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Show filiSH AEROPLANE! r- ! RaceBctween Douaiand Amiens, France, and ! Birds Are Defeated I Amiens. France, Aug. 1(" Tho first i'etinl race between the bird of nature na-ture and of man's prodvictUn t-iok I place in the course of the great aerial i cross-country competition, and wai I easily won by man. A llock of il ! c.irrier pigeons 'was 'released at Doml . o?terday at the same Instant tha. j Lo Blanc, in his Farman blplaie. ', darted from the rnork on his .".ft-mile i flight to Amiens. Rising without a t;emor, through the calm air, the bi-I bi-I plane soon outdistanced Che birds, ' ai'd. when Blanc reached Amlto-, the flock was not yet In sight, the first pigeon arriving six minutes and i second after Le Blanc. Before ! Hie last flock had come in. Ijcgag-I Ijcgag-I r.leux, who had started at the same I time as l.e Rlauc. but consumed nine ( minutes more ou the trip, arrived. beating the last pigeon by 12 min utes. j |