Forced Landing Shortly After Hanoi: No Hope Now to Break the Paris-Tokyo Record Hongkong, Jan, 24.
A forced descent in Indo-China has robbed the French aviator, M. Marcel Doret, who left Paris on Wednesday morning, of all chance of winning the Drize offered by the French Ministry. of Air for a record Mght from the French capital to 'Tokyo, 'M. Doret, who was' scheduled to arrive at Shanghai at one o'clock this morning fom Hanoi, his penultimate stopping-place, encountered fog and other bad weather conditions and came down inthe vicinity of Moneay, on the border' of Tongking It Is not yet known whether Doret or his wireless operator, M. Francois Michelletl, sustained " any' injury, or whether they intend {0 continue their Might to Tokyo.
'M, Doret, whose aeroplane was a Caudron-Simoun machine, would have had to reach Tokyo by 730 this ever ning to win the prize he was seeking.
He is the second French airman fall to reach Tokyo after having covered the greater part of the fours ney, the first having been M, Andre Japy, who crashed near Nagasakt last November on the last lap of his flight, M. Japy war seriously' injured and his "machine completely wrecked.—Reuter.
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