San Francisco Call Bulletin

February 8, 1913. This article is reprinted below.

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Greek Army Officers Make Daring Aviation Flight

ROME, Feb. 8. - A special dispatch received here from the island of Lemnos, in the Aegean Sea, says the Greek aviator, Lieutenant Mutusis, accompanied by the Greek captain Maraitmis, made a daring flight last night over the Straits of the Dardanelles, in a hydro-aeroplane. The dispatch says that a thorough reconnoiasance of the Turkish fleet was made, and that the aviator then flew over Maldos, near the southern point of the Gallopoli peninsula and overlooking the Dardanelles, and dropped four bombs on the arsenal there.

The aviator reports, according to the dispatch, that as his machine passed over the fleet he saw flashes from the vessels' guns as they fired at him. The hydro-aeroplane was not hit.

Captain Maraitmis says that he was able to make observations during the flight that were far more valuable than he had expected.

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