HICETIES IN BOMBING.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 158, 24 March 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

HICETIES IN BOMBING.

I !tiar.\!!K.\i;i.!': kkkkct ox the i \IK ()!•' I'I.AXDKIN. '■ Mo,l oi the lioiiili-i!ro]i])int; done hv •ill lli« l-<.llip-ivnt~ is sheer wast- of tins'" mi'] money, nii ! c->s it i- done on 1 very l>iy sciilp h itli :i -pe-iJi- oliioi t in ; view.*' -;iv- ih, editor oi i|ii> " A'lnplan-." ■' \\V km.'.v In :i ni—t v l.nw mii-h .-in ! how little tii" (;.•! iii:!ii liotnlidiniip:|i- is north, e.nd t) .•■;■,• do, s nri? m' tii fi lii" any pinti-nlar reason wliy Mi!!' OWII lllij||li:l>!r s)ll)l|!ll In. v.nrl '| V.TV rnifli nor- Whit tl - it oi • i \i.er-it-i'-i! •• rv!<(" aviator tiiinK :ili. Nt it

v.:is rather nicely summed up !>y er.tuc frionrls of mine tlir ntlnv day. ' ■'Tlioiv's soniotliinii very extraord'i]. ary al>e,it tl 10 air of ("'landers. 1 saiJ nnc. " 1 siippns- it is miieli elearer than if OM'il to In' when I '.'-as there early in the war, Snino of tl:- elmp'S r,-i "vo l.f :i t raining for months, w '.n think they've done jolly w H if tliey -an -et a Immli into a pati li of an a-r > and ;i hall' frniii a tliousand fee t or i o tw : , ,• iii four li- !iv- shots on tii: : : id<? of tl,.- Channel. :■, ir.vr tli-r • and nil a f- illirMro three or four f.-t v. .1---v-rv tii ,i" frr,ni nine ll .msand !'• ' '' I Mi-('--t- I tliat it miisl I.- tl- • i!-u"t of avsidiwills t 1:1 J11" 'V r P'l tlli: sii|<> I.lit lie "■-•,!,1 not a •••- t'nit Iho'r form -o-ld iii nrnve n suddenly '■ An-.tl ~r nfiiie,- f n sli f:v,m Kr.-.n-o,

I agreed tliat the clarity of the atmosi pbcr.' might, with the help of a littl-ew>-stra:n, load an aviator to lielievo that he had dropped his hoinh from .'iOO foot, when he really let go at •"of,o or Ol'Kil); Inn he did not see how even that accounted for the alleged amount of destruction wrought hy botnhs, I ''Of course, there have In-en nuiner- [ mis easts where aviator-; have cone' I down mo-) callantlv to \\ ithin a couple | of hundred f«v>t of ihe ground to make certain of their aim, and several good men hav l.een L.-i through doing so - foi i'.e-i ' an always he more improhahl ■ ' than fiction when it like- hut fielion w hii !i hear-i an air of prolianihty s • eavler to nrodme than :.- th.e imjuvealde fitr-«."