A new method of warfare for aviators, first undertaken by French pilots, is that of flying low over the enemy’s lines, and attacking enemy troops with machine-gun fire. The _Daily Telegraph_ Paris correspondent, praising this work, has stated that ‘the aviators attached to the infantry belong to a special section. They precede each attacking wave by a few yards and fly extraordinarily low, sometimes not more than a hundred yards or so above the enemy’s lines, upon which they drop bombs, thus paving the way for the infantry advance, and simultaneously, of course, signalling back information to the infantry as it comes on.’ On October 22 it was reported that Adjutant Dorme had brought down his fifteenth machine at Barleux, and Marechal de Logis Flachaire his fifth machine, which was dashed to pieces on the ground in the same district. On the following day, in spite of a thick mist, French aircraft displayed activity and fought some twenty engagements. Three enemy machines were brought down—one to the north of Azannes, another near Ornes, while the third was seen to fall with a broken wing north of Romagne. Following upon an engagement fought by one of the French air squadrons with an enemy group in the region of Verdun, one of the French pilots came down to within about a hundred yards from the ground in order to set fire to a shed and to open with his machine-gun on a motor-car. Later it was reported that Sergt.-Aviator Sauvage had brought down his fifth German aeroplane. He was the youngest French aviator to be mentioned in dispatches. His one desire, we learn, since he was fourteen, was to become an aviator. At sixteen he was apprenticed to a small aeroplane builder. He worked hard, and under the direction of the aviator Gilbert he built a machine to which he added some small improvement. He had just gone to Valenciennes to try this machine when war broke out, and he had to make off, leaving the aeroplane behind, which presumably fell into the hands of the Germans. After one year of war he managed to get taken into the aviation service, got his pilot’s licence in March, and went to the front three months later.