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TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1938

PROTESTS WON'T STOP BOMBS Just about everything that

can be said has been said about the bombing of Canton.

That

is a horrible reflection of to-day's civilisation is admitted

on

اله

For Ten Days He Was Most Famous Man In The World

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

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

In one day Warneford banished 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

unconscious

BY GERALD SCHEFF

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

He sat red-faced and embar- rassed while the cafe

Always Daring

And Foolhardy

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

As a boy Warnoford was al- ways daring and foolhardy. He gave his parents much anxiety.

At Hendon, where he received crowds his air training, Warneford gur- shouted "Vive les Allies et a bas prised his instructors by his

immediate confidence.

Next day at the base he was handed a telegram.

S dawn lit the Belgian et downwards over the back of les Boches!"

sky on June 7, 1915, the Zeppelin, now

of its peril. twenty three-year - Warnford Reginald

back to słowly

old strolled camp.

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

ness.

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

On that June morning the hangars of Evere, near Brussels. loomed black against the sky, The world W11H quiet. War seemed a distant thing.

Then the noise of engines in the sky made him look upwards, A massive black shape was no

sing down to the base.

Plane Raked By

Machine Guns

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

He released the bomb trig- ger. Six bombs, fell. The last one hit its target. There was a thunderous roar as the Flames exploded. Zeppelin

read:

Nervously he tore it open. He

Thott heartily congratulate you upon your splendid achieve- ment of pesterday, in which you, single-handed, destroyed an enemy Zeppeitz. I have much pleasure in conferring upon you the Victoria Cross for this gallant act-George

B.I."

Never before had a reward for spread from end to end. The gallantry been so quickly be fabric withered. The giant stowed. airship, swinging helplessly, plunged to earth.

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

But he had not been inactive during that time.

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

There were always six Hales bombs aboard and a Lewis gun which fired through the air- But, apart from the valour of plane's proreller.

he had Wurneford's action,

was the first He Sank It fell on an orphanage at St. effected what Amand. Two nuns and a num- known destruction of a Zeppelin ber of children were killed. by airplane.

Submarines, Too There had been earlier cn- The destruction of the monster counters between Zeppelins and Zeppelin was by no means his

Warneford had no time to watch the Zeppelin fall.

The force of the explosion airplanes, but no pilot had ever only fent.

seen a Zeppelin actualy explode down. There was danger of threw his own machine upside and fall. fire. Eddies caused by the ex- Poems And Songs plosion made him loop the loop involuntarily.

Warneford righted his

ma-

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 In London, when the news single-handed exploit of the war chine.

reached home, Press and public which not only carned him the (1 WAN the first Zeppelin

Engine failure forced him to wont wild with enthusiasm. The V.C. but gained him the French Me ran

of the Chevalier sides. There are some who will Warneford had seen.

There was no time to lose. At for months had terrorised the d'Honneur. excuse it by lamely pointing out the rest of the way, straight for come down-in enemy territory. first of the air monsters which decoration

a spot of grass where stood his

He went to Paris for a week's any moment he might be sur- men, women, and children of the that cities like Canton which are tiny Muvane monoplane.

rounded. Warneford worked civilian population, and wreaked holiday and found himself feted. "Contact" military bases, are fair targets

frantically to restart his engine. so great havoc, had been destroy- and dined everywhere. That may for bombardment.

His engine roared,

Cele-

In Afteen minutes he had suc- ed--and by a boy hero alone in a brities of all kinds kissed him on

tiny airplane.

both cheeks. ceeded.

Poems and songs were written about Warneford.

He flew back to his base. Arrested

The plane streaked across the be. In point of fact almost any field and soared into the sky.

But the Zeppelin saw him al city in the world can be argued

once. It nosed back into the

His mother, Mrs. Corkery, the category of things into

clouds. The crew hurried ma-

As A Spy said, "I knew he would do some

thing daring." strategically important from achine gun into every port. They military point of view. Very trained them on the overtaking

A man who had helped teach A few minutes' flight past little attacker. undefended. few of them

Warneford's 'plane was swept Ghent, and he saw, six thousand the youth to fly said, "I always have

It was raked from feet below, the still burning, thought Warneford would break their by bullets. Like Canton, they

A poet wrote:- anti-aircraft batteries and their end to end. He could approach twisted wreckage of the Zeppe- nis neck or do big things."

lin he had brought down. barracks and their railway

All its crew of twenty-eight Homeward returning to ker German The dragon seared, crulling ns she lay dead. stations and government build-He turned

few, ings. These things, apparently, are fair game for fighters. The incredible thing is that anyone

In this day--with the memory of the 1914-18 war still fresh- | can countenance even an artillery bombardment of a city, much less the dreadful business of

no nearer.

It was then he tried strategy. his machine away from the Zeppelin as though giv- ing up the chase, and flew steadi- ly towards Ostend.

Awung

Warneford landed his airplane

lair,

and Airi

on the Belgian coast. He was But lo! a new Saint George of Sea arrested by the Belgians because

'Tis Warneford, Warneford, hurt-

ling through the blue, He was 8,000 feet above the he had insuflicient papers on him,

German airship ground. The

A spy might descend from

Warneford's mother received had descended to 6,000 feet.

the heavens as well as rise from a letter in German handwriting. Back

Warneford, the earth, so the Belgians march- Shutting off his engine he glid- ed Warneford-just back from the greatest, single-handed deed of the war-to gaol!

But later he was taken under

put a stop to such things is to ceived a true welcome from the

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

While waiting Warneford ascended from Buc Airdrome to test out a new biplane.

an

He had

passenger,

named American journalist Henry Needham.

When about 750 feet from the gound the machine canted and overturned. Warneford and Needham fell from their seats. Both were killed.

Warneford had not strapped himself in.

The King and Queen sent a

parents.

It read: "God curse you all." telegram of condolence to his The German Government sup-

France and Belgium mourned pressed the news of the airship's

with Britain. destruction,

Warneford's life story was în

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

be said for artillery: it can

peace.

GRIN AND BEAR

IT

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. Olicers of the

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.

On June 21 Warneford's body was brought home to London IIe had been born in India and taken on a gun carriage to mortuary at Brompton generally control its fire in such awaken public opinion to their men who before had ostracised and educated at King Edward the

him. He was feted and cheered. Grammar School, Stratford-on- Cemetery. horror. That may be.

He entered the mercan- But if

In a cafe that night men and Avon. a way as to hammer an objective

public opinion has not already women kissed him, spoke of his tile marine in his teens.. from reasonably long range with

been awakened by the grisly re- fair accuracy. It may spill a

ports from Spain and China, few shells into the quarters of|

there is little hope for any prac- the civilian population, but for tical response from that quarter in the future. The public feel- the most part the unintended) damage will be relatively lightings 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 is an entirely different thing. A individual, but not for world 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 the flight of a 500-pound things are accepted by 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 alming at the military objectives it. If, on the other hand, in Canton-such as aerodromes, Governmenta take a strong stand railway stations, executive bulld-to put an end to these horrors, ings and barracka-it is a ro- the people will be ready to sup- markable illustration of the in-port them. The time is coming accuracy of present-day bombing when some nation is going to be that scarcely ten per cent. of the forced, to save its self-respect, bomba have found the targets into doing something more than for which they were intended. protest. And if the bombing This is an estimate of a well-of cities which are of strategic informed Canton military man. importance does not cause it, The London Times, commont-perhaps the sinking of defence- ing upon the Canton bombing, 'less merchantmen will.

the

"We may get the seats yet they're reading the etiquette column notol"

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

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

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

A Decoration

In Diamonds

Under-

Lord Derby, then Secretary for War, unvailed the memorial. He said:-

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

"I doubt whether any of the many gallant acts performed during this' war have ever ap- pealed to the public imagination

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