The Archive · 1934

France Plans Air Race to Hanoi

Detailed data concerning a project evolved by Gen. Denain, French Minister of Air, of the organization of a Paris-Hanoi air race are publish-this morning in the "Pecit Parisien."

The distance separating the said two ities, the paper points out, is equal to the distance between Lon-Jdon and Melbourne, Lo, 18,000 kins. '1,000 miles).

The itinerary which may probably be followed will be, according to the "Petit Parisien," Paris, Rome, Corfu, Beirut, Bushir, Djask, Karachi, Jodhour, Allahabad, Calcutta, Rangoon, Bangkok, Saigon and Hanoi.

This international contest, canceived for many weeks past, has, os fis aim, says the paper, not only to prove the interest of France in the cause of aviation, but"to tighten the bonds linking the metropolis to her Easteen and Yar Eastern colonies as well.—Havas,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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