MIN. Marcel Doret and Francois Micheletti Beaten by Elements: Both Slightly Hurt MARCEL Doret and M. Francois Micheletti, his mechanic, have crashed, and their plane is wrecked. Both men are lying in the Yamamoto Hospital, Kochi, Kochi Prefecture, M. Doret with serious injuries to the face, hands and legs, M. Miche-lett with a scratched face and shock.
Owing to bad weather conditions and a total lack of vi the two flyers, after practically skimming the waves on the flight over the Japan-China strait, made a forced landing at 6.30 p.m. on May 26 on Tohars Beach, a few miles south of Kochi ten minut after they had sent out an "SES" signal. They were about 300 miles or so away from Tokyo when they were forced to come down, And so another Paris-Tokyo flight within the 100-hour limit set by the French Air Ministry has ended in disaster.
The spot where they landed is only about 180 miles from Mount Seburi, where M. Andre Japy, the first French aviator to attempt the flight, crashed last November and was seriously injured.
'Their feelings can best be imagined—dolayed by bad weather along the China" Coast, held up for over an hour and a' half at the Lunghwa Aerodrome on May 26 when a tyre blew out just as they were taking off, and then the foreed Janding on Shikoku Island, Further, they. were attempting the Might for any prise money, as was at frst thought. On landing here, M. Doret said that there way no £3000 prize. According to Domei, he told a French journalist he prize has gone out of exist The ight, M, Doret Is said to have explained, was undertaken "in the interests of the French Air Ministry to demonstrate the capabilities of the plane he was using, a Caudron-Simoun, powered by a 220. lip, Renault "Bengali" motor.
Nevertheless, he was attempting 10 vouch Tokyo. within a hundred hours fof Leaving Paris, where he took off at 206 pin. Shanghai time on May The Might came to a sudden end. says Domei, on Tohara Beach at 6.0 O'clock, when M. Doret set down his machine on the hard sand in a pea~ [Soup fog. The aeroplane hit a depression in the ground and turned turtle. the engine was imbedded in the sand, the right wing was wrenched off, and the fuselage was wrecked.
villagers from Morokimura, aroused by the sound of the engine, rushed fo the rescue, and MIN. Doret and Michelettt were carefully carried. to) the home of Mr. Sokuro Takahashi, 2 ake" dealer, where they were given frst aid attention by Dr. Of, the village physician, and later conveyed to the Yamamoto Hospital, Kochi.
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