"SHOW YOU WHAT TANKS DO"

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 29 June 1917, Page 1

"SHOW YOU WHAT TANKS DO"

FRENCH AIRMAN'S AMAZING PRANK. The 'l)aily correspondent says: Second Lieutenant' Navarre is a magnificent flying man. He has accounted tor some two dozen enemy machines, and is perhaps the most daring air fighter known. But when off duty and "on the spree" he is alarming. "His wild performances while on leave in Paris have nlways been a by-word, but were husi'.vl up for the sake of his other feats at yHf> front. But he has reached the limit. U'd now is " wanted. " for attempted manstaw'hier. Havtug dined gaily near Halles, "fir took three pats with "him in *iis motor car. "Show yon what the tanks do at the front," said Navarre, and started doing. He charged on and off the.

f kerbstone at 40 miles an hour, charged a. group of five policemen standing in the road, knocking three down and hurting them badly, charged another party of policemen, also with casualties. Finally he charged an offending motor car, smashed it up, suid made off. He is now wanted. He is believed to have returned tn the front to bring down one oi- two more Bodies and thus propitiate the sut'lOi'ities. Navarre has been forsjiven many minor escapades before, and" has hhout 300 days' cells to do already after Use war, but he went a little too far this true, and is not going to be let off now v.tth otdy a talking .to. He is now in a ; K'.'litary prison charged with attempted kt m.slaughter. It is stated that Navarre, ; scnce being severely wounded during one : oi his aerial exploits, has shown signs of 1 mental disturbance.