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The STORY of THE CROWN JEWELS
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SPARKS FROM THE ARMOURY'S FURNACES OR CHIMNEYS CAUSED A FIRE AND THE HISTORIC BUILDING WAS BURNT DOWN.
THE CROWN JEWELS WERE IN GREAT PERIL
AND IT WAS DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF MIND AND COURAGE OF A SERGEANT THAT THEY ESCAPED DESTRUCTION WOME
AIDED BY YEOMEN THE SERGEANT BROKE INTO THE JEWEL HOUSE AND BUNDLED THE REGALIA ONTO THE PARADE GROUND!
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LOST::
Did Weather Signals Cause Capricornus
Disaster?
The inquiry which has been in the Capricornus were not answered, stituted by the French authorities or at any rate, not answered in time into the loss of the brand new Im- to be of use.
perial Airways flying-boat, Capri- The Capricornus, it is stated, had cornus, which crashed in a snow-sufficient fuel to take her to Mar- storm near Macon, 25 miles from seilles, and inquiry is largely con- Lyons, on March 24, is being held cerned with solving the problem of in secret, says the "Daily Telegraph" the pilot's decision to come down air correspondent.
to a relatively low altitude -
near
A representative of the British Macon.... Air Ministry is attending as a mat- The danger of adopting such a ter of courtesy, and the findings of course should not have been run- the court will be accepted by the unless circumstances, which are not British authorities, just as the find-yet clear, demanded it. Ice-forma- ings of a British court, in parallel tion might have occurred, but there circumstances, would be accepted by are other possibilities. they French authorities.
There have been criticisms of The British Air Ministry will not the French meteorological services hold a separate inquiry, but Imperi- for aviation, and also of the belat- al Airways will do all that is pos-ed response to position inquiries sible to ascertain the cause of the from aircraft. · disaster.
Wireless Ineffective The company is under no statu- The pilot of the Capricornus, hav-. tory obligation to announce the re-ing apparently decided to descend to sult of its investigations. But in a low altitude to ascertain his posi- view of the fact that the Empire tion, seems to have been immediate- air lines are subsidised, and that ly involved in a grave predicament. the matter is one of great public There are reasons for believing concern, it is probable that a state that the wireless was not function- ment will be made at the first posing efficiently, as is often the case sible opportunity.
in snowstorms, and uncertainty as
So far as the Air Ministry is to his position which would have concerned, the accident will probably occasioned little anxiety had he been. not figure in any official publication above the highest ground in that before September, 1938, when the region became a deadly peril once Report on Civil Aviation for 1937 he had descended below the level of will; be issued.
the hills
Requests Not Answered
Only minute examination of the I understand that there is a cor-wreck by experts can elucidate cer- tain amount of evidence pointing to tain points. But I understand there a failure of the French meteorolo- is prime facie evidence that the gical service, and of the radio com-pilot suddenly sighted the hill-side, munications from Lyons aerodrome, and opened out his engines for a at the time of the disaster to the steep climb out of danger, but too Capricornus. Warnings of ice form-late to be of any avail ing conditions which ought to have As regards wireless failures, it is been transmitted to aircraft were interesting to note that United Air not sent out.
Lines of the United States are fit-
It is further suggested that re-ting a screened and static-proof- quests for position sent out from aerial to all their machines.