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ÆRIAL NAVIGATION

VEDRINES RECOVERING. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Paris, April 30. Vcdrines, whose aeroplane fell on the railway line, as he was attempting a journey to Madrid from Douai, is suffering from concussion of the brain, and not from a fractured skull, as previously reported. He is recovering.

Mr. Jules Vedrines achieved great success as an airman, and many flying records stand to his credit. In March last lie sought Parliamentary honors, and was a candidate for the Limoux division. He conducted his campaign by aeroplane. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail, in describing the contest, writes:— His success has been so great that yesterday at Esperaza the director of a troop of strolling actors complained that his receipts had fallen as the result of this unexpected rival attraction. Vedrines said: "I am a workman like yourself; a year ago I was earning 7y 2 d an hour. I have no desire to spoil your business," and he slipped a banknote into the man's hand, bidding him say nothing about the gift. The showman heralded the generous action all over the countryBidet < iri d Vedrine's popularity increased. When he lands in a village the peasants leave their fields and farms and Swarm round the aeroplane, sonle of them even kissing the graceful wings of

the Deperdussin. On the day before the foiling ho flew from dawn to sunset over the 152 communities of the division of Limoux. At night, leaving his aeroplane, he harangued the townsfolk in the market place. His opponent, who was holding a meeting on the terrace of an adjacent cafe, was howled down. The volatile little mechanic had no one to organise meetings, and no canvassers, but he brought his aeroplane and his own tempestuous eloquence, illustrated by a wealth of emphatic gesture. He declared that he belonged to no party, but to France. While his opponent talked on politics io the peasantry, Vedrines painted in lurid colors France's future in the air, and insisted on the necessity of giving the nation a great aerial fleet, and a man in Parliament who knew how to fly.

M. Vedrines was defeated by 7090 to' 6927

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 259, 2 May 1912, Page 5

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358

ÆRIAL NAVIGATION Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 259, 2 May 1912, Page 5

ÆRIAL NAVIGATION Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 259, 2 May 1912, Page 5

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