The Archive · 1925

Loss of a British Aeroplane

Shot Down by Yezi Two Airmen Killed London, Apr. 21

A Colonial mates that a British while taking part in a punitive air nin. the Beledsinjar area, higainst a Yezidi chief, crashed and was totally burnt, the two occupants being killed. The machine was presumably brought down by rifle fire from the ground, Who chief against whom the expedition was aimed had thrice refused to attend a conference summoned to settle rival claims for supremacy between himself and another chief—Reuter

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