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A machine of ours ranged howitzers on a battery of two 5. howitzers which were destroyed, and another tuschino directed

guns on another battery, destroying one

emplacement and causing explosions which lasted an hour,

Covent Garden, and through the evening the men tako turns at the pians, to play what comes into their heads and cus of their hearts.

.: This link between music and flight may be a coinsidanse in the cus of 'ona §.

squadron (though I have heard of it clamehere), but it may be that tight is, the new qusio of life, and that the imagination of the younger generation is soaring upon rent wings, inspired to fight by the deep chords of emotion that in The pits is that just now they are instru earlier days weus into sound and colour.

ments of death.

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They have amazing adventures up thera in the sky," and learn strange thing. They learn the look of the great country below, so that every landmark is familiar

to them and any strange flush or shape is detected at once, and those things they

must learn in Ahree different scales of

So the record was from day to daylight, morning, afternoon, and evening. and the enemy in getting frightened for (bls, guns and withdrawing some of them because at each of those times the lande cape and the shape and shadows of is aro at least to safer places..

quite diferent The fourlessness of our man is not a virtue with then instinet. They attack equal odds with heresy of scholboys who thus selves into a football scrimmage;

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down into their own lines.

They fly above the bursting shells and the tumult of war, but hear nothing of Lit unless they _come_down_very_low__fot the humming of their engine in a grest song in their 'onts.

Bus they hear the Archies, which Literally the enemy is put to fight by make the paff-clouds above then), and lie in wait in the crossroads of the air these modern men of ours, se when the sometimes, but not often, the scream of Ble daru Black Knights (with the Iren other day one of our pilots dived as frerent shells going by them. A friend of Cross as their badge) to defend their hostile machines attacking one of our mine had a queer and frightful case of territory from all intruders-net, how-scours, and drive them of; and as when. this not long ago.. ever, with any great ancees---and SC

ja day or two ago, two others attacked Els was flying fairly low whom he saw provide exciting combats for our own four Fokkers the deadly Fokker, coming straight for him three-quarters of knighta errant.

"But armes our lines they it used to be called and drove them and heard its whining note, and a

* ton of metal, in the shape of a shell, venture rareigą

They are a new type of men, there tossed, na though in a rough it, by the pilots sad observers of the Royal Flying rush of the wind it made. It was a shell The German" Archies are Bring Corp. It is difficult to place them or to from ure of our 15in. Grannies, and this) them, ringing them round with white account for them. They seem to have pilot who met is on its way within 100 puff.clouds, which burst very close. ben bars to y. For the most part they yards was annoyed for the moment with close that one holds one's breath or speaks are very young mez-boys of 10 and 20 the gunners below who had por worried a whisper-"They've got him"-until & though older men twise their age and about the bird in the sky, which was"my sccond ister nas can see the seroplate more are found here and thers, having friend. skimming onwards steadily and quite come out of professions like the law and careless of these explosions which follow the Civil Service, and taken to the air men, these air pilota of ours, and though Below these like duck to water, but surprised with some of them are very musical, they do fying men of ours shells are crashing and thenisalves. The younger men are clean- not disdain other joys of life, like a good smoke is remitting up, and villages are cut, Ene and delicately-made teller, as dinner in semo dining place behind the burning, and, there" is all the tumult of far in I know, them rather highly-strong lines, when à dud day" makes Lying "off." And for some of us, pot of the battle, but they circle round as sloot as and nervona in temperurent.

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It is quite curious that many of them from all this earthly strife-yet not aloofare men of great musical talent. In one because they help to direct the thunder squadros I know there are nearly 20 men bolts, as some of the old gads did.

who are all very full of musical talent. One of them, a scripling, come out of the trenches to volunteer as an airman, with leng screede of music which he had written down "out of his head, a children may, without hearing ʼn note ni it played until he came back. At night. when dusk creeps through the sky, and one by, one the homing birds fly down Mr & Mrs Athol L.Mr G. Holman

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Mr and Mrs J, F. piuno in the aerodrome, and one of them Mr JH. Haring, brings out his vicha and plays it with ars. E. I Belilies

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On July 28th, four of our aeroplanes paid a surprise visit to Moas. the scene of our earliest fighting two years ago, and reminded the enemy of our contemptible little army of those days, by tying low and dropping bombe on the rolling stock in the railway station and upon sheds full cf munitions. They were. leisurely in their cirelings, and stayed until fires had exploded at four different points and much ammunition had been blown up. Then they came home to dinner.- -. --------- Every day and all day long they are out and about, across the German lincë, observing for our artillery, and directing: the fire of our guns upon the enemy's batteries and other targets which they! I have seen below with their hawk's eyes, This work, eo audaciously and skilfully deno, baa given us an undoubted mastery of observation, which the enemy to longer holds. The German gunners now have to shoot, mostly, by the map, and although they are very wise in science, it le"not the same thing na boing able to direct their firm by direct observation of results! Our airmen have been of vask service in the daily battle of guns, and it le largely due to their fights that our

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