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Taranaki Daily News, 23 April 1919, Page 5

One of 1 the minor reports concerning war incidents lately released bv the censor relates how the Germans came to be able to copy a British aeroplane, and, by producing the machine in large n ll ?f. ? rß ' wero a^'e a time to dispute British air supremacy. A new Handloy lage night bombing machine was making its first flight to France when it ran £ a A ense fo S- R' B >ng out of the fog, tne pilot encountered a violent electriQ storm,, which rendered his compass useless, and, as he could not locate the roast, he decided to make an effort to return to England. The weather rapidly became worse, and, the return being impossible, the pilot headed again for France. He had lost bearings in the thick weather, but, jufcaig that ho ""Ist be over land, he desp 1 ' ' ~ came to earth in a field, ne in the hope of obtainupaw to the locality, but, aflucM it, there was not a soul t« pilot went in one direl observer in another, separated German sj ~ cover and capture^ Qn this machinfj promptly modelJ For solidj there is noj CLWCHEI au unbeatT For Child