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Show TROOPS WITNESS AERIAL DUEL. German Airmen Meet Death In Battle With Frenchmen. Bordeaux. Official dispatches received re-ceived by the French war department Wednesday gave a graphic account of &n aerial duel which was watched by thousands of soldiers of the French snd German armies, October 5, at Jon-chery, Jon-chery, in the region of Rheims. A German aeroplane ascended with, two men and after circling over the French positions was returning to its own lines when Sergeant Frantz, one of the most expert of French aviators, accompanied by his mechanic, Quin-ault, Quin-ault, sprang to a machine and gave Dhase. By a skillful maneuver the French aeroplane took the German on the flank and wounded the pilot and put a bullet through the gasline tank. A Sheet of flame enveloped the German aircraft and the machine dropped rap-Idly, rap-Idly, landing close to the French lines. In the descent the unwounded man continued to fire his pistol unpre-vented unpre-vented by the flames. Sergeant Frantz came to earth in a series of magnificent spirals. Both Germans were found burned to death in the embers of their machine. |