the two Lithuanian airmen The poignancy of the di stephen Darius Lieutenant Stanley Girer chanced by the is knowledge that they so nearly attained the objective for which they started on their flight from America, Kovno, instead of being able to give the airmen a triumphal welcome becomes a city of mourning. Evidently. the weather conditions completely upset the unhappy pilot's fealculations and he was quite out his, bearings. Yet, the two airmen thad really secomplished a remark-They had beaten Mr. Wiley Post's newly established record Aight in one hop from New York to for they were acwally flying in Eastern Germany toward "Lithuania without—having been located at any point during the crossing of the Atlantic. Theis exploit draws attention once more to the keenness of Lithuanian airmen who play a prominent par jin the modest defence forces of the comparatively youthful republic.
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