AN AIRMAN’S AUDACITY.
The “Petit, Parisien” has a story obtained from a German prisoner, that on Monday morning an English aviator landed near a German sentry. The aviator asked him in the purest German where the officer in command of the Gothas was to be found, saying that he had an urgent message for him. The sentry -epiiea'. “The Herr Go umandant of the Gothas lives w-iero the Gothas are but the Herr Lieutenant knows that “Yes, my lad replied the avaltor, “but in the fog 1 have missed my way, and now I am lost.” “Ah, yes, I know; the same thing happened the other day to Herr von Schultz, my captain,” and the sentry forthwith gave directions as to how to get to the Gothas with the greatest deference. The aviator had hardly taken to flight when the sentinel noticed to his horror, the British marking on , the planes. The sentinel swore, a little late, that he would not be taken
m again in that fashion
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Taihape Daily Times, 11 January 1918, Page 5
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168AN AIRMAN’S AUDACITY. Taihape Daily Times, 11 January 1918, Page 5
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