A BALLOON RECORD.
i JOURNEY FINISHED IN A I STORM. ' * THREE DAYS WITHOUT FOOD. ' • ■ 'I li 7 TelecmDh —Prose A&sonlition— CoDTFlzbt i (Rec. January 15, 11 p.m.) t Paris, January 15. r M. Duconnet and M. Dupont ballooned r from Plamettebrouil, in France, to Soko- 1 lowska, in Russia, fifty metres beyond the J record. They crossed tuo Carpathian [ Mountains at a height of ten thousand c feet. The flight lasted twenty-nine hours t fifty-five minutes, and finished in a snow- ,: storm, with, the thermometer at four ji degrees below zero Fahrenheit. . When _!■ they alighted there was no habitation in s sight. Their provisions were frozen, and t they were without food for three days. Tliey!were obliged to lcavo the. balloon. \ They saved a basket of instruments. f
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1338, 16 January 1912, Page 5
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128A BALLOON RECORD. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1338, 16 January 1912, Page 5
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