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THE MACHINE THAT ATTACKS LONDON

THE GOTHA BIPLANE

TUESDAY, JANUARY 15TH 1918.

ON THE MARCH

[BY 2ND-LIEUT, K, M, COLTILE]

Every soldier, whose unit is in any

hon every building was labelled 7/10 Blankshires Q.M.S. Store," or Gun- host Store or E Company Officers" Mess. But all were empty. It remind- ed" one of the abandoned canip of Sennacherib, King of Assyria. I looked

MAYEUROPEAN, Non-Astatio of Indian So much has been heard of late abouber of Tarks and Bulgarians bad arrived degree mobile, fooks forward with long ut my map to discover the name of this.

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the Gotha biplane that it is desirable, inve the Mancheter Guardian, set forth some facts about the machine, as that it may be seen in its true perspec tive, otherwise there is the danger that to the uninformed it may become a kind

for the special beneft of England. Prob. ably the fact that it is known as the Balkan, or Bucharest, squadron is the basis of the tumour recently arrived from Holland to the effect that n num-

at Ostend to be trained as aviators.

The Gotha bombing machine is a biplane with a span of about 80 feet from tip to tip of the wings and has a length of 40 feet from nose to tail-tip the height body, or fuselage, is similar to that of the ordinary tractor biplane, familiar to all, but instead of having an engine. of "begvy machine and be credited within the nose, this compartment is occupied all sorts of qualities which it does not by a gunner-observer, who also operates

the bomb-dropping controls. The for possess, or that, on the other hand, as word gan commands an are of rather appears to be the tendency in certain more than a semi-circle horizontally and so that it can fire anywhere vertically official technical quarters, it may be inside a sky are representing rather regarded as a slumsy German effort at more than a hemisphere round the front of the machine. The bombs, twelve in Frightfulness, and a lead us once more number, are carried under the pilot's into the fatal error of despising our compartment, which is between the upper enemies. The true position of the and lower wings and immediately behind intervals.and his draught horses only in through it was silent, deserted, haunted,

the forward gunner. The reason for carrying the bombs thus is that since the bomb case is right under what is called

balance is not, affected whether the case, is full or empty. Two extra bomba can bo carried under the forward gunner's compartment if desired.

machine is betwixt and between, it is nothing to bonst about so far as work

ing to the day when the war, shall cast strange place, and soon realized the nenn- off its gand-bags and its duck-boards, and tog of the phenomenon. This village, but two or three weeks before, had been just take instead to hedges and roads, Then behind the line. From it the 7/10 he will find again all that in the past Blankshires and other galiant batteli 29 has ninde war tolerable, the movement, had gone forth to war, and in the course of time they had returned to it toget the surprise, the exultation, the freedom, rid of the mud and other souvenira of the trenches. In the interval between then in a word, the poetry of war.

None desires this day more ardently characteristic victory, and the line had. and now Hindenburg had won a than the mounted soldier such as the moved many kilometres eastward, the artilleryman, to whom a war of movement soldiery had gone and the civilian inhabitants had apparently not yet re will restore that double capacity for turned. At last however, when enjoying life which association with his reached a turn of the shattered village horse gives him. As things are, the props, corrugated iron and the rest, and street we came upon a RE dump pit there we found a guard sure enough. But otherwise the place as we passed almost more of a solitude for that little knot of men in its centre.

gunner sees his charger only at long

the most distressing conditions strug- gling, themselves half gulfed in mud, to

we

manship or performance is concerned but the centre of lift of the machine, the draw the Ammunition limbers over little way bebind our old line and I began

îé in a very ureful weapon of war which can and does do work of considerable military value. It has the advantage of being the first neroplane of its type to be used regularly and solely for the parti cular work for which it is most suited.

THE GOTHA WORKS,

is

NA ALFORMIDABLE ARMAZENT,

shell-pocked tract of land. The brightest gleams of sunshine in such a life will be those rare occasions when a battery moves from one sector to another, and from this point of view the further apart those sector are the better.

From now onward my road lay but n to foar another lapse on the auctalled surface. But the Hun had never in these and the roads were so good that I was parts paid much attention to back areas, emboldened to attemptsa rather dubious Well aft of the pilot behind the wings,

looking drive that led to a highly ornate. chateau and then out the other side of its fargo cockpit for the after gunner,

courtyard to another main road. The who has a gun on the top of the fuselage which covers the whole after hemisphere One such trip my battery made last chateau, when viewed more nearly, show." of aky and rather mors, so that any spring, and it was with universal regreted signs of hostile bombardment, hut it hostile machine attacking from above of that, after five days of the open road, we courtyard had not fared so well. The Was still tolerably whole But the from either side is subject to the fire: of both the forward and after guns. pulled our guns into position again and entrance to it was barred by a yawning. Besides the top gun there is a third gurelegated our horses once more to the solid wall on the other made all attempts chasin and a most on one side, and a on the floor of the after cockpit firing behind or downwards along a bottomless wagon lines. But an even pleasanter at circumnavigation impossible. I had tunnel in the fuselage as described interlude was in store for me. We had to turn back and follow the main road, recently and the fuselage is 90 arranged

which ran right away westward and took at in the event of an attack from the made arrangements for a section to follow us to a village, lately deserted by the wear the forward gunnes can come aft, later, with a batch of remounts, whose British troops but still sparsely inhabit. past the pilot, and so the guns can be arrival was expected very soon. How-ed, and I liked the look of it so well that brought to bear on the pursuer

ever, it was found that the two guns I resolved to billet my command there must be brought up immediately and, as for the night. n result I was ordered to take forty horses

It still boasted a Town Major at any

It is this multiplication of guns and

firms of Germany but when German gunters which makes a formation of to the absent section by che quickest rate it had a Town Major's Office and

The Gotha biplane is built by the Gothaer Waggonfabrik Aktien Gesells cault, of Gotha. The firm is one of the great German waggon works, similar in its standing to such firms as the Bristol Carriage and Waggon Company or the Birmingham Wagon Works, or any of the great works which have been built up in the past, first ne makers of horse waggong, and later as makers of rolling stock for railways The Gotha W.F.A.G. was not among the pioneer aviation foresight and energy produced, with official support, the great National Fly ing Fund (Nationalfingspende) for the promotion of flying competitions at a time when our oficial people discouraged aviation and expressly forbade officers to fly in public-the Gotha firm started making good sound aeroplanes on ortho dox lines, fitted with good sound engines of the type so plentiful in Germany, thanks to official encouragement, and their pilot, Ernst Behlegel, won a first prize of 60,000 marks in the National Fund competition.

Since the outbreak of war the Gotha firm have made a variety of types of neroplanes. They have been quite successful in making seaplanes of ordin ary pattern, and they also made a very useful single-seater scout biplane known as the Falke (or Falcon) The big twin-engined bombing machine is a fairly recent development, The firm rung its own flying sehcol, known as the Duke Car!

School. at Gotha.

- EARLY FAILURES AND BUCCESSES.

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Gothas so difficult to attack Pursuing machines meed room in which to man- euvre, and unless the purauers carry two guns, cach firing forward, and at the same each attack a separate Gotha, they to certain to be out-gunned. If one pursuer gets ahead of his fellows he is the target for the concentrated fire of several machines, and unless the Goth formation is broken up it is impossible for several pursuers to attack one Gotha at the same time and so bringià superior ity of gung to bear. Despite this dificulty, however, our aviators have succeeded by sheer gallantry and dis- regard of personal danger in bringing down several of these formidable craft.

The power plant of the Gaths consists of two Mercedes engines of 200 h.p. each, disposed one on each side of the fuse lage, in between the wings, and each driving a pusher air screw, which revolves close up to the rear edge of the wings.

route I could devise, and myself return at once on the completion of my task. a corporal therein, by whom I was

assigned an empty house for my men.. It bad taken us five days to bring the uninhabited one next door for myself guns, but we had travelled by a circuí. and a machine shed in the rear, for my tous and prescribed route and in record-borzes. It was an open shed, but with ance with a prescribed time-table. My ropes stretched from corner to corner horses were heavy horses, whose normal round two sides. I thought my beasts gait is a walk, and as I could not do would do well enough. Unfortunately, the journey in a day I had perforce to during the night, one of thein leaned too take a wagon-full of forage. I could not, heavily against one of the corner pillars therefore, leave the roads, but even so and it and a large part of the roof reckoned on taking no more than two collapsed. None of my horses were hurt, days, returning myself in one......... but when, mama weeks later, a claim, for- My course lay due south, and thither warded and recommended by the Town Istered by map and compass. For Major, reached the battery, we replied several hours we jogged along cheerfully by claiming compensation for "shock enough, till suddenly the road, every to our horses. We have never received where the worse for wear and muddy any compensation, but we have never paid and left us struggling through an oxceed- with the recent ruins, gave out entirely any either

My next day's march was pleasant but ugly hoary field wherein the loaded uneventful; in a very little while we It was a light load, even for two horses, helped to construct nearly a year before. wagon made deplorably slow progress came to a battery position which I had.

but the mud became more and more and from there to our final destination The workmsaship in the Gotha is atrocious. To go back and try another I know the roada well By midday I extremely rough, and distinctly reminds road meant a good hours march and it had handed over my charges cafe and one that they were made in a waggon was evident that the map was no guide sound to the officer in command of the factory Nevertheless their performance to the present condition of the roads. derelict section and looked forward to is good. They are capable of reaching This one was marked on my 1:40,000 a pleasant and unencumbered ride on Breat heights and of maintaining a high map as installed, and was the only road the morrow.

slower than the fast German

The Carly German twin-engined ma chines were not a success deveral, of various type, were seen about the western front in 1915. These were made by the speed at an altitude at which most aero-directly connecting two fair-sized villages. And pleasant it would have been, forty planes begin to lose speed badly. Those But military traffic being mostly East kilometres cross country over which I Aviatik people and others, but they who have fought them say that when they and West, and the civil authority being had now the opportunity and the know- were slow and ungainly, and evidently have shed their bombs they reach the suspended, the road had been allowed to I did not find favour. It was not till early 18,000-foot level with apparent case, and broume founderous and at last had dis ledge to travel without being tied to

this year that the first twin-engined bombing squadron of Gothas appeared."

that when there they are little, if any, appeared entirely, so that the naked eye roads, if the day had not chanced to be This squadron was sent to the Balkans, machines. for enthalted my correre as trade of it-called evertert ever known. My

cortège and rode forward to

weatherproof coat was no more where it was used apparently for the Leat this description of the Gotha's reconnoitre. The track continued abomineffective than a prices of muslin and the bombing of Bucharest. There it had marits should give too high an opinion able for a good mile then, de itter ran down my neck all day, and considerable success, for the Roumanian of its value, it is well to point out that approached the next village my road out again at my boots; the mud was worse Flying Service was of little ase, and so we have had in England for a consider cropped up again in good repair, so than ever and the landscape was blotted it encountered practically no oppositionable time machines of higher quality determined to push on. It turned out I re-entered my dry dug-out, from which out. Yet, even so, it was with a sign that It also raided Salonika on several occa Mr. Dyott, formerly Flight Commander all right in the end, and we wers thankful I saw no prospect of moving far afeld sions, and lost a couple of machines in RNA.8 produced in 1915 a twin when we got clear of that appalling for many weeks to come. The Germa doing so, thanks to the skill and engined machine of high merit, and in slough. ⠀⠀

ugh ingenuity of the K.F.C. detachments on the Handley-Pago irm produced My route all this while had lain clear military genius, but we are inclined to my that open fighting would salt their that front. Apparently the work done another type, with much more powerful of any considerable military centres, but believe that we could cope with them: by the squadron in the Balkans afforded ↑ engines, which has since demonstrated to so much satisfaction to the German High the enemy in Flanders, both over land rounded by huts of all kinds, water anyhow, that we should welcome it from prezently we approached a village sarfairly adequately under those conditions Command that it was withdrawn and and sea, and so far away as Constan- troughs and other erections characteristic the personal point probably no infantry- transferred to the western front to form tinople that we are capable of beating of the British Army. But all were man, and certainly no mounted soldier, the nucleus of a considerable air feet the German at his own game?

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