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INDIA DEFENDED AT BAGDAD

GENERAL MARSHALL'S PLANS TO FOIL THE ENEMY.

THE FATHER OF THE AEROPLANE.

A TALK WITH ORVILLE WRIGHT

[BY FRANK DILNOT.]

I stood in a tig meadow at Dayton,

[BY MAJOR-GENERAL SIR F. MAURICE

would be profitless to reopen the story of our first ventures and early fail-Ohio, near a modern battleplane which ures in Mesopotamia present interest was just preparing for flight, and talked centres in what we are doing there now with Mr. Orville Wright, one of the two- Sporking in the House of Lords on April famous brothers who first left the ground. 9th, Lord Curzon said:"We are an in a heavier than air machine and estab Eastern as well as a Western Power, and lished the foundations of the aeroplans the pillars of our dominions are planted at Delhi and Cairo no less than in the islands. We were drawn into the Meso potamian campaign by the necessities of Imperial defence. That means that we are defending India at Bagrind.

we know it today,

The father of the aeroplane for he is no less than that now that his brother wilbur is dead-isa quiet-voiced,

slender little man etrangely reminiscent of Sir J. M. Barrie in his reticence and modesty. I thought he looked very Eng

The Germans have suffered no more grievous illusion in this war than the one which arose from their belief that our Empire was a rotten tree, the branches of which would fall at the first storm. They lish when I was introduced, in his dark looked particularly to South Africa overcoat, bowler hat and trim moustache.

and India for troubles which

Egypt

would canso us give embarrassment, and, touched with grey. There was the man- in fact, expected, and prepared to assist, ner of the English gentleman with him the outbreak of open revolt in all three.

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brought these hopes to nothing as much assertive. His dark blue eyes had s as have the successes of our arms in the genial welcome in them. He scomed glad more distant theatres of war.

to sec one. He was very interested in what the visitors had to say-very much. Yet as regards the enemy's attempts on more interested than in explaining his India, we have had and still have our anxieties. Before Maade entered Bagdad, own views. Withal gentleness shone from and, by joining hands with the Russians, him, and a practised observer of inen and established an effective barrier against the chemy attempts to penetrate further things, if without knowledge of the man, East, Geranan agents, and bands ander would have found him a person of cul Gernian leadership, had entered Persio

freely, reached the frontiers of India, and tute, something of a dreamer rather than even penetrated Afghanistau, whence they a man of action who had produced, one were turned back by our loyal friend the

Ameer. With the collapse of Russia the of the world's great discoveries. barrier established on the frontier of Persia broke down, and the road to Tur- kish and Germon ambitions was again

open

4 PROGRESS AN AERIAL INVENTION.

I had the advantage of several hours with Mr. Wright during the afternoon

What_baye_we_bem doing to met this menuco?. Maude's policy after he entered and evening and as a result, I was eu- Bagdad was to use his central positionabled to get a little nearer the real mar¬ to strike out right, left, and centre, than is usually possible on a formal fow

the enemy as he got his chance. In fines of pe finder the enemy's дне advance are limited to the water ways, which converge on Bagdad; the Diala coming down from the north-cast and

the Persian frontier, the Tigris from Mosul and the north, the Euphrates from the direction of Aleppo and the north

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It was as we moments introduction. stood in the meadow watching the huge war plane making ready, and emiling at the grim face of the experienced pilot as he learned that he was to take up young enthusiast who had never been in the air before, that I asked Mr. Wright cach

With lines of railway running up o if there was not a tremendous difference of these river valleys from Bagdad, we between his initial aeroplano and those have been able to strike swiftly and sue- marvels of science which are now engaged cessfully against an enemy who, without in battle over the Wesetra front railways and with deserts to traverae, To my surprise he said there was little. cannot readily transfer his forces from difference in fundamentals. The wings ons river line to another. It is told of were very much larger and, of course, Forrest, the Confederate cavalry leader there were a score of incidental improve--

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the enemy's, and we get there first with the most men

asked by lady for the secret of himents, but, so far as the general idea and successes in the war, and replied, "Ma'am not a great deal of difference.

the general appearance went, there was I got there first, with the most men." That is exactly what has been happening Later on I ssked Mr. Wright to tell in Bicaopotamia. Our carly troubles me about the historic moment when his arose mainly because we had no railways | aeroplane first left the ground and went and could not obtain sufficient river into the air. He smiled at the memory, steamers our communications were, in and his eyes lighted up. My brother fact, bad. Now we have adequate rail Wilbur and I had been experimenting ways and an ample river Blect our com with gliders on the sides of hills for somo munications are good, much better than

time, he said We had devoted our- selves to exhaustive calenlations with re--- gard to progress through the air, calcula tions which, of course, were increased It will be remembered that early in the and multiplied as our experiments pro year General Marshall struck with his greased. Finally, we built an airship left on the Euphrates and occupied Hit; and put a motor in it, with a view to then, after a pause, he attacked the Tur trying to make a flight. We went down. kish force holding Bagdadie, about twenty to North Carolina on the shore. It was... miles up-stream of Hit, and completely in the winter, on December 17th, 1903, annihilated it, capturing over 5,000 pri that we made the venture down there. Bonors Our pursuit carried us to Ana, We got the machine out in the morning nearly 200 unles north-west of Bagdad, I remember it was about 10.30. Thera and enabled us to destroy all the con siderable preparations which the oneming up things a man made his appear had made for an attack upon us hy the

GENERAL MARSHALL'S PLANS,

was nobody about, but while we were fix-

Kuphrates lines and unce, attracted by the unusual sight of

It now appears that Marshal! has the aeroplane.

drawn in bis forces to Hit, as the Turks What is this?" he asked. I told him have reported that they have reoccupied it was flying machines: Bagdadie. It is clearly no part of his plan to weaken his power of getting there árst by extending his advance beyond what his communications

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said, smilingly

Do you expect to fly with it?" he

your machine

*** Yes," 1 answered, “ that is, if they can sustain, conditions are favourable." Having cleared the Euphrates of the

Oby yes," he said, advanced ases, just as Maude cleared the Turkish; base at Tekrit one will By--if the conditions are favourable

Marshall, free from any anxiety The intonation made his meaning as to his

perfectly of and his right, where is the gap left by the apparently having no time to waste on withdrawal of the Russians.

The moment came such useless fads By a series of rapid and successful when we were to start the machine. It blows, which have resulted in the capture was a question who should take the first of more than 1,200 prisoners and twelve trip, Wilbur or I. We tossed a penny us guns, he has practically annihilated the to who should be the first. Wilbur won Second Turkish Division, which was on He got into the machine, and then after the Persian frontier to the north-east of

Bagdad. We have occupied Kilri, with a lot of trying we couldn't start it Wo its valuable coal mines, and have pressed I took my turn. The machine began to spent some time in adjustment, and then on through Kirkuk to the lesser Zab, at

the point where the road to Mosul crosses rise in an undulating kind of way, then that river some 80 miles south-east of the it got clear off the ground, some 15 fect latter town.

HOT WEATHER SEASON. We now leard that our cavalry have advanced up the Tigris to the rapids of Fattah 130 miles north of Bagdad, about miles below the junction of the Tigris

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or more, and made a flight of something like 180 feet. That was the first flight. Later in the day we had longer trips."

PEYING MACHINES IN WAREFANZ.

and the lesser Zab.e by these eventual psa in WETU

successes cleared

I asked Mr. Wright if he had any idea, when he and his brother were trying to make the ring machine, as to their circle round From the very first, be said, the Bagdad. Before attacking us in force idea of their use in that way was in my the enemy, being without railways, must mind re-establish the advance depôts we have I asked him if in the course of his destroyed and l them up with the neces experiments he had read a story by H. sary food, stores and munitions, a

Blow

G Wells in which the author brought and toilsome business, when he is depen-into being flights of aircraft, demon

dent

upon river-borne traffic. More important for our

immediate

·pur-

strating their destructiveness, and going pose, thess successes will certainly have so far as to visualize bir battles over an elicet in Persia, where waverers may ed for a moment. No, he said I American territory Mr. Wright ponder- doubt whether the

it as great a menace to our position

will have begun, and not brought with heard of the story afterwards. I cer collapse of

in tainly didn't read it before. I don't the East as it has to that in the West think 1 bave read it now." He spoke

The hot weather which is now setting apologetically.

in forms as effective a bar to active mili Mr. Wright lives at Dayton with his tary operations as the winter mud in sister. She has been a great help to him Flanders, and neither the Turk nor the all his life. The mention of her continu German like it more than our own men.ally creeps into his conversation. I It therefore will not be surprising it we asked him his address, “Oh, just Orville do not bear much from this part of the weight, Dayton, he said, I suggested world for some time to come. Not the Orville Wright, America," might con least of the advantages we have gained

by our recent efforts is that we have ceivably reach him. "Oh, yes," he said occupied a portion of the Persian foot in a matter-of-fact way," Letters ad- hills which give as healthier country for dressed to Miss Wright, United, tates, summering our troops than the plains of have been more than once delivered to my Bagdad afford-Daily Chronicle.

sister here.”: