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IllUllk Vhiimnn .....ww.. —- BELGIAN LANCER BECOMES FAMOUS. AN AEROPLANE BROUGHT DOWN (Received August 13, 0.20 ■a.m.) BRUSSELS, August 12, morning. Six thousand Germans with guns ana quick-firers captured Laudon railway station, and tore up the rails. Fugitives state, that the Germans fired many villages after. giving the inhabitants half an hour to clear out A German aeroplane at Gamur was brought down by rifle fire and two military aviators were captured. Belgians concealed themselves in thickets in the field and captured considerable numbers of the invaders. Bogaerts, a Belgian lancer, is becoming famous. He Sallies forth alone with his lance in search of a posse, generally kiting and wounding one Uhlan, whereupon the rest surrender. Bogaertz has already secured fourteen prisoners, killed three Uhlans, and wounded several without himself suffering the slightest injury.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8810, 13 August 1914, Page 4
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