Casablanca, Dec. 25.
The trail-blazing Italian mail plane which was to launch the Italy-South America service met with disaster, it was learned today after the craft failed to land at Mogador. near Tamanar in the Paso region, a very mountainous area. Natives brought the news here after: they had discovered the wreckage of the plane with four charred bodies inside: Details still were lacking this evening, but the Italian authorities immediately dispatched officials to the scene of the accident to make an investigation on the spot—Havas.
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