IN THE AIR.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10462, 23 May 1910, Page 4

IN THE AIR.

ACROSS THE CHANNEL

[Bi Elegtric Telegraph—COPTHlGnT.J

(Per Pit ess Association.)

Received May 23, at 0;50 a.ui. London, May 22. Count Jaques de . Lesseps, . graiidsoii of the Suez Canal builder, on a Blefiot mbnoplhnej ascended from Calais to a height -of 280 feet,' circled about in: order to feel ,liis way, tlien soared above thick mist, and, steering by the sun, skimmed down near Dover with perfect ease, from a height of over 1000 feet. ' He descended gracefully at St. Margaret's Bay. . . The jou-rnev occupied thirty minutes. The weather was hazy and he only saw the coast on nearing Deal. The destroyer Escopette, following, only caught one glimpse of de Lesseps in crossing. '•