The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-23
MON|S' CONDITION IS SAT|SFA FACTORY Paris Aviators Continue
 Flights Undismayed
RECORDS ARE BROKEN
yreedine FIys 279 Miles Cross Coun- try in 3 Hours and 39 Minutes. Body of M. Berteaux
 Lies in State


 Paris, May 2a.-Physicians today report ed as satisfactory the condition of An toine E. Monis, the French premier and minister of the interior, who was seri- ously injured yesterday when a mono plane piloted by M. Train dashed into group of government officials on the mill tary field at Issy Les Moullineaux.
 The physicians bulletin issued tonight says simply:
 "M Monis' condition continues satis- factory"
 The premier was permitted to take light nourishment today and Professor Lanne- tongue, after a consultation, said there was no longer fear of complications.
 The premier consistently asks for news of M. Berteaux. The physicians told him this evening that the minister of war was unconscious and that there was no hope The premier was so deeply affected that | it was deemed best not to inform him of the death of M Berteaux until tomor- row. Premier Monis was buried beneath the wreckage of the monoplane, sustaining compound fractures of two bones in ths right leg, his nose was broken and his face bruised. He passed quiet night. l Although the condition of Premier Monis continues satisfactory his physicians an- nounced late this afternoon that it would still take three days before he will be able to say whether the minister was out of danger. M. Monis Is 60 years of age today.
 Pier Vreedine, undsmayed by the wreck of his own machine yesterday, just prior to the disaster in which the French min ister of war was killed, again started in the Paris to Madrid race early this morn ing
 M. Train. who in trying to avoid crash ing into squadron of Cuirrassiers, gall | loping across the military field, caused yesterdays tragedy, and who was en- titled, under the conditions of the race, to make another start in the international flight contest, announced that he had nc heart to do so because of his terrible mishap.
 Four Aviators Withdrawn
 Four other aviators, weymann, Frye
 
 the race.
 V.eeiiHe, at 5 ai rLs faolIuIg, tadk { preliminary flight around the field a Issy Les AIoliineaux, testing his motor and then at 4:l1 o'clock arose high in the air and disappeared swiftly in the fog to- ward Angonleme, the first stage of the race.
 vreedine arrived at Angoueme at 7:5O o'clock. having covered the 279 miles in three hours and 39 minutes. The run ming time of the Southern Express be- tween Paris and Angouleme Is hours and IS minutes.
 | The judges announced that Nreedine had broken the record for long distance | cross country flight. His time was all the more extraordinary when it was consid- | cred that the airman had made stop at | Etamps, 35 miles from Paris, to regu- late his motor.
 The disaster of yesterday has plunged the whole French nation into grief and the death of Minister of War Berteaux is mourned without political distinctions throughout the republic as national loss.
 Today the body of the minister lay in state at the ministry of war. The funeral, which is expected to take place on Fri day will be conducted with full national honors. The army will go into mourning for 30 days.
 l Later Tn the Qdy ANldtOf ity changed his mind and entered the race. He followed Vreedine to Angouleme Madame Frey later received a telephone call from her husband. saying he had | been caught in a squall near Etamps during which his machine turned a somer- sault. Frey said he was not injured. Strassburg, Alsace-Lorraine. May 22.- | Herr Hirth, one of the four aviators com I In fha h aIf ifxr flight, was the first contestant to reach this city from Mulhausen. He was greet ed by Prince Regent Leopold of Bavaria and Prince Henry of Prussia.
 The three other aviators, Jeannin. Brun- huber and Witterstaetter, the latter car rying his wife a passenger. are fly ing towards this city but are meeting with difficult winds in the Rhine valley.
 The reliability flight, which covers a total distance of 36o miles, includes the cities of Freiburg, Mannheim and Frank fort-on-the- Main.