Austro-Germany.
"FORLORN HOPE BRIGADE." TRAINED FOR RAID ON LONDON. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Received July 1, 7.10 p.m. London, June 30. . A young Englishman named Clark, who died in a hospital in Paris, stated he lived with a German in Vienna before the war. The German died ami Clark appropriated his papers, adopted his identity, and went to Berlin and enrolled in a corps of ten thousand known as the "forlorn hope brigade?," who were to be trained as aviators in .order to take part in the air raid on ■London at the end of July. After the first lessons he escaped, with the object of telling the British, and V went to Paris through Holland. lie died before he accomplished his mission, 'but a friend carried out his mission.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 July 1915, Page 5
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131Austro-Germany. Taranaki Daily News, 2 July 1915, Page 5
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