First she headed to port and then to starboard, manoeuvering rapidly that the German airmen might not be able to reach her with a bomb.

OUR CONQUERING AIRMEN APPENDICES INDEX LIST OF MAPS PLAN OF SOUTHERN PALESTINE PLAN OF GAZA-BEERSHEBA LINE PLAN OF THE BETH-HORON COUNTRY PLAN OF THE BATTLE OF JERUSALEM LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS OFFICIAL ENTRY INTO THE HOLY CITY.

Hundreds of miles of wire netting were laid on sand in all directions, and these wire roads, which, stretching across bright golden sand, appeared like black bands to observers in aircraft, at first aroused much curiosity among enemy airmen, and it was not until they had made out an ambulance convoy on the move that they realised the purpose of the tracks.

On the 8th and 15th October two enemy planes were shot down behind our lines, and the keenness of our airmen for combat made the German aviators extremely careful.

The shelling of the cavalry during the day had been rather hot, and enemy airmen had occasionally bombed them.

Their airmen have thrown bombs, cavalry patrols have violated our territory, and companies have broken into Alsace-Lorraine.

But long before this single instance occurred, French airmen had penetrated into Southern Germany and dropped bombs, and French troops had attacked our frontier-protection-troops in the Schlucht Pass.

This authority admitted that German soldiers on August 2nd (Sunday) had violated the French frontier and continues with these words: "But long before that French airmen had dropped bombs in Southern Germany, and French soldiers had attacked our frontier-guards in the Schlucht Pass.

" The remainder of the charge is that "long before August 2nd," French airmen had dropped bombs on South German towns.

The Kölnische Zeitung contained this paragraph on August 2nd: "A military report has just come in, stating that French airmen dropped bombs in the neighbourhood of Nuremberg this morning.

The Fränkischer Kurier (a Nuremberg newspaper) on August 1st, 1915, contains an article which states that the news of these alleged airmen, whom nobody saw, was spread throughout the length and breadth of the German Empire.

Since yesterday bomb-dropping airmen have come into Baden and Bavaria; further, by violating Belgian neutrality, they have fled over Belgian territory into the Rhine province and tried to destroy our railways.

] Germany had no earthly excuse to begin war on France, and imitating the noble example of Bismarck in forging the notorious Ems telegram which precipitated the 1870 war, the German military authorities forged the "news" of alleged attacks by French airmen and French troops.

Although the point is proved, a few more examples of the "airmen" legend will be of interest.

The Frankfurter Zeitung, August 4th, contains three separate detailed accounts of French airmen dropping bombs on Frankfort railway station during the previous night.

Thus reports have been officially circulated of Russian patrols crossing our frontiers, and from Nuremberg of French airmen dropping bombs on the railways in that neighbourhood, whereupon diplomatic relations with both countries were broken off.

Clouds become hostile airmen, stars are mistaken for airships and the cross-bars of bicycles are thought to be bombs; bridges have been blown up, telegraph and telephone wires cut in the middle of Stuttgart; spies have been shot and water supplies poisoned!

Had Germany possessed any proof that French officers in disguise were organizing preparations in Belgium, or that French airmen had crossed the latter's territories in order to drop bombs by Wesel, etc., then Bethmann-Hollweg would have had no reason to admit in the Reichstag that his country was committing a breach of international law.

He was watching the airmen at workthe most wonderful and famous feature of the war.

I saw United States sailors, marines, soldiers, airmen, English officers, an' Scotch soldiers.

In the wonderful stories contained in Airmen O' War (MURRAY) his object is to make the armies on the ground understand what they owe to the armies of the air.

If they suffer from a lack of understanding, this is not, I gather, likely to be removed by the airmen themselves, for they have evidently imbibed some of the spirit of our Navy and are magnificently reluctant to talk about their achievements.

I honestly believe him and commend his book both to those who have a passion for tales of high adventure and also to thoseif there are suchwho need authentic instances of what our Airmen O' War have done for us.

Aircraft identification for fighting airmen.

I was among them when their airmen dropped bombs on Paris early in the war.