Porto Praia, Cape Verde Islands, Feb. 17.
feed. trouble has put a premature end to the attempt of the French airmen, Captain Paul Codos and Lieut. Maurice Rossi, to make the first non-stop mail flight from France to South America. i
were sent to render assistance on 'A French cruiser and a seaplan> receipt of the distress signal, but the tiers managed to make the islands end land safely. Tt was the intention of the Frenchmen, if the weather was favourable, {0 try to break their own long-distance record of 5690 miles' during the present flight—Reuter,
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