AUSTRALIAN'S QUEST
KIN OF FOE IN AIR FIGHT
MARRIES FIANCEE
United I'ross Association—By Elcctrlo Telegraph—Copyright. (Received February 4, 11 a.m.) LONDON, February 3. ' The "People" states that'the Australian Air Force pilot Captain Robert Larkin is. proceeding to Australia tomorrow from Dusseldorf after marrying "Fraulein Edda Ritzau. Captain Larkin in wartime brought down the German airman Karl Niebuhr. He tried " vainly to trace the next-of-kin in order to restore the dead airman's effects. Eventually he located Fraulein Ritzau and handed. over the photographs and other articles found on the body of Niebuhr, who was her fiance. • , .
A friendship sprang up between Captain Larkin and ,Fraulein Ritzau,. and she consented to marry him. He had fallen in love from her photograph.
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Evening Post, Issue 29, 4 February 1935, Page 9
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119AUSTRALIAN'S QUEST Evening Post, Issue 29, 4 February 1935, Page 9
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