OUR AERIAL HEROES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2321, 1 December 1914, Page 8

OUR AERIAL HEROES

"BOYS WHO DO NOT KNOW WHAT BAR IS." In a letter to Lady Castlereagh, dated September 25, Lord Castlereagh, the member for Maidstone, who is at the front, 6ays: ... I have no opinions now as to how long, this' Avar will ■ last, as I cannot think, of what may be the chief inflaence whetlier-.it will be the defeat of the German's oh the field or: internal tr °"°' es 'a.'Gerniany or what not. '' -. the tiling that lias impressed ■ me' most uere has been the aeroplane service, a splendid lot of boys who reallv not; know what fear is. - ; , "The Germans ..shoot shrapnel at them,, and you see the aeroplane like a dragon-Uy m the air, and then a lot'of htWo puffs of white smoke, whicli are the shells bursting. Luckily the shotsare very wide; and so far none has been brought down. One man was shot m the thigh by a German airman wlioni tie was chasing. ... "I watched for 25 minutes an aeroplane doing what is called ranging for a battery of'heavy guns, The aeroplane l | U-atchcs where the shells drop, and then signals to, say where the shells- are lallmg, whether too far: or not far enough.; This aeroplane . was being shelled by the enemy with shrapnel and three times it flew round landshowed the battery where they were shooting. Tlie Germans must lw'vo fired ■iO shells. . " "The aeroplane, about" SOCIO feet, up and easily,in sight,.looked like an ea"le' and about the same'size; and the shells make a cloud-of'white smoke about the size of a cabbage. '• ! .■ . "It was a. wonderful sight, and if such a picture appeared in an illustrated, paper no one would think it anything else but an-imaginary- one."