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. » i ■ Italian Victory Over French Planes PARiS-DAMASCUS AIR-RACE
(Received 24, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 23. The Times Paris eorrespondent says: The striking superiority of the Italian planes, which were equipped witli AlfaBomea engines, over tlie French aeroplanos in the Isti'es air-race has arohsed bitter Comment, thougli the French aeroplanes were commercial and the Italian military. The result is regai'ded as a sovere lesson in lack of preparation and co-operation. Inferior matei'ial blarned by the Right Press, which declares that France's best pilots were betrayed by defects dite to tlie Socialist direction of the Air Ministry and Socialist labour legislation.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 186, 24 August 1937, Page 7
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101BITTER COMMENT Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 186, 24 August 1937, Page 7
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