THE AIRCRAFT.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14153, 15 April 1916, Page 5

THE AIRCRAFT.

THE RAID ON SCHLESWIG.

UNLUCKY AVIATORS

London, April 13

Letters from airmen missing in the raid of March 28th on military positions inSohleswig-Holstein, show that the seaplanes had already completed their work over the airsheds and wore steei'ing homewards when they encountered a heavy snowstorm. , Lieutenant Reid saw Lieutenant Hay struggling in the water besides his machine, and planed down and hauled Hay on board Reid's machine with terrible difficulty owing to the heavy sea and to Hay's being numbed by the cold. All the time they were under'fire. Then the machine rofused to, leave the water.'. An ■enemy warship came up, and the aviators sur-

rendered