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LQNG-DISTANCE RECORD. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, August 8. Rossi and Codos, the distance record fliers, are to receive the French Air Ministry’s prize of one million francs as being the first Frenchmen to break the record. The time of Rossi and Codos from New' York to Paris averaged 105 miles per hour. This may also be a record, beating Lindbergh’s record by three minutes. ITALIANS RETURNING. ■ SHOAL HARBOUR (Newfoundland), August 8. The Italian air armada of 24 planes took off here en route for home, via the Azores Islands, at 2.45 a.m., eastern standard time, on Tuesday. KOREAN WOMAN KILLED. TOKIO, August 8. Miss Boku, aged' 26, a, Korean aviatrix, left Tokio yesterday on a solo flight to Manchukuo. She was discovered this morning dead on a mountain in the Shidyuoka Prefecture. She Clashed in a fog. CRASH IN SCRUB. (Reed. August 9, 10.30 a.m.) HARBOUR GRACE (Newfoundland). August 8. Polish American fliers Benjamin and' Joseph Adamowicz and Emil Birgen escaped serious injury, to-day, when their monoplane over-ran the landing field here and crashed in the scrub growth. They took off from New' York early on Tuesday with the intention of flying to Poland.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1933, Page 2
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