Friday, July 26, 2013

Sky Bombs For Federals.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 26, 1913:
Aviators Drop Them from Aeroplane Near Gunboats.
    HERMOSILLO, Mexico, via Nogales, Arizona. July 25.— Three hundred soldiers were sent to-day to aid the rebels operating in Chihuahua under Pancho Villa. Seven hundred more are promised to the Chihuahua rebel leader, it is announced.
    Rebel Stale officials assert that Didier Masson, the French aviator, and Bauche Alcalde, a Mexican, made a flight over Guaymas Harbor to-day and dropped four bombs near the Federal gunboats.

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