FLYING BUT DEAD
London, Jan 4 Captain Bolcke, ibe German airman who was killed at the eud of October, described an amazing occurrence in the air in a letter which is published io the book of his F.ehi Reporia just issued in Germany. He describes an encounter between English and German air squadrons near B on September 27. “My antagonist,” he says, “ tried to get away, but I stuck lo him [.apparently fiting all the time at point-blank range]. But I couldn’t help admiriDg his eudurauce.
“ I moat havesrtiled him long ago, but round and round be kept on flying as well as e\er. It was too much to stomach. 1 said to myself, ‘The fellow’s dead long ago, but tha ’plane keeps on the levef because he’s got rubber bands keeping the steering gear right.’ So I flew close in and there I saw the Englishman slightly toppled over to the aide sitting at his wheel stone dead.” The number of the machine, says Bolcke, was 7,495.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1917, Page 2
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