Airmen Help Artillery.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 15, 1912:
Accuracy of Bulgars' Marksmanship Partly Due to Air Scouts.
    LONDON, Nov. 14.— The great value of aeroplanes in war has been proved by the Bulgarian Army, not only in reconnaissance work but for fire control. That the murderous accuracy of the Bulgarian artillery was due in a measure to the activity of the airmen is now demonstrated in letters received from the front.
    Any attempt on the part of war correspondents to telegraph news of the employment of flying machines by the Bulgarians during the operations has met with very severe censorship, but stories are beginning to filter through showing that remarkably effective work has been done by the new military arm, which passed through its baptism of fire in Tripoli.
    Percival Phillips, special correspondent of The Daily Express, however, sends a picturesque description of the flight of a biplane over the Bulgarian Army and the beleaguered City of Adrianople. He writes:
    "The first lengthy reconnaissance took place on the Tuesday following the occupation of Mustapha-Pasha. A military biplane winged its way confidently toward the rising sun, making a wide détour above the troops, who were full of enthusiasm regarding this new and wonderful sight. Subsequent flights were made under excellent conditions, there being no wind.
    "From the little cockpit the trained observer, with maps and glasses, surveyed the wonderful panorama of war. Between Mustapha-Pasha and Adrianople the country is a corrugated series of hills and valleys, effectually shutting off from us here any glimpse either of the enemy or of our first line. To the aerial scouts, however, these hills were no more than a row of insignificant ridges cut by the broad valley of the winding Maritza, with a crooked yellow ribbon, the great Constantinople road, as the most pronounced landmark."

14,000 SICK AND WOUNDED.
Number of Soldiers Needing Aid in Constantinople Alone.
    Oscar S. Straus, ex-Ambassador to Turkey, received the following cablegram yesterday from Ambassador Rockhill at Constantinople:
    "There are now over 14,000 sick and wounded soldiers here.
    "Cholera seems to be increasing fast. Much sickness and destitution among the many thousand refugees."