Chief of these was the effect produced upon Young Italy by the personal gallantry of the poet D'Annunzio, who, when he is not flying at the head of the Italian bombing planes against Pola, is making fiery orations to the Infantry in the front line and distributing among them little tricolor flags bearing his own autograph.

"During nearly two years' preparations the enemy had spared no pains to render these defences impregnable," says the Commander-in-Chief; and he goes on to describe the successive lines of deep trenches, the bomb-proof shelters, and the wire entanglements with which the war correspondence of the winter has made us at homeon paperso familiar.

" Lady Bannerdale went home and dropped her bomb-shell in the presence of Lord Bannerdale and Edwin.

He was a bomb-thrower.

A bombing-party threw bombs into a sap without reporting "shrieks and groans were heard, and it is thought that many casualties were inflicted.

"Bomb dropping has not been indulged in to any great extent.

Js and night bombing machines).

"It's a bombing school I'm going to now-a-days.

chaffed Roy; "an anarchist bomb factory or an establishment for raising goats, or something that will "butt in" just as much on our peace and quiet, or" "Roy Prescott," enunciated Peggy, severely shaking one pink-tipped finger under Roy's freckled nose, "this is not a subject for jesting.

I had been in these bombing raids and knew how accurately the German airmen dropped their eggs, and had this Intelligence officer taken the trouble to inquire he would have found that between thirty and forty casualties were inflicted by one bomb at El Arish itself when railhead was being constructed.

Each man knew that, shelter them as they would from observation, the sparks were almost certain to betray them; but although some rifles began at once to crack spasmodically and the bullets to whistle overhead, each man went on with the allotted program steadily, without haste and without fluster, devoting all their attention to the proper igniting of the bomb-fuses, and leaving what might follow to take care of itself.

The amount of bombing work carried out in 1917 cannot, of course, compare with that accomplished during 1918, when production had got into its stride and the number of machines available was consequently so very much larger.

Bomb myth exploded.

They also consist of picked men, and undergo a special training to accustom them to bomb-throwing at close quarters and to other incidents of the assault.

The bomb outrage at Debreczen last Februaryan event which is without parallel in Roumanian historywas the first muttering of the gathering storm.

The R.N.A.S. during the year carried out many long distance reconnaissance and bombing operations over Constantinople and the vicinity.

flattop [Coll.]; helicopter carrier; missile platform, missile boat; ironclad, turret ship, ram, monitor, floating battery; first- rate, frigate, sloop of war, corvette, gunboat, bomb vessel; flagship, guard ship, cruiser; armored cruiser, protected cruiser; privateer.

I've had it: the survival of a bomb group commander.

A bombing squadron will be held in readiness for any aerial offensive which the situation may render desirable.

Included in the anti-submarine operations of aircraft during 1917 were the bombing attacks on Bruges, since the German submarines and the shelters in which they took refuge were part of the objective.

bomb burst, atomic explosion, nuclear explosion (arms) 727.

Now, what d'ye think of that for a successful bomb throw?" "Good enough for you, Andy," was the hearty response.

Certainly the Zeppelin which I saw in action had nothing of the kind, nor did it drop its projectiles promiscuously, as one would drop a stone, but apparently discharged them from a bomb-tube.

We were not going to see the two hundred yards of captured trench that were beyond the bombing action, after all.

[Illustration: TopClose view of the first Handley-Page bombing aeroplane built in America.