CAPTURED BRITISH AVIATOR
BRUTALLY ATTACKED BY : GERMANS . -The Press Bureau states that the J&inerican Ambassador at. Berlin, forwards a sworn declaration that the aviator. Briggs, who was captured: in November owing to ac hole being made in lais petrol- tajik, received a grazing bullet' wound on the ear. After He landed, a German ,soldier at a distance of forty yards fired five ineffective shots at Briggs,-who then lifted up lii 6 hands. &ldiere and ; civilians dragged him out of his machme, and ; .while , bont faco downwards "he received a heavy blow, supposedly from a rifle butt. A German officer saved bis life,; standing between Bnggs and the ohrnshing crowd and threatening to shoot anyone who touched the. aviator. —"Times" and Sydney -"Sun" scracco. / .■
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2390, 20 February 1915, Page 8
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CAPTURED BRITISH AVIATOR
Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2390, 20 February 1915, Page 8
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