CHIVALRY OF THE AIR.

Taihape Daily Times, 6 May 1918, Page 5

CHIVALRY OF THE AIR.

A SPORTING HUN. Rear-Admiral Mark Kerr, a member of the Air Council, speaking at a lecture at the University College, Loudon, on the "Future Growth of Aerial. Law," said that during this war In only one sxjecies of lighting had the enemy shown chivalry, and that was in the air. Possibly it came from an excess of oxygen, but still it remained a fact that they had been chivalrous in the air. They.had attended funerals and dropped wreaths, and this ha<t been reciprocal not only on the w?st. ern front, but between the Italians and the Austrians. A short time ago one of our fighting machines fought an enemy machine. The airman finished all his drums of ammunition, the only weapon he had was his pistol, which he hurled at the enemy 'plane. He managed to reach our- lines, but one of the enemy followed him, and hurled the pistol back, with the message: "As reprisals are the order of the day, I return the pistol the same way as I received it." "Truly," said Admiral Kerr, "a sporting Hun."