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RAR RARY COAST SLAVI', li UNTK.KS, PARIS, Decemlier 21. Dramatic i-evelations liy General Girod, president of the Army Committee of the Kroneli Chamber, regarding the fate of French commercial airmen on the Barbary Coast show that slave hunters and pirates, who, as every schoolboy knows, made North-West Africa notorious for their raids in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, are still carrying on their nefarious operations to-day. So great a menace to commercial aviation have these modern slave traffickers become that the French Government, it is stated, Is considering a series of aeroplane raids along the coast to bomb tint tbrir ha nuts. Last month two French aeroplanes, engaged on the regular service from Casablanca to Dakar, were forced to land in the most dangerous part of the desert near the coast. The airmen were, about to ascend again when a Moorish raiding party, conveying ten slaves from neighbouring villages, appeared on the scene. The Moors did not hesitate. They knew flint if the airmen lived _ they would report on the slave traffic and that reprisals would follow. A volley of shots rang out. Two ot the airman fell dead. A pilot, AT. Gourp, received a ragged wound in the leg, hut he remained conscious. One of the Moors who spoke French secretly offered to save his life upon promise of the payment of £.'400. Every day for three weeks the wounded pilot was partly dragged and partly carried behind the slave hunters. When the ...oors reached the neighbourhood of a French patrol, they left him. dying. He was soon rescued hv the patrol and taken to Casablanca, where two days later lie died clasping the Legion of"Honour which had just been pinned on to his breast. j

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