But now there had been perfected a new anti-aircraft gun.

Before another could be dropped, the man who manned the anti-aircraft gun fired again.

Captain Raleigh of the Queen Mary saw them advancing and the forward anti-aircraft gun was unloosened.

Out of the mist there emerges suddenly an anti-aircraft section; then a great Army Service dump; and presently we catch sight of a row of hangars and the following notice, "Beware of aeroplanes ascending and descending across roads."

Italian anti-aircraft guns brought down one of them.

More enemy planes came over, one even after dark, a most unusual thing, flying very low indeed, under a heavy fire of anti-aircraft Batteries and machine guns from the ground.

His anti-aircraft Batteries were, however, at least as good as ours, and, in my opinion, better.

Destruction of a Boche plane by dauntless American aviators, swooping like eagles upon their prey, regardless of the anti-aircraft shells that burst all about them, and helping by their intrepidity and skill to clear the air of the Hun and maintain the supremacy gained by the Allies in aerial warfare.

"From far and near the sullen boom of guns echoed along the valley, and at intervals in a different direction the sky was flecked with the almost motionless smoke of anti-aircraft shrapnel.

Steps were taken to organize anti-aircraft artillery forces on the eastern coast of England and the continued failure of Zeppelin attacks, annoying as they were, soon restored the equanimity of the British public in this respect.

It will be seen, therefore, that so long as ships sailed singly, very extensive supplies of guns were required to meet gun attack, and as there was most pressing need for the supply of guns for the Army in France, as well as for the anti-aircraft defence of London, the prospect of arming merchant ships adequately was not promising.

Those sounds arose From anti-aircraft guns engaged in practice Against the unlikely advent of the Hun.

"The pilot of the Sopwith single-seater aeroplane dropped his bombs and made off safely through a hail of anti-aircraft shells, but not before his observer had been wounded in the arm.

Shrapnel that was, bursting, as Fritz tried to get the range with an anti-aircraft gunan Archie, as the Tommies call them.

At the height at which our archiesso the anti-aircraft guns are called by Tommy Atkinsforced the Boche to fly there was little chance of his observers picking out this battery, at least, against the ground.

"Good-by, Toffee," he said again, "and thank ye." ANTI-AIRCRAFT "Enemy airmen appearing over our lines have been turned hack or driven off by shell fire.

Despite our frequently announced "Supremacy of the Air," the anti-aircraft guns were in action rather frequently.

His suspicions aroused, the airman would have risked the anti-aircraft guns and dropped a few hundred feet and narrowly searched each hillside and wood for the telltale gray against the green.

* "Attracted by anti-aircraft guns the Zeppelin bounded upwards.

It is proposed to detail certain anti-aircraft batteries to deal with high-flying swarms, while a young friend of my own, who was with a special company of the R.E. in France, is prepared to design a haversack projector for issue to all ranks.

For example, let a German or a British airman be winged by anti-aircraft gun-fire and the guns instantly loosen up on the point over his own lines, if he regains them, where he is seen to fall.

If there were ten thousand anti-aircraft guns in the British army, every one would be known as Archibald.

[Illustration: Anti-aircraft Gun] * *

We could hear their machine-guns pattering away; and the volume of sound was increased by the distant contributions of "Coughing Clara"our latest anti-aircraft gun, which appears to suffer from chronic irritation of the mucous membrane.

The daring exploit evidently work up the newly appointed anti-aircraft gunners, for they subsequently annihilated two of their own machines approaching from the West.