AN AERIAL COMPETITION.
1,000 MILES FOR £IO,OOO. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ToXDON, July 23 Tho competition for tho 'Daily Mail's' £IO.OOO prize 'for a thousand miles flight, including stoppages-, at Harrogate, Newcastle. Edinburgh, Stirling, Glasgow, Carlisle, Manchester. Bristol. Exeter, Salisbury Plain, Brighton, and Brooklands, was started in the' presence of 40.000 spectators. Prince Henry of Prussia was among them. A LADY'S FALL AND DEATH". PARIS, July 23. At Etampes Miss Denis Moore, a pupil of M. Farman, fell 130 ft ar.d was killed. THE FIRST STAGE. "I/INBOX. July 21 (Revolved July 24. at 8.5 a.m.) Seventeen aviators completed the first stago of the race-—viz., Brookla.-ads to Hendon. Vedrin-c* made the quickest t : iiK\ and Beaumont was second. Lieutenant Porte (?), -i.ho naval aviator, fell from a height of 30ft, and hit; machine was wrecked, l.ut he whs unhurt The aviator Kemp full a dStance of 50ft, and the wing of his machine, was crumpled. Kemp hr.d a miraculous es-ane..
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Evening Star, Issue 14626, 24 July 1911, Page 8
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157AN AERIAL COMPETITION. Evening Star, Issue 14626, 24 July 1911, Page 8
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