NEWSPAPER FELLS OX.
Where there are garrisons of National Guardsmen and United States marines in Nicaragua with no landiiig fields, marine aviators fly over dropping mail, medicine and cigarettes. Captain George L. Maynard, of the Marine Corps, related that while lie was in Jinotega recently an aviator dropped a copy of the New York "Times" from a high altitude, and the paper struck a bullock squarely between the. eyes, knocking it to the ground. After a short time the bullock arose bewildered and fled into a wood. So great is the force of the impact when articles are dropped that at timea the. containers/are broken, \ L _ J_.w_l _' :
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 261, 3 November 1932, Page 9
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107NEWSPAPER FELLS OX. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 261, 3 November 1932, Page 9
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