BELGLANS MAKE DARING RESCUE UNDER HOT FIRE.
HAVRE, Sept. 14. A tragic aerial combat was fought on the afternoon of September 9, above the Belgian trenches along the raiiroad from Nieuport to Dixmude. A British, airplane which had been surrounded by five Germans fell east of Ramtfcapelle, m "No Man's Land," with 150 yards separating the lines. Tlie Germans opened a hot gunfire on the British machine, but several men from a Belgian regiment, determined .to lend aid, crawled out m the broad daylight to the aircraft. Both aviatora were found dead. The Belgians brought m ono of the bodies and returned a few hours later for tlie other. They saw the Germans robbing tho dead man, but tho Germans fled on the approach of the Belgians. The rapid-fire guns resume;! their shelling of the spot where the ma.--lii.ne' -lay. but the Belgians nevertheless succeeded m bringing to their trendies the body of tho other Britisher.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14446, 5 November 1917, Page 5
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