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Show FRENCH AVIATOR IS GIVEN DECORATION PARIS, Sept. 3. 5:35 p. m. Adjutant Bf-rtin of the Krench aviation corps has been cited in the orders of the dav and awarded the decoration of the Legion of Honor for alighting behind the Herman lines and bringing back in safety Ad jutant Bover. who was compelled to set fire to his machine as the result of an accident. Both aviators were engaged in reeon-noitering reeon-noitering expeditious in the same direction. direc-tion. Benin's landing point was about four miles beyond that of Boyer. On returning, after executing his mission, Bertin saw Bover's machine in flames. He landed in ' face of a heavy lire, picked up his comrade and flew back i to the French lines, with a fragment of a shell in his thigh. The aeroplane was struck in ninety-eight places by bul- lets and pieces of shells. |