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This is the second instalment of the
interesting article written by Lord
Northcliffe for the Overseas Daily
Mail and gives the article complete.
1‘. has been published in the leading
li tiers throughout the United States;
l find a lack of home newspapers to
be a general complaint and any Am
erican who sympathizes with these
tine boys fighting out here, ni'ight do
worse than post a newspaper every
week, preferably one not giving- mere
ly the German side. Such newspapers
should be addressed to the American
soldiers, care of Commanding Officer,
ltoyal Canadian Regiment, British Bx
peditionary Force, France, i should
say that chewing gum, magazines,
woolen comforts, tobacco cigarettes,
and any portable and proservahle
luxuries would be welcomed, tho there
is no lack of anything except ns 1
have said newspapers.
The American boys are proud, and
rightly proud of the deeds of their
own American men and officers. In
the midst of this vast army—the Brit
ish Army 'in France has now been
publicly stated to exceed two million
men—they occupy an anomalous, if
proud, position.
Among heroic dead there is no great
er story than that of the gallant offi
cer, for twelve years in the American
cavalry who joined In the groat Ca
nadian attack on the Iteg’tna trench—
named after the Canadian town of
llegina. Though not engaged in that
particular operation he coil'd not re
sist the temptation to dash over the
papapet with a cry of "Corne on Boys.”
Though terribly wounded he managed
to struggle forward toward the Gor
mans, but was carried back and then
killed by shell-Are. He Is one of the
many Americans whose dare-ilev'iltry
has endeared them to their Canadian
and British associates.
While most of the newspaper dis
patches from Wisconsin, with, 1 should
think Swedish blood in h'is veins, said
"Our people at homo do not seem to
realize that talking peace terms with
tlie Germans sti'l in France means a
German victory. The home folks do
not know what we know, in the mat
ter of fight tiie Prussians, brave as
they are, are down and out.” "The
German government is crying out for
peace,” added a hatchet faced Yankee
who hail gone West as a hoy, made
good and thrown up all for the war,
“Because the German Army and the
German people know that we have
got them where we want them.”
There is little irttterness against the
enemy among the Canadian. American
and British Soldiers. They admire
his mass lighting, his machine like
discipline, hut they have no use for
him in the kind of warefare now go
ing on. “You will find the Canadians
and Americans a thinking Independant
Army” remarked the distinguished
British general who had given me per
mission to spend this very interesting
day, and so 1 found them to be. They
had brought to the stock of vitality
anti knowledge embraced in the won
derful citizens armies of Franec and
England the qualities inherited by the
generations which have spanned the
North American continent with its
railroads, chained Niagara, linked up
the world’s cities and armies by tele
phone, lits the dug-outs with incan
descent tamps, cheered them with
canned music" and brought a thous
and other mechanical ideas to perfec
tion.
If you take a map of the United J
States, and go up and down the Amer
ican line 'in France, you will find no
city great or small which has not sent
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I a flying man, a bomber, an artillery- i
man, a sniper or a dispatch rider to
I help destroy Prussian Depotism. In
I the United States you probably bear
more of the spectacular part of the
j American work—that which en
thrals the whole world—the new art of
j fighting in the skies. I confess indeed
I that altho 1 have spent many weeks
■ at the war, the spectacle of winged
‘ fighters high in the sun-light is one
| that holds my atentlon, as nothing in
the world ever has. In pence times
when one was younger one had been (
thrilled by a close baseball or foot
ball match; but when sheltered per
I haps in a trench, one sees two specks
j approaching each other and with a1
pair of strong glasses gradually under- i
j stands that one is an Ameircan who j
has given tip everything—home, pros
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peilty and probably life—to throw
himself into a foreign army', and that
tin' other is a brave German doing
what he conceives to be his duty, one
realizes that here are two combatants
worth watching.
Very rarely do the Germans venture
over our lines, and one has to lie very'
far forward nowadays to get a gootl
view of a light between the Allies and
the enemy in the air. I have had that J
good fortune several times. Air fight
ing in 1914 bears as much resemblance
to air fighting in 1917 as an old steam
automob’ie to a six cylinder of today.
There is perpetual match i.n speeding
up between the enemy and the Allies.
Pour or five miles an hour extra pace
mean everything. it is not the in
crease of engine power to over 200 h-p
that has brought about the change so
much as the wonderful progress of the
art of Hying itself, and it is just here
that the Anglo-Saxon and the Prench
man beat the slower minder German.
It is just this reason why the German
soldier’s letters are now so full of com
plaint about the over-cautious German
aviator. ,
When I’egoud invented looping the
loop people asked “Why- What is the
lisu» af til V" 1 b frouj *v«m n. v«rry corr*
siderable inventor as well as a flyer, is
the answer, Looping the loop is a very
useful maneuver. and it has been
succeeded by that most extraordinary
development the nose-dive, in which
the airman seems to full like a stone
for thousands of feet, till the specta
tors hair raises from his head in hor
ror. Suddenly tho machine flattens,
out, scoots away and you find out that
it is only a trick after all. I talked
with one of our wounded hoys-he was
just 19-who had fallen 8,000 feel owing
to his rudder wire connection being
shot thru. By a miracle his machine
straightened itself out automatically
within a hundred yards of the ground,
and the boy is alive and will fly again.
I asked him his sensations, be Is prob
ably the only man In tho world alive
who has fallen 8,000--more than ten
times tho height of tho Woolworth
Building in New York City (700 feet
high). He said that for a long time
what seemed like hours-- ho knew
that he was falling and falling at a
tremendous speed, and then he lost
consciousness, as in a dream, and
found himself being picked up out of
the wreck of his machine by people
who thought that he was dead.
At tho beggining of a air fight there
is mauoeverlng for positions, and
feinting ns in boxing. There aro as .V
rule two men in each machine- a pilot
and an observer- except in the smaller
types In which the wings arc clipped
down to nothing to get greater speed
and climbing power. Knowledge of
engine and plane power Quickness of
decision, and accuracy of shooting,
with the Lewis gun are essential- to the
pilot. His observer 1s provided with
some form of pistol, and often with
bombs.
The rivel planes like great hawks,
hover around, above or below each
other till one nioro expert or more dar
ing than the other manoeuvers his op
ponent into a position from which he
has either got to fight or flee. The
knockout blow Is usually a sudden
descent onto the enemy accompanied
by accurate machine gun fire. Some
times 'it becomes a due! with Drown
ing pistols in which the men are so
close that they can see each other's
eyes. The thing is over before you
realize it. one machine is off and
'away and the other wh'nls and crashes
down, down, down, to earth.
The Dritish Army does not permit
the names of its flying heroes to be
published. In telling you therefore of
the American flyers 1 must deal with
those Americans with the French
Army. Lieut. Thaw of Pittsburg, was
one of a number of Americans who
entered the famous Foreign Legion
of the French Army at the outbreak of
the war, and is the senior American
flying officer in France. His name
and that of his colleagues are better
known in Kurope than in their own
country. In giving a list of those
names are known (Some, Alas! are !■>’- |
ing beneath the wooden cross) 1 can
say no more than that they are worthy
representatives of a great nation.
Lieut. Thaw was followed by Dert
Hall from Texas, James Bach, D. Mas
son, Clivus Lufbery, James McConnell
of Chicago, Chouteau Johnson of New
York, KUiott Cowdin, Kittin Rockwell
of Peeksvi’ 1 N. Y. and Victor Chapman.
The policy of the American aviators
serving with the French Army is that
of the Dritish and French to attack,
They have played a goodly part in the .
invention of the constantly changing
tactics of ail fighting.
.\ly last recollection of the American
soldiers was their well spread New
Year's table at which there was every
thing the tiled man from across the '
At’nntie eould want, from Turkey to
doughnuts.
1 put one question to a score of '
those whose mothers were not <
ashamed to raise them to lie soldiers.
I nski-d them why they had come. The
reply of the Americans in France is ■
the same every time, whether you ,
meet him with the Canadian Army,
thfr iirKiBh Army of the Flench Army
They all say words to this effect “The
sort of thing that has been going on
in Kurope as a result of the horrible
organized savagery of the Prussians ■
has got to be stopped. We want to
stop it before it reaches our own coun- |
try. We have come over here to do it.
and thank God wo kno wthat yve are
helping to do it, and that it is to lie
thoroughly done.” To which one of
them added ns I said "Good Night."
“If anyone asks you yvhat sort of a
time the Americans are having, just
hand them out one good home word
■RULLY."
LORD NORTHCL1FFK
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