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> ? IfWE ,KLAL I invites you to shown in Ban KUOBE kMMHM?aM| CROSSING ENGLISH CHANNEL. land ( aerod< Aeroplane Goes From France to Eng- aerodt mg**. land in Seventeen Minutes. minut : - I speed .^ever were such nunibers of planes Englis employed and never did they play Point i such an important part as in the bat- ly the tie of the Somme. The wastage of 10,00( British planes at the front has been wa-y t< supplied by new planes flown across or to < the channel from England, where, of en* after coming from the factory, they "Ou are tested out at a home aerodome. n?cess The record time in crossing the chan- to get nel at the narrowest point, where the is uo?' distance is twenty-two miles, is eight ty ove * minutes. On ; When the Associated Press corre- took t spondent, who was in London for a 4,0 , day's leave from the front, asked a work certain general at the war office for J'ust i permission to fly back instead of go- lookec ---A VJ1U flll th ing by steamer, tr&iQ dna <tuiuiiiuuuc, ? ? the answer was "Perfectly easy." chann And to prove it he called upon the chine commander of the flying corps and in I Neil five minutes all was arranged over | the the telephone. I the pi "What about my baggage?" asked naachi: the correspondent. til the "Oh, take it along and strap it on," flecks replied the general. "A plane that ahead carries 150 pounds of bombs will not train ; f be bothered with a dress suit case." the su A dozen machines, one after an- Fra other, were due to go to France that; As day as soon as the wire said a storm j the co on the other side of the channel had! watch passed. The correspondent slipped was s into a wadded jacket for protection had n< against the wind, which would also part ( act as a life buoy if he happened to steam* fall into the channel, and took his and a place, a position usually occupied by the pa , the observer, who also mans a ma- as a h chine gun. Nov p "She's a good and steady 'bus," hedge! said the pilot. "They flew her down fields from the factory three days ago and stretel she's turned up and ready for her of wo* part in the big show on the other of the side. You must not expect any fancy i finally otiinte nr thrills \Tv hiisinpss is to down fly her to France and deliver her in dome . good condition ready for work." ! other ; She was immaculate in her fresh land, varnish and reassuring in her j migral staunchness. This pilot has made j c*ome thirty such crossings and was proud I "Go of the fact that he had never come j he ha down at any of the way stations. Be-: aerodc fore the war he had been ranching j s in South Africa and was one of the i catch thousands of men who knew nothing j ?ther - about flying, but have become expert j^ev aviators. thing It was straight as a line drawn on a ] a map following a plotted course of Litt / HAV JBER'S come in and see nberg. We menti Ladies' Department One lot of pretty white Chinchilla Coats, $5.00 to $15.00 One lot Special Suits $15.00 Big lot Waists, every one a $1.50 value, each $1,001 Big lot Sport Coats, ranging in price .... $3.75 to $12.50 50 Special $5.00 value Corduroy Skirts, special $2.50 Big lot full length Broadcloth Coats, sizes 16 to 42, ranging in price from $10 to $25 Mesh colored Crepe De Chine Underwear: Teddys at $3.50 to $7.50 Gowns at $5.00 to $7.50 *rttTi K a, me )bjects for the route, from the )me the machines left for the >me at the front. After forty I /Iff es in unvarying steadiness of I VAAA above the pattern work of the i yvu ?h hedges he turned at a given j , :or the channel crossing. Usualcrossing is made at a height of ) feet. This allows of more lee- I A 0 descend to the nearest shore #tP 1 steamer in the channel in case OHi ?ne trouble. fit ir object is not to take any un- WVi ary risks," said the pilot, "but i the plane to the front where it cled and will have risks in plenrithe battlefield." account of the thick weather he he channel this trip at a height 00 feet. As the white lace of surf beat against the chalk I mder foot the correspondent I r?Wr I at his watch. Beneath were 6 CANf e patrol ^hips that guard the I Am el, which were lost as the ma- I ro/ ran into a cloud. I AND ther the shore nor the surface I mat i water was to be seen. Then I JjWj ? lot Rtonnod the eneine and the m OlSvVft ne slid for a thousand feet, unsea floor dotted with the white | AS of wave crests appeared, and TO AN as the engine took up its re- WORLI again was the white edging of EARNI rf at the foot of the chalk cliffs NO ince. HE the machine crossed that tape RICH rrespondent looked again at his BE GE and saw that the time elapsed BA eventeen minutes. The flight ot been made over the narrow )f the channel. The fastest *r would have required an hour quarter and traveling that way issage would have been rough, J* eavv sea was running. t over the broad spaces of the ^ less land of France with the so many patchwork squares ling between soft green clumps Dds and on toward the section 'flHIIIjn front and the battle line. 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