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Article: True Stories Of The Great War: III - Story Of The Mystery Of The Motor Boat Races
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III - Story Of The Mystery Of The Motor Boat Races
The German and Austrian agents at Monte Carlo, Nice, and elsewhere
along
the French Riviera hid their plans so carefully that the observation
of
direct spying was rare. Yet on other occasions than the one related
above,
as testified by M. Georges Prade, they were caught in the very act.
The
following striking instance came to the notice of this well-known
sportsman
in April, 1914, a few months before the war, when he was organizing
the
motor-boat races at Monaco.
An extremely powerful motor-glider, with an engine of four hundred
horse-power, attained the enormous speed of ...