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Show 'AEROPLANE PARIS CONTRABAND OF WAR TUNIS, Jan. 16. A wireless message mes-sage received here today says the French steamer Carthage, bound from Marseilles for Tunis, has been arrested arrest-ed on the high seas by Italian torpedo uoat destroers and taken to Cag-liari, Cag-liari, Island of Sardinia. Tho Italian authorities consider that an aeroplane belonging to the aviator Duval, and parts of another belonging to tho aviator Obre, aboard the Carthage, Carth-age, wero contraband of war. Duval and Obre, who are both here to give exhibition flights, learned of the seizure of the Carthage and lodged a protest at the resideircy-general Obre points out that ho recently made flights at Cagllarl and Suzzara and had been authorized by the Italian authorities to take his machine back to Marseilles. |