DEFERRED CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1296, 12 September 1914, Page 4

DEFERRED CABLES.

AIRMAN’S BRILLIANT FEAT. CONTROL OF DISABLED PLANE. LONDON. Sept. 2. The French Aerial Squadron has offered its congratulations to Lieutenant (,'anipagne upon his brilliant- achievement in completing his observations of the Germans positions in extraordinary circumstances. Although the bursting of a shell stopped tho motor of Lieutenant Uampagno's flying machine, ho retained control, and succeeded in landing safely, volplaning from a height of 1000 metres (3279 feet). AEROPLANE DUEL. FRENCHMAN BEATS GERMAN. LONDON, Sept. 3. A French airman stvoopcd clown upon a German scouting aeroplane at Cambrai. The latter Judged, and the |w o then whirled about- each other'in circle*, trying fo rise the higher. Tho Frenchman was (he quicker; lie rose above tho German and then shot him. BRITISH AND FRENCH SOLDIERS. IN HIGH SPIRITS. LONDON, Sept. 3. A press correspondent who has just returned from the front reports that the soldiers in the Allied Armies arc in t-h“ highest spirits, and are confident of ultimate victory. Air machines, painted silver-grey, hover continuously over the German lines. A French airman circled over a troop of German cavalry, and hung for a moment in the air, like a hawk over fits quarry. Then ho dropped a bomb which wiped out the troop. “J have heard stories,” said the correspondent. “of Germans being driven on to entrenched positions by liicir officers with drawn swords, who threatened to kill them if they showed tho least weakness. “In one engagement the guns wore behind the men, and a shell was fired over their heads to remind thorn of what might happen to runaway!}, ‘‘After a battle the British play football as a relief for their feeling*. Mapy games of cards are played in the trenches under fire.’-’