YANK AIRMAN'S EXPLOITS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1918, Page 4

YANK AIRMAN'S EXPLOITS.

EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE. ■Lieut. Edwin G. Chamberlain, of the U.S. Marine Corps, has had a few of the most gloriously crowded hours of adventure that ever feel to the lot of an airman. He took part in a fight with 12 German machines, smashed 5 of them, while his own machine was badly crippled, enabled his British companions to escape, and when his engine gave ont swooped on a detachment of Hun infantry, cutting them down and scattering them right and left. Finally he came to ground under partial cover mbout a quarter of a mile from the French outposts. But his adventures were not yet over. After leaving his helpless machine he ran into three Germans. He “bluffed” them by pretending that his compass which he had rescued from his aeroplane was a hand grenade, and took one of them prisoner. He found and attended a wounded French colonial soldier, swam across the river under fire while he drove Ins prisoner before him and enrried the wounded man, and finally landed with both trophies in the Allied lines. And then he would not give his name for fear of being scolded. Lieut. Chamberlain’s force command, or has recommended him to be promoted to captain and to be given the Medal of Honour.