NAZI SOUVENIR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 228, 25 September 1940, Page 10

NAZI SOUVENIR.

SILK FROM PARACHUTE.

FORCED LANDING ON FARM. A fragment of silk charred at the edges. . . . Nothing much to look at, perhaps, but it was once part of a German parachute from a plane brought down on a farm at Coldingham, Berwickshire, and enclosed in a letter to Mrs. Rupert Morton, of 25, Ridings Road, Remuera. The writer of the letter, Mrs. E. M. Millican, says: "A German plane was brought down here on our farm. We were very much in the public eye for days after. One of the crew was wounded and he was carried into the house, where he was attended to on the kitchen table.

"I had to improvise a dressing etation, clearing things out of the way," she adds. "I got rugs and made him very .sweet hot tea to counteract shock. Sugar ■wasn't rationed then fortunately. The 'phone never stopped ringing—tlie Press wanting information. "The plane was guarded night and clay until it was removed, so we had soldiers and airmen going back and forward for about a fortnight. We got a few souvenirs, and I am enclosing a bit of the parachute silk. It is all scorched, of course, because the Germans immediately fired their plane as soon as they got the wounded man out."