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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1927.
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SWIMS CHANNEL.
London Lady Doctor's Success.
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HER THIRD ATTEMPT.
TO COPY LONDON.
British Shipbuilding
Increasing.
OFFICIAL FIGURES.
Beats All Records For a Woman Underground Railway At £25,000 Nearly Ten Per Cent. Rise In One
Confestaat.
* Mile To Build.
Quarter. London, Yesterday.
London, Yesterday.
London, Yesterday. Another Englishwoman has It is proposed to equip Man- A revival in shipbuilding is in- awum the English Channel. Dr. chester with a system of under-dicated in Lloyds returns for the Dorothy Cochrane Logan, a medi-ground tube railways similar to quarter ended September 30. cal specialist, accomplished the that of London. The proposal They show 1,536,000 tons con- feat to-day in 13 hours 12 min- has been before a special com-structing in Great Britain and utes. This was her third at-mittee of the City Council, which Ireland, an increase of 146,000 tempt. Her time is a record for has now submitted its report to compared with June 30 and an in- women swimmers, being one hour the finance committee.
crease of 761,000 compared with
and 27 minutes less than the time The tube will cost about a quar-12 months ago. of the American girl, Miaster of a million sterling per mile Tonnage on which work is sus Gertrude Ederle. She is the to build and the total cost is estim-pended is only 8,000, compared fourth woman and the 14th per-led at twenty-five millions. with 107,000 on September 80, son who has swum the Channel,
There is some doubt whether 1926. The present totals are the She entered the water at Gris-the tube is likely to be a payable highest since September, 1922, nez at 20 minutes to eight yester-proposition. British Wireless but are still 354,000 below the day evening and landed at Folkes-Service. tone at eight minutes to nine this
average tonnage, and building of [Message interrupted by thun-the 12 months before the war. morning.
der and lightning and generally Doctor Logan uses the pseu-bad atmospheric conditions.] donym of Miss Mona McLellan for her swimming, and has always
surrounded her channel attempts
Tonnage commenced during the quarter totalled 370,000 compared with 437,000 in the preceding quarter, but tonnage launched
86,000 compared with the preced- ing quarter.
with secrecy. Her success was a FREE STATE DAIL. was 355,000, an increase of complete surprise, only those ac-
companying her in a fishing boat MR. COSGRAVE RE-ELECTED
and a few of her intimate friends knowing that she was trying again. At one point, though she saw the cliffs of England through
PRESIDENT.
Dublin, Yesterday. The Dail was crowded at the
a haze, she seemed to be making opening of the new session when
so little progress that she sug- a motion was debated for the re- gested to those in the boat that she should give up. But her trainer persuaded her to continue and she succeeded to her great de- light, British Wireless Ser- vice.
Brilliant. Record.
London, Yesterday, Another English WOMAN! has swun the Channel, Mias Mona Mac- lennan who is a Harley Street doc- tor. She landed at Folkestone at 8.50 in the morning, having start- ed from Cape Grisnes at 7,40 yes- terday evening: The announcement
It is notified for information that Feather Fans & Brooches can-of her success was the first intima-| not be sent by post to Great Britain. They are prohibited by the tion to the public that she was mak- Plumage (Prohibition) Act of 1921.
Europe via Suez (letters and papers, London
16th Sept, and parcels 8th Sept.)
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Van Heutaz
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ing the attempt.-Reuter...
WILLIAMI COSGRAVE
Total merchant tonnage now building in other countries is 1,587,000, an increase of 87,000 compared with June 30. The total of world tonnage now con- structing has increased by
234,000 compared to the previous quarter but is 872,000 below the highest pre-war record of June 30, 1913.
Tonnage of motor ships con- structing in the world is 1,589,000 and of steamships 1,468,000.--- Reuter.
OFF TO PARIS.
GIRL'S FLIGHT FROM AMERICA.
Roosevelt Field, Testerday.. Misa Ruth Elder with Captain George Haldeman as co-pilot and navigator, has started on a non- stop flight to Paris in the acroplane "American Girl."-Reuter's Ameri- can Service.
Details.
Miss Maclennan's record swim surprised even her mother.. Her landing. caused a commotion on the beach, where there were only 50
Mlas Elder's seroplane is a bright] people. All rushed to her aasia- election of Mr. Cosgrave as Pre- yellow monoplane equipped with a tance, but she was "as fresh as a sident of the Executive, which small wireless met with a range of lark. Her victory was due to was carried by 76 votes to 70 26 miles. A score of ocean liners stamina and determination favour- against the opposition of the Re-will be in the path to be follow- ed by warm water and brilliant publicana and Labourites.Reued by the aviators. They will carry moonlight. She ate only a little ter. sugar and meat extract.
Her real name is Dorothy Coch- rane Logan, M.D.
No Alternative Action.
sandwiches, coffee, beef, tea and fruit: Miss Elder is dressed in Neither the Opposition parties golfing attire. Both fliers are also submitted an alternative motion, wearing a fur lined one-piece flying ser- Mr. Cosgrave received the sup-suit as worn by army airman' as a vice in several hospitals and is now port of six Farmers and 11 In-protection against cold. the popular medical officer of King's 'dependents, while Mr. Redmond College Hospital.
abstained from voting-Reuter.
She has rendered brilliant
This was her third attempt. In her first last year she retired al- most unconscious a mile from Eng- land after 25 hours in the water. Six months ago she, falled seven miles from England after a terri fic fight with cross-currents. She wins £1,000 offered by the "News
A DENIAL.
B.
NO INTERVIEW BY DE RIVERA.
London, Yesterday. Reuter is authoritatively in-
of the World" for beating Miss formed that De Rivera did not 3.30 pm Ederie's time.-Router, 3.30 p.m. 8.46 p.m.
4 p.m.
Miss Elder is 28 and an ex-Old Lakeland (Florida) licensed pilot. Her married name is Miss. Lyle Womack. The plane carries 520 gallons of patrol, estimated sufficient for 4,400 miles. Both fillers are equipped with rubber sults-Reu- ter's American Service.
Flight to Bangkok.
Villa Coublay, Yesterday.
Captain Challo and mechanic
give a Press interview, verbal or of a fight to Bangkok, which he are flying to Rome as the first stage written, on the conversation with Sir A. Chamberlain except a gen-sible at the rate of 1,500 kilometres proposes to reach as early as pos- 10.80 a.m. AMERICA & FRANCE,ral statement to the Press at
daily Reuter. Palma Reuter,
[Reuter cabled from London on October 9 MAR
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Paris, Yesterday:
Takes a Ship, Cherbourg, Yesterday. Mr. Levine has left for America An indication of the tenor of aboard the "Leviathan."--Reuter. the Chamberlain De Rivera con versation cabled on October 1 is
The latest American note in re given by the Sunday Times" gard to the Franco-American tariff which
publishes and inter
BRAZIL, RUBBER.
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It is announced that the Com-
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POLA NEGRI
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The romance of al flaming Spanish belle in the lawless days of '49, written specially for the star by
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At 2.30 and 7.15
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MAE MURRAY
JAZZMANIA
WITH
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The unusual story of a Queen in love with jazz
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
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10.30 0.19 dispute was handed in at the Qual view by their Madrid cor MILLION DOLLAR COMPANY
D'Orsay, this morning and is now be respondent with De Bivera ing translated, in which the latter is re- It is understood it containe no-ported to have hinted that Spain thing new, in regard to the basis might withdraw from North position as expressed in the pre-Africa while with Britain acting panhia Ford Industrial of Brazil Dentist. vious Amercian note, and merely as mediator a very satisface was organised yesterday and will emphasises certain viewpoints and tory Franco-Spanish arrangement be registered officially on October demonstrates the intention of the might be possible regarding the 13 with a capital of a million dol- United States Government to enter matter.
lars. The articles of incorpora- practical conversations. It states De Rivera is quoted as declar- tion indicate that the company in- its desire to bring the negotiations ing that Spain did not desire to tends to plant, and refine, manu- to a successful conclusion-Reuter, possess Gibraltar.
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