Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1918 — HERE’S PRIZE ESCAPE STORY [ARTICLE]

HERE’S PRIZE ESCAPE STORY

United States Flyer in Germany'Sent Out With an Incubus, but Loses It. New York.—This story is told of an. American aviator, whose machine had been forced to land wittily the German lines and who was taken prisoner, but -returned a few days afterward to American headquarters, safe and sound, in his own machine: After his capture he was taken before the commanding officer, who informed him that they were desirous of obtaining certain information regarding the allies’ forces and had decided to send him up in his own machine accompanied by a German officer, who would shoot him instantly if he deviated from orders. Accordingly, he took his machine up, his Germancompanion sitting beside him with a. drawn revolver at his ribs. While in the air he began to ruminate on the much-overrated “Germap efficiencyfor, as he said, “I had, of course, determined that the German observer should never return to illslines, even-if it cost me my own life. I was thinking just liow I. could do it, when all at once I realized that the man beside me was not strapped in. I couldn’t help chuckling as I looped the loop.”