TOE AIRSHIP DISASTER.
FATE OF DIXMUDE. STRUCK BY~LIGHTNI.NG. (Elec. Tel. Copyng-lit—United 1 ress Assn.l (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.. PARIS, Dec. 31. It is now regarded as certain that tha Dixmude was struck by lightning at two o'clock on tho morning of December 21, when being driven before the gale across the Mediterranean, whither she went in order to avoid the gale which was blowing at ono hundred miles, per hour over Algiers. When the body of the airship commander was drawn up in the nets, the fisherman found a photo, of his wife and two children in his pockek » His wife yesterday gave birth to a son when she learnt tho news of her husband's fate.
Hamon, who was aboard the airship, was also aboard an airship wrecked in tho Mediterranean at the time of the armistice. Ho clung to the wreckage and was picked up after being four days in the water.
The story of three men on a raft is discredited,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16320, 2 January 1924, Page 3
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164TOE AIRSHIP DISASTER. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16320, 2 January 1924, Page 3
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