A WAR TRAGEDY
FATHER’S KISS LED TO SON’S EXECUTION ALSATIAN DESERTER FROM GERMAN ARMY By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. (Rec. March 6, 5.5 p.m.) Geneva, March 4. A pathetic war tragedy has been disclosed in which a father’s kiss led’ to a son’s execution. David ' Bloch, an Alsatian, deserted from the German Army in 1915 and joined General Petain’s army, in which he was employed as an aviator. Owing to his extensive knowledge of German territory, Bloch landed scores of times behind the German lines, but always escaped. A month before the armistice his motor exploded, and Bloch was captured. His identity was suspected, but Bloch strenuously denied it. His captors then brought his aged father at midnight to the lad’s bedroom. The father, not guessing the plot, showed that he recognised his son. The aviator said: "I don’t know this man,” but the father, still not realising the situation, embraced and kissed the lad, who broke down under the ordeal and confessed hie identity. He was immediately taken out and shot. The body has just been discovered in a garden, and was reinterred with military honours. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 138, 7 March 1921, Page 5
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188A WAR TRAGEDY Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 138, 7 March 1921, Page 5
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