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VOL. XXXIII. PORTLAND.' OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1914. 37 '
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MISSILES HURLED -AIRMEN
MORE deadly than bombs or casKs
of high explosives are the click
ing little signals hurled by the
airmen. The airman's eyes are more
deadly than the guns and bombs he
carries. For what he sees he can com
municate to artillerymen waiting
below. ,
Batteries of artillery stand behind a
hillock. In the distance troops are ad
vancing in mass formations led by ad
vance guards and protected by flank
ers. But their advance does not carry
as far as 30JO yards, particularly on the
flank of their movement.
An artillery officer in the aeroplane
with him carefully computes the firing
data and signals it by wireless or sem
aphore. The birdman signals correc
tions, having seen the shells burst
short or beyond the target.
Then the batteries pour in deadly
Are. Shell after shell goes hurtling
into space only to burst over the panic
stricken troops in the distance and
scatter death among them. They have
fallen Into a hornet's nest from which
there is no immediate escape. Unless
their supporting field rifles rush into
action and silence the hostile batteries
they must stand the shrapnel pounding
until the survivors are out of range.
Neither the birdman nor the gunners
gee the bloody havoc they are playing.
Through powerful glasses the air
scouts can see faintly when the mis
sion has been accomplished. From the
distance the slaughter appears no
more harrowing than that of applying
chemicals to bacteria on a stained glass
tinder the microscope.
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