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are playing safe with their planes for another good reason too, namely, a ^[[present]] lack of quantity, and any ^[[allied]] counter attack that "gets" their machines does a bold stroke of work toward making a blind Cyclops. Confirmation has been assured that seventeen Gothas were consumed in a recent raid of H.Ps. on a Hun aerodrome...A saving of so many dead non-combatants and hospital corps.

The Germans are clever copiers - and improvers. [[strikethrough]]??[[/strikethrough]] ^[[The early]] Handley Page to go over, landed on a German aerodrome, and was immediately investigated, improved, and occasioned the birth forthwith of those two saviours against raids on Paris- Minette and Riutintin. The Friedrickschaften is another branch of the same evil root. In Nancy and Toul as well as Paris and London ^[[are]] the marks of their [[strikethrough]]??[[/strikethrough]] utility. A dud bomb which landed in Nancy measured over 9 feet - and such an instrument can do a deal of damage