AIR PILOTS’ FUNERAL
FRANCE WILL PAY TRIBUTE.
By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.
Rec. 8 p.m. Paris, Dec. 26. The bodies of Squadron-Leader JonesWilliams and Flight-Lieutenant Jenkins, who were killed in a crash near Tunis when trying to win for Britain the longdistance flight record, were landed at Marseilles, and are being brought overland by special coach. Captain Costes, the French aviator, whose record they attempted to beat, is going to England to attend the funeral.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1929, Page 9
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