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FROM THE 1 NEAR VERDUN
BACK OF VERDUN.— All day
long the French fliers have been pur
ring through the air over the battle
field. During that time no German
flier has shown so much as the tip
of his wing. The conclusion has
been an obvious one?. The French
have established a complete mastery
of the air. This has been done in
face of the known fact that the Ger
mans have concentrated at Verdun
every available flying man and ma
chine from their western front.
“But what of the Fokker?” I
asked.
“It is a good machine,” was the
reply, “a very good machine. But
our Nieuport is a better.”
Civilians, it seems, are prone to
ghost dancing. For some months
past the newspapers of the allies
have been filled with stories of the
Fokker's excellence. It has been
able—in these papers—to fly higher,
mount quicker, swoop more rapidly
than any other machine known. We
visited a camp of aeroplanes back of
Verdun today, quite prepared to hear
stories of Fokker marvels. There
were no such stories. It appears
there are no such marvels.
It is not advisable to enter too
deeply into the story of the French
aerial defenses of Verdun. Such
things, however, as are known to the
Germans may be discussed with
safety. The Germans can hardly
avoid knowing, for example, that the
French have a dozen or so war bal
loons swinging safely at their an
chors over the French lines. The
Germans have four—at least, I saw
but four—and they are stationed
well back of their front and ringed
about with batteries. A balloon is
comparatively easy game for a fast
flyer. That French immunity from
attack tells its own story.
They Get the Fokker.
Well hidden behind the French
lines are various camps of aero
planes. At a guess the camp we saw
today contained fifty pltnes. The
j reader may make his own guess of
the number of machines on this part
| of the front. The fighting planes
have been wheeled out in front of
their hangars. The clips of their
guns are filled with cartridges. The
fur and leather garments of the
flyers are folded neatly upon their
seats. These men respond to a call
with the rapidity of firemen when
the alarm strikes. They rise all
along the line when a Fokker is
sighted.
“And we either get him or he Hies
away.”
From what I saw today I Judge
the' French planes are of four gen
eral classes. The Farman is used
for observation purposes. It is a
safe, steady old buggy. The great
double-motored Caudron, with its
tremendous lifting power, may be
very largely used for bomb drupping.
It can carry a huge load. Then
there are two sorts of Nieuports, fast
as hawks and “handy” in the air as
a canoe in still water. They are the
fighters, although all war machines
carry guns.
Little chaps, these Nieuports.
Mostly power. The two-man ma
chine could be stored in a farmer’s
barn. Some carry two machine guns
and some only one. Tne one-man
Nieuport would fit neatly lengthwise
in the dining room of a New York
flat. Its wings are small, neat, of a
knifelike sharpness. The weight
consists principally of motor and
propeller. Such a machine can rise i
3,000 meters in seven minutes. It!
corkscrews up in constructed circles. I
There is not an express elevator in
America which rises at that rate of
speed.
“How do you fight the Fokkers?"
I asked.
Perfectly simple, it appears. One
has but to rise above the Fokker.
Then the man in the Nieuport turns
his machine in the air and swoops
straight at .iis prey, like a king
fisher at a fish. On the prow of his
machine is fixed an automatic gun
which sends out a stream of bullets.
If he misses his strike—if the Fok
ker does not crumble and fall—he
dives sidewise out of the reach of
the German’s shot. It appears that
one does not try to “hover" with
these machines. If the man in the
Nieuport misses his aim he begins to
climb again. Then he repeats his
dart.
‘ But it is not always that way,”
said one flyer.
He Hammed a Kokker.
Then we heard the perfectly in
credible story of the man who
rammed a Fokker in midair. That
is. It would be incredible If It did
not happen to be true. He had
missed his shot, this man, and
climbed again, and missed again,
until he lost his temper. Or per
haps, as the story goes, he had de
termined to "get” that Fokker even
if he killed himsein Or-—I am a
doubter—perhaps he side-slipped.
At any rate, on the" third swoop he
struck the Fokker head on. His
motor was torn half loose from its
moorings and his propeller was
splintered. But he came to earth.
The Fokker fell and its two riders
were killed.
‘‘What happened to the French
man?”
"He was reprimanded—and dec
orated. But our men have been or
dered not to do that again."
Almost as interesting as the
planes themselves were the arrange
ments for keeping the German
planes out of the air. Just as it is
certainly true that the French have
won the greater honors in flying, so |
it also seems true that their anti-air
craft guns are more effective than
those of any other ally. They are
sunk out of the enemy’s sight in pits
shaped like twin bowls and lined
with concrete. In each bowl is a
gun, mounted on a pivot. In the
neck which joins the two bowls afe
two standards, each tipped with a
revolving arm, on which telescopes
are iashed fast.
"Let us see how long it takes these
boys to get the range of an enemy
plane,” said the general officer wh®
accompanied us.
Sighting a Flier.
The men were smoking cigarettes
in their dug-outs, for this station is
under constant fire. Even as the
general spoke a shell screamed over
head. It seemed near enough to stir
our caps with the wind. It Is a
pleasure to state that the general
proved his susceptibility to the com
moner human emotions by ducking
as neatly as the civilians. The cap
tain in command nodded and
touched the button of an alarm bell.
The general glanced at his watch.
The men leaped from their seats.
Three officers glued their eyes to the
telescopes. In the distance a
French flier whirled lazily In the
clean blue air and the glasses were
fastened on it. Two officers shouted
something. The third—a lightning
calculator if there ever were one—
cast up sums and angles in his mind.
Then he snapped an order. The two
guns revolved upon their pivots,
their black snouts thrus tupward,
and two gunners spoke with a single
breath: “Ready.”
What the calculations had been I
do not know. I realize in a dim
fashion that the angles established
by the three telescopes had in some
abstruse fashion established the
height and distance of the swirling
plane. The mathematics played with
by that calculator as his daily task
would make Euclid dizzy. They are
practical mathematics, too. This
particular station guards an import
ant angle of the line.
“We have only brought one boche
down,” said the officer in command,
dejectedly. Then he brightened up.
“But no others come around,” said
he. The general showed us his
watch. From the ringing of the bell
to that shouted “ready” by the gun
ners just fifteen seconds had elapsed.
After watching these operations
today we appreciate the statement
attributed to one of the chiefs of air
craft on this front. He had been
asked if he had any plan of campaign
in mind.
“But it is quite simple.” he pro
tested. “One has but to keep one's
own men in the air and the boches
out of it.”
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