The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-06-16
ALLIANCE
MAY RESULT
Between Japan and France
From d. Oisy's Flight
BY Milton Bronner
NEA Service Staff Correspondent.

NEA Service Staff Correspondent.
London, June 16-Georges Edme
Charles Marie Peltier D'Oisy, lieu
tenant in the French air force, by
his record breaking air flight to
Hongkong, and beyond, not only has
made American and British air ex-
ports sit up and take notice, but he
has become to the Japs the most
intere sting man in the world.
While the Japanese exclusion laws
are being discussed in America don't
forget this:
With Germany crushed in a
military way. with the Jap ALI
Is ance with England at an end,
with strained relations with us,
Japan has turned her eyes to the
strongest military power in the
WOrld-France.
japanese military men swarm In
France. When Lieutenant D'Oisy
hoped off from Paris on his trip to
French Indo- Chino, the biggest crowd
OF military experts to bid him good
bye were Japs.
And it was they who urged him
and his government to continue the
flight from Hanoi to Toxic. They
want to see how it is done. They
want to examine the machine when
ut lands in Japan.
And they may buy lot OF them
because these same machines could
hop off from Japan well-towards
America.
mt ri
6, the twelfth day of his journey,
had set a new world record. In
that time flying by way of Bucha-
rest, Angora, ~Bassorah and Bouchir,
he had landed at Calcutta $500 miles
away in IL days. He made the dis
lance from Karachi to Agra in
India, 851 miles in less. than seven
hours. He flew from Agra to Cal
| cutta, $50 miles, in six hours and
| a half.
! D'Oisy is using regular army
machine. 1t is what is known as a
Breguet 19-A 2, furnished with a
Lorraine motor of 400 horsepower
1t can carry a pilot and mechanic and
$50 Kilograms of useful weight, SOC
itres of gasoline and an appreciaSie
quantity Of oil.
| Under such conditions the machine
is able to do 200 kilometers pc,
hour without trouble. 1t is made OF
duralumia.
For his great trip D'Oisy only had
u reservoir of gasoline substituted
for the bomb-throwing apparatus.
As the Frenchman has far exceed.
cd the performances of the American
to fly around the world, the French
government is confident that French
and British airmen, who are seeking
aviation companies will soon get biz
orders from Japan for machines fol-
its army and navy.
4 D'Oisy, who has made himself thu
hero Of the hour, is so. At 10 HI
volunteered for the army. In 1871;
hi transferred to- the aviation ser
vice and in 1913 he was made
pilot.
Just before the war he made
flying tour around France. Whe1
war broke out he joined Farman'
squadron. He soon won the militar
medal for extraordinary bravery
Later he brought down four enem
airplanes, was cited twice in tn
army orders and made member Q
the Legion Of Honor. -
He was. made sub-lieutenant j
1916 and lieutenant in 1917. In 19l
in a Goliath he flew from Constar
tinpple to Paris via Sofia. Bucha
rest, Vienna.
| In 1922 he made the trip fro1
Paris to Bucharest in 10 hours. Sine
then he has flown all over Morocco
, and Tunis, going all around the hi
ter French colony in one continuou
> scven-hour flight. Is
He is a popular. member of tn
, biggest sporting clubs Of France an
! Tunis, being known as "Pivolo