tncre are seventy-two notches in the stock
% his machine gun. totaIiins the number Of
euemy afrplsnes he has tumbled flaming
tnrvugh the skies like many falling stars.
te has never taken prisoner because every
one OF his battles above the clouds has been
feaEht behind the German lines and because
every one OF his fights has been a combat to
tfse desth-death to the German
German airman had upheld his hands in
surrcnser he would have promptly shot him
down. He Is a fighter elemental In his sim
paicsty He never felt fear. To him. with his
rigid British code of honor. any man who is
afraid and yields to fear "A damned cad
ans rs such Is not worthy of life.
When the Germans put a price upon his
mead he laughed and went out and killed five
more of them before breakfast. He never gave
quarter. He expected none. He is sorry there
pre- only seventy-two notches in the stock of
tis machine rife. He is sorry Berlin
BOMBED before the war over. and although
peace has come his cry is stlI Down with
the German
He Is Lieutenant Colonel William Avery
Bishop the trump ace In Cansdas deck OF
&vtatsFs. the man whose very name sui-
eicsep; to send terror shIddrrinR into The hearts
Of oarznany's air fighiere And he - hardly
@srs thaa t~-ntvsour oia slightly
nsr~ thss .e> rounds ~eighf pink of cheek
s~ssG~ lass and =, esshful as a poor
~N- - iiSu iittle party
Bishop the Ace.
wss-. ere the airmen. friend or foe. who
-Av~s a..re than fifty planes to their credit?
~s~s- yesterday Georges Guynemer,
SssN-~ Greatest ace. got fifty-three and then
. .s eiiied Baron Won Richthofen Ger
nany's greatest flyer is said to have ac-
fsunted for eighty men before he. too. went
west Blu. William Avery Bishop with
ssventy-two planes to his satisfaction and rs
or tSu Germans personally despatc tched to the
snowiess region. where he believes all such
people belong, Is very much alive indeed and
ts stfi fighting Germany because he thinks
~once German. always a German. and the
enU COED German is a dead one
There has been q lot of talk about chivalry
in the air. said Colonel Bishop in a talk with
a HERALD reporter. and nine-tenths of it has
been a lot Of nonsense. There are no rules for
air lighting It's a matter of the cieverest
Fighter winning. / would like to say there was
uS mure chivairy on the part of the Germans
than there was on the part of the Aires.
Each man fought to win and TOOK advantage
OF every trick he knew-took advantage of
every puff OF wind. every position from which
he could fire bullet True. the Germans
through their remarkable propaganda
given credit in America and in England for
having handsomely treated allied airmen whom
they captured. They we're supposed TO have
diued ana wined them gioFiously and to have
slept them soft and housed them well.
This was not so much matter of courtesy
rs IL was German diplomacy. The Germans
were out to get all the Information they could
about the flying organizations on the other
sldes of the French. British. Belgian American
md Italian trenches The best way to
Eact information from their captives was to
catter them with ceremony. cheer them with
food and wine and oil their tongues with
frbendiness. At that they did not learn much.
Yes, il is true that would drop notes be-
hind the German lines asking for information
about men who had been downed by the Ger
mans and II is true they would reply, saying
that such ana such injured or killed.
or prisoner and well. 5 the might
be- Bus tf,en Ie would always return the com
Rff rrNA bax Gk-a1a nh hair mar
fallen within cur lines. You see. after all. we
looked spon one another de"o;ees IF a
science. art II you will and respected
Sns another as enthusiasts and artists
Regret? Not Any.
DO feel amy regret at having killed so
MANY Germans Colonel Bishop smiled under
ais slim blond raus,acbe Not AT ALI It was
my duty to Kill them The more 1 Killed the
setter for my ccdn.f3 for tho world. or
.ourse the first few tine, fellow watched
sver and over through miles and miles of
snd then striking ground. way. way beneath.
. chap wouio be inclined to feel little. lit
lie queer. don't you know. But after all it
.as a sk.tful game IN which it was either
kill be killed. and killed. you lnder-
stand One got used to 1t and all that of
thing. you know II the proper thing to
do-shooting down the bloody beggars
MY largest regret is that Berlin
bombed If the armistice had been signed
just two or three days later than ii
British and American ayiators would have
'zoomed' over that city and given ii a taste of
the medicine with which it dosed Paris and
London. Maybe reason why things were
concluded so abruptly was because Berlin in
fancy heard the humming of the allied motors
above their loved metropolis. 1t was all
planned. al arranged. Berlin would have
been thoroughly BOMBED by squadrons of air
craft which would have made the round trip
in fifteen hours They would have flown by
night of course. and their course would have
been directed by lights the tops of houses
friendly TO the Allies despite the machina-
tons of the Germans l quite sorry
men dio not destroy few buildings in the
city Of the Boches."
When he mace that last utterance Colonel
Bishop for the first time showed a sign of the
tighter hidden in him. There tighten
lne of the well cut mouth under the slim. boy
isb nustsche HIS uuiet blue eyes shoue sud-
denly with cold hard light and the seashell
flush left his smooth cheeks. Somehow. de-
spite the ultra-conserrative civilian clothes.
The youthfulness of his appearance and his
absolutely unassuming manner, one gained
the impression that here reserve strength,
here was determination so savage and Bit
ter that IL almost amounted 70 fanaticism- And
then the impression vas goE- as swiftly as IL
SINE
Hard 20 Picture
II was difficult to believe tha; this quiet
youug rnan soft and careful OF speech. sit
.inF calmly In hs suite in the Btfnore
hotei the cold biooded terror who
aao stabbed every enemy he had met in mid
ar ~ith the death that spst from his machine
run ISut there he was actually bushlng
~h~u mention made OF his medals and
se~.'r- tons. ard especially his Victoria Cross.
Sh'-r ne prizes highly that he never wears
= -. rarely shows it to any one lie looked
-er - ths ~orid hke some clean. shy tad OF
s-' &. strtL arc breeding Who had never been
~ss>a asainsd rh. edges of life- Save for
s@r-a' = stcaiful readiness in his gaze, a GER
sis a. aaHoss aboIl the youthful features
an occasional CLINT IN the blue light Of
10 eyes. his was merely I'm ordinarily hand-
,ome AnFio-Sakon face And his right hand.
hat SO dalntily held an English cigarette.
vas soft and white and delicate II was dif-