Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-15 | Page 1 | Huns Threaten Life of Aviator

ALBEET B. CUMMINS of Iowa, chosen for president pro tern, of the senate at the Republican organization or-ganization meeting in Washington f Lr S THREATEN LIFE HIM Germans Show Malice When Crippled Airplane Air-plane Drops. BY FORBES .FA1RBAIRN. Universal Service Staff Correspondent. (Special Cable Dispatch.) LONDON, May 14. Warren Dunham Poster, 46 Broadway, New York City, sailed on the Olympia Saturday, after having narrowly escaped being sht by the Germans in Duesseldorf a week ago when a crippled airplane dropped from the clouds, on. the fortress parade ground, filled with hostile soldiers. After completing a tour of inspection of American camps in Germany, Foster planned to fly to Antwerp. Lieutenant McKaffecky of the Second brigade. Royal British air force, acted a his pilot. As their machine was passing over Duesseldorf, Duessel-dorf, the engine balked and a difficult and precarious landing was made on the parade ground. McKaffecky was brutally assaulted by German soldiers, and both he and Foster were locked up in a guardhouse for six hours before the German commander consented to hoar their case. The coin- (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) HUNS THREATEN , LIFE DP AViATOR (Continued from Pago One.) mander raged against what lie called a violation of the armistice and threatened to shoot both. Foster, after coolly listening to the threat, promised that if it were carried out, the American army on the Rhine would undertake speedy reprisals. Finally Final-ly a guard of bayonets escorted Foster to Cologne. McKaffecky was temporarily4 held, but the British commander later demanded ihat the Germans surrender the airman. ' Foster reported to the British and American commanders that he saw vast military stores at Duesseldorf. in contravention contra-vention with the armistice. He saw thousands of shells and stacks of cartridge car-tridge cases, he says, i a