In the Air

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 96, 25 July 1916, Page 6

In the Air

FLIGHT ACROSS GERMANY. i 'V «•' >■ LIEUTENANT MARCHAL’S FEAT. PROCLAMATIONS ON BERLIN. Press Association—Copyright, Austin lian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 12.20 p.m.) Paris, July 24. j The official account of Lieutenant Marchal’s flight across Germany states that he left Nancy in a special monoplane at 9.30 on the evening of Juno 20, with petrol for a fourteen hours’ flight. Jlis mission was to traverse at a low altitude and drop ; , proclamations in Berlin, and then land in Rus saa. He flow all night ami alighted at Cholm (within 75 miles of. the Russian lines) owing to a defect in the monoplane. - > f

e The proclamation dropped in Berlin stated “We could have bombarded the city and killed your women and children, hut we content ourselves with dropping this proclamation.”- ' Marchal was interned at Salzerbach. v. .v-