Aviators in Monoplane Forced to Land at, Morocco Casablanca, Sept. 4.
Sergeant Assolant and Sergeant Lefevre who started from Lo Bourget at 7 o'clock this morning in a single-engined monoplane for an unknown destination have landed here owing to a leakage in the fuel tank—Reater.
Lo Bourget, Sept. 4.
There was much speculation this morning as to the identity of a figure clad in a sweater which was observed furtively peeping out from the cabin window of the aeroplane in which Sergeant Assolant and Sergeant Lefevre started on their trans-Atlantic flight. It proved to be that of Armand Lotti, son of an hotel proprietor, The latter had forbidden his son to join the flight, which he consider: ed tantamount to suicide, but Ar-crowd, including a and boarded the plane during the night.
All three belong to. the Stade Francais. This is the first time that any sports club has been represented in such an adventure.
The aeroplane took off amid shouts from club-mates of "Bravo Stade."—Reuter,
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