DARING FEATS ARE CARRIED ON BY BIRDMEN fc\ir Fighters Escape Alive Seemingly by Miracle; Hair-Raising Incidents Correspondence of The Associated Press Behind the British Lines in France, IVov. SO.—Stories of daring escapades of British aviators, exciting aerial combats from which the air fighters escaped alive seemingly only by mir licle, and of brilliantly-executed raids upon German aerodromes and troops lehlnd the German lines are nar > ated In the reports of the Royal 3'lying Corps covering the activities ct aoout one week. Hair-raising incidents of fierce conflicts above the < louds or low over the German com munication lines are described in these succinct reports without bom l Est, as though these narrow escapes Irom death were commonplace and nil in the day's work of the air lighter. For example, there was the case of i British aviation officer who, when liearly a mile above the earth, was I.Hacked by two enemy aircraft. He shot down one of them out of con trol. but was himself wounded and tainted while still high in the air. Recovering consciousness, he found 3.is machine upside down at an eleva tion of 4,000 feet with one enemy air craft still firing at him. The Brit isher, however, managed after a struggle to right his machine and land safely. In a somewhat similar instance a German scout attacked a British air- Jilane carrying a pilot and observer, one of the German's bullets passed through the gasoline tank of the British airplant and seriously wound ed the pilot. The British observer, liowever, pumped a full double drum of bullets at the enemy scout at very i lose quarters and the German went to the ground with a crash. Meanwhile the British pilot had fainted and fallen against the steer ing "stick" in sucli a fashion as to throw the airplane into a spin. The British* observer climber over the side and forward along the plane to the pilot's cockpit, lifted the pilot to his peat and, still standing on the wing of the piano, released the steering gear, brought the machine out of the upin and safely to the ground. Two British officers were returning from an expedition over the enemy's lines to locate hostile batteries when their machine was hit by anti-air craft lire and the engine damaged Volplaning, the machine landed 300 yards from the British lines, the uirplane turned over and the avi ators were hurled out on the Ger man side of a canal. Running along the beach under heavy fire from rifles and machine guns, the aviators dived into the canal only to find it full of barbed wire, but managed to reach the British lines In safety. Many instances illustrating the reckless daring of the British avi ators sent over the German lines to obtain information, destroy aero dromes and harry the German re serves, are contained In the official narratives. One pilot' who crossed the lines at Vpres threw off two at tacking "machines, bombed the Heule aerodrome near Lille and was fired upon by two machine guns. He dived at one of them, firing both guns of the British uirplane, drove the Ger mans from their guns, fired upon the. aerodrome again, attacked and scat- I tr.red a column of 20 German Infan trymen on the road. A German two seater airplane was circling 500 feet above him for an attack. "X zoomed up under its tail and fired into it," ■writes the British aviator. "It I crashed down onto the railway." Another British pilot had fired a hundred rounds on German troops on the march when he was inter rupted by two enemy airplanes. He attacked them and drove both down and then finished the Job of driving the German infantry into trenches and shellholes. Flying at the height of 200 feet, a British aviator engaged in a re volver duel with two German offi cers in a motor and while doing so ran into some lines of telegraph wires, but fortunately Ills machine cut them. A few minutes later he attacked German infantry, which es caped his gun only by diving into a pond. "iNever Felt Better" Says Bensinger Appetite lias Conic Back and He Sleeps Like a Log, Tlianks to Xanlac WAS ALL RUN DOWN HE AVERS "I was all run down and suffered a lot from my stomach," says C. H. Bensinger, It. F. D. No. 2, Reading, Pa. "My whole system seemed to be out of condition and I was in misery all the time. "I had no appetite and what little food 1 did force myself to eat didn't digest but would ferment in my stomach causing me to become till ed and bloated with gas. "I couldn't sleep but would toss restlessly all night long and I al ways felt so tired that it was all I could do to drag myself through the long weary days. "Well I got to looking around for something to help me and I read and heard so much about Tanlae that I went and got a bottle to, try. Sure enough it helped me right away. That tired feeling left me. I look to sleep better and my stom ach trouble was quickly righted. "Now I never felt better In my life and all thanks- to Tanlac.'* Tanlac, the famous reconstructive tonic, is now being introduced here at Gorgas' Drug Store whore the Tanlac man is meeting the people and explaining the merits of this master medicine. Tanlac is also sold at the Gorgas Drug Store in the P. R. R. Station; in Carlisle at W. G. Stephens' Phar-' inacy; Elizabethtown, Albert W. Cain: Greencastle, Charles B. Carl; Middletown, Colin S. Few's Phar macy; Waynesboro, Clarence Croft's Pharmacy; Mechanlcsburg, H. F. Brunhouse. —Adv. Cleat the Volee—Uulrkl> relieve lloarneneaa, Coaght, Sor* Throat. Mronchitl* anil Larynirltla—-pleataot ly flavored touchea—2se the Box. Gorgas Drug Stores Liggett's Chocolates lib., 2 lb., 3 lb., 5 lb. Boxes 85c to $5.00 GORGAS 10 N. Third St. I'enna. Station i v * | 'FRIDAY EVENING. Red^ross Today Todav 1 j x ' 1 uud y ■ Will be "Very Busy" Days for "Old Santa." Of course I have most | of my regular "gifts" bought, but in looking over my reserved list I find so many friends and acquaintances whom I would like to remember, and as I did most of my shopping "this year" at Doutrichs. I "The Real Christmas Store" I 1 ' : 1 I find I still have plenty of money left and I believe it will do more good than to put it in the i bank for it will make so many people happy on Christmas day as well as throughout the entire year for I buy nothing but "very useful" gifts I believe you'll give me credit when you open your packages on Christmas morning and see how carefully I selected everything I bought for YOU and remember this every purchase I made at Doutrichs that does not please YOU in any way can be exchanged without quibble or question and if they are unable to please YOU in exchange they will refund YOUR money Now that's why I spend most of my money there because Doutrichs are depend able in every way. | "Try This Dependable I I Velour Hdts CF\ This Is the Neckwear Centre | 3 ' an d if you will but look in Doutrichs windows The most popular "Hats" that ever made their you will be convinced that y° u need not look "elsewhere" appearance in Harrisburg think of a single for your neckwear gifts store being able to dispose of no less than - Thousands of Ties . . ... 50c to $2.50 Eighteen Hundred "Velour" Hats in a single B ° ys Tie# ' ' * * ' • 25c to 50c season —We are congratulating the "Hat Man" I ji ij II on his good taste— { Silk Scarfs and Mufflers g Green Brown Gray Black Fawn V/Tf \\ For a very acceptable and dignified gift we suggest you w ]i buy "Him" a Silk Muffler— &s.UU " $1.85 to $7.85 I "The Store Everybody Is Talking About" I I Boys' Overcoats and Mackinaws Men's Pajamas @ 1 • i, r T~ "-i their wants at Doutrichs. Pajamas made or warm Han '■f\ lV "On the Balcony" nelette in one and two-piece h'j I ' Overcoats $5.00, $6.50 to $15.00 Btyle * ' j** |T | | I /fgMr Mackinaws $5.00, $6.50 to $8.50 | $1.50, $2.00, $2.50 rnr\ll 1 ji v/ffl' Boys 9 Sllits Madras and Mercerized / \ \VT^iT I | $6.50, $7.50, $8.50 to SIB.OO *+S£ S II 1 Boys' Corduroy Trousers . . . $1.50 to $2.50 Shirts. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH V DECEMBER 21, 1917.