Describing his remarkable flight from Salonica to Bukarest, a Roumanian journal (September 16, 1916) says: ‘Roumania received yesterday the visit of gracious Allied winged guests, who come to us from Salonique, from the heroic army of Sarrail, from that corner of ground which, right in the heart of the Balkans, sinks in like a vice, to choke in its powerful grip the Bulgars and our common enemies. As legitimate reprisal for the cowardly attack on Bukarest by the Zeppelins, the French aviators had received orders to bombard Sofia and reach Roumania afterwards. Yesterday, Wednesday, at 6.20 a.m., four French avions left Salonique. The first, a Farman biplane, was conducted by the heroic Sous-Lieutenant Noël, one of the best aviators of the French Army, who had already sunk two German avions in the course of seventeen months passed on the German front. The Sous-Lieutenant Noël brought with him Lieutenant Leseur, one of the best observers of the Army of Salonique. The second biplane was mounted by Sergeant Lamprou and the Soldier-Machine-Gunner Masson; the third by the Lieutenant Quillery and an observer, and the fourth by the Sergeant Rohan and a machine-gunner. ‘At 8.40 the Noël biplane arrived above Sofia, where were to be seen several fires lighted by one of the French avions which had just passed. The Lieutenant Leseur let go many bombs. The aviators were perfectly guided by the sparkling dome of the cathedral. Let us say that the bombs thrown contained an explosive newly discovered by the French, and of an extraordinary power of destruction. Some German avions made chase to the French avions, which were soon able to distance them without being touched by their projectiles. At 11.20 a.m. the avions, piloted by the Sous-Lieutenant Noël, arrived at Bukarest, where he descended directly in the aviation field, in the midst of the delirious acclamation of the Roumanian aviators. The biplane Lamprou descended at Alexandria, and the two others landed, according to orders, at Turnu-Magaurele.