INTERNED PILOT

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 103, 28 October 1939, Page 13

INTERNED PILOT

FAILURE TO CLEAR BELGIUM

{By Air Mail, from -The Post's" London Representative.) . ■ ■■■'.-.■- LONDON,' September 29. - Well cared fori in the best of health, but very restless, Pilot Officer A. W. Mack (Wellington) is at present interned in the Guardarmerie Barracks in Brussels. He-was the navigator of an R.A.F. aeroplane which ran short of petrol after a "pamphlet flight" over Germany and was obliged to make a forced landing. The aircraft descended from a great height, and it was estimated that a landing would be; made on French territory: It landed, however, at Nivelle, in Belgium, and both aircraft and airmen were' immediately interned. The New Zealander was seen several times in Brussels by Mr. G. WV Clinkard, the Dominion's European Trade Commissioner, who is a friend of Mr. 'C. Mack, the pilot officer's father, of Wellington. Mr. Clinkard. who visited London this week, said that the New Zealander was in th« best of health, although naturally chafing at his present inactivity. „