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ITALIAN WANTS REVENGE
FOR DEATHS OF BROTHERS
KALISPELL, Mont., April 5.—With
two of his three brothers in the Italian
army killed by the Austians, and en
emy airplanes flying over his old home
!■ Italy, causing death and destruc
tion with bombs, Joe Beltrami ap
plied to the local draft exemption
board recently for permission to en
ter the United States army that he
might seek revenge.
“I’m mad; I want to fight,” he told
the exemption officials and was dis
appointed because he would have to
wait a few days before leaving for
Fort Leavenworth, Kan., where he
I planned to enter the signal corps.
BEHIND THE BRITISH LINES IN
PRANCE, Feb. 15 (by mail).—“Would
you care to go up?” asked the polite
British officer in charge of the big
kite balloon, one of the long line 01
captive sausages, the "eyes of the
army,” which swung as though nend
dant from the clouds all up and down
the fighting line from the British
Channel to the Swiss border.
“Certainly, ’ replied the correspon
dent.
So an extra warm overcoat and muf
fler were brought out and donned and
most important of all, the parachute
harness was fitted on.
By this time the balloon had been
connected up to the winch and every
thing was ready. The officer hoisted
himself into the car with an agility
born of long practice, while the visit
or was assisted to his place by the
"car men,” who then hooked the para
chute harness to the parachute which
hung just outside the little wicker
car.
Jutting out from one side of the car
was a board on which was pasted a
large-scale trench map of the district.
In pockets inside the car were maps,
air photographs, and field glasses. On
the rigging of the car was a dial to
show the altitude and an Indicator
registering the force of the wind in
miles per hour. Just above, domin
ating all, was the huge bag of float
ing fabric, only kept in place by the
crowd of soldiers holding the hand
ling guys The slender cable and its
sister telephone wires stretched laz
ily across the grass to the winch on
a big motor lorry nearby.
The observer fixed the telephone
receiver to his head. He tested the
line by calling up the winch party
the exchange, and the chart room at
the balloon section headquarters
Satisfied that all was ship-shape, he
waved his arm to the Flight Sergeant
on the ground, who ordered crisply:
"Let up hand over hand,- and then:
"Walk forward the winch.”
The ground began to sink away
The first impression was that the
bottom of the basket was g0jng to
fall out. For a few moments thi
impression was so strong that it wa:
physically impossible to look over thi
side. The view was excellent, bu
the mood to appreciate it was absent
The officer’s enthusiasm, as he point
ed out different objects of interest ii
the landscape, seemed somehow over
done
‘ Gradually this first impression o
insecurity passed. The altitude dial
comfortably close at hand, now indi
; cated that the balloon had reachet
| 2,800 feet. The thermometer alread;
| showed a drop of twenty degrees. Bu
the balloon was still rising. “There ii
a light ground mist,” explained thi
officer, “and experience proves tha
under such circumstances better r«
suits are obtained from higher alti
tudes.” So it was not until the pointei
signified 4,200 feet that he telephonec
down the order “Stop the winch,'
and the business of the day began.
Artillery observation was the of
J fleer’s appointed task. A British bat
tery was going to “take on” a Gdr
| man battery, and the observer madt
j his preparations accordingly. He hac
j the positions of the two batteries
j marked on his map, but he wanted to
| make sure of the position of the bal
j loon. So he leaned out over the side
| of the car, verified his landmarks, and
| telephoned the results to the chart
I room.
“Let me know when they are ready,”
| said he. There was a pause. Then
a short monosyllabic conversation,
| and the balloon officer gave the order
I “Fire,” and adjusted his glasses to
j his eyes.
For the next fifteen minutes the of
ficer was too busy to pay any atten
tion to his passenger. He was en
gaged in “ranging,” but from time to
time he passed down a remark which
showed that he was not confining his
attention to ranging guns, but had
also an alert eye for flashes of enemy
guns anywhere within his range of
observation. The range of vision was
roughly twenty miles.
After the first order to “Fire,” a
boom in the distance indicated that
the order had been obeyed. The balloon
officer- frowned slightly, and tele
phoned a correction. A moment later
the battery announced again that it
was ready, and this time the result
was better. The process continued.
Once the observer asked to be put into
direct communication with the bat
tery, and tho exchange arranged ac
cordingly. Apparently the result of
this conference was satisfactory, for
i soon the observation came through as
i correct.
1 A few more rounds and the balloon
t requested, the battery to start firing
• for effect. While this was being
• done, another battery was rung up
1 and ranging done an another target,
■ the balloon observer occasionally
switching his glasses to the old tar
^ get to see that the guns were shoot
• ing correctly.
Now and again the observer passed
down a message to the effect that
’ “Blank-Blank is active.” Blank-Blank
was another hostile battery, not at
1 present engaging attention. Sometimes
! he interpolated a little message for
■ the chart-room as:
“Flash observed two five minutes
left of Blank-Blank,” Blank-Blank be.
ing a landmark easily found on tha
map, so that the flash position could
be marked on the chart-room for at
tention later.
There were four hours of this work
before the officer gave the order,
“Haul down.” A slight jerk showed
that the descent had begun, and fif
teen minutes later terra firma was
reached and the balloon was off up
wards again with a fresh crew.
Down in the chart-room, the report
of the day’s work so far showed that
three German batteries had been
“neutralized” and two new battery
positions discovered. In due course,
the latter two would be cared for in
a manner that would place them also
on the list of neutralizations.
Not every balloon ascent is so
smooth and peaceful as this. The en
emy is active and ingenious, and the
parachute is not there for nothing.
The German airman, swooping like a
hawk from a cloud, is alwasy a pos
sibility.
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