Effect of Air-raids and Air-craft 
On the Balkan front, in 1916, a French pilot 
is said to have shot three EAGLES, with his 
machine gun, in the course of an hour or so. 
He regarded the EAGLE as not a very fast 
flyer but a clever aviator, so that he had to 
‘““nose-dive,’’ ‘‘side-slip,’’ and ‘“‘ do vertical 
banks’”’ in order to keep in sight of his 
quarry. On one occasion a British officer, 
while testing a new machine behind the 
French lines, was suddenly passed by a flock 
of WiLD GEESE. He promptly started in 
pursuit and, oblivious of the direction in 
which they were heading, flew right across 
the lines at an altitude at which he offered 
an easy target even to rifle fire. The Ger- 
mans, however, were apparently so engrossed 
in watching the performance that they neg- 
lected to fire at him. At last the birds, as 
he got near them, turned and headed back 
across the lines again, with the result that he 
returned to his own territory without a shot 
having been fired at him (Daily Express, 
25.1v.16). 
An airman has told me that birds were not 
infrequently killed by coming into contact 
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