The murderer of Mr. C. S. God: dard, of the Customs, was strangled on September Zau Woo Chi sentenced having been passed by the Special District Court, ud confirmed at the scene of the ex-cation by a Chinese judge. had been questioned again, the police arranged a geners confrontation of the various pai Min Loukomisky, mother of the unfortunate Vladimir, her daughter, Anatole Tela and Vadin Gra sky the "captain" of the ill-abortive Tsingtao voyage, were brought together at police head-
Anatole told his story agai exactly as he had told it to the pol To the jer of his dead companion said; am sorry to tell you and: consoled the unhappy, mother and sister of Vladimir. wi all this evidence in front of him, Vadin unbent. He told the police that Anatole's story was true and that Vladimir had gone beneath the Whangpoo. He, as a captain'
'A somewhat similar incident happened in the sonic squadron in 1920 lor 1921. 'The squadron, which at that time equipped with D. was in action against some tribes men in' the Southern Desert when the pilot of one of the machines was wounded and rendered unconscious.
The gunner, a Les man who was not a pilot himself, brought the machine some distance to its home aerodrome and landed safely, thus saving his own life and that of the pilot. He was awarded the Air Force Cross.
The exact parallel of this took place three months ago in Indi An aeroplane piloted by Officer Stroud was carrying out reconnaissance ever Mohmand ter: tory when he was hit ly a rifle shot from the ground and rendered unconscious. In this case the aeroplane had duplicate controls, fitted in the passenger's _ccekpi which was occupied by Aircrafts: man Wiltshire with no training for, experience of piloting. The latter navigated the craft buck Risalpur and almost succeeded in effecting a safe landing.
The case of Fit-It. Gillman was and leader, had told Anatole not to unique in that he was thrown cut say anything: he had tried to find and came to earth alive. A recent [Vladimir, but without success, and issue of the magazine "The Aero-felt that all the responsibility was Diane" in commenting on the his, as leader. cident states that Gillman This appears to be the true story. No body has as yet been found in ithe river to correspond with that of Vladimir, and the clothing i carded by the boy for his swim snnot be found. The adventure of high courage planned by three children has thus ended in tragedy. using the standard RAF. "Ir parachute, and becomes ipso lacto a. member of the Caterpillar Club.
Fit. It. Gillman on a previous occasion had experienced a somewhat unpleasant time, only the period of uncertainty lasted several hours instead of minutes. This was
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