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Levin Daily Chronicle, 27 November 1917, Page 1

Mrs Darley Livingstone, who was sent as one of the six British official representatives to the recent Anglo-Ger--111:111 Conference at '".10 Hague on prisoners of war, has been an honorary secretary of the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners ever since it was formed two years ago. There is probably no one in England to-day who has a more extensive knowledge of the actual conditions in prisoners' camps in Germany and elsewhere.

Flight-Lieut. D. E. Harkness, a young New Zealand airman who was interned in Holland last year, is now 011 a visit to New Zealand on parole. Lieut. Harkness went to England in .19.15, and went into training at Hendon. He received a commission in the Royal Naval Air Service, and afterwards completed his training at several schools in England. He went to the Western front early in 191(5, and was engaged in flying there for several months. He was awarded the Lis--inguished Service Cross for valuable services rendered in the bombing of a German Zeppelin shed at Brussels. Lieut. Harkness had the ill luck in .September, 1!>.1(>, to be forced to descend on Dutch soil. A short time ago he was allowed to leave for England, and subsequently he was given extended leave in order to visit New Zealand. He will leave for his home at Nelson in a few days.

I have met quite a number of flying men 011 short leave from France during the last few days (says a correspondent in a London paper of a recent date). They tell me the whole front is discussing the remarkable air achievements of a young lad of nineteen, who belongs to Glasgow, and only joined the service about a year ago. He has already been overwhelmed with honours both by the British and the French Governments, and I am told that some of his daring exploits altogether exceed anything that has yet been accomplished during the war. Ho was given an extra bar to his D.S.O. the other day for coolly landing in the grounds of one of the enemy's aerodromes and accounting by gunfire for the occupants as they left their berths. Having completed his work, he returned unharmed to our own lines, and celebrated the occasion by looping the loop several times before lie finally touched the ground. The War Office, with their usual red tape, make it impossible for his name to be mentioned; but sooner or later the world will be told.