AIR TROPHY

Grey River Argus, 21 October 1915, Page 2

AIR TROPHY

.*» GERMAN PROPELLER SHOT AWAY The Stanilas. Square, in Nancy (says the Paris Patrie), has been decorated with a new tatue" — a captured German Albatr.os-s. After a bombing visit the aeroplane was returning in ; apparent safety Avhen a shell from a : French "75" ripped off the propeller. To prevent the German from escaping by a volplane into its own lines, a French machine which was chasing it flew directly in front of it, risking a collision, but getting a gnu to bear. The German machine came to earth on the right bank of the river Seille, between the French and German lines. The two German airmen escaped from the shell-strewn no-man's laud, but a party of Frcueh infantry volunteered to try to rescjue the aeroplane. French r.rtilley opened iire across the rivor, whi-lo the iufautrymen . swam across, fixed cords to the aeroplane, and finally towed the .machine to the river bank, whence they succeeded in getting it to their own lines. The Albatross has been mounted in the Stanilas Square as v record of a remarkable exploit.