CAPTURED AERONAUTS.
RESIDENTS OF RUSSIA. OFFICER AND HIS ORDERS. (Received February 3, 2 a.m.) Petrogead, February 2. The crew of the captured Parseval airship, which dropped bombs on Libau, include two men who were employed as hairdressers in a Russian town, and also Lieutenant Schenk, who is a large landowner in Russia, whore he conducted a lucrative timber business for the German Government. Schenk refuses to disclose the nature of the orders whereby he dropped bombs on a defenceless city. A recent message Elated that the Russians had decided not- to treat the crew ot the airship as prisoners' of war. but as criminals, and to hold them persorally responsible for the deaths of the people kilLed by the bombs they dropper in Li ban.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15834, 3 February 1915, Page 8
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