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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 203, 25 August 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

OUR ANONYMOUS HEROES. In the details of air fights publish-?;! l»y the Air Board, the officers concerned ar.e only designated by an initial letter Your health! Flight Sub-Lieutenant A.! Your name, alas! I inu>t not say. For clearly it would never do Should Huns lind out that you air you No patriot would giv.6 a show To facts that might assist a foe Who yearns U. hear if it were Browr. Or Yei'o do \ civ who struck him down Enough to know there is no doubt You piloted a Xicuport Scout And sank a seaplane in a fray Upon the twentieth of May, And thus your deed, but not your name, Is written on the roll of fame, While nil ;!i • Huns. I will engag?, Will grit their teeth with baffle] rape. Perchance T err, and it may lie Kxaggcra c »J n -ork-< ty Which leads us to believe it best That heroes' names should be suppressed. The Hocb.es boof-t—it in their plan Of Boek-kc and of Immclmann: You rather would do good by st?iUh, But, anyhow, I drink your health! - TOUCHSTONE, in the " Daily .Mad " Spain has more sunshine than any other country in Europe. The yearly average is 3000 hours; that of'lta'v, 2300; England 1400.