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Show DODIESOFU.S. ; AIRMEN WILL i BE SENT HOME . Belgian King Expresses , r- , Deep Sorrow Orer Fatal- ' ities in Balloon Race; 2 v,' More Aeronaut Injured jf " ' - BRLfSPIJt. Kept. SI The i bodies of Lieutenant .Robert S. ; ." dm stead and John W. Whop taw, V American army officers whe were , killed la the wreck of the balloon have beea given Into the posse pos-se as Ion of .tha American ambassador ambassa-dor at Tha Hague, who will take charge of sending tbera ta the 1 1 United It tales. -' King Albert sent his aide do camp to tha American and Rpanlsh embassies em-bassies and told the embasay legation lega-tion to exprese hla aorrow at the deaih of the five aeronauta. Military honors will be accorded tn the victims of the accldenta. A telephone meseaga from Amsterdam today revealed another accident In the race. Major Baldwin, piloting the British balloon Banehee 111, and his aide. Captain lmnvllle, were badly Injured ta making a difficult landing at EereeJ, Holland, Sunday. The Belgian balloon lleigira, competing com-peting in the J am a lord on Bennett cup race, la reported to have been aeen over Norway laat evening, while the Prenrh entry. P1cardy.pl-loted P1cardy.pl-loted by Bleneme and Ravine, la said to have landed In Poland. Only one of lha five carrier pigeon a which Pilot Veenatra had aboard the Belgian Prince Leopold haa come back and this la taken as a good sign. The British balloon Margaret, which fen Into the aea near rtttagen, Denmark, will be disqualified la conformity with tha rule forbidding the contestants to alight on the aea. Pllota Allen and Berry. In the Mar- tarsi's ear, were aaved. At o'clock thla morning, only the ffwlaa balloon Helvetia and the ffpanlah eniry Kspherta, had not hn he,rt1 fmtn |