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Show ins 10 BIT ' LANDED 1 SAFETY u Missing- Balloonists Alighted Near' Pskof, a Town South of St. Petersburg'. By IiUeniallonal News Service. KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Nov. 3. "Both well and free" was the. cheering message received toduy from tho American aeronauts, aero-nauts, John Watts nnd Arthur T. Hor-bolt, Hor-bolt, who started In a borrowed balloon from Stuttgart. Germany, one week ago todav In the Coupe Internationale dos Aeiouautics. No news of the two men having been received for several days after the start of the rac the Kansas City Aero club sent a dispatch to Washington Wash-ington asking thai three of the Kuroponn governments be nuked to ! on the lookout look-out for the men. and took other means of discovering the whereabouts of the missing balloonists. Their friends feared thov had landed In the .wilds of Lapland or In the waters of the Arctic circle. They Were, therefore, there-fore, much relieved today when Geoige M. Myeis. president of the Kansas City Aero club, received the following cablegram cable-gram dated Pskov, Novemher 3: "Both well nnd free." Pskov is undoubtedly Pskof. a citv of 30.000. capital of the government of' the same name In northwestern Uiissla, and south of St. Petersburg. Todav's message mes-sage indicates that tin; Americans have made a splendid record, going close to 1000 miles from the starting point. Thov ! would have captured third nlac-n in the I race, the winner of which set a world s recoid. uere it not for the fact that they wore, dlsoualilled because part of the -as was taken .,ftl.r tle ., jm , Pt,j,5e,, to warm the bag. |