LONDON, Oct '.a “It's all right
so long as v.ni can't sec 'em. or hear!
’em," said Tommy Brennan, of the
royal flying corps; '(nit any man who
tells you he can fly over an "Archie’
and get a ’flaniii ■ union’ right ahead
of him without ducking and wishing
they wouldn’t come so close or make
so much noi.-• h.is never been up in
an aeroplane. Take it from me."
“Yes." pul in Cilray, “and every
time you duck tour old winger ducks
with you. As ‘Bren’ over there says,
it wouldn't he so had if you couldn't
see and hear ’em, Generally speaking
you don’t hear them unless one hap
pens to break within thirty yards or
so of you. It’s when you get down
close to them, every nerve in your
body tuned to the minute."
“I'll never forget the first time they
got close to me,” declared "Boy”
Tylie. "My only thought was that I
would never shoot a pheasant again.
I knew exactly how a bird must feel
when a hunter opens fire.”
Brennan wore upon his left sleeve
the gold stripe of the wounded. “Gil"
had been on the official list of the
killed in action some weeks ago, but
somehow or other came back to life.
When Brennan was "hit" and finally
came down safely within his own lines,
it was found there were no less than
eighty perforations in his wings.
"I was so interested in looking over
their trenches I guess I got a little
too low,” he explained.
There is nothing more interesting
in all London than to alt through a
long autumn evening talking to the
youngsters of the wonderful aviation
j service Great Britain has almost mir
aculously built up since the war began.
“We've got the Germans now where
they have to fire blindly or shoot by
may,” these intrepid men of the air
will tell you. “Of what use are their
wonderful guns if they don’t know
what they are shooting at? They
don’t dare send a plane over our lines.
They don’t even dare approach. The
| minute they show themselves we have
an overwhelming number of machines
to send after them, and they beat it
for home again as fast as they can go.
They can’t take a photograph of our
new positions. Their batteries have
been driven from the heights, and
they can’t observe. It is a big differ
ence from the first days of the w-ar."
Associating much with Britain’s fly- j
ing men one will soon learn that an j
“Archibald,” usually called "Archie” \
for short, is an anti-aircraft gun.
“ ’Archie’ barks at you,” said Bren
nan. ‘He goes ‘woof, woof, woof. He
isn’t comfortable to listen to, either,
but its when you get down a little i
nearer to earth and the machine guns
get to working that you feel you have
got to do what you set out to do right
quickly and get started to some quiet
er spot just as fast as the air will get
out of your way and let you through
You can’t imagine how much that
old atmosphere gets in your way when
you are really in a hurry.”
When you get on speaking terms
with a machine gun you know that it
talks with a "putt, putt, putt." The
ordinary hand rifle, which often takes
a shot at you when you get too close
to the trenches, goes "crack, crack,
crack," just as everyone eypects a
rifle to go.
"A naming onion? Well, that looks
for all the world like an eight candle
power electric light bulb coming at j
you. Then all of a sudden it breaks j
into a nice little ribbon of fire that i
dart and float through the air like j
so many blazing serpents. They are I
very disabreeable, these onions. Their !
one desire in life is to set you ablaze !
and explode your petrol tank." One ’
thing the American always has to re |
member over here is that gasoline, j
of just plain "gas" as the motorists |
and flying men call It at home, has j
no place in the English lexicon. It I
is "petrol," just as lieutenant, al- |
though spelled lieutenant, is pro j
nounced "leftenant."
Several of the young "wing" subal 1
terns were waiting for the "Hickey
boos" to come over the other night
when they fell into a heated discus
sion as to whether you would rather
have a shell break right ahead of you,
right beneath you or right over you.
There were those who contended it
was best to have it break right in
front of you, for then the explosion
would spread the fragments and let
you pass safely through the spot
where "the blooming beast cracked "
The others contended that a shell
breaking on the level with you indi
cated that "Archie" had his fuses
timed just a bit too accurately for
pleasure flying, and that it was safer
to take chances from the fragments
coming from beneath or above. This
was one discussion in which the inno
cent bystander had no parf. He learn
ed, however, that shrapnel from an
"Archie" jumps at you with a “bang,"
that it looks like a white puff-ball as
it breaks in daylight and like the |
starry shower of a rocket as it ex
plodes by night.
When a "shrap” explodes beneath 1
the tail of your machine you feel as
if you were going to loop the loop in
the wrong direction. When it breaks
in front, you feel as if you very much
wanted to do a "flipflop” backwards
in the most improved style. When you
get it under the wingB the concussion
almost capsizes you and you feel as
if the old "joy-stick," or guiding lever,
never will put her back on an even
keel.
The “Hickey-boos,” it develops in
the course of the conversation, are
the Zeppelins. Where they got the
name no one seems to know, it is
' the exclusive language of the flying
corps. "Archie" is the name of the
home defense aircraft guns as well as
those of the Germans, for generally
t speaking all Buch guns are the natural
enemy of the airmen, whether he be
! chasing a "Hlc"ey-boo” over London
or taking observations at the front.
| They are always threatening him with
an unpleasant end.
Night flying is no easy task at best.
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John Ronan
Democratic Nominee
Territorial Senator
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ELECTION, NOVEMBER 7
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I was not president of the Mine Owners’ Association
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My term of office ended September 1, 1907, when I
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