A BOMBER'S EXPLOIT.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15130, 26 January 1917, Page 7

A BOMBER'S EXPLOIT.

r~ CLEARING OL'T A ‘ NEST. Describing the- work of British bombing parties. Reuter's correspondent in France stitos that the true bomber is born rather than made. He must have the patience and carefulness of a deerstalker, the subtlety of a diplomat, the impudence of a gamin, the Bpecnlativenetw of a poker player, with a big lump of lion courage thrown in. He may be despatched on a bombing mission in a town or village only half held by ns. There are bombers who do not hesitate creep into the heart of the enemy territory at night. It was a bomber who played the chief part in a little ruse de guerre by which many Germans discomfited. The enemy was ensconced in a house ruin. They had a machine-gun, and were not easy to get at close quarters. But after nightfall a British machine-gun was trained with delicate care upon the door of that honsc. A bomber crept Jn, and, working his way by devious routes, came actually to the back of the house. He climbed up on to its battered roof, and from this vantage point he began a steady little cascade of bombs through roof holes and chimney stack upon the startled Germans below And when they rushed out of the frontdoor the machine-gun was ready for them That house held no German in the morning The only request that bomber made when he started on this hair-raising adventure was to ask the machine-gunner to “Keep it pretty low, or you’ll get me,' not Fritz.” *»-