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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 6 September 1913, Page 5

While he was flying near Mulhansen in Germany, Herr Dietrichs met his death under circumstances tinged with tragic irony. Dietrichs was a student at Mulhausen College, but was not a successful scholar, for lie hated most of the subects in the curriculum. The professors said of him: "He will never get anywhere." Dietrichs's love for aviation, however, was almost as ardent as his hatred for scholastic pursuit, and a few moments before his death he flew in his machine at a great altitude over the college, dropping from his aeroplane a number of post cards addressed to the professorial staff. On these post cards he had written "You say I will never get anywhere; I have now got to a height of 1700 ft., from which I send you hearty greetings. You yourselves have never been so high as your deplorable pupil." The boastful post cards had not long fluttered to earth, and the young airman, flushed with the pride of his achievement, was flying from the vicinity of the college, when his machine col- . lapsed, dashing him. in a moment to his death.