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CONDEMNED TO | DEATH AS SPY AIRMAN'S ADVENTURES WITH THE BULGARS. I ! Lost in Arabian Desert i Laeut. Fred Buchanan, British Aviator, Gets Home Safely After Thrilling Experiences. Condemned to death as a spy, and then saved by the signing of an armi-1 stice, that is the strange and startling I experience of Lieut. Fred Buchanan, j an intrepid young aviator, who is just back from Bulgaria and captivity. The young officer was attached to the allied air forces operating from Saloniki. Rumors had reached headquarters that the Bulgarians * were very much dissatisfied with the war, and that they were considering whether they could not find some way to end hostilities. Everything, ? however, was indefinite, and the army command at Saloniki were anxious to get some reliable informa* tion. Lieutenant Buchanan was ordered to get his machine ready, and to take a passenger within the Bulgarian lines, where he would leave him, and pick him up later. "It was just after the Dorian battie," he said. "I had a machine known as a B. E. plane, and the dis-' tance to my objective would be about " 120 miles. As the machine under normal conditions flew at the rate of 80 miles an hour, I expected to reach the place aimed at in less than two hours. Across-my track lay a range of mountains some 8,000 feet . high, and to clear them and escape observation as much as possible I flew, at an altitude of 13,000 reet. , , It was pretty cold at that height, even in the neighborhood of Saloni- 1 ki. "When I got to the other side of ( the mountains I began spiraling ' down, and, keeping a lookout for a \ bit of level ground to land on, discovered a suitable place, and came ] to earth all right. My passenger got out, and went on his way to get 1 j j the required information. ^ "My instructions were to clear off . as quickly as I could, but I v had some difficulty in starting the engine, and this delay led to the crop ] of troubles I afterward met with. "Some German troops, who had been marching along a road, saw me, r and took cover, and just as I got 1 thd machine started again they ' dashed out, firing and shouting, and ! telling me plainly that if I didn't ' surrender they would do me in. But I had no intention of obliging them. 4 ' Fortunately, they didn't hit me, but ( they made a mess of the machine, ' breaking one of the cylinders and s ' - knocking a few holes in the body of the plane. ' ?' "I think I worked harder than < ever in my life'before, but I got the < engine started and too? off. I had < >? only got up a couple of thousand i feet, however, when the engine gave 1 further trouhie, ana 1 naa 10 come 1 down again. They hadn't ceased firing at me with rifles and anti-aircraft i guns, and altogether I wasn't fancying my position at all." By luck, as well as feverish hard work, Lieutenant Buchanan persuaded his engine to resume operations, and again soared in the air. Although his machine was being continually hit, he himself seemed to hear a charmed life. "I tried to make a dash for home," he continued, "through what is known as Rupel's Pass, but while half-way through this the engine stopped altogether, and I came right down, and landed in the River Strus ma. Fortunately, this river is shallow, and there are a lot of sandbanks about, so I was saved the fate of drowning after escaping that of being shot. The machine tilted up in the river and was now useless. I jumped out, and made for the bank, only to run up against a lot of Bulgars, who asked me whether I was British or Bulgarian. I told them I was British, and then they opened fire on me." %. ' It was now getting pretty dark, and that was the reason the .young pilot wasn't killed there and then. He continued running, with the Bulgars crashing at his heels and telling him in blood-curdling tones wnax iney wouiu ao n ne aian i ' stop. 1 "Well, the end of that part of the < business," continued the young offi- J cer, "was that I was captured. They t were evidently very much afraid I would get away again, for they tied 1 me up securely with rope, and so 1 took me down to their regimental i headquarters." There he was asked a few ques- < tions which, as he tersely explains, 1 v "some I answered and some I < didn't." While still trussed up Lieu- ( tenant Buchanan was put upon a bul- : CAN'T MAKE LIQUOR AT HOME. Heavy Fines for Those Operating Stills at Their Houses. Washington. April 27.?Persons who may be planning to make liquor in their own homes after national prohibition becomes effective July l are to be warned by revenue authorities as to the penalties to which they will be subject. 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Next day he was taken by motor cat to the army headquarters, and about 15 officers solemnly formed themselves into a courtmartial. ''They asked me," said the lieutenant, "if I knew what was going to happen to me. I said I didn't, and they cheerfully informed me that I would be shot as a spy. I replied that they could not very well do that as I was in uniform. But they simply laughed, and grimly explained that didn't matter at all, because, under Bulgarian law anyone landing in Bulgarian territory in the way I had done had to be treated as a spy, and I knew what the fate of a spy was." It was not, as one can aasily suppose, in a very cheerful frame of mind that the young pilot passed the next few days. He was again taken to headquarters, because a general wanted to see him. While there, however, the gloom of impending tragedy was at once brightened and relieved. Be met the American minister at Sofia, who told him the welcome lews that he was there to arrange in armistice. Members of the Bulgarian air force also, moved by that esprit de corps which belongs conspicuously to the air services of all countries, had assured him that they would see he wasn't shot. Their commanding officer told him next lay that everything was all right md that the armistice had been signed. Another adventure which had just is many thrills, although of a different nature,. happened to the young ifficer while in Arabia. He was sent iown from Akabar^to take up the ? j t-i.-i.i- n-i l t i reuouutauie ^oiuuei i-?a.wxence, wno was in Glassgow the other day with the son of the King of Mecca. "This turned out to be a pretty long job," explained the lieutenant. 'I had only about 200 miles to go, but when I got to the desert I lost my way, and as there was a big haze 3n I could not land. I kept flying until I reached the Red Sea coast, ind there I landed almost in the midst of a Bedouin encampment. I think the Arabs were-much more as:onished than I was, for they had aever seen an airplane before. "I wrote a letter explaining my position, and managed to persuade some of them to take it along with :hem and to deliver it to the first British officer they\;ould find. Eventlally, my letter was picked up by some naval people and wirelessed to :he nearest point in the territory of the King of Mecca. I was, in the meanwhile, in a fever of suspense in that barren country, and after about two weeks of the rice and dates I persuaded the Bedouins to put me on a camel, and direct me along the Ray they had carried my message. But the Arabs have a reputation for mnexing things that do not belong to ;hem, and one morning just after iwaking I found that the camel had seen taken away, and I was left in ;he desert with only a little of the tsual provender. "I started back along the way I lad come, and I hadn't gone back rerv far when I saw a string of 50 oamels coming along behind me. 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