It is noteworthy that on the following morning Captain de Beauchamps and Lieutenant Daucourt, each piloting a machine, started at eleven o’clock from their aerodrome, and threw twelve bombs on the factories of Essen (Westphalia). The aviators returned safely to their landing-point after accomplishing a flight of 800 kilometres (500 miles)—a remarkable achievement! Captain de Beauchamps, who is twenty-nine years of age, once commanded a squadron on the Eastern frontier, and Lieutenant Guynemer served for some time under him. Lieutenant Daucourt, thirty-seven years old, also has many long-distance flights to his credit. In April, 1913, he flew from Paris to Berlin, a distance of 560 miles, beating his own ‘record’ in the contest for the Pommery Cup, when he made the journey from Calais to Biarritz. In October of the same year he started with a passenger for Cairo, a flight of 3,750 miles, but was forced to land in the Cilician Taurus, on November 26, owing to an accident. He has been mentioned in Army Orders for his fine courage and tenacity in the accomplishment of missions. In February, 1915, when attacked by two German aeroplanes and his machine-gun had jammed, he escaped by daring airmanship. In the following month he attacked four enemy machines single-handed, and put them to flight. Special reference must also be made to the heroic French aviator, Adjutant Tarascon, who was mentioned in the official communiqué of September 18 as having brought down five German aeroplanes. We learn from a French source that he enlisted voluntarily, having been rejected owing to an aviation accident, of which he was the victim, in peace time. He was picked up in a very serious state, and it was found necessary to amputate his left leg. Tarascon temporarily abandoned the sport which cost him this infirmity, but asked to be allowed to resume his position as pilot when it was a question of defending his country. The courage of this hero cannot be sufficiently admired. He is an expert, and one would never believe, whilst watching the evolutions of the aeroplane which he handles with such skill, that he had but one leg. Recently, during one of these astonishing raids, almost level with the tops of the trees above the enemy lines, which have become a speciality of Allied aviation, Tarascon received a shell splinter in his artificial leg, the shot being so violent that the leg was broken. A number of American volunteers are in the French Air Service. Inspired by the example of the heroic sons of the country they delight to serve, they have earned high honours and warm praise. Describing an action witnessed from an anti-aircraft gun emplacement, one writer says: