London, May 14.
A new British' high-speed fighter plane, believed 10 be tthe most deadly armed aircraft the world, was successfully tested over the low countries yesterday when it shot down three German bombers.
Armed with three cannon and fourteen machine-guns, the high-speed plane was originally held for use against possible mass German air raids on England.—United. Press.
Paris, May 13.
The tragic scenes of "1914" were repeated In Paris yesterday when scores of old men, women, children and. babies. in carriages, baskets fand blankets began arriving from Belgian frontier towns.
While soldiers were busy preparing 500 beds In the main Belgian refugee centre in Paris, nurses were nttend~ ing to mothers, distributing soup and sandwiches and making hasty arrangements to transfer the homeless to farm shelters in the country.
The Belgians, many of whom were old enough to recount tragic me cidents in the Great War, told of the terror of German alr raids, during which, they said, no merey was shown to. the refugees choking, the highways leading into France.
Tt was noted that few able bodied men Were among the refugees, They were mostly boys leading their sisters and smaller brothers, oF carrying infants beside their mothers, white-bearded old men.
One husky Belgian, leading 9 group of his countrymen, explained he was a member of a foresters unit belonging to the "Chosseurs of Ardents," a contingent known as the "ardents Boers," famous for its physical strength and fighting qualities left my house on a bicycle join my regiment," he said, "Bul, {trying to avoid the German frontier Tran direct into a German column creeping along a ditch to surprise the people in the next village, escaped their attention and caught a motor trek, which carried tine to France, T caught a" train foing to Paris, where T found countrymen, Now T.ean return imy unit in Belgium.
One. elderly woman tearfully told hhow she started from her home. with her two children. Both children were killed by. machine-gun fire she fled with them along. a road near the German frontier, she said, She lett the bodies of her ehiléren beside the road, side by side, She then continued' her tight alone, atling @ ride in a cart. to Paris: She ad either: coat, not" money when she reached Parla Sitany were forced to leave their ie" hemes without a coal even without a" hat, They ate unheated food, except for the coffee and. snacks offered them along their route. Most of them did not knot? the foe of their husbands and oder United" Pres °F (MET Mamie. imale"members of their forties:
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