FUEHRER'S ORDERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 14 September 1940, Page 14

FUEHRER'S ORDERS.

"BUT IT'S NOT RIGHT."

GERMAN PILOT'S COMMENT.

(By Air.) LONDON, August 14. '"It's not right we fight England, but the Fuehrer bade us, and we worship the ground he walks on!" In these words a German pilot officer, whose 'plane crashed this week in south-east England, replied to an English farm worker who had said to him: "It's not you we are fighting, but Hitler."

Betty Brown, the 14-year-old daughter of a farmer, assisted in the arrest of the pilot and his gunner. "I was in niv riding clothes, and was just going to put on my boots for a morning ride," said Betty, "when suddenly mother shouted, 'There's a German 'plane down over there.' I rushed out and saw the swastika on its side. I jumped the fencc and ran towards it. I felt very foolish, because my slippers kept com in" off, but 1 managed to stumble on some" how.

"Then some of our workmen and our milkman, Keg. Randall, started out towards the machine, and I saw the two Germans walking along. Thev gave themselves up to the men. The pilot had a revolver, but he surrendered it without any fuss.

'"I must say they were awfully well behaved. The pilot, an officer, was tall and good-looking, about 23, I should say. Ho said: 'I am a German. I speak English.' The other said nothing." "The Nazi officer asked me for a cigarette," said Mr. Randall. "I «»ave him one and he then asked me, you hear t>ur Fuehrer's speech the other night? What did you think of it*' I told liim: 'B— rotten,' and he shrugged his shoulders." ~

Betty's father, Mr. William Brown, said: "I brought them in for a cup of The pilot said he had been brought down twice before, in Poland and France. lie told us lie had friends here He spoke warmly about our country. He looked out of the window and said. Xever thought I'd land in old England like this.'"