HEARD FROM THE AIR.
NUMEROUS PARIS NOISES.
PARIS, Feb. 2.
The reputation of Paris as feeing one of the noisiest cities in the world was surprisingly confirmed by an airman named George Abrial, whose glider was towed by an aeroplane and liberated 4000 feet above the city, over which he circled for half an hour.
Mr. Abrial says he clearly heard the incessant humming and hooting of motorcars, the whistling of trains, barking of dogs and sometimes even human voices.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21098, 4 February 1932, Page 9
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