BOMBER'S EXPLOIT.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1917, Page 3

BOMBER'S EXPLOIT.

CLEARING OUT A "NEST." Describing the work of British boml)ing parties, Renter's correspondent in France states that the true bomber is born rather than made. He must have the patience and carefulness of a deerstalker, the subtlety of a diplomat, the impudence of a gamin, the speculativeness of a poker player, -with a big lump of lion courage thrown in. He may be despatched on a bombing mission in a town or village only half held by us. There are bombers who do not hesitate to creep into the heart of enemy territory at night. It was a bomber who played the clliief piyt in a little ruse de guerre by which many Germans were discomfited. The enemy was ensconced in a house ruin. They had a machine-gun, and were not easy to get- at close quarters. But after nightfall a British machine-gun was trained with delicate care upon the door of that house. A bomber crept in, and, working his nay by devious routes', came actually to t'lie back of the house. He climbed up on to its battered roof, and from this vantage point he began a steady little cascade of bombs through roof holes and chimney stacks upon the startled Germans 'below. And when they rushed out of the front door the machine-gun was ready for them. That house held no German in tlhe morning. ' The only request that bomber made when he started on this hair-raising adventure was to ask the machine-gunner to "Keep it pretty low, and well towards the front side of the house, or you'll 'get me,' not Fritz."