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TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1938

For Ten Days He Was Most Famous Man

In The World

Twenty-three years ago to-day occurred one of the greatest one-man battles of the war. Single-handed Flight Sub- Lieutenant Reginald Warneford, in a tiny monoplane, attneked and brought down a German Zeppelin over Belgium.

He was the first man to prove that the giant airships could be defeated by airplanes. The only two Zeppelina previously destroyed had been bombed in their sheds.

In one day Warneford kaulshed civilian Zeppelins. He had proved them a failure.

fear of the

Warneford was awarded the V.C. Ten days later he was accidentally killed,

A

S dawn lit the Belgian sky on June 7, 1915, twenty three-year - Warnford old Reginald strolled slowly back to

camp.

He was, as usual, alone. He was not popular in the His Royal Naval Air Service. shyness was mistaken for cold- ness. Ile went about alom and he flew alone.

But he flew with the cold courage of the lonely wolf who fights apart from the pack.

On that June morning the hangars of Evere, near Brussels, loomed black against the sky. The world was quict. War seemed a distant thing.

PROTESTS WON'T STOP BOMBS Just about everything that can be said has been said about the bombing of Canton. That Plane Raked By

Then the noise of engines in the sky made him look upwards. A massive black shape was no sing down to the base.

is a horrible reflection of to-day's Frivilisation is admitted on afl

sides.

BY GERALD

SCHEFF

bravery. He tumbled out a few words of thanks in a language he did not understand.

Always Daring

And Foolhardy

At the outbreak of the war he rushed to join the Sportsmen's Battalion. Later he obtained a commission in the Royal Naval Air Service.

As a boy Warneford was nl- ways daring and foolhardy, He gave his parents much anxiety,

At Hendon, where he received He sat red-faced and embar- rassed while the cafe crowds his air training, Warneford sur- shouted "Vive les Allies et a bas prised his instructors by his

immediate confidence.

ed downwards over the back of les Boches!" the Zeppelin, now of its peril.

unconscious

Nearer and nearer he glided. He was so close to the airship that he could have landed on its back.

Next day at the buse he was handed a telegram. read:----

Nervously he tore it open. He

"}

Then he went to Belgium, and nothing more was heard of him was blazoned until his name round the world as the first man to destroy a Zeppelin.

But he had not been inactivo during that time.

most heartily congratulate you upon your splendid achteve- ment of pesterday, in which you, single-handed, destroyed an enemp Zeppelin. I have much pleasure in conferring upon you the Victoria Cross for this gallant act-Licorge

L Never before had a reward for

There were always six Hales so quickly be- bombs aboard and a Lewis gun which fired through the air-

Warneford's Movane was to be seen day after day in the skies about the Belgian coast. Always he was on a lone mission.

had

He released the bomb trig- ger. Six bombs fell. The last one hit its target. There was a thunderous roar as the Zeppelin exploded. Flames spread from end to end. The gallantry been fabric withered. The giant stowed. airship, swinging helplessly, But, apart from the valour of plane's propeller,

he Warneford's action, plunged to earth.

was the first He Sank effected what known destruction of a Zeppelin by airplane.

There had been carlier en- Warneford had no time to

The destruction of the monster counters between Zeppelins and Zeppelin was by no means his watch the Zeppelin fall.

The force of the explosion airplanes, but no pilot had ever only feat. threw his own machine upside seen a Zeppelin actualy explode down. There was danger of

Eddies caused by the ex- Poems And Songs

It fell on an orphanage at St. Amand. Two nuns and a num- ber of children were killed.

fire.

plosion made him loop the loop involuntarily.

and fall.

Submarines, Too

He had to his credit the sink- ing of several German sub- marines. He bombed trawlers outside enemy harbours and he About Him destroyed many enemy aircraft. Then came the most daring Warneford righted his mu-

In London, when the news single-handed exploit of the war reached home. Press and public which not only earned him, the Engine failure forced him to went wild with enthusiasm. The V.C. but gained him the French the rest of the way, straight for come down-in enemy territory, first of the air monsters which decoration the Chevalier

There was no time to lose. At for months had terrorised the 'Honneur,

chine.

ran

a spot of grass where stood his tiny Movane monoplane.

"Contact"

His engine roared.

The plane streaked across the fokl and soared into the sky.

But the Zeppelin saw him at It nosed back Into the

of

any moment he might be sur- men, women, and children of the He went to Paris for a week's rounded. Warneford worked civilian population, and wreaked holiday and found himself feted frantically to restart his engine. so great havoc, had been destroy- and dined everywhere. Cele In fifteen minutes he had suc- ed-and by a boy hero alone in a brities of all kinds kissed him on

tiny airplane.

Poems and songs were written about Warneford.

ceeded.

He flew back to his base.

Arrested

His mother, Mrs. Corkery, As A Spy thing daring."

said, "I knew he would do some

both cheeks.

He went to Buc, near Paris, to be decorated by the Minister of Marine, on June 17, ten days after his Zeppelin battle.

Whilo waiting Warneford ascended from Buc Airdrome to

Machine Guns

1 -was

first the

Zeppelin There are some who will | Warneford had seen. He excuse it by lamely pointing out that cities like Canton which are military bases, are fair targets for bonbardment. That may be in point of faet almost any city in the world can be argued into the category of things clouds. The crew hurried ma- strategically important from achine guns into every port. They military point of view. Very trained them on the overtaking

little attneker.

A few minutes' flight past A man who had helped teach fow of them

undefended.

Warneford's 'plane was swept Chent, and he saw, six thousand the youth to fly said, "I always test out a new biplane. Like Canton, they have their by bullets. It was raked from feet below, the still burning, thought Warneford would break

He had a passenger, an American He could approach twisted wreckage of, the Zeppe his neck or do big things." anti-aircraft batteries and their end to end.

journalist named lin he had brought down.

A poet wrote:-

Henry Needham. barracks and their railway It was then he tried strategy. All its crew of twenty-eight Homcusard returning to her German When about 750 feet from the

lair, stations and government build-] He turned his machine

away lay dead.

gound the machine canted and The dragon soared, exulting as she

Bew.

overturned. Warneford and ings. These things, apparently, from the Zeppelin as though giv- are fair game for fighters. The up the chase, and flew steadi- on the Belgian coast. He was But to a new Saint George of Sea Needham fell from their seats. arrested by the Belgians because incredible thing is that anyone He was 8,000 feet above the he had insufficient papers on him. in this day-with the memory ground. The German airship

had descended to 6,000 feet. of the 1914-18 war still fresh---

Back swung Warneford. çan countenance even an artillery | Shutting off his engine he glid- ed Warneford-just back from bon:bardment of a city, much less the dreadful business of l

no nearer.

ly towards Ostend.

Warneford landed his airplane

A spy might descend from the heavens as well as rise from the earth, so the Belgians march-

the greatest single-handed deed of the war--to gaol!

But later he was taken under.

and Airt

'Tis Warneford, Warneford, hurt-

ting through the blue, Warneford's mother received

Both were killed.

Warneford had not strapped himself in.

a letter in German handwriting. The King and Queen sent

aerial attack. There is this to points out that the best way to escort back to his base and re- every paper.

be said for artillery: it can

generally control its fire in such a way as to hammer an objective from reasonably long range with fair accuracy. It may spill a few shells into the quarters of the civilian population, but for

the

It read: "God curse you all." telegram of condolence to his The German Government sup- parents, pressed the news of the airship's

France and Belgium mourned with Britain. destruction.

Warneford's life story was in On June 21 Warnoford's body was brought home to London put a stop to such things is to ceived a true welcome from the He had been born in India and taken on a gun carriage to mortuary at Brompton men who before had ostracised and educated at King Edward the

He was feted and cheered. Grammar School, Stratford-on- Cemetery. In a cafe that night men and Avon. He entered the mercan- women kissed him, spoke of his tile marine in his teens.

awaken public. opinion to their horror. That may be. But if public opinion has not already been awakened by the grisly re- ports from Spain and China,

him.

there is little hope for any prac- GRIN AND BEAR IT tical response from that quarter the most part the unintended

in the future. The public feel- damage will be relatively light

ings can be sickened or outraged if a sincere effort is made by the without much difficulty. But the gunners to concentrate upon the odd thing about them is that so-called military objectives. repetition brings, more or less, But an air-craft bombardment immunity--which is good for the not for world' is an entirely different thing. A individual, but

peace. There is no denying plane at 10,000 feet is incap-

that people can accustom them- able of controlling accurately selves to savagery. If such flight of a 500-pound things are accepted by the missile to a fifty-yard-square leaders with the explanation target. And unless it is that this or that city was a fair it runs the risk of shattering the target because it contained mili- surrounding area. If, as it is tary objectives, then there is claimed, the Japanese have been nothing much to be done about jaiming at the military objectives it, If, on the other hand, In Canton-such as aerodromes, Governments take a strong stand railway stations, executive build-to put an end to these horrors, ***** |ings and barracks-it is a re- the people, will be ready to sup- markable illustration of the in-port them. The time is coming accuracy of prosent-day bombing when some nation, Is going to be that scarcely ten per cont. of tho forced, to save its self-respect, bombs have found the targets into doing something more than for which they were intended. prótest, And if the bombing This is an estimate of a woll- of cities which are of strategic informed Canton military man. importance does not cause it, The London Times, comment-perhaps the sinking of defence. Sosessor ling upon the Canton bombing, 'less merchantmen will.

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The funeral took place next day. Thousands lined the streets. Men and women sobbed,

His body was borne to the grave by seamen of the Royal

By Lichty Naval Division. Officers of the

“We may get the scats, yet—they're reading the atiquette column now!"

Naval Flying Wing were the pallbearers.

Precedent, etiquete, and dis- cipline forbade that the country should give Warneford a state funeral. But the women in the crowd made amends by their pre- sence and tears.

There were 50,000 women in Brompton Cemetery and in the streets.

All wore some touch of black. Warneford's mother stood among the women mourners.

Mr. Frank Lynn-Jenkins, R. B.A., the sculptor, made a model of Warneford which was erected over his grave.

It bore the words, "Courage- Initiative-Intrepidity."

A Decoration

In Diamonds Lord Derby, then Under- Secretary for War, unveiled the memorial. He said:

"It was against the Zeppelin murderers of women and child- ron that he cast his bombs. "

"I doubt whether any of the |many gallant acts: performed during this war have ever op- peated to the public imagination (Continued on Page 11.)

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