FRANCE'S AIR LIGHTHOUSE
VISIBLE FIVE HUNDRED MILES,
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPSIUOIIT.) (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) PARIS, 20th April. A uiousafid million candle-power revolving lighthouse at Mont Afrique, near Pijon, was lighted for the first time It is designed to assist, tho aeroplane "service between Paris and Algiers. When tlia weather is clear the rays are visible over a radius of 500 miles, including Brussels, Dieppe, Lille, Milan, and I'rankfnrt, It costs 1A million francs, and is seventeen times more brilliant than the'6o million candle-power Hothouse of New Jersey '
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 93, 22 April 1925, Page 5
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87FRANCE'S AIR LIGHTHOUSE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 93, 22 April 1925, Page 5
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