CONQUEST Or THE AIR.
DISTRESSING FATALITY IN FRANCE machine falls on ministerial PARTY. MINISTER OF WAR FATALLY ' INJURED. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT.] PARIS, May 21. The 'aviation race, from Paris to Madrid, began to-day. There were twenty starters, besides .nine military aeroplanes. The latter went to the frontier only, At the start, an aviator, avoiding a collision, swerved his machine, which fell on a group of Ministers and officers M. Mom® the Premier, and General Berteaux, the Minister of- War were seriously injured. ’ •
M. Monis’ condition is grave there being no signs of life. General Berteaux subsequently died The latter was struck by the pfopellor of the machine.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3225, 23 May 1911, Page 5
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107CONQUEST Or THE AIR. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3225, 23 May 1911, Page 5
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