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prahistoria reptile sprawling across two be poisoned or that their throats would Belda and the lane which divided them.be cut during sleep.

As one drew closer the glint of sun- Their comrades who know,

better. light on the framework recalled the little sparring matches have taken place ridicule theso fears, and some pretty reality One harga section of the struein ture near the fore part of the vessel bad sequence collapsed into a tangle of twisted metal. The German prisoners I have seen do Figments of the torn metal lay scat-ribt profess to like us. But it is equally A special correspondent of the Times Towards the star also garders and ribs

tered many yards away in the field. true to say that they do not hate us

"I believe that if the thousands. ve wrote:

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cose, however, was practically intact, row-a fale at which they might well The following story of the capture looking for all-the-world like a Mage wrep it would be really difficult to get of the crew of the second Zeppelia were also practically undamaged.

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The most remarkable feature of the One no longer ments the defiant, this afternoon by a special constable, framework was its size. Its girth was arrogans type who declares that Ger whom I found helping to control the infificulta estimate, owing to the crab in evading capture or else he has shat many will win. He has either acceeded cessant stream of traffic, on foot and on ing of the undersides of the structure fup bagging. wheel, to and from the spot where it fell and the drooping of the top, but it My wife and I heard the humming appeared to be considerably larger aven of the Zeppelin's engines. It seemed to in proportion to the great length of the be coming from London towards this ship than in the case of the ordinary direction, and presently while I was

burriedly putting on some clothes type of Zeppelin.

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loud explosion about a mile from my "A neighbour agreed to stay with my wife while I went to see what hart happened, and I set out along the road. About baf way there I met about 20 then walking along towards me. They were mostly well-built young fellows probably not much more than 20 years old. They wore a uniform not unlike that of a fireman, except that they wore no helmets: some of them had no head gear at all

of

now is that Germany cannot be bosten

The most the venture to predict

Many of the prisoners have sasured me in all sincerity that the Delgians aro perfectly happy under the German regime. Either it is that they do not know, or else the wish is father to the thought.

"Just before our offensive, started

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General von Bisaing embarked upon. tour of inspection of various military positions. feeling its way to earth, so the out of Brussele. In the last was piled children When the airship was Four cars carrier him and his staff story mns, the inmates of the cottage the baggage. The rumour flew that the sought refuge in a small thicket Allies were at hand and that the German across the fields. They forget, in their Governor was evacuating the city. The haste, a dog which was tied up at the populace went teinporarily wild with freak, the explosion left the cottage side of the cottage. By some curiota

dolgiht.”

practically untouched, and the only suffer was the dog, whose cost was and there among the lance, and from aingen Other cottages lie dotted here these the crash brought men and women, Mr P. Adam some with babies in their arms, startled, Mr G E. Anderson Mr A.Shelton Hooper and wondering. The sound of machine, M. F.B. Anderson. Mr and Mrs W. D. Naturally I stopped as they came gun fire it was the explosion of am- RL. Atkinson up. One of them, who turned out to be monition in the ship added to the Mr. Murry Bain Mr.W.H. Hornebrook the commander, asked me in very good alarm. Ore young woman who ventur. Mr T. D. Banister and family

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Mr. F. H. Howard him six miles. and they made to go on. the airship was astounded to see a small Mr R.-Farley

L. Barker Mr and Mrs C. I joined them.

company of men striding towards her, Mr CC-Batchelder hedge. She declares positively that she ER, Belilios Me L. G. Joseph and shrank back into the shelter of the Mr and Mrs H. A Mr EM Joanph Barter and child MM. Joseph heard them swearing-in German MG C. D. J. Boll they went by.

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one of them besides the commander "They were talking in German. Only seemed to know, any English, and he could only speak it brokenly. Zeppelin, he said, we crew-prisoners of war. I gathered that they wished to curren- der, so I kept with them until we met two or three other special constables, and they joined the party.

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"Soon we reached the post office of my village and sent a telephone message for a military. escort. Then we went on with the prisoners until we met The escort, and handed them over to the custody of the troops, I, of course, was

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in Essex, and that the officer in band: Well, so long. Bochies! We're Mr. W. H. For Mr E. H. Ray command preferred the certainty of off to joy our compliments to blooming Mr A. Forward Miss F. d. Reay captivity on land to the uncertainty of old Hindenburg."

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"The outstanding conclusion 1 have Mrs A. C. Grilks view of the misty of those on board formed is that the great bulle of the men though several of them bare light are well satisfied to have been taken and Mrs Wong Mr J. W. Stackhouse in cries which might have been caused prisoners, and by fall that the landing was not a

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