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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
DORET MYSTERY DEEPENS
Lands At Fort Bayard After 12 Hours In Air
Council And The
Governor
At to-morrow's meeting of the Legislative Council His Excel- lency the Officer Administering the Government is to move
"That this Council desires to express its hearty appreciation of the eminent services render- ed for the good of the Colony by Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., during the period of his Administration, and instructs the Clerk to com- - municate the terms of this re- solution to Sir Andrew.”
HITLER'S AIR ADJUTANT KILLED IN CRASH
Berlin, To-day.
PARIS
Must Have Passed OPENING OF Hong Kong And EXHIBITION
Turned Back!
Dr. Schacht Attends
Econ-
Paris, To-day. The German Minister for
among those attending the opening
An air of complete mystery hangs over the omics, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, was course taken by the two French airmen, Marcel of the Paris Exhibition yesterday Doret and Francois Micheletti, since they left by Premier Leon Blum in the pre- Hanoi, in French Indo-China, at 11.30 last night onence of President Albert Lebrun. their way to Tokyo, via Hong Kong. The airmen were at first reported to have passed Hong Kong in the early hours of this morning speeding north Dward to Shanghai in their fast Simoun monoplane, and were expected in the northern city at around 9.30 a.m.
.:
Dr. Schacht's presence in the French capital has led to numerous rumours of important negotiations with the Blum Government, though this is denied by both French and
German quarters here.
Outstanding in the Italian ex- hibits are monuments to the colon- ial achievement of Fascism in Abyssinia and Somaliland.
rans-
By noon, the airmen having failed to put in an appearance, grave fears were felt for their safety in the marble courtyard of the and, weather conditions on the China coast being Italian pavilion stands a small bad, it was thought they had made a forced land-bronze figure of Marshal Balbo, the hero of the trans-Atlantic flight ing somewhere between Hong Kong and Shanghai. of Ital fyingb Captain Mantius, Herr Hitler's NOW, A REUTER TELEGRAM FROM HANOI HAS DIS- Ocean. air force adjutant, and a com- PELLED RUMOURS THAT THE AIRMEN HAD BEEN FORCED panion, Sergeant-Major Henning, DOWN. THE TELEGRAM OFFICIALLY SAYS THAT THEY were killed in an aeroplane crash TURNED BACK AND ARRIVED AT FORT BAYARD AT 10.20 between Kiel and Berlin yesterday. THIS MORNING.
Herr Hitler is understood to be much distressed by the tragedy. Although the airmen are appar- Captain Mantius was one of three ently safe, there is still no know- officers, drawn from the army, navy ledge of their actions since they and air force, respectively, who are left Hanoi, and, if earlier reports attached to the Fuehrer for special that they had passed by, the Colony
Had they passed the Colony service and accompany him on all are correct, it is a puzzle why they official occasions.-Reuter
did not make a landing at Kai Tack that hour, they should have arriv instead of flying back to Fort Bayed in Shanghai at about 9,30 this. ard, about 150 miles from here. morning.
WOMAN'S ORDEAL IN THE ALPS
Husband Badly Hurt On Precipice
Vienna, To-day.
It appears, however, that they have frittered away their chances of winning the French Air Minis- try's prize for a Paris-Tokyo flight left in under 100 hours, as they Le Bourget at 206 p.m. on Satur- day, and have only about 28 hours in which to cover the remaining distance.
In
A tale of heroism on the part of an Austrian woman Alpinist is re- vealed in the newspapers here.
Weather conditions on the China ex- Out with her husband on a climb-Coast-this morning made flying
with heavy ing expedition, the woman had the tremely hazardous,
poor visibility. terrifying experience of seeing him rainfall and struck on the head and knocked un-spite of the dismal weather, crowds in conscious by a falling rock.
waited at Lungwha aerodr
the airmer The woman supported her hus- Shanghai to greet band on the edge of a precipice should they arrive. where the accident occurred for three hours until a rescue party arrived: Trans-Ocean.
Local Weather Forecast
The two fliers reached Hanoi at 9.55 last night and hopped off, ap- parently for Hong Kong, at 11.30 p.m.
Since receipt of the Reuter tele- gram from Hanoi nothing had been heard of them, though Mr. A. J. R. Moss and Mr. Erik Nelson, in The anti-cyclone is situated in the charge at Kai Tack airport, were Pacific to the east of the Bonins, up the whole night in the expecta- and a weak anti-cyclonic area covers tion that the airmen would land in the Eastern and Yellow Seas, Shal Hong Kong.
low depressiona lie over S.W. China The airmen were believed to have and the Pacific to the East of Japan, passed over the Colony at around Forecast: S.E. winds, moderate: 5.30 this morning, according to Kai fair.
Tack, but as local officials were un-
the
able to get into touch with fliers by radio, owing to the latter's set being too weak for reception, no confirmation of this report could be obtained.
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