Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 62 | Aged Warriors Bag Boche Plane

I AGED WARRIORS BAG BOCHE PLANE 4 Veteran T Capture Capture Capture Cap Cap- ture Hun Officer by an Ancient By Henry Wood United l r Corr Correspondent nt WITH THE TuB FRENCH OCH An ARMIES tIES AFIELD April 30 b by mall Four mali Four aged aled whoso whose only mill military tar duty for months month past has been that o ot of 1 guarding a coop of carrier pigeons eons used In modern warfare were were not not a carrier pi pigeon pigeon but con but but about tho the biggest bird that over ever came caine their thell wa way The Tue latter Is nothing less hess than a a. modera mod- mod era ern rn t typo type pc German airplane armed with two machine guns uns and anti mounted by an officer and pilot On the night of or April 9 the German airplane aCt after r having havin- lost Its a way descended descended de do- In the vicinity of or It was still light enough for tho the pilot to pick a landing place where there were no houses and apparently no persons for miles mlles around READY POll FOR FoEs KOES As the bl big airplane came caine to a stop the officer leaped to the ground with his maps for th the tha s purpose of or ascertainIng ascertain ascertain- ing his whereabouts while the pilot I remained at nt his seat scat eat his finger luger er on the machine gun Sun ready to repel interference 1 ence until the big bird could again take lake to the air Not r-ot man many kilometers away the time four foUl aged had been e eating tin their supper around tho the lar largo large e basket in jn which the carrier pl pigeons cons are housed for fo service Renice at the front when they noticed no no- the big bl German airplane looking for a landing place Seizing a H carl lne and shotguns hot un the four our heat It across the In Int intervening In- In t r fields as ai fast a as their aged ed I legs s and their full tull stomachs would per per- mil lulL The noise noil of or the propeller which the pilot kept constantly going holn in order to permit of ot a quick getaway directed them to the tue airplane NO 0 O Ion KOIl A t Sudden Suddenly at a moment when the German officer was deeply engaged in I looking a at his map and Ind the pilot with his finger tho the machine on gun un trigger was lookin looking In iii another direction the time tour lour burst out of a H. nearby thicket and with aimed shotguns and carabine ordered the officer to surrender Murren- Murren der lIer and tho the pilot to descend from the thc airplane A seconds second's h hesitation on the part of or these two was b by a frightful road from one o of the tho shot shotguns uns which pre presumably had h not been fired the beginning of r f th the war var whereupon the tIme officer seeing that all hope of re resistance re- re or OJ of escape was as I In lit vain aln threw up hl his hands and ordered the tho pilot to descend u Tho The two were marched marchel off to the nearest commanders' commanders post from where a u detachment was wa as sent out to I trillS ring back bael tho Airplane while the foula four foul a aged ed territorial hurried back buck to lo their pigeon con coop