TRAGEDY OF THE AIR.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1122, 9 May 1911, Page 5

TRAGEDY OF THE AIR.

ANOTHER AVIATOR KILLED. Br Tclesraph—Press Association-OoDyrieh; Peking, May 7. M. Vallon, the Swiss aviator, while biphning at Shanghai, fell from a great height and was killed. M. Vallon, a Swiss aviator, of Ncuchatcl, was engaged last November ta make flights in China, and to proceed later to Japan. He was the first airman to visit China. The machine which he took with him was a Sommer biplane. The Italian aviator Cei, who was killed in March on an island in thei Seine, in Prance, left a letter which explains the passion for flying, in spite of the attendant risks:— "Vou are perhaps not wrong when you tell me that my (lights are not very prudent, he wrote. "I am incapable of checking my enthusiasms, my impulses. Believe me, aviation has taken me in its mesh, with its complete seduction, its sublime grandeur, its sublime poetry. Flight, with its indescribable emotions, intoxicates me, and the greater the difficulties the more it attracts me. My friends here —Anzani among them—often adviso prudence; but what would you? In aviation. I think, everything must be risked to secure a place in the battalion of airmen, old and new."