AIRMAN IN A CAGE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 154, 25 March 1919, Page 8

AIRMAN IN A CAGE

EXHIBITED HALF-NAKED TO HUN SPECTATORS. Lieutenant Cyril Ball, Ii.A.F., brother of the famous airman, Captain Albert Ball, V.C., who urrived home in Nottingham recently after having been a prisoner in Germany for nine months, fiaye: ''I was brought down six'miles behind the German Hues and the enemy were still firing at my machiue. I fell out as soon as the machine hit the ground. A crowd of Huns caught hold of me and took all my clothee off except my troupers ami shirt, and I hud to walk for miles in iny socks.

"The first thing they told me was that they wore going to shoot hid for having explosive bullets. For three days I was in a dungeon with nothing In it black bread and water. At Conrtrai 1 was put in a kind of wild-beast cage where I was exhibited to the populace like some wild animal with nothing on but my trousers and shirt and the sentries standing guard on each side; On one occasion I was put in prison for three days because I smiled at the commandant of the camp. 1 understand Ihis man is about to bo 'brought to England for trial, ;ind T hope he will be shot, His Iruatniuni. of llm men was brutal. One I'linn in our camp who had been shot in the foot was loft; his leg rutted, and tlieu it was taken off."

A new Eastbourne ferry service timetable, to lake effect to-day, is advertised,

Reel deer stags having antlers with not fewer than ten points may be taken or killed in the portions of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society's district, open to deer-shooters from April 1 to May 31, inclusive.