DEATH OF AIRMAN HERO.

LIEUTENANT WARNEFORD.

FATAL ACCIDENT IN PARIS.

PASSENGER KILLED. (Received Juno 20, 330 p.m.)

Paris, June 18. Lieutenant Warneford was killed while testing a Farman biplane at a Paris aerodrome. Mr. Henry Iseedham, the American writer, who accompanied him, was also killed. Both fell 800 ft. The bodies were unrecognisable.Journal, describing the The Paris Journal, describing tne accident, states that Lieutenant Warneford made several large circles and several rapid descents, when at an altitude of 200 metres he tried to make a sharp turn to the right. The machine described a somersault and fell heavily. The occupants, who wore unstrapped, fell out. The bodies of Warneford and Needham were brought to the mortuary of the British hospital at Versailles from the aerodrome. Ibe coffins were draped with the Upion Jack and the Stars and Stripes and covered with floral gifts from the medical staff and British convalescent soldiers, who -are inmates of the hospital. Officers and men of the garrison of Paris also sent wreaths and baskets of flowers.

Flight Sub-lieutenant Warneford was a young Canadian airman who a few days lieo won the Victoria Cross by a brilliant feat in Belgium. Flying an aeroplane, he rose above a Zeppelin, and by skilful manoeuvring dropped bombs on the German airship, which burst into flames and was completely destroyed.. Lieutenant Warneford had only been a short time m the service, having ken granted hiei pilots certificate three months before his great feat. King George sent a personal message to the daring airman and decorated him with the Victoria Cross- This was the first time a Zeppelin had been destroyed by .an aeroplane, * - " . . Henry Beach Needham, an American lawyer and journalist, has been connected Tvith several well-known newspapers and magazines in the United States. He acted as special correspondent to Collier a Weekly during Mr. Theodore Roosevelt b foreign tour in, 1910.- ■ In 1908 he was appointed by Mr. Roosevelt, who was then President of America/to investigate labour and housing conditions in the Panama Canal zone.