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' CRITICAL RUSSIAN AIRMAN. United Press Association. —By Electric Telegra ph.—Copyrigh t.) ' (Received this day at 12.25. p.m. PARIS, Sept. 19. Two Russian airmen who recently visited France, in the course of a. European tour in a machine of the Soviet, appear not to be enamoured viiith France and ,th© Frerich. One writing in a Moscow newspaper says: “France is miserable, dirty and behind the times. Even the policemen who welcomed us at Le Bourget were shockingly dirty. The gendarme who examined our papers had a moustache full of bread crumbs and smelt shockingly of drink. Every day something was stolen from the machine. After a visit to the Chamber of Deputies, we got tile impression that the Deputies had the appearance of little bankers with prominent stomachs and doubtful linen.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1929, Page 5
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131AVIATION Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1929, Page 5
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