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All at once when three shells burst close to him, he dived & commenced to fall. At once cheers rang out, the greatest excitement & glee being shewn. The fall? Was peculiar, altho coming straight down, he appeared to make a spiral dive of it, wobbling from side to side , at once our guns ceased firing & we all waited for him to crash down when all at once when only a few hundred feet up he righted himself & shot away for home. At once the guns started but too late & two of our airmen dived at him but missed & it seemed to us that he got clean away altho' later we were told he had been brought down. Opinions differed as to whether he had been hit & had made a great fight to regain control or whether he did the whole thing as a trick so as to get low down in order to locate a battery. This latter appears to be the truth, his kidding being so clever as to call forth admiration from all, the general opinion being that he deserved to get away. The