AERIAL DOINGS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 9 October 1916, Page 8

AERIAL DOINGS

AN INIQUITOUS HERMAN COURTMARTIAL. ~.'

DARING BRITISH AIRMEN,,

ENEMY DISORGANISED AND DEMORALISED.

" (Reuter1 Service.) <Received Oct. 9, 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 8. . Two British naval airmen who .fell i in the German lines are to .be courtmartialled because, tracer bullets were found in. their possession. These are used by all the belligerent machine gunners to correct their aim. Ihe British Government,, through the American Embassy, has protested, v intimating v'-6hat tracer i bullets were found m the Zeppelin brought down in Essex. ' ~ \ ' - Correspondents emphasise the tuning of British airmen at the German refr An attack on the Douai-Lille line "disorganised the sending of reinforcements'to the.Somme, and the demoralisation caused by the mere approach of low-flying Britishers has been made the' subject'of a German divisional order1.