FATAL AIR CRASH
AIR VICE-MARSHAL BLOUNT KILLED (Received 25th October, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON. 24th October. The “Evening News” stated that Air Vice-Marshal C. H. B. Blount, commander of an air component of the B.E.F. •n France, was killed in an air crash. The plane failed to gain height and hit a tree after taking off. It skimmed the roof of some houses, stripping off tiles and crashed in a garden, smashing in the front of the house, damaging two others. The plane then caught fire.
FOOD FOR. FRANCE
VICHY ANNOUNCES ARRIVAL VICHY, 23rd October. The “Journal des Debats” says tfhat three ships bringing over 1000 tons of foodstuffs from Buenos Aires have arrived at Marseilles. Five other ships ha/e arrived at Morocco. Overseas supplies are arriving in France under conditions which are tending to improve daily
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 25 October 1940, Page 5
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