"I AM GILBERT."

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14053, 25 July 1916, Page 8

"I AM GILBERT."

i — - — « DRAMATIC . STORY OF AVIATOR'S ' 1 ESCAPE. ' ■' GENEVA, June 2. The famous French aviator, Gilbert, after hiding foi*. six days m Zurich after his escape from his place of internment, made his Avay m disguise across the frontier at Bossy, near Geneva, yesterday, and departed for Paris. PARIS, June 2. The Petit Journal gives the following details of Gilbert's escapio: — "Between Collonges and Annemasse there runs a small patlnvay from Franco to SAvitzerland. On it there is an inn, Avhei'e the friends of Gilbert had met to await the fugitive, and Avhile they AA*ere watching they saAv -approaching an aged man leaning heavily on his staff. Of th,} face of the poor old man nothing could be seen but a long beard. With dragging footsteps he Avalked along the path, and then paused to get his breath. I "The frontier guard Av'ent up to him to question him as to his identity. Suddenly, to the astonishment of the guard, tlie old man dropped his staff and sprang Avith surprising agility across the path into French territory. The French frontier guard barred his Avay, but the aviator's friends cried out that it Avas Gilbert. Gilbert showed tho guard his Cross of the Legion of Honor and his War Cross, and said, simply, T am Gilbert.;' "Gilbert was then conducted tb the commandant at Annemasse, Avhere he I related bow he had remained m hiding ■ m Zurich for six days, and had then completed the journey to France partly on foot and partly by good* train."