BelowCanadian officers of a Royal Air Squadron, lined up with their machines behind the front in France.

After the first few clays there were practically no German machines in the air over the fighting front, as was the case on the Somme in 1916, but at the end of March the Hun planes began to reappear in mass formation patrols, sometimes consisting of as many as fifty planes in a group of patrols.

In September there were on the French-Belgian front between 300 and machines, all of which were in the scout and observation classes, with no regulation combat planes of American build; but American airmen had conducted many successful actions against German battle planes, and a good many Americans were operating French and British battle planes in action back of the German lines.

The combined American, British, French and Canadian planes had before that time cleared the air of German observation and other machines in front of the allied lines, thereby preventing hostile observation of allied camps and artillery positions and movements of troops preparatory to attack.

In the period from September 12 to 11:00 o'clock on the morning of November 11, American aviators claim they brought down 473 German machines.

The same report told of a 150 mile raid into Germany with eight other French Machineswhen a patrol of twelve German planes were attacked and three of them sent down in flames, while all the nine French machines returned safely.

I was supposed to be protecting a bombing expedition of ten machines.

I looked for my escadrille, and saw these machines way off in the distance.

Out of twenty-four trips we lost eight machines.

In the last five months, in which occurred some of the heaviest air fighting in the war, Germany lost in aerial combats with the British alone 1,837 machines.

It is estimated that something like 2,700 machines were accounted for by the British since June 1, and to this total may be added the heavy destruction wrought by French and American aviators.

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" "I should like to see those machines at work.

These creatures adapt themselves to the shearing machines with wonderful equanimity and willingness, so that they are seldom or never injured.

There would be X-ray machines and experts to radiograph the pituitary, pineal and thymus glands when possible.

Sikander approved of this invention, and collected all the blacksmiths and artisans in the country to construct a thousand machines of this description with the utmost expedition, and as soon as they were completed, he prepared for action.

The bed of the Canal is ribboned with railway tracks, which are shifted as required by special track-lifting machines.

' 'No wonder,' said Lancelot, 'that such a life of drudgery makes them brutal and reckless.' 'No wonder, indeed, sir: they've no time to think; they're born to be machines, and machines they must be; and I think, sir,' he added bitterly, 'it's God's mercy that they daren't think.

' 'No wonder,' said Lancelot, 'that such a life of drudgery makes them brutal and reckless.' 'No wonder, indeed, sir: they've no time to think; they're born to be machines, and machines they must be; and I think, sir,' he added bitterly, 'it's God's mercy that they daren't think.

As soon as the earliest machines had been tried orders were placed for large numbers and the supplies obtained were as follows: Deliveries commenced in July, 1917.

They had been built to carry out certain operations in the Heligoland Bight, working from Harwich, but the preliminary air reconnaissance which it had been decided was necessary had not been effected by the end of 1916 owing to bad weather and the lack of suitable machines.

In the great main office on Madison Avenue, and in a thousand branch offices all over the Union, Destyn-Carr machines were working furiously; a love-mad nation was illuminated by their sparks.

Of course, you know, I couldn't really love you so quickly unless I'd been subjected to one of those Destyn-Carr machines.

SEE Singer manufacturing co. List of parts machines nos.114-32, 114-33, 114-34 and 114-35.

List of parts, machines nos.114-32, 114-33, 114-34 and 114-35.