JUST IN TIME.
(Received March 12th, 10 p.m.) LONDON, March 11.' The Press Bureau states that the War Prisoners Department was informed to-day that Captain Scholtzo and Sub-Lioutenant Wooklov would bo released jind returned to internment camps. The month's notico of intended reprisals would have expired tomorrow. Captain Scholtzo and Sub-Lieutenant Wooklev, British aviators, woro courtmartialied in Germany early last month and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude on a charge of dropping hostile proclamations in Germany. Britain promptly sent a warning to Germany, through Holland, that unless the airmen were released from servitude immediately, and fjivo'i proper treatment, reprisals would 1)0 ma do.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16159, 13 March 1918, Page 7
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104JUST IN TIME. Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16159, 13 March 1918, Page 7
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