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TWELVE PAGES rACZ TEN DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1918. :.v; ;- frLlQt&:$$WGmmJJm I FiKiS FROM MOMS TO PYRAMID T has been .said tbt -the aviation U the oily branch of military service in the present war that retain- fMimt tf tttm Aid tin I Chivalry. v brrea the Hub fryers ebow re- epect for a farav enemy if be ia art ton ' It H the branch of servk In which one i looks for high adreatnre, for something oat of tbe ordinary. It aeema aa if j cmtunal number of the men who enter this fc ranch of the service are touched I .with romance. la a little corner of the British and Canadian recruiting office at No. 2-H) i.'t Forty-aecond atreet, Xew York city. I there are two men each of whom has aa 'interesting story, a career that touches the imagination. One of (hem has recent- ! br com b his new pott. Be ia Lord j George Welleslcy, youugest son of the I arose or. tveinarton and a great-grandson tor the Iron luke, a quiet and unassum Ifaig young man only twenty -eight years j old, who has recently been made lieuton- toni colonel or uie Koyal Air rorce and I Charged with, the responsibility of round 'tot up yoong Britons for the ajr service. t JJe was marricil little more than a tear ago to Lady Louise Neata Faiuela !KVi)esley. tlie widow of his brother. Lord 'VUchard Wellesley, and the daughter of kir Manrice hitsgerald. Knipht of Kerry. IflChey lire ia JCew Tork city. ! The other young man in the office is st'.entenant Theodore Marburg. Jr., who Sti for some time been connected with te British recruiting in New Tork. Lieu itr-nant Marburg is an American, whose father formerly was Minuter to Bel " bot was In England studying in uxtord University when the War besran Vie Joined the Royal Plying' Tarns and Wss severely Injured near La Base in December, J915. His leg was amputated land he has been compelled, much against IMS wtu, to serve in a less active depart sweat of the service. Xow, however, with iCba best artificial leg that can be made. axe is going oacti to trance to fly again. Sesbanant ilarburg, like Colonel fWellesIey, made romantic marriage, hi ride having been the Baroness Gesseile dr tVIvario, of Belgium, to whom be was jsngared before bis accident and -bom be Warned soon afterward. t NEW TORK, Balurdar. v morn of the inter-J L V eating and important part of aviation as it affects the war is a military matter con cerning which an of. fleer Is not nermirtet t apeak. Neither may one express opin- I naj apeak only of my experience amo or mi wont WHICH J bare come to pew lore to uo. I became interested In aviation before war when I was a lieutenant in the jwiroiMiirr uoaraa ana learned to fly on Me Salisbury Plains. Aa I found it too kxnrnnve flying on my own account. kaoed. tbe" .Royal Flying Corps, and when She war b3ke oat I was ready for service m ranee. - War was declared by Great Britain August 12, 3914, and on August fS I was one of tbe pilots who Sew across be Channel with four squadrons of aero planes, ench squadron st that time con sisting of twelve machines. ' I was fortunate enough po be with tbe tooting service, which at once proved its faloe by. discovering the strength of the bcrn-jin. arniy, which waa coming down i rc 7v. a: i - , . if I W , y.i - "Vv - t ; s I 1 - . HAN0t-rt "-r-- 4 .' ' ' ' ' Ml I t i"i .yW.aW 'b' aMHMHsr' war' l i.r.- " - . - v - - ! hn ns in Belgium to be three army corps aabMd of three divisions, as bad been reported by the fclJe it was aa land scouts. Against each ao manifestly impossible to Lord W!Iesley in a photograph taken ,5,guu teet above ground. . "did the other, men who participated. In the 3Jobs retreat and survived. From the Mnrne we fnllnwefl tba ehh of lhiGujriim. monmcnt.ta tUa-AJsue, ajuJ frsat.tliar fIaj-..uitji:Hw rc.cea,t Urjye? the Hritisli line, tlicu esta.Ulishei has .been maintained. oir air men. doing their full share ef service in warding off the eurmy naJ protecting our line. I participnted tl) rngageoicnt at Soissuns and in tlie first lprca hntUe. Jt was hero hu my ol.der brother was killed. -... ! J- I JXext.Jsraai colled, upon to go home to l.liSland ami lak psrt in tbe instruction of aviators which was gouig forward at a rate that, ,dVuanded nil available help. Fr,om kMy, 1015, until December.. i!U3, I asain served with the British Flvina forces in FfBuce.j. yviieq..l.next saw.ir- eign service it was in Kgypt, under very different circumstances from those on. thr westeiv front in. Knrone. ' My chief work tbera in -the I was again recalled to piislahd to swva ' as an 'instructor in aviation." Jt was at this time that I received the , Military 1 Cross. I came to thla country 'to carrion .the work in connection wirn "aViiitlon Utile . more than a year ago, first in' Toron'to and latterly in Teiss, wuere I wai la command of a wing consisting of five squadrons. I notice that- many persona . confuse the terms of the British air ser vice. It is no longer an army service or a navy service; it ia the sir service, just as much a part of the firhtitg1 force as the army .or. navy..an4 distinct jf roia tiiemw . This combination of naval and army air services was made only a abort time .ago. Aviation is a .branch of service that ' appeals ,to young men to fbeir' "patriot ism, to their More i of adventure' and achievement Ita bowibil) ties' rre great. Every few months, a inachlnfe "is -Kutler- srded by p new. one of greater speed sfnd efciency. ,wiien J began. ts ly Bolt bbly were tho nincblues slaw but f.fioy bsd 'na machine gun equipment We were inna! with rifles and revolvers, aid some-ri-aea an orserrer woii'ld. ejigaea the enemy in prolongrd dneL until .one or 0e otn would ruu out of antmiinif lom:when n weuin anve bn fly amne, bottielth'cr oaJd bo injured. Q'o-dn one tit the1 btner'ia similar clmimstaiicea wooW sboa be pat out of. tbe combat "' : T Machiues Hint were considered marvs'js a few years ago are olaokte now. rtceM for some phases nf training, (ireafer pa wbilities ar still in the future,"1 for aa Ihe science of aviation is developed me chanical, device and Kkilf keer Diet with it Mr nresent worb as' hesd nt th cruipng qUice of tlia Royal Ala Force for (ha Kasleru district of tlie L'nlteil. States was reconnaissa lice pver Ihe osnesis to present Ira appeal to young1 men of I desert where .hostile .tribes werelRrltlsh clliievbiD. to recruit na niunv f assembling to plot against the goverunn-nt jtbein as art eligible for ' lliis' .brau'eb. of anfl to.assist in tlie prqtectiqn of the Suesfthe service and to send them to Canada Canal. ' When, the work there was finished ifor training. i ' '- , the Army LorJ Cleorw Welleslev. M. C 1 A. croutD) representSnar the newest types of machine used in the British aur service rang I inar in size from the great Handlev-Paee bomber to the little sinele-seater f ighting craft. They witnarawu was oraeren r.n-- in .need from Mi struggle .that by the commanders. In thia famous retreat of Mons, or the "Great Washout we were able to do an effective part,. both in keeping our army informed of enemy movements and in warding off the enemy in the air. Of course at that time we had no real fighting machines. I bad learned on a Bristol machine, a nox-tite affair, and was flying a Henri Farman. a machine that an aviator of today would scorn. The number of my certificate in tbe Aero Clatb of Great Britain, which has tbe record of all the flying men from the time the first certificate was issned only 605. so that I was well within Great Britain's first thousand flying men. Britisn civilians had done very little in aviation compared with the French be fore the war. bnt in the matter of military Tlie Enemy's Lost Opportunity ARf AS -On urn o" W HcVPAOIJ GENERAL OTTO von BELOW ATTEMPTING TO BREAK IN BYMCS LINE KEA AJUtAS. O CAMERA! ROYt. - an " 1 V aafal CENTRAL vow Dm MARWITZ awviNC Thpduch CAT TO 0UTFLU1H CtHIRAL BY NO- GENERAL VON HUT! Eft pursuing cttttmu. COUJCM AFTta TM( BRXAH THROUGH 90 to 120 miles an hour. (Drawn for the Sphere. Copyrighted, lain. In the United Slates by the'New York Herald Company.! weeks, we had an opportunity machines we had .done estretriely WQll.jnicn. We did all that could be done with, Tbe only trouble was that there were not the machines ond the. pilots that wire enough of them when the war was so un- then . available, and the British air forces expectedly sprung upon us. .That is whyihave' uninterruptedly increased in eize, I had to fly a BE2a when I went tn'speed, power and efficiency. After the re France, as did others of eur English flying'treat from Mons. which lasted about three we had an opportunity at m farnc to give valuable information to ow army in resard to the enemy, especially as to (be German flanking movement tii their left I received the right to wes the Slur of 1!)14 from the government, LITTLE PAL O' MINE a a lue Aiurs Miii Utm wut iU owe lJ Akaior Ueuerai tart;v "nciaii-lr ruiy In the early days of tbe drive for Anileua is ut becoming fully Down. Tbe strain on the Ftritlsb was mated an Mim-h ml. wlien f :! ! GoiurU'e Flftb Army bad been broken, was in full retreat aud had lost awil couUct wllh Oeneinl Bynga army, on its left. Tbe sketch map shows tbe extreme danger of the eltnation when a gap of eight miles was oiw-nrd between awe two army groiitis. it wss Into this gap that s hurriedly Kaluered force of Miviiieerm, conks, transport workers and stragglers from oilier nulls was sent ho stem the German tide that was berlnnlng lo flow through. The men. few if Itiera trsloed In the flifhting ervtce and Including many Americans, held.1 ,I-t until lienrral Brng couid puil back bis right and, the French could euro J m iui suiiictcni stretism w restore ine line , By Pricate JAMBr-lCt.FLVXyyXtV'.J,th--aawa.Ti .Enginwr. ICopyriijht, 1918, 1.tht Xew lltrald Company AH Rlyhtp, Rcxerrcd. T'S darkening fast, Little Pal & Mine, and W dreary and vet i)d cold, And the iiighf time creepf M rf inuH tf Icy at it galhtri tlits ttm td in it fold. The shadow fall so silently aptl deepen one hif one, '. s And daylight, passing, leave? fit trail as it follows t,hc setting sun. The wind blotcs chill and. cut the IJphi. mth a derp qnd stinging pain, It's burdened heavy with cruel mist from weeks and treck of rain, i The heavy, sodden, lowering clouds in the drear October sky Like bounding, tumbling, tumble wefds go rolling and u hilling by. tl It's a desolate place, this world, of v;pr, starved and lank and lean; , ' Resides a fcto loud squawking crows bird folk are hcver seen. I Even the little rabbits, accustomed to meadows and hen Ih, Have been starved with war's wild hunger and trampled by marching feet. Three years of war's wild waste, of mons and brush and weeds, , Of pathways blocked and yards o'ergrown and lakelets filled with reeds , Have made a rack of flower b"r.ds, oj garden, field and lawn. And left this hind as wild and bleak. as Iceland's Christinas dawn, Itusty entanglements of wire and-shell holes now o'ergrown, (launt witnesses of dripping blootl and shattered manhood's moan, Ilemain to mock strong, virile youth, once groomed aiiH fed for the trench,, t In d cruel attempt from German hordes a lasting peace. to. wrench. You- can watch the t an on ft bust) dni) as it pusses, thousands strong. But there's nothing but khaki, leather and steel in the stream as it passes along Only the cloth of the service, some, new, only spattered with mud- . Home old and worn and tattered and some, u II covered irith blood.y It's a lonely world, Little pal o' Mine, and the day's pass heavy and slow;, f.ach has its tale of victory, or. a.taln of sujf'rutg and woe. . Brave deeds from the "Line" pass commonplace; they're done many times every For men, long inured to the bitter strife, have come to do things that way. And when evening comes in this land of decay and darkness settles o'erhead, It's tt lone and cheerless way I take as I seek tny lowly Jwd. I sit in this little hut of mine, and in the embers' glow ' I see again the faces of dear old friends I know. . I hear their gentle voices in the evening's srurrging breeze, ,.. And mu idle fancy takes me to my home across the sas. 7 see the one I left behind in that dear spot pver there; I see a pair of wondrous eyes, a wealth of lustrous hair; I hear again her gentle roiec and touch her hand so fine; dream then of the happy days I'll know when she'll be. mine. I'm' missing you. Little Pat & llintin this world afar from cheer, And as J sit with tny lonely thouahts I wUh that ioii were here. Those wrre joyous days, Little Pal o' Mine, a riot of youth and song, , And good times come on each breath of air nnd followed each other along, Hut they're not in this land -where I'm dwelling, no youth, no love, no play . Enhances my waking hours, nor jiasses dull timesiway. ,Wy comrades' faces are mixtfhl'l, ihftSe voice 1 ffl. "C?r-j . Wealh this pagan altar of Mars in this lanl so bleak and drear. , And you're gone, too. Lit lie Pal o' Mine., and those joyous days of old Are far from this lowly abode of mine, in .these flags of damp and cold. ; . But this strife must cease, and I'll return to the land I love once more, To a spot that's many and many a league from France's blighted sh'ir Then joy and happin 'vts will replace the suffering, and the pain, . . And bright and healthy sunshine the snow, um) '.sleet pud rain, . ,. fVo now good night, and may your dreams he. bright fi shining gold. And know that your Little Pal dreams of y,M in.this. wonld of dump ami col"- (lood night again, Little Pal & Mine, aerom ihe ocean blue, a Good night and may God bless you, is the mcssaae.f send to uou. 01IEWIIEHK in France," on the trail of the Hdn," id" a chap Who! 'until ret fcoitlz wa ,.,fuu bay. employed on the Nf.W V'VWv Urimi). ilow he got there and s now (Sergeant Frank f.sfsyette Headland. I rompany K,' Infantry, N. A., U a fsrory of rjatriotism anil determination. i'J7Uii,-.'.J0s the olhcr boys on .the HF.aALti know.bim, was bora with only rereh Rnrers, four on the right bund and three on the left After war was declared lie jnaqe severnj .ftt)le attempts tn cullt in 'diCfercnl branches of he service. but was told, by the array. surseons tint he didn-'t stand a rchauce. llenillnmf wa tlowubca rfed. for It was his' ambition to keep up. the fithtlni, record of lJi, family. since be had seven uncle and a grand father who had fougbt in the civil war. Then along came the draft for the Na- rionnl Army and Headland saw one more hope of donning the khnki. On the day lie was ordered to report the surgeons found him waiting nt the door of the Ex amining Board when they reached there. When he had been examined they were just abnut to pass aim, when one of them noticed his left hninl. You won't do," said the surgeon. I will do," be said. "I'll do auythinc with my seven, fingers lhat any of the Uoys hera now can do with their tenJ' His pleading for a chance to get into nrtion finally won the henrts of the mem bers of the Board, and after a consnlta tlnn he. was ordered lo get ready for tbe trip to camp. ' - The day after Headland reached" camp he was brought w ith the rest of the future wldiers licfore the nnuy medical officers for physical examination, lie was found to he as sound ns n brkil. bnt the army cs- iiruinrrs discovered his liainN the' first tiling and two fingers missina from one hand will bar a man frorft-Seryjce-. Tide fc-giiBifiOB Is an ironclad "one," but 1Jed !aiI was no rcspecte.R, qf irojlad. jwgtt lajtiniis. -At least, he was no respecter of this onei HeadlsmJ presented "himself lor examination! the trext 'day' and 't,he nct- -. Finally .he was told he would be thrown into the guardhouse if he per sistesb ' ' ' '- ""-' ' -Mi'lirow-away," tic mnttefeii'undVr'hia breath. . Then liti 1 ouglt out .'.Captain Holuhun. ' . ' "' ' ' Captain." he aaid;"thy have turned me down because of my Icft jiand.11 is hot a though I lost the fingers o aa ncvuleuG I bays never knawn whst it wss to have more than two fingers 'and a thumb on rbis hand. And i'c'an use'(it as well ns-any fii'e fingered tnan lu (hs camp. Please apeak' for me? I do not wunt to go back home. I want to g-o across." - -n Captain Ilolnhan made bis way tn the quarters of the Examining Hoard. When the surgeons saw Headland with him they threw up their bands. He would not do, they said, and that terminated the matter. Headland spoke up; ao did tbe Captain. Their combined arguments woa the day. Hcndlnnd was accepted. torgetful of regulations, forgetful of the pos.tiOL of a soldier, fnrjretful of everything but that he had won his point he gave one Joyous yell. No one hsd thi heart to call him to task for hli iinsol dicrly conduct lie was too happy ,tn rare., and the snrcsons who-doliiurtely winked af the rule which debarred bini were, pleased with themselves. Captain ', Ho-s-hnn wss ss pleased as was Headland. 'Ms look the young Mlotv to tho resit-eni:;! Iiradqiiarters ami, telling the stor1 intro duced dim to !n colonel." ' Headland was appointed rnrp'ir.J tei nfter and recently ho was ninds ssrgesnt. A New American Fighting Zone i "' i !;i0 J ' X f - ssssasr?x.4 ECEXT reiHirts from Amrricnn headiimitters In Kriince have told our' sosfU o . A RECEXT rfH)rts frot extending alt , .Venlun. : These licb louiid .St. Mililcl to the belirlits of the ilen llibls re east of tire rrvcr'ami; In tile (minis el thiV i.ihD. (iveriookial n i.irt vr t lie wnevre plains. A week. ago enme word of Siitt'ciKsful ttilA by the AniericBiis at Vuiii-le I'nlniiielxs in tlie vlclultv of Epnriten. Home of the miwt bitter fighting of the wnr on Hie 1-orrntiio front has occurred In mid around I cs Etarses. The sti-UKgle was particularly severe lining the winter of l'.ll.'i. when the Krench were alteiniitliiir to nlticb tlie eiicmr nut of the St. .MIlilcl snlli'iit. The piiotoitrniili-alMive, Just received Id tins country, sliows a truncli uiude by the liy'icll through which oue caa look U n the iiHIn. , J .