An item of much popular interest in a recent Admiralty memorandu was the appearance of the name Lieutenant Erskine Cliilders, RXV.B., among the air service observers who took part in tlie reconnaissance of tlie Heligoland Big-lit and Cnxhavcn on Christmas -Day. Lieutenant Erskine Childers is the well-known writer of "Tlie Riddle of the Sands," which is the story of an English yachtsman who set himself to study the channels in the sands about Borkum, and who saw one night the Kaiser inspecting a (leet of barges that was.-to convey a German expeditionary force to England. It is a wonderful yarn, showinp knowledge of the sands and their conditions that could only have been gained by intimate experience. Tt is enri ous to speculate what his thought; must have been when he found him self flying high over the same seas ir the actual war that he had foreshadow-
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 260, 13 April 1915, Page 5
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148Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 260, 13 April 1915, Page 5
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