LUCKY ESCAPE FOR HESS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 16 May 1941, Page 6

LUCKY ESCAPE FOR HESS

t MIGHT HAVE BEEN SHOT DOWN s SPOTTED BY TWO HURRICANES 1 . , REPORTS NOT BELIEVED 1 i [U.P.A.-By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] s * (Rec. 1.30 p.m.) London, May 15. v Hess Hess was lucky not to have j * been shot down by two Hurricane pilots 0 ’• when flying to Scotland on Saturday j- ? night, says the “Daily Express.” One <j \ pilot is a young New Zealander with c 17 victories to his credit, and the other a squadron leader from Ireland who n has shot down fourteen German planes, t They spotted Herr Hess’s plane off the c Scottish coast and reported it to head- r quarters. Herr Hess’s life was saved 2 because the authorities disbelieved the s pilot’s report and decided that a Ger- fc man fighter plane could never be risked h on a flight so far from its base. o P