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WRECK OP THE AMERICA ABRUPT END OF TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT. Toleffrapn—Fress Association—Copyright NEW YORK, October IS. , The airship. America, which sailed from Atlantic- City on Saturday with Mr Walter Weilraan, the Arctic explorer, and four companions on board, in an endeavour to fly across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe, was wrecked and abandoned ISO miles from laud, at a point cast of Cape Hatteras and half-way to Bermuda. The crew were picked up by the steamer Trent.
CAPTAIN DICKSON RECOVERS ROME, October 18. . Captain* Bertram Dickson, the English, aviator, who at Milan on the 2nd in* stant collided in mid-air with the machine of a Preach aviator . named, Thomas, ? and was injured, is now conva-’ lescent. ST. LOUIS BALLOON RACE NEW YORK, October -18. The international balloon taco from St. Louis will break all records.' Ten balloons started, and all were afloat at noon to-day.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7263, 20 October 1910, Page 5
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