"DAILY MAIL" AIR RACE
I? g” 1 . * Event Certain/ To Be Held
The ■‘Dally L xS?^ , eStai London-Paris air race—the iiggest airrace evef—would begin as seheduled dn July 12, te spite of threats of a press shut-down, the Newspaper said tonigSt The newspaper’s editor aafat that whatever the oufcoma-of the printing dispute and in spitottf the fact that these might Ue no •‘Daily MaU” publiahetfto Report the 10-day international event, the race would go on. ■ ’ Reuter reportedthat entries for the race—the •lariat Anniversary Air Race—totalled 167, a sword f °; tatematiwal. air raee. when the lists closed at midnight. The race is being held between London’s Marble Arch and the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Louis >larlot’s first fiight attoss the English Channel, tor which he won £lOOO sterling from the “Daily MaU.” A spokesman said tonight that many entrants would bo making & ILS JMU. points. This meant that the course was likely to be covered, several hundred times durinif the rtee. Julyiff to J& inclusive?”**
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28937, 3 July 1959, Page 11
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