BALLOON RACE
GORDON BENNETT CUP. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian, and New Zealand Cable Assn). GENEVA, August 10. The Balloon Beigica, piloted by a Belgian, Ernest Demuytcr, competing in the Gordon Bennett race, which was previously believed to have been tost, has landed in a Rumanian village after crossing the Carpathians. The pilot states that he travelled the greatest distance, 1300 kilometres, and-conse-quently is the winner. All nineteen competitors landed.
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Southland Times, Issue 19591, 12 August 1922, Page 5
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69BALLOON RACE Southland Times, Issue 19591, 12 August 1922, Page 5
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