On June 17, 1994, Mr. Fuerholzer, who has been in China some time head of the Trans-Ocean News Service, was travelling between Peking and' Tientsin, er. route to Shanghai, when crowded conditions on the train Jed him to see if he could not find some sympathetic soul on the train, He encountered Group-Captain R. P. Willock, British Air Attache, and asked him if he might share his compartment. Group-Captain Willock readily assented and conver ion started when aviation was an tioned and Mr. Fuerholzer recounted his episode of the British fying officer he had taken prisoner and entertained in his dug-out, 'Mr. Fuetholzer recalled the officers' name and Group-Captain Willock pondered a while and then asked him it he would care to have lunch with him in' Shanghai. Mr. Fuerholzer jecepted and some days later he gave arty when Mr, Fuerholprisoner, Captain Turner-Coles who is a friend of Group-Captain Wile lock. The passage of years ha changed their appearance and neither could recognise the other but the exchange of reminiscences fixed the identity. As a matter of fact, it has since been discovered that both visit~ ed the German cruiser Koeln on her last visit to Shanghai "and both sat opposite each other at table during a Inter fupetion but failed at mutual recognition, Opposed by Three Ao call the incident quite vivid-Jy" Captain Turner-Coles told a "North-China Herald" reporter Thursday. "Ts was over the German nes at Radinghem on June 17, 1917, Woking for the battery, of whose existence I was well aware, and T Yan Into the German machines which shot everything out of me, I did everything I could to escape, because I was fying one of the' then now S.E. 8's, which were faster than the German' machines, but they just surrounded me one after another tet Rose a burst, Then I was shot down, "You did a good job of work but you were powerless against your adversaries," Mr. Fuerholzer interpolated. "In that squadron there were three of Germany's greatest aces, all whom, I regret to slate, after wards lost their liv Captain Turner-Coles continued that afler his crash he was pulled out of the wreckage by Mr. Fuerholzer but he did not recall the exact dolails, being dazed, but miraculous unhurt, He was assisted to, the adjacent dug-out where Mr. Fuerholzer gave him a cup of coffee—"and it was. good coffee, too," he remarked to Mr, Fuerholzer. As Mr. Fuerholzer then could not speak English fluently and Captain Turner-Coles Knew no German they communicated by writing notes in English and the British flying officer gave his captor hig name and address "and wrote that we would see each other after the war but I never believed we ever should," Captain Turer-Coles remarked.
Mr. Fuerholzer then gave his version of the incident. was Lieutenant and Adjutant of artillery at Radinghem, Flanders and was oz my round of inspection of the batteries in a park just out-ide Hadinghem. I expected to find a dead man but the occupant of the machine was very much alive.
assisted him to my dug-out whort I gave him a cup of coffee and he revived. He seemed to be much surprised at the substantial nature of the dug-out and our gun positions."
"You bet I was," smiled Captain Turner-Coles "I knew they were there but I didn't know exactly how they looked.
Continuing Mr, Fuerholzer said that he could read and write Eng-Uish but was not proficient at the spoken language but the two by signs decided to write to each other.
Captain Turner-Coles wrote to his captor: on a sheet torn from a note book:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.