DEATH OF CHIAPPE
NEW HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR SYRIA PLANE SHOT DOWN BY BRITISH FIGHTERS. DURING NAVAL ACTION OFF SARDINIA. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) VICHY, November 30. It is officially confirmed that the plane carrying the new High Commissioner, M. Chiappe, to Syria was lost on November 27 with all occupants. A British fighter machine-gunned it during a British and Italian naval engagement midway between. Sardinia and the African coast. The plane was an Air France liner of the Farman type. It sent out an SOS at 12J5 p.m., saying it had been hit and was on fire. Air and sea searches were fruitless, but pieces of wreckage, including an apparently unusused lifeboat marked Air France, were later recovered. There was another passenger in the plane besides M. Chiappe.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1940, Page 5
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