FAMOUS BRITISH AIRMAN.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14409, 10 May 1917, Page 1

FAMOUS BRITISH AIRMAN.

LIEUTENANT ROBINSON A

PRISONER,

A THRILLING FIGHT,

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

London, May 8

Advices have been received that Lieutenant Robinson,. V.C., the famous airman, is a prisoner- at Karlsruhe.

The '.'Daily Telegraph's" Rotterdam correspondent reports that Lieutenant. Festner had a thrilling fight with, Robinson. He hit his engine, compelling him to descend. Robinson kept Fe&tdier at bay with a machine gun until soldiers took Robinson prisoner unwounded. Festner has since been killed.'