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Show AVIATOR FLIES OVERMANS London. Sept 14, 3:51 a. m The Daily Mall's Petrograd correspondent sends a description by M. Polret, a French aviator, who is serving with the Russian army, of a flight over the German position, accompanied by a staff captain. "I rose to a height of 5000 feet," said Poiret "Fighting was in full swing. The captain with me already had made some valuable observations when the Germans, noticing my French machtne. opened fire on it. ' Numbers of their bullets pierced the wiiis of the aeroplane and others oth-ers struck the stays. YYe still flew on, however, as it was necessary to obtain the exact position of the enemy. ene-my. Then the German artillery began be-gan Their shells burst near the aero- j plane and each explosion caused it to rock It was difficult to retain eon trol, as pieces of shells had seriously-damaged seriously-damaged two of the staves. The fan tastic dance in the air lasted twenty minutes. "The captain was wounded in the beel, but continued to make obser-' vations Finally I turned the ma-; chine and landed home safely. I . found ten bullet marks and two frag-; ments of shells in the machine." oo |