Aviators Aid Bulgarians.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 3, 1912:
American Attache Will Report on Their Value to the Government.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.— The death of Nicholas Popoff, the Russian military aviator, reported to have been killed in a flight over the Turkish fortifications at Adrianople, has attracted attention to the aviation aspects of the war in the Balkans.
    Whether there are other aviators at the seat of war is not known, but it was reported from Chicago last week that two American aviators had started for Greece, under contract to accompany the troops of that nation.
    Wherever the military aviator has been used, it was pointed out here to-day, his value has been demonstrated in reconnoissances and scouting. When the American Army was mobilized on the Mexican border recently military aviators made flights nearly every day and were able to report accurately to the American commanding officers concerning occurrences across the border. Aviators with monoplanes were sent across the Mediterranean into Tripoli, and as they were trained observers their reports were of the utmost value to the Italian commanding officers.
    Lieut. Sherman Miles, U.S.A., Military Attaché of the American Legations in Bulgaria and Roumania, who has been ordered by the War Department to accompany the Bulgarian Army in the field, has been asked to observe particularly the uses made of the aeroplane. In the kind of campaigns conducted by the Bulgarian Generals, military men here believe, the aeroplane would be particularly valuable. By means of reconnoissances by flying machines the Bulgarians, with the Turks on the run, would learn in minute detail the line of Turkish retreat, as well as of the distribution of the forces, and would thus be able to press their pursuit intelligently.