Frenchman’s Daring
LONDON, March 27. A young French air mechanic who wonts to join the R.A.F. armed himself with a revolver at the week-end, seized a seven-passenger cabin aeroplane at an airfield in occupied France, and flew it to England. Guns fired at him as he crossed the coast, but he landed on a bumpy field about 100 yards from a farm at Tregantle, Cornwall. The first man he met was labourer returning from rabbitting. “Is this England?” he asked iw broken English. When the farmhand paid it was the stranger clasped him round the neck and kissed him. Then some soldiers came up. “Shall I be clicked?” (handcuffed) asked the Frenchman anxiously. They gave him something to eat and took him away to be questioned. The young’man said he was “fed up” with living under German rule, and tried to get to England in July. He stole an aeroplane then, but had engine trouble, and was forced to land again in France. The machine in which he reached Cornwall is a scarlet-upholstered luxury model, and hundreds of sight-seers have come to the farm at Tregantle to see it.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 103, 2 May 1941, Page 8
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