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To the civilian the testimony is interesting for the clear idea it gives of military aviation. The extracts following are from the official record: Adjt. Prince: Senator, there are about four kinds of machines used abroad on the western front to-day. The machines that Adjt. Rumsey and myself are looking after are called the battle machines.
Quentin, down to the line the French are on. We had photographs of it all. Senator Kirby: When they started on the retreat? Adjt. Prince: Yes, sir. So we knew exactly where their stand would be made. Then, besides that, those photograph machines do a lot of scouting. They have a pilot and a photographer aboard.
They know the wind speed, they know their height, and they can figure out by this new arrangement they have exactly when the time is to let go their bombs. Senator Kirby: Something in the nature of a range-finder? Adjt. Prince: A sort of range-finder. Adjt.
'WM. RUSSELL, JR., 'Assistant Adjt.-General. 'Official: SOLON A. CARTER, 'Captain and A. A. A.-G. It may be added that 'Baldy' Smith has never been known as being particularly partial to the use of negro troops.
Rumsey: If they have 3000 we have 4000; that is, right on the line. Adjt. Prince: We have about 1000 more than they have, and we are up all the time. The day before I left the front I was called to go out five times, and I went out five times, and spent two hours every time I went out.
It is called a "S. P. A. D.," which has a Spanish motor. But a great many of the motors to-day are being built here in America. Senator Kirby: How many men do you carry? Adjt. Prince: We go up alone in these machines. We did have two guns. We had the Lewis gun on our upper wing and the Vickers down below, that shoots through the propeller as the propeller turns around.
The Chairman: Are you always attacked from above? Adjt. Prince: By airplanes; yes, sir. It is always much safer to attack from above. Then you have the bomb-dropping machines, which carry a lot of weight. They go out sometimes in the daytime, but mostly at night, and they have these new sights by which they can stay up quite high in the air and still know the spot they are going at.
Senator Kirby: How far was it from your battle front that you went? Adjt. Rumsey: I think it was about 500 miles, 250 there and 250 back; it was between 200 and 250 miles there. Senator Kirby: Beyond the battle front? Adjt. Rumsey: Yes; or, to be more accurate, I think it was nearer 200 than 250. The Chairman: What do you think of the function of the airplane as a determining factor? Adjt.
Leger Grenfel an English adventurer of great military experience, personal bravery and daring, who has had a romantic connection with nearly every important war in America, Europe, Asia and Africa for the past thirty years, and served in the Southern army with the rank of Col., as Adjt.-Gen. to Morgan, and afterwards on General Bragg's staff; but who pretended to have resigned his commission in the rebel army and was living quietly in Canada; also by one Capt.
Governor Geary issued the follow-orders: ADJT. GEN. H. J. STRICKLER: You will proceed without a moment's delay to disarm and disband the present organized militia of the Territory. Notwithstanding the positive character of these orders they were utterly disregarded.