DEATH OF M. CHIAPPE.
FRENCH REPORT OF LOSS.
MACHINE-DUNNING OF PLANE.
VICHY, November 30
It is officially confirmed that the aeroplane carrying M. Ghiappe to Syria to take up the post of High Commissioner of Syria and Lebanon, was lost ou November 27 with all occupants. A British fighter machine-gunned it during the British and Italian naval engagement midway between Sardinia and the African coast.
The aeroplane was an Air France liner of the Farman type. It sent out an SOS„at 12.6 p.m. saying that it had been bit and was on fire. Air and sea searches were fruitless. Pieces of wreckage, including an apparently unused lifeboat marked Air France, were later recovered. There was another passenger in the aeroplane besides M. Chiappc.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 44, 2 December 1940, Page 5
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