IMPRISONED BRITISH AIRMEN
GERMANY,ACCEDES, TO DEMAND
FOR RELEASE.
(Rec. March 12, 10 p.m.) London, March 11. The. Press Bureau reports that the War Prisoners' Department was, informed to-day that Captain Scholtz and Sub-Lieutenant Wookey will bo released and returned to the camps. Tho month's notice of intended reprisals would have expired to-morrow. ■ Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. [Two British aviators, Captain Scholtz and Sub-Lieutenant Wookey, were court-martialled in Germany and sentenced to penal servitude on a cliargo of dropping hostile proclamations in Germany. Subsequently the British Foreign Office informed Germany, through Holland, that unless Captain Scholtz and Sub-Lieutenant Wookey were released from penal servitude immediately, and given proper treatment, reprisals would be taken.]
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 149, 13 March 1918, Page 5
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