FRENCH RACE.
RUSSIAN AIRMAN’S IMPRESSION. UNCOMPLIMENTARY REFERENCES. (Australian Press Association.) Received September 20. 12.50 p.m. PARIS, Sept. 19. Two Russian airmen, who recently visited France in the course of <a European tour, in tho machine Wing of the appear not to be enamoured with France and the French. One of the airmen, writing in a Moscow newspaper, states: “France is miserable, dirty and behind tho times. Even the policemen who welcomed us at Le Bourget were shockingly dirty. “The gendarme who examined our papers had his moustache full of bread crumbs and smelt shockingly of drink. “Every day something was stolen from the machine.
“After a visit to the Chamber of Deputies we got the impression that the deputies had the appearance of little, bankers with prominent stomachs and doubtful linen.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 250, 20 September 1929, Page 8
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131FRENCH RACE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 250, 20 September 1929, Page 8
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