As recently mentioned in an interview with the "North-China Daily News" Flight-Lieut. C. W. Hill, who crashed on the last lap of the fight to Australia, was intimately connected with a famous book in which he was one of the chief characters and of which he was the illustrator.
He and Lieut. E. H. Jones were companions in a Turkish prison camp, and eventually won their freedom by means of spiritualism. These experiments were merely carried out to effect their escape. They posed as mediums and s0 worked on the credulity of the Turkish commandant that he be-lave to a treasure-hunting scheme directed by spirits. The a count of their experiments and life in the prison camp has been pub-Tished in a book written by Lieut.
Jones called "The Road to Hil is praised for: his determination and loyalty by Lieut. Jones, since he feigned madness and underwent extreme privat tion over an extended length of time,
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