THE AIR-RAIDERS
"CIVILIAN ACTIVITY" AND A
GERMAN ORDER.
The Secretary of State for the Colonies, reporting on the past week's events, states in the course of a. review of the aerial operations: "There are many expressions of indignation by the German military authorities at oivilian participation in acts of warfare, such as helping the Allied airmen in Belgium. It is now amusing to find an official proclamation quoted from the Counauer (?) Nachrichten, a Westphalian paper, on the 19th June, requiring German civilians to capture all enemy airmen forced to land on German territory, or to prevent them from restarting or' destroying their aeroplanes. This proclamation considers such service a danger, and offers a bribe accordingly of fifty marks per head to civilians bringing in enemy airmen prisoners. This makes a fine contrast to the attitude expected by the German High Command from other civilians in respect to foundered German aircraft." ■
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 13, 15 July 1918, Page 8
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