KINGSFORD SMITH
NO FURTHER HOPE OF
HIS SURVIVAL
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WORLD'S GREATEST FLIER”
FINDS UNKNOWN. GRAVE
HE whole Eritish world will mourn in all sincerity the passing The shares Kingsford Smith "Smithy, as he was affer tionately known to his Australian compatriots.
“Smithy,” who survived the perils of the Great War to thrill the whole world with his daring pioneer flights across the Atlantic and the Pacific, who was the first to make the Atlantic flight from East to West. the first airman to fly round the world by direct rontes across the two oceans, has dared the mighty forces of Nature once too often and has lost the fight.
MINERS BUY THEIR OWN COAL-PIT
$2,000 Raised In 24 Hours For Co-Operative Scheme
Berwick on-wet-
The miners of. Seremerston, pear here, haw raised £1,000 in 24 hours to buy, their colliery, which was closed last month.
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THE CHINA MAL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1935°
To-day's Short Story
Doctor What is your pro-, fession?*
Patients "A gentleman.” "Then you had better and an-
→ other job it does not wait you TM-
NCE within an ace of crashing FRENCH REPLY TO
ITALIAN PROTEST
to his doom after
|fight" with Baron von Richthofen, the famous German airman, Áir Commodore Sir Charles Kings- ford-Smith came, to be regarded as the world's greatest airman.
(Continued from Page 1)
NO
NO LOVE
By James Hanley
washing,
was turned bak past six filled with water for now, so she got up, dressed and a clean towel hang over the und went downstairs. At a edge of the chair Norah, har- quarter past seven her fathering finished laying the table, and would be in from the night seen the breakfast was ready on shift She washed herself the hob, sat down in the chair Wiping her face with the towel near the window. She could hear; she could not help but look into her father swilling the water the mirror on the back kitchen over his head. Suddenly· ́she wall: "Oh!" she exclaimed gripped the chair with her fing- under her breath. "Oh Sheers until they whitened. He had swept back her cloud of hair and come in. She did not movė, jusĒ secured it with hair-pins. Then half turned her head as he sat she began to lay the table in down. He was a simple man. the kitchen. She was a tall Again he looked at her, then be young woman. graceful afgan his breakfast. There seemed ure, not more than twenty-nothing unusual about his daug six years of age. Her mother ter. She looked at him. having died some five years ago
TO-MORROW'S STORY
she kept house for her father, a ganger on the railway. Her nstre WBS Norah As she passed from kitchen to back- ITALY STORES UP OIL Malta: "Seventeen sailing ships, kitchen bringing things to the To-morrow's story will be The incident occurred in August
*Who Would Have whose, cargo consisted chiefly of table one sensed in her very de- (1911, X5 12,000 feet above the
Italian wines, were obliged to meanour something stoical, German lines, when the German
Thought It?”, by. A. E. Almedingen. leave the port again on Monday something serene and resigned ace(who had previously at owing to the sanctions, because
At last a krock-came-to-thel counted for 80 British aeroplanes) the customs authorities refused/door. She let her father in Hel sent a burst of machine gun fire the ships captains permission with oil and grease now, for he usual after all, he told himse
was a big rough. man, covered But there was something, un-
had been helping to lay some as he suddenly put down his Greenwich Hospital, who were One cut into his tunic, having bodies, who are holders of con new lengths of mail down at the knife and fork. The silence of
cessions in mineral oil deposits, and passed into the back kitchen more tense from minute to mine! junction. He gave her one look the kitchen seemed to grow coat, and three of his toes were
are required by a law which came blown off.
into force yesterday to keep a Half-fainting through loss of stock on hand amounting to 70 blood. Kingsford-Smith managed per cent of the cubical contents
Capt J. E. Gure raid that the Lords of the Admiralty, through the director of the
owners of the extate. had given the miners the opportunity of buying the mine, which gave wurk to 250 men and boys.
in o`Kingsford-Smith's machine.
unload
The ballets flew all round him. Milan:
pierced the thick leather flying
AD
administrative
Here a wash bowl was
'dirmay
COUNTER-BATTLEo hang on to the controls and of all the comanincem of more thaROYAL CHRISTENING
AT DAWN
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landed the machine safely within 500 cubic metres.
his own lines. He kept the bullet Within 10 days all holders of IN PALACE CHAPEL
(which had pierced his flying-coat stocks of minéral oils are
as a souvenir. After twelve quired to furnish the Minister months in hospital he returned to with the exact particulars of the It is further stated that the France shortly before the Armis cubical contents of their oil re -chieftains and their warriors re-tice.
servoirs, the purpose for which This incident, however, proved they were used hitherto and the quested permission to take part in the operations against the Ad-to be only one of many thrills. maximum
permissible Amount dis Ababa Government.
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he asked in a kindly voice, “Azpu thing wrong, dear?" He looked;
be eyes, rec from weepias was no doubt of that at all
Yes. She had been crying. There
Again she seemed to have chang- ed entirely, overnight, as it were, Yes, there was something the
marter after all. His tongue made curious movements in his Their Majesties the King and mouth, but no word. passed "his" Queen are to be Godfather and lips. A fear came on him, a fear Godmother to the infant son of he could not understand, it bad TEH the Duke and Duchess of come so suddenly, without wara-
RAS SEYOUM'S STRATEGY and Colonel Lindbergh termed! -FREIGHT TRAFFIC INCREASE Addis Ababa: The problem of him the world's greatest airman. Innsbruck: The freight tase Kent whose christening will take ing. He lowered his head. Ee Ras Seyoum's whereabouts bas
In October 1933 he capped all his on the Brenner Pass from Ger- place this afternoon in the private could no longer look his daughter now been solved by confirmation previous efforts by flying from many to Italy has increased by 50 Chapel at Buckingham Palace in the face. "Ah!" he said un- quarters here England to Australia in less than per cent in a few weeks, includ-The Archbishop of Canterbury, der his breath. Ah*** His that his army is occupying the eight days-a day ahead of the ing coal, timber. motor-cars and assisted by the Bishop of Lon-strong browned hands rested on Tambien mountain range between previous record, held by C. W. A aeroplane parts from Germany, don, and Prebendary Percival will the white scrubbed table. When the Italian right wing under Gen- Scott, the English airman. Fings and fruit and agricultural produce officiate, Others who will stand ļa young woman cried, it could eral Maravigna, operating near ford-Smith was then 36 years old. from Italy-Renter the Takazze River, and the left Parachute Venture At Age Of Five wing in the Danzkil region under
Kingsford-Smith was born at
General Biroli, thus dividing Hamilton, Brisbane, on February these two wings and providing an
9, 1897, and five years later nearly explanation of why the Italians
Argentina Stands By League
Geneva: It is understood that
have not yet been able to effectended his life in his first "parathe Committee for the enforce
their junction.
From the southem frontiers it
is reported that the Italians are still only a few kilometres north of Gorabai. The admission is now made that General Grazioni's fying column reached Sassebaneh. last week, but these troops, it is
declared
compelled to retire.
Negus Leaves For The Front
FRENCH AIRMEN TO HELP
ITALY
chute" adventure.
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JOCKEY CLUB ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS
Godfather include FRE the only be about one thing, he told Prince of Wales, Prince Nicholas himself. Love
of Greece and HRH the Duke of "Come, dear," he said. Tell Conaught, who will act by your old father what the matter proxy-British Wireless Service is. There was pleading, urgency. in his utterance. He got up from the table. He stood over her now, one band resting on her head "Come dear" he said again, "Something's up. Please tell your old dad what it is.” She looked ap into his gamite-like
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ment of sanctions, which is alsoj known as the Committee of Eigh- NEWSPAPER FOR teen, will asserable here on Novem-j · WAR MINISTRY
ber 28 in order to examine. the
effect of the sanctions hitherto New Move In Poland applied.
→CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Warsaw, To-day.
The League Secretariat has re Showy River has been promoted ceived a note from Argentina, to the "A" Class of Australian which for some reason or other ponies, while Army Hall and Mis- has not yet been published, but, The well-known Polish news- take Bay are now in the China which is said to contain An me paper- Ganila. Pelska which pony "C" and "P" Classes, re-noustement that- Argentina is hitherto has often been the spectively, according to the latest not only willing to participate in mouthpiece of the Polish military alterations and additions to the all the economic sanctions, but is authorities, has now definitely classification" lists of the Hong also ready to extend a ban on ex-been made the organ of the Minis- Kong Jockey Club.
ports to Italy of petrol, steel, coal try for War and other key products.
Colonel Koe has been a past the few printing presses in
Authoritative circles here stress, pointed %-editor-in-chief, ·14- Addis Ababa: The Negus left the capital have been working at however, that, contrary to other Colonel Rudnicki, deputy edi- by aeroplane for the front yester-full speed turning out leaflets in reports, no date has as yet been tor, while for the first time the day morning, but his exact des the several dialects spoken ized for the application of the War Minister, General -Kas tination is unknown. This is be-Eritrea-
bargo on the supply of these key przycki, has been zinde à mem- lieved to be the signal for a In these leaflets, which will be products to Italy. --Trans-Ocean ber of the editorial committee. change in the Abyssinian, tactics dropped from 'planes behind the Service
vance.
and that from now onwards the Italian lines, or smuggled through Abyssinian forces will offer stubby runners, the Abyssiniaus extol born resistance to the Italian ad-the last independent expire i Africa, against which, they de Paris: A group of French vo- clare. it-is-a-crime to fight. lunteer air-pilots will leave short-
. GRIM WARNING ly for Italy to render to Italy aļ The population of Eritrea - are like service that the Garibaldians (warned not to sell themselves to once performed for France, stated the Italians, which will only end is General Piccio, the Italian Aviz-¡their being slaughtered in the in- tion Attache at Paris, at a fare-terests of Italian imperializei, pre well banquet: on Monday night, In their campaigns in Tripoll, itį zeports Le Jover
Trans-Ocean Service.
BREAD POISONING
IN SPAIN
THREE DEAD AS A RESULT
**CHINA. MAIL" SPECIALS
Madrid, To-day.
is declared, the Tralizun had More than 4,000 persons living in Murcia, General Piccio declared him- pursued the policy of sending na Cartegena, are suffering dreadful agonies self convinced that the hearts of tives into battle first, just the same France's airmen was on the side as they are doing in the present through bread poisoning, two having died; while of those who at the present, mo-war against Abyssinia
another, after losing his reason, committed ment were fighting for Bomer A rising against the Italians has suicide. The symptoms closely resemble those civilisation in the deserts of Abys-taken place in the region around sinia.
Makalle, according to an official contracted by persons working in mines. M. Leon Bathist, the President Abyssinian announcement, which
The poorer sections of the of the War Aviator's Organisa- also states that the Italians took are said to have answered the repopulation, where bread con tion, replied that there were no com from the inhabitants without volt by bombing the rebels from sumption is greatest, are su sanction measures against Italy in making any payment. The Italians, the airTrans-Ocean Service.
the hearts of the French airmen,
and proposed that a telegram be
sent to Signor - Mussolini, assur-
ing him of the inviolable loyalty NAPOLEON'S SAPPHIRE
of French aviators. Trans-Ocean Service
Abyssinians Resort To magne, was recently shown
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