8.30.--Downed a two-seater, which lost a wing as it fell and was smashed on the trees 1200 meters NNE. of Corbeny. 8.31.--Another two-seater downed, in flames, above Juvincourt.--With Captain Auger, forced another two-seater to dive down to 600 meters, one kilometer from our lines. Downed a D.F.W.[22] in flames above Courlandon. Downed a two-seater in flames between Guignicourt and Conde-sur-Suippes. Dispersed with Captain Auger a squadron of six one-seaters. [Footnote 22: The D.F.W. (_Deutsche Flugzeug Werke_) is a scouting machine provided with two machine-guns, one shooting through the propeller, the other mounted on a turret aft. It is thirty-nine feet across the wings, and twenty-four in length. One Benz six-cylinder engine of 200/225 H.P. Its speed at an altitude of 3000 meters supposed to be 150 kilometers an hour. One of these machines has been on view at the Invalides since July, 1917.] Now, his Excellency, Lieutenant General von Hoeppner, _Kommandeur der Luftstreitkraefte_, being interviewed two days later by newspaper men he had summoned for the purpose, told them and through them told Germany and, if possible, the whole world, that the German airplanes and the German airmen were unrivaled. "As for the French aviators," he went on to say remarkably apropos, "they only engage our men when they are sure of victory. When they have doubts about their own superiority, they prefer to desist rather than take any risks." This solemn lie the newspaper men repeated at once in their issues of May 28.