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Show 9 m U. S A. BIPLANE 18 FIRED UPON Apology Promptly Given for Hostile ' ' Act of Carranza Soldiers On Border UrovnsIIIo, exns, April 20. United Uni-ted States army biplane flying .over Tort IJrown, nonr hero, was llred upon up-on this afternoon by Carranza soldiers sol-diers In Mntamorcs. About twenty ; rllllo shots and tlfty shots from n machine gun on tho Mexican side, It Is bellccd In army circles hero wera fired at tho aircraft. Tho inachlno landed safoly. Tho biplane was piloted by Lieut. H. Q. Jones, With Llout. T. D. Milling Mill-ing as passenger obBoryer. Doth wero unnwaro of tho Incident until they landed about 3:30 o'clock. Tho blplano was not struck, but ono ballot bal-lot hit tho army wireless station at Fort IJrown and ano'ther was picked up near tho city hall in this city. Tho aircraft, which was sent horo recently for border patrol duty, had mado a clrclo near tho Rio Grando when fired upon by tho rlilomen. Upon Up-on making a second clrclo nnd when within about 200 feet of tho river, tho rnttlo of tho machines guns was heard. All tho shots wero fired ocr American Ameri-can territory. Joseph Z. Garza, consul in Browns-vlllu Browns-vlllu mado n personal ln estimation and reported to army olllcers that tho firing wns tho work of n, fow Carranza soldiers under command of nn in toxicntcd lieutenant. Consul Gnrza on behalf of Genernl V. P. Nafarrato tonight to-night apologized to Col. A. P. Block-somfo Block-somfo r the firing. |
