THE IMPRISONED AIRMEN
THEIR "PARDON" NOT SATISFACTORY TO BRITAIN. (Rec. March. 13, 8.20 p.m.) • London, March 12. Germany states that Captain Scholtz and Sub-Lieutenant Wookey have been pardoned. Britain has replied that she is not satisfied with tho statement, because it is not admitted that any offence was committed. Further explanaawaited.—Reuter. [Captain Scholtz and Sub-Lieutenant Wookey, two British aviators, were court-martialled in Germany and sentenced to penal servitude on a charge of dropping hostile proclamations iu Germany. Subsequently the British Foreign Office informed Germany, through Holland, that unless Captain Scholtz and Sub-Lieutenant _ Wookey were released from penal servitude immediately and given proper treatment reprisals would bo taken, A message in yesterday's issue stated that the War Prisoners' Department had been informed that the officers would be released and returned to the camps. The month's notice of reprisals expired on March 12.1 ;
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 150, 14 March 1918, Page 7
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141THE IMPRISONED AIRMEN Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 150, 14 March 1918, Page 7
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