14 MAY 1927, Page 3

The deep anxiety of the French nation about the fate

of their airmen, Captain Nungesser and M. Coli, is sincerely shared in this country. Last Sunday the two airmen started in an attempt to fly to New York without landing intermediately. They have not since been heard of. The gloom in France has been greatly intensified by the unfortunate mischances which brought to Paris on Monday evening reports of the success of the flight. These were freely published by the news- papers, and congratulatory messages were drafted only to end in the discovery that the reports were false. Fog and wind had made the conditions for flying in the Atlantic extremely unfavourable.