AVIATORS ON SANDBANK.
INTERNMENT DECLINED. DROWNED IN A STORM. Rotterdam, February 16. A Dutch lifeboat from Schiermonnikoog answered the distress signals from a German waterplane that was stranded on a sandbank. The life boat men refused to promise that the Germans would not be interned, and the airmen decided to await a chance of rescue by a torpedo boat. They clung for five hours to the wrecked machine, and then the rising storm again compelled them to signal for the lifeboat, but it was too late to effect a rescue.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15847, 18 February 1915, Page 6
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