AIR DASH FOR FREEDOM.
Two of the anti-Bolshevist army of General Wrangel, interned in South Siavia, made a daring bid for freedom the other day.
One, Colonel Bojkoff, is an expert aeroplane pilot. He won the confidence of the South Slav flying officers at Neusatz (Novisad), and was taken 'for flights with them.
Recently, when a new Breguet aerop'.ane arrived at the aerodrome, he asked to be allowed to make a trial pijht in it himself. He went up with another interned Russian. ,
The acropape circled the aerodrome gracefully once 05 twice, then rose to a great height, and (presently, sped away eastward. It dawned on the South Slavs that their friends were making a bolt for home, and intended, no doubt, to make their peace with the Soviet Government by presenting them with the aeroplane. So they telegraphed to the Roumanian War Office. Meanwhile the Russians met with engine trouble and, had to come down at Jassy, in Roumanian Thereupon they went on afoot hop’ng to reach friends in Bessarabia.
- But Roumanian officers saw them, suspected them, and had them arrested.
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Shannon News, 30 November 1923, Page 3
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182AIR DASH FOR FREEDOM. Shannon News, 30 November 1923, Page 3
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