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DOLLAR CLAIM FOLLOWS QUEENS
CAVALIER DISASTER
New York, To-day.
Suit claiming $200,000 for the loss of her husband in the "Cavalier" flyingboat disaster on Jan- uary 21, has been filed against Imperial Air- ways in the Federal Court by Mrs. Katherine Miller, of Lincoln, Nebraska..
Her husband, Donald Walters Miller, was a passen- ger on the flyingboat and was drowned when the giant craft alighted in a rough sea after complete failure of all her four engines.
Compensation is also demanded
for the loss of baggage owned by Mrs. Miller, who was rescued. Mrs. Miller values her luggage
GEN. FRANCO'S
Her lawyer declared yesterday:ASSURANCES
""Purpose of the suit is
sponsibility for the accident" -- Reuter.
Mrs. Miller's lawyer recently ap proached the United States At- torney in Brooklyn with the sugges- tion that Government proceedings should be instituted against Im perial Airways."
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AT FACE VALUE
London, To-day.
LAWYER'S CONTENTION
In the course of his speech in The lawyer declared that the the House of Lords yesterday, minimum standards of American replying in the debate on Spain safety regulations would have been raised by Lord Snell, who criticis- sufficient to prevent the allegeded the Government's policy as freezing of the plane's carburettor system, and that the pilot delayed landing after motor trouble had become apparent,
The lawyer added that his client's object in bringing these facts to the attention of the Government was to attempt to abolish the double standard of safety for foreign; and home planes.
The "Cavalier disaster occurred between New York and Bermuda,
having favoured General Franco throughout, the Foreign Secre thry, Lord Halifax, referred to suggestions made by Lord Snell and others that the assurances given by General Franco as to the future independence of Spain were worthless.
Lord Halifax said that every- one in Great Britain attached im- portance to maintenance of the independence of Spanish terri- tory.
His Majesty's Government took the view that the assurances. on this point had been given in good faith and would be fulfilled in
B.B.C. FOREIGN LANGUAGE TALKS good faith.
London, To-day.
"I do not hesitate to say," add- ed Lord Halifax, “that if the con- trary ever proves to be the case, then a very serious situation will arise."
In a reference to foreign lan- guage news broadcasts yesterday, Sir Stephen Talents, public rela- ́tions officer at the B.B.C., said it spoke well for the good sense and
··· ·PROUD "RACE understanding of millions of But the Spanish people wère a listoners whose programmes were proud race which would not mort- interrupted to enable these broad-gage the independence or integri- casts to go out that there had been ty of their country to any for-} no complaint or protest on their eign power.
part.
The whole country had approved this attempt by the B.B.C.. to pro- mote the cause of international understanding and peace. → Bri- tish Wireless.
ST. JOHN AMBULANCE The following have passed the A.R,P. Grade 1 Instructors Course (External) :-Mrs. G. M. V. Lam- bert; Misa Betty Fair.
Passed for A.R.P. Certificate- Madame J. A. Dumon.
NIKS
The Foreign Secretary also an- nounced in connection with Span- ish refugee camps in south-east- ern France that he had just heard the French Government would welcome the assistance of the British in helping to maintain refugees through the agency of the British Red Cross Society, and that the British Government would accordingly make a sub- stantial grant to the Society for that purpose-British Wireless,
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