ANSWERING THE DEAD HAND.

Taihape Daily Times, 15 May 1918, Page 6

ANSWERING THE DEAD HAND.

&k : STORY OF AIR-FIGHTING. ■i ■ ■ ” C LONDON, April 27 The British airmen continue their work. One with a patrol at Esiaires shot down six in a single day. Be was not hurt, though his machine ■was riddled. The accompanying patrollers each downed a German, A British two-seater, alone, on androve down three. The British pilot was three times wounded, and his machine caught fire, but he and his observer went on fighting till they reached No Man's Land, where our infantry brought in both. Recently a British twoseater, after shooting down the enemy, disappeared "behind our lines. It fell two hours, later, 20 miles distant. The occupants were found to have been shot dead with the same bullet. Experts are of opinion that they flew unguided in a great circle, till their petrol was exhausted, as "boats are known to have sailed with the sheet fastened, with a dead man’s hand On the tiller.