BRINGING DOWN A ZEPPELLIN
The airs'up was Hying very high
wtn or here times as high it seemed
to me, as those of the first rial—
when a couple of scarchlighs way
laid it at the edeg of a' cloud, but
even it an altitude which was hardly
less than 12,000 feet it appeared huge,
certainly la’ge- fiati any I a > l ever
seen befor.i. My gb ss was la-0 ready
and I followed It closely. Tit” tils
were less pronounced than those of
other raiders 1 had seen, and the
nose api>oared to be much sharper*
The gondolas—of which I am under
tlie impression there were more than
two—appeared to be almost entire
ly inclosed In the body of the ship
Itself.
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This Zepp, It was very evident, did
not want to drop bombs ;in fact, • it
had probably dumped all, or nearly all,
of its explosives already and was try
ing lo get away. Its speed was great
hut its course rather erratic, even be
fore the firing began. As for its size
the length of my extended binoculars,
held at arm’s end Just about blotted
It out. It was about as targe as a
15,000 ton steamer would look at two
m'lles.
The firing, when it began, was as
ordered and methodical as the search
light work had been. It seemed lo come
in one great salvo from the guns of a
carefully determined area to which
the order had doubtless gone at the
same instant. Even before it began,
the airship had started emitting clouds
of steam or gas in on endeavor to
conceal itself and to this must have
been due the fact that a very small
.number of shell bursts—considering
I lie gnus in action—were visible. The
trailing white cloud was mottled with
bright Hashes inside it, however, and
from the fact that these were above,
below, and at boh ends of the fugitive
gas bag, there was no doubt that the
latter was receiving its full share of
tlie spiteful missies directed at it.
So far as I observed, none of the shots
fell far short or went w'ide to any great
length, ns had those of the early
raids. The problem of ranging and
bitting the Zeppelin hail undoubtedly
been solved; it was now a question
of what effect Iho hits were going to
have.
T did not time it. but my impression
is that the sudden burst of Hring did
not continue longer than a minute or
two. This fact, and the fact that the
airship must have been well within
range of many guns when the firing
ceased, inclines nte strongly to the
belief that it was not a part of the plan
to bring the raider down. . . . but
merely to disable it sufficiently to
make it the easier prey for the aero
planes that had been mustered to fin
ish it as soon ns It reached a region
where Its fall would Inflict the least
damage. .
Partly aided by Its own swelling
clouds of gas, partly by the lowering
fringes of the shifting cumuli the
raider disappeared from sight four or
live minutes after the firing ceased,
but not before I had been aide plainly
to discern that there had already been
some reduction In Its altitude. Twice
or thrice swift shadows cutting the
shafts of wheeling searchlights had
given sure hint of the aerial ambush
preparing, and I was somewhat sur
prised that so much as nine or ten
minutes elapsed before a quick red
yellow flash of light In the ..
sky told that the coup de. grace had
finally been given. For six or eigtit
seconds this light spread—evidently
inside the outer envelope—until the
whole body of the Zeppelin was out
lined in smoldering fire Then there
seemed to he ajfrcat explosion, -though
I heard no soun t of it—a hoi geyser
of flame shot skyward and the frame
of the airship upended and began to
fall, throwing a light strong enough
to cast shadows in the roRy glow that
played over T.ondoa,—I,. U. Freeman
in Popular Mechanics
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BRITISH FORCES IN
THE PROMISED LAND
After twelve months of Incessant
toil in the Sinai desert, sometimes
tight ing hard, always digging, making
military work, building railways, con-!
structing pipe lines and roads, and
tot ever mulching over the Inhospitable
wastes, t.l11* British troops have at
last come Into the, Promised Band says
the story of the British official eye
witness with tlie expedition.
What a marvelous chan<g of scene!
Behind them is a hundred miles and
more of montonons sand, blazing and
shimmering under a torrid sun, with
here and there a group of palms to
relieve the sameness of the desert.
Behind them, too, is the Intolerable
glare of the noonday sun, which is
never softened except when the
khnmseen lifts the dust and forms a
screen through which the sun appears
as during an eclipse. But the sand
storm is a worse torment than the
penetrating rays, for it brings addi
tional heavy labor to men with parch
ed throats and scorched skins.
The British troops in the desert
column are now free from these trying
conditions They are in Palestine,
Before them ,as far as the eye can
reach, is unfolded a picture of trans
cending beauty. When the troops
from the desert come up over the ridge
to ltafa and look out over the billowy
downs, they invariably break into
round of cheers.
Before and around them everything
is green and fresh with the greenness
and freshness of springtime. Big
patches of barley, for which the plain
south of Gaza is famous, shine hke
emeralds ami the immense tracts of
pasture are as bright and warm ns Die
rolling downs of Berkshire. There is
an abundance of gorgeous flowers
lighting up the vivid greenness of the
pla'in as if in welcome to the oncom
ing army The effect of this scene on
troops who have become desert veter
ans can better he 'imagined than de
scribed.
Beyond Uafa, reconnaissance par
ties may see the high minaret of Gaza
above the dark framework of trees
enclosing the town. The mosque was
formerly a Christian church built by
Knights Templar in Die twelfth cen
tury when the Crusaders fortified
themselves within Gaza’s walls.
Away on the dight, beyond the aban
doned Turkish stronghold of Wnh
Sheik Narun is Beersheba, lucked In
the plain beneath the southern end of
the hills of Judea.
The first town in the Promised Land
entered by the Billtlsh itroops was
Khun Yunus a not unlovely collection
of houses amid wonderfully fertile
gardens hedged armind I»> impenetra
ble walls of huge cactus With stems
two feet in circumference. Prom a
distance the green foliage of orchards
and gardens provided i delightful foil
lo the sand dunes which h'd the view
of the Medtorranean's hloe waters
Khan Yunus is a mere shadow of Its
former self. It lias a mean bazaar,
and there are ruins of a once sump
tuous palace.
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"What is the meaning <>f the word
‘adage'?" a schoolmaster asked.
"A place to put cats into," was the
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"What put that Idea into >11111
head ?”
“Well, sir doesn't it say in Shakes
peare, ‘Like the poor cat in the
adage’?”—Ex.
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Following tra the lowest recorded
temperatures for this year and last
on tlie days teslguuted. The minus
sign before a number means below
■ero.
U. S Weafher Bureau.
1916 1917
June 1. 30 35 I
June 2. 31 31
lune 3. 30 38
June 4. 36 42
June 5. 38 36
June 6 . 28 14
June 7 . 27 42
June 8 . 27 42
June 9. 27 40
June lA. 44 36
June 1 1 . 44 34
June 12.43 as
June 13. 39 40
June 14 . 36 42!
June 15. 36 48 •
lune 16 .36 44
June 17 .35 48
June 18.. .. . 35 38
June 19 . 36 40
June 20. 41 36
June 21 . 41 44
June 22 . 32 37
June 23 . 38 38
June 24 . 42 40
ne 25 . 43 40
June 26 . . . 48 38
June 27.,50 40
June 28 . 43 43
June 29 . 40 38
Juno 3t- . 46 35
July 1 . 48 60
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