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Show PLUNGES HEADLONG Timorous German Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Becomes Frantic When British Scouts Attack. (From a staff correspondent of the Associated As-sociated Press. ) BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, May 27. via London, 6:40 p. m. A German aviator Just shot down within the British lines told with amazing amaz-ing nonchalance how he lost his passen-' passen-' ger in ' mid air. The prisoner is a corporal cor-poral and was piloting a two-seater machine ma-chine on reconnaissance work. The passenger pas-senger was a new lieutenant onserver whom the pilot was taking up for the first time. The lieutenant was nervous from the stai t and kept giving the pilot contradictory contra-dictory instructions, which caused htm completely to lose hlB way. That is how he happened to get over the British j lines. The pilot turner! his machine east-'ward. east-'ward. as he thought, but believed some-j some-j thing must have gone wrong with his I compass. He had not flown a great distance dis-tance when he sighted several British (fighting scouts. Now the passenger be-I be-I came fairly frantic and began beating the pilot on the bak. urging hfm to swing j a round in the opposite direction. This I further confused the pilot and the first ; thing he knew one of the British machines ma-chines had opened Are and shot him through both legs. The pilot took ma Iters in his , own hands then and. in order to esrape 'from the a M ackers, dived almost vertically, with the engine full on. Me did not flatten flat-ten out until wdthln twenty feet of the ground and then, almost faint from Ids wounds, he let the machine slip and landed land-ed with a crash. A search of the wreckage reyealed no trae of the observer. "I think he must have been thrown out," said the German pilot. "He was." said one of the pilot's captors, cap-tors, who had seen the officer pitch headlong head-long to his death. |