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Show AMERICAN AVIATOR COSSACKS' CAPTIVE WITH TDK POLISH ARMY AT THE FRONT, Sept 23. (Uy Tho Associated As-sociated Press.) Captain Merlon Cooper, of Jacksonville, Florida, a member of the Kosculszko aerial squadron who is reported to be a prisoner in the hands of the bolahe-vlkl bolahe-vlkl after being shot down, dodged f'osacks all night but was captured the following day According to Major Ma-jor Cedrlc Fauntleroy of the squadron squad-ron who interviewed peasants In that region which la DOW occupied 1". the Doles Coop, r suffered cuts on the face and bruises received while trying to escape through the underbrush after he landed. Cooper was first taken ta-ken to the headquarters of General Budepny bolshevik cavalry com.Tiand-er com.Tiand-er In Olyka between Lutsk and Rovno, when the Poles advanced he was removed re-moved to Kiev. CaPtaln Arthur D Kelly of Richmond, Rich-mond, Va , also of the Koscuis.ko squadron, who wa.- shot down over the village of Zwlerow, near Lutsk, was thrown from his machine when it struck the front of a church and death probably was due to a broken neck. The pilot fell with the machine and also was killed Both were buried on the bank of a river near the village vil-lage by peasants. |