SYDNEY ESCAPED BOMBING
STORY OF GERMAN AIRMAN. AVIATOR FROM RAIDER WOLF. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, Oct. 18. Addressing tho German Club, Alexander Stein, chief officer of the German Lloyd steamer Main and formerly flying master of the aeroplane carried on the German raider Wolf, told how Sydney escaped bombardment early in 1917. Stein took off from tha Wolf, which was then off Gabo Island, and flew over Sydney at a height of two to three hundred feet. Tho flight was for tho object of investigating the strength of the fleet in Sydney harbour. Tho airman was provided with bombs to bo used at discretion, but pleasant recollections of previous visits to Sydney kept him from using them. He added that while flying above tho city ho could not help thinking of his friends below. lie was glad at the time that it was not necessary to release the bombs and to-day after renewing his pre-war acquaintances he was doubly pleased.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 October 1927, Page 5
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