AIRMEN’S FATE
SHOT BY MOORS. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.) PARIS, Nov. 13. The tragic sory of the flight of two French aeroplanes from Bakar, is more fully reported from Casablanca. The airmen, Court and Lasalle, flew on separate planes, accompanied by Moorish interpreters. Mechanic Pintado and Gourt. made a forced landing in the unsubdued Spanish territory. Lasalle descended to assist him. The Moors fired, killing Lasalle and Pintado, and rendering Gourt unconscious. An interpreter reached Cape Juby, from which the aviators Ville and Mermoie, started to rescue Gourt
Ville was forced to land owing to lack of petrol. The Moors attacked, but Mermoza swooped down and picked up Ville in he nick of time. They later found the burnt debris of the planes. Gourt reached a Spam-., i outpost:
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 December 1926, Page 5
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