Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1913 — BULLETS DID LITTLE DAMAGE [ARTICLE]

BULLETS DID LITTLE DAMAGE

.Aviator*! Machine Hit Frequently, but Efficiency Was Not Impaired at Any Time. The Balkan campaign has proved valuable to the-science of aviation. It has shown by one concrete example that the mere fact of being struck by bullets and perforated does not signify Irretrievable disaster for the airship. The Russian aviator, Eflmoff, •was engaged by Bulgaria to fly to Ad-

rianople and throw down handbills in the Turkish language, in which the Bulgarians called on the population of Adrlanople to surrender. He was given only an old apparatus, but he threw down the bills. “At Fort Karagach I saw a Considerable number of infantrymen shooting towards the sky with their rifles," he said/ “I did npt hear the shots, but when I noticed that four bullets had struck my apparatus 1 knew for whom the shots were means. 1 did hot lose my presence of mind, but flew on. When the guns In

the forts fired shrapnel at me and when the apparatus had been struck several times by fragments of projectiles the situation became critical. Fortunately only the wings were bit and not the motor, and so I could keep on and in twenty minutes I was once more In the flying field at Mustafa Pasha. The apparatus was re paired and used again." Wood That Changed Location. An extraordinary incident of a moving forest was reported to the Uan-

daff and Dinas Powls (Wales) rural district counclL The gentleman who called attention to the matter, said the wood was situated hear Llanvlthyn. It was about four hundred yards long, and consisted of large elm trees. It had left its' moorings on a steep slope and was moving bodily towards the roadway. A cut had been left at the top which was full of water. The wood had been moving for eight or nine dayß. Trees were leaning in all directions, and soma ware coming bodily down.