AMERICAN AIR RACE.
0 UOMTE DE LESSEPS THE VICTOR. By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrlcrht Now York, March 18. The two thousand pounds prizo for a flight from tho Statue of Liberty was awarded to Comte do Lcsseps by the Aero Club. Both M. Moissaut and Mr. Graham White wore disqualified, the Litter for a foul Eight months after liis first experience as an aviator Comto do Lcsseps success>fnlly crossed the English Channel on May 22 last)-bains 'he second-, airman to accomplish' this. feat.. , Comtu ,de Lcsseps is tho son, not the grandson, of tho famous canal-maker. _ He is thirty-two years of age and of independent means. His first great (light .was sixty-lwo miles, made in Becember, 1901), at lssy, France.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1079, 18 March 1911, Page 5
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118AMERICAN AIR RACE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1079, 18 March 1911, Page 5
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