The Archive · 1937

Richthofen Relic Returned

London, June 27.

The time-piece that belonged to the Jacroplane flown by the German air Jace, Manfred yon Richthofen, who met his death during the World War when on active service on the Somme, has since been in the possession of an Australian farmer named Winey who was present where Richthofen inet his end and who took the clock Out of the smashed" aeroplane ts a memento of the tragic even Mr. Wincey now desires to return the time-keeper to Germany where Richthofen's name is held in sacred lriemory as one of the greatest her the World War." The clock has Jaccordingly been handed to a German friend on a visit to his father-fland charged with the task of giving the instrument to the German Gov ernment—Trans-Ocean,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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