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SUPER-AIR FIGHTER GAINS
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They did not travel far; they were caught by the machine-gun fire and GLORIOUS DEFENCE.
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CAPTAIN MCCUDDEN.
WAR CORRESPONDENTS' HEADQUARTERS,
gaps in their wares. Some of thein gut into our front line, but the Loudon rifte-
Captain James Byford McCudden, Mr. T. G. Owens-Thurston read a paper FRANCE, April 1st.
on "The design and construction of slf. V.C. D.S.0, with bar, Croix de Guerre, We out here who knew that this thing made blocks in the treneb, and kept them cargo stermers now building in Great British airman who went to France in men pulled down parts of their parapot, propelled reinforced concrete s-going-C., with bar and M.M. the star was coming upon us, creeping nearer back by bombing and rifle fire An Britain." Ho said that the enormous every day with its monstrous menace, enemy battery was unlimbered. German losses of cargo-carrying ships during the the first days of the war as a mechanic, held our breath and waited. When at out the gaps in our wire to their inen,steel for shipbuilding on account of its squadrons, has won every award for ollicers strolled up with sticks to point war, coupled with the great scarcity of and is now leader of one of the crack gir last the thing broke it was more frightful and were thot down like rabbits. These diversion to other uses, had made ship-valour possible to an officer in the British in its losing of overwhelming powers London men fell back to the main de builders cadeavour to find some other army. In two cases, as will be seen, he than even we had guessed. Since then all fensive line a short distance to the rear, material to replace steel for ship con- has gained the distinction twice over,
The announcement that Captain Me-. our armies have lived with intenso under-though all day long be made fresh efforts wooden ships to make up for the scared made on March 29th in the following and the enemy never penetrated this,struction, even if only as a temporary
marc The possibility of building Cudden has been awarded the V.C. was from 9.45 in the morning till seven in of steel ships had been carefully standing of the greatness of these days, the evening. The London men lest many erod, but it was found that although the terms: For conspicuous bravery ex of the meaning to the destiny of the of their comrades in all those hours of timber supplies in certain countries were coptional perseverance, keenness, and very world, and every private soldier or trans-heroic defence her foiled the enemy's must clapse before green timber would during December, January, and February bloody and costly fighting, but by their adequate for the purpose, a long time high devetion to duty on various occasiona port driver or linceman" or labourer has most ambitious plan. Dur machine be sufficiently seasoned to allow of its last." been exalted by an emotion stronger than gunners say they were sick of killing, efficient use in ships' hulls, although, in and the colonel of the Rifle Brigade used many cases such timber had been used, the effects of drugs. They do not say 300 rounds, and cach bullet found its and had proved more or less satisfactory much, these men of ours, but there is a mark.
for a limited time. Although the suit queer light in their eyes shining out of
of ferro concrete under present conditions and on economical facca greyed by sleeplessness or atrenked with blood. They laugh in the same or the same method as those above describet.ability for ship construction had to be formation of enemy movements during way at any joke on the road, and some their officers, in Chili Trench and Avenue, point of view. With this object in view, promoted to be an observer, and quickly The Essex men fought like demons, say investigated from the naval architect's the retreat. As a sergeant he was officially times when shells are bursting close, as I heard gusts of laughter following crashes thera, sent back & message that they were vessel of reasonably large dimensions, to
our foremost trenches, and one body of it was decided to design a scurgoing cargo won fame for his expert handling of of high velocities about some groups of going to fight to the death. They did, assure themselves that such a vessel, con- men a day or two ago. They go march and no man came back. Some Scottish structed of ferro-concrete, would satisfy Cudden has had over 100 ught, and
guns in several stiff fights. ing up to the battle line with unfaltering battalions were hard pressed, and had conditions of
As the pilot of a single-seater scout feet, and their bands leading them on to
strength, wawerthiness, the edge of its first zone and it is like a fall. Since then counter-attacks have
to withdraw a short distance till night deadweight capacity, etc.
some wonderful escapes without sustain- It was eventually decided that a self-ing the slightest hurt. The crack German pageant as they pass, these long columns restored a good deal of the ground. propelled cargo vessel of about 1,150 tons pilot Immelmans was a deadly rival, and of men in steel hats, shouldering heavy
All day long our aeroplanes reported deadweight was as large as they were they had three duels, but the fight was packs, with their rifics slung, and these concentrations of troops pouring down justified in commencing as a first venture broken off on each occasion without either miles long of transport and these endless the Arras Cambrai road and other routes it was agreed that the vessel should man being able to claim en advantage. teams of mulc drivers and wagon-drivers of merch, and our artillery had so many comply with all the requirements obtain- and streams of mounted men. As an on-
At the beginning of January last it looker I have been caught up in these targets that they could hardly switch on sng for steel vessels, and the general was reported that ho had brought down tides for hundreds of kilometres from wers fantastic in their horror. Meansions, for reasons which occurred in pre McCudden, a warrant officer in the Royal
to them fast enough. The enemy losses scheme was based upon that of a similar 37 enemy machines.
ship constructed of steel. The dimen south to north, and the spirit of these while on our right again, below the Cam
The son of an old soldier, WA HA armies on the move seems almost visible brai road, our men were putting up that Pering the design, differed from those of Enginçere, Captain McCudden was born and as though all emotions in these men's heroic stand which I have partly describ-rying capacity, especially in length.ed at the garrison school and lived most. steel ship of the same deadweight car in barracks at Chatham. He was educnt- bearts were vibrant about one.
Men who hayo just moved up to hola ed in other messages. Suffolks on the The dimensions and other particulars of his life in barracks. At the age of
Wancourt Tillay road fought the enemy finally deciden perpendiculars, 20316.; both ways back to back with Germans on
upon were as follows:
the lines are hoping for an attack so that they can smaak more enemy divisions. Anger move in them because the enemy threw us back in place by overwhelming odds. Now, they swear, he will be stop ped and broken. Their own losses do not make them mournful. They wipe out of their minds for the time the horrors and tragedy they have seen. Fierce exalta tion at the destruction of the encing, grin pride in repulsing his bloodiest attacks,
the brunt of most formidable attacks on
Captain, McCudden, who is only 23 years of age, has been through practically every stage of the war. He went to France in the original Expeditionary Force, and, having some experience of the air, was pressed into service as an
The troops on the right of these bore abortions was apparent, its accept observer at Moos and gave valuable in-
cach side of them. Parties of Northam breadth moulded, 32ft.: depth moulded, berland. Fusiliers fought until all were 19ft. Sin. draught, when loaded 15ft. sin. killed or wounded. There was a battle.h.p, (about), 400; speed (about), 7 of eight hours round the battalion head-nots weight of steel in the ferro-concrete with rifles until they fell. Scottish Fusi- ship was about 43 per cent of that in quarters. Company commanders fought liers at Henin gave ground slowly under the steel ship. This was not by any means enormous odds, and killed the enemy all on ferro-concrete ship construction had such a large reduction as some writers the way back. One of our machine-gun anticipated, nor was it probably the batteries counted 400 German dead minianum quantity, which they could have
17 he was stationed at Gibraltar as a boy in the Engineers, and he tied with his captain for first prize in a shooting com→ petitioning
McCudden's distinctions:
The following is a summary of Captain Military Medal. Awarded in Septem- ber, 1916, for attacking and destroying to land. He also twice crossed the enemy an enemy machine and forcing two others lines at a very low altitude in attacks on
resolution to pay back and take back, opposite their position. Round Neuville adopted, had they been prepared to incur hostile balloons under very heavy fire.
strength. It imast not be overlooked that the saving of steel effected, especially under present conditions, was of the greatest importance. If they took, say, usion, they should have an additional 200 vessels similar to the one under dis carrying
Military Cross-Wou in February, hostila
Bar to Military Cross. For dash and
machine down to a height of 300-feet and drove it to the ground. skill from August 15th to Bent, 20th, 191, when he took part in many offensive destroyed five enemy machines, Patrols (over 30 of which ho ted), and
have changed the gentlest fellow into Vitasse and Henin Hill the enemy's a certain amount of risk in structural 1917, McCudden followed a man who handles his rifle or machine-bodies lie in heaps, gun with a secret promise to himself, ready to stop with his own body another All through this battle in the shelled German advance. Passion has taken arcag behind our trafie men were con possession of our mon because they know trolling the roads, timing the arrival of that if the enemy broke through them all shells, and passing the traffic through they have fought for would be jeopardis between those times. No troops have ever ed and this four years of war would have fought more bravely than these, and their been in vain for us. That seems to me name, will be remembered with honour the only explanation of the things that throughout our history, when all this will have been done by masses of our mon or seca like the mind, had dream of a world by small bodies isolated in rearguard
in conflict. actions astounding things in endurance and sacrifice
feet, whilst there would to our merely of 220,000 tons added saving of 51,000 tons of strel be a total
as compared with a similar number of stcol ships of equal carrying capacity, Moreover, this stoel was worked in the south of the line a certain body of Cana
Away from Arras and down on the form of reinforcement rods, and was not
dependent dians have been having some of the most for is upon the plate-rolling mills
production. As to the time for construction of veg astounding adventures in all this battles and ghting with a valour and herowels of this type as compared with stesi audacity that leave one breathless. They ships, their experience so far led them are officers and men of a machine-gun de to believe that in the cass of the first tachment organised in the early days of vessel of any type the time of construc
tion approximated the war by the French-Canadian officer,
coding suCCES-
In
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very
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U.B. 105-MILE GUN.
D.8,0,- For gallantry on November 29th-30th 1917, when he attacked and brought down an enemy two-seater within our lines, both occupants being taken prisoner. He also encountered, an enemy machine during very bad weather at of 100 feet, whom it was destroyed. 2,000 feet, and fought it down to a height
Bar to D.8.0-For his skill and gal lantry on November 23rd last, when he destroyed four enemy machine, by fear- lessness and elever manoeuvring.
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peace.
peace without plenty, would mean
and inc
LONDONERS' BIG BLOW. Yesterday I saw some of those men who have been fighting in the battle of Arras heroes of the heaviest blow the enemy hits received since March 21st. There were somo London regiments amongst them, and their band was playing a tattoo as the evening set in and a great glory of at the expense of himself and ten friends, a steel ship, but that gold tamed across the just of the hot looked forward to the day when they would be a marked reduction owing to "TIRED” PEACE MEANS
western sky after and with waiting enthusiasm, which sive ships. talion-it was the London Ride Brigade would be wanted for great service: That the possibility of using repeatedly a large came out after a eletp and a wash and day came on March 21st, and when I saw proportion of the shuttering or moulds By this means he believed that, with all a shave-all his kit had been lost in as French Canadian officer yesterday the material to band, a vessel similar to dug-out, but he had borrowed a razor tilien emotion, he knew that his iden plated in three and a half to four months, aral, dark, quiet man-speaking with that described in his paper could be com- from his batman-and nobody would live. guessed that this smiling man with per was justified, and that his officers and fectly bright eyes and easy manners hat men had made good to the uttermost Just come out of a battle where ruiny of imits of gallant service. These cars have his comrades fell around himn under for ten days fought a running fight with frightful shelling, where he had been a German aray in spate; they havo
Mr. Danicis, Secretary of the U.S.A. firing his rifle all day long at crowds of engaged German cavalry and smashed. Germans, and where he had seen dead them, checked enemy columns crossing Navy, on the assurance of naval ordnance bodies piled on dead bodies as the enemy bridges and pouring downwards, scatter experts that long-range guns capable of Russia out of the question, there were canso up in waves against blast ofed large bodies of men surrounding ours, surpassing the German gun now bombard. 200,000,000 people in Europe, most of machine-gun bullets and the fire of our and in ten days of crowded life have ing parts can be constructed, has issued whom were getting far less food a day feld artillery. He spoke just a word and helped to hold up the tide of their
orders for the construction of such a gun than the people of England got under destroyed many German storm troops,
Ordnance experts assert their ability to compulsory rations. In response to tho two about the tragedy of losing many of advance. Their own losses have not been construct a gun capable of hurling a pro. mperious demand of their underfeu his best and bravest then put that thought aside, and told of their heroit light for these Canadians have been jectile 105 miles-Central News.
populations, the Governments of the onery countries the moment peace was. defence and the slaughter of the enemy filled with grini passion, determined to
declared would rush to buy food whenever It was a great slaughter in that battle of die rather than yield to any adds and brought them to a standstill and dispers- they could got it. What effect this inevit Arras. From a document found on died. After a first call on March 21st,
when that happened they fought and ed them with heavy losses. able impulse on the part of the hungry German airman brought down in our and orders to move on the morning of Carbons, where these armoured cara upon the people in Great Britain entirely There was a herce action round Villere. hordes of the Central Empires would have lines it is now certain that the enemy the end, eight cars were in action the stopped a gap of 2,500 yards under a depended upon the character of the peace had most ambitious objectives, including the capture of Arras and the tum same day a hundred kilometres away Canadian officer, who was twice surround terms. If the Allies in Europe were will
ing
inconclusive peace they to make an datzchments followed them quickly and fought his way out. At the second states to go on saving food for export, divisions were holding the north of the Scarpe from Gavrelle Sometimes they fought mounted in these time all the crew were killed except the and the collapse of the conservation com to Oppy, and three special shock" long, grey open care, which I saw carly driver, but the officer dismounted, took paign would mean a vital reduction in divisions were assembled to pass through in the battle, wondering at them, and his gun, posted himself at a street corner, the exportable food surplus of the United and burn the ridge from the south, while sometimes they fought dismounted, with and fired on the attacking German, until States farther south one division was to take their machine-guns on the ground. But they were quite close, when he jumped the heights east of Arras and a Guards always they fought through ten days and into the car and drove away. One pot The Agures which I have bad before
me, added Bir William, Division to take Arras Itself. After that night, with less than twenty hours tery in action dismounted ran out of even if shipping were immediately avail
prove that the objectives were indefinite, This hat sleep all that time.
ammunition, but fought with bomba able on the declaration of peace to lift, talion of Londoners was holding the fore These cars near Maricourt gathered the enemy with their fists and empty stuffs, it would portable surplus of food
until these were spent, and then charged all the world's together 150 men who had been cut off,
still be impossible to raise and held the enemy at bay covering the Everybody is ready to help these cars and like its normal”: Jevel
revolvers and machine-gun barrels, the daily ration of the 200,000,000 people
the Continent of
to anything
ing of Vimy Ridge. Two German after a night without sleep, and othered in villages crowded with Germans, could not expect the people is the United
line
most line by a system of posts in advance of the battle line, among them Mill Post Bradford Post, and Towie Post, and the
HEROIC CANADIANS.
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ing bombardment on these, while he gass ed the support lines and the field artil mounted with their Vickers guus in front caused the Huns. At times the enemy that this presents a hopeless picture, and
of the of harbed wire to get observation. The like sheep without a shepherd--walk that the situation is likely to get worse iery positions and brought bis barrage enemy's frontal attack was stopped, but blindly into their guns, only to be mewn the longer peaos of any kind is delayed. backwards and forwards over our main defenses down there by Garmile and he worked round the Banks and the down. Everywhere they have been these Not at all. The United Kingdom in the
captain of an armoured car battery or Canadian armoured cars have helped to only European belligerent Bailloul and Oppy Wood, where one even- ing before March 21st I went to see some dared his men behind the wire. The steady the line and give confidence to the the stock of cattle has not of these London lads and saw those sinis and was killed as he came The Cnna infantry. They are the darlings of the diminished, and where the
production ter ruins and broken trees which three
troops, these grim fighting fellows with food actually been increased since tha days ago were anothered in a fury of diane had many casualties, and the jests on their lips and utter recklessness declaration of war. I think it is now fire. Most of the posts were blotted out captain's arm was torn away by an explo of life so long as they kill Germans. One safe to say that at the end of this year utterly. From one held by Westminsters sive bullet, and at last only a sergeant of their officers is called by the nickname we shall be well on our way to recover our a small body of men, surrounded by num One of them mounted a motor cycle and up when it was learnt that he had been
and two privates were left unwounded of Canada and a shout of regret went position of the seventies, in other words
be on the bers of the enemy, fought their way hack.
high road to independenso An officer of the London Rifle Brigade brought back cars and took back the blown off his motor bicycle by a shell imported bread supplies (Cheers) At who has been out since the beginning of wounded. Two cars found the enemy burst and is now a casualty, though not any rate, there is excellent indication that the war gays he never saw such an in- ing un,the road, and their machine seriously wounded. These cars have been very soonth we hold out we become more POSTAGE STAMPS, VIEW POST-CARDS tense bombardment and when it hitted killed them in large numbers. Near La history must be fully written by one of feclared, and that next year we shall be guns enfiladed thess field-grey men and in scores of fights, and one day their and more able to meet the problems that must arise when perce is considered and tion, wars after wave Behind then at Motté they fought heavy bodies of Ger their comrades. It is like a romance of afinitely better prepared to weather sonte distance rode the company comman an cavalry, killed a number, charest boyhood written by Mayne Reid or James food storm then we are now A ders on horses, and behind them the field them, and put them to fight. They have Grant, and one forgets the tragedy of peas will compel the Food Controller artillery. Each man carried full packs not been been since. At Cérisy a batta all this blood and death which follows stringently to cut down the daily, con and an extra pair of boots me man two lion of Germans 000 strong was encour the wake of those cars because of the sumption of bread, meat, butter, and extra paife as for a long narel and tered at cross roads, by, one car, which valour and hardihood and adventurous other foods in this country entailing rations for six days,
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