THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, MAY
1928.
General Umberto Nobile's aerial oxpedition to the North Polo is rapidly getting under way. His airship "Italia" is soen leaving her bangar at Rome for a flight to Milan, tho first log of the long and hazardous journey. The." Italia" has now reached Spitzbergen, a.
cable stated yesterday.
A Navy platio left its radial motor in the attic as a call- ing card when it came uninvited to Mrs. Annie Travis' Baston home. The pilots, reached safety in parachutes so the machine dropped in on Mrs. Travis-through the roof!
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Tho widow-and-daughter Joan-of-Gaptain-Walter-Hinch- liffe, who died in attempling Transatlantic flight are taken posed in the garden of their home at Purdy, England.
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What happened when a commuter-laden electric ex- press train on the Long Island Railway left the tracks just outside Brooklyn, N. Y. Despite the extent of the wreckage, nono was killed. A score suffered injuries.
A rival to size in the U. S. Statue of Liberty is the 90: foot bronze memorial to Italy's World War dead which is to be erected on
Mount Maddalena, noar Turin. Sculptured by Edoardo Rubino, it will beer. torok visiblo at night anywhere on the plain of Piedmont.
Maybe you think this is St. Moritz, Montreal or somo other popular winter sports rosort. It's Atlantic City, usually pictured in summer sun, with countless bathers on
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Tipperary Tim, 4. 8. Konyon's sure footed 10-year-old, who of 42 starters in the Grand National Steeplechase was the only one who didn't fall
Four performers in a scene from "The Enchanted Island," which was danced to musia by Debussy at the Hans Wienor recital at the Capitol Theatre Shanghai recently. Standing are Mrs. Holm and Mrs. Landskog, and kneeling are Miss Sonia Groonborg and Miss Lela- Coushnir.
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