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Show GERMAN SOLDIER DESCRIBES FIGHT 9000 FEET IN AIR RERUN", Jan. 1, by wireless to Say- ! ville. "An exciting air fin lit," Rays the i Overseas Mews agency, "is reported by a i German soldier in a ietter to his family. The company of the' writer of the narrative narra-tive was on the march when two rapidly-flying rapidly-flying machines were seen In combat at an altitude of 0000 feet. "Suddenly, the soldier says, the machines ma-chines of the aeroplanes slopped and the report of machine guns was heard. A moment later a dark object fell from one of the. aeroplanes, and as it came closer to earth it was recognized as a human body. It was that of one. of the pilots. A short time later tiie aeroplane fei! to the ground and the other occupant died almost instantly. "Many German soldiers and a great French crowd present hurried to the place where the aeroplane had fallen, and when they approached the machine and saw the tricolor painted on its wings the German soldiers cheered as the writer never before tiad heard. The French men and women went away crying, - "Bo til officers were buried with military mili-tary honors, and in the presence of all the officers a salute was fired ovor the graves. "Afterward It became known that the successful German airman was Lieutenant Ingelmann, who has shot down six hostile aeroplanes." |