The Senate adopted yesterday by a vote of 215 to 76 the Government Project providing for raising the ago of compulsory school attendance fourteen years. This law is a part of the social programme of the new Popular Front Government, as well as one measure devised to combat unemployment—Hat flight. The surface presented only fourteen metres and the motor was only 22 horse-power. Bleriot was con-vineed his machine would fly the Channel, and on July 24, 1009, he arrived on an artillery field near Calais, "Despite the " discouraging warnings of friends, he took off at 435 am, rising slowly to an altitude of 250 it, and turned his machine toward England. The Channel flight was accomplished in 27 min. 21 secs.
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