THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER
1929.
Thosa photos show how Fritz von Opal, wealthy young German scientist, made the -world's first flight in a rocket-propelled airplane. Above is von Opel in the cockpit of the original ship, named "Sander. Rak I” after its. do-ignor, Friedrich W. Sander. Below, with rockets purling damo and smoke, it is roaring across a field, almost ready to leave the ground Note the absence of landing whools, the plane sliding along on a single, contral rall under the blunt fusolega. Lator, with a ship of similar construction, the dar ing von Opel, shown in the inset, made a six-mile flight and is planning to cross the Eng- Jish Channel in a rockat-powered plane.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow of the uation's war-time presi- doas, 18 shown here as who was fotod at a garden party in Tokyo. Above, Mrs. Wilson with Baron Yoshiro Sakatini, and, at the right, Viscount Elichi Shibusawa, is shown greeting Mm. Wilson.
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Roone on New York's Wall Stroot at height of the excitement during the stock crash. On the right is the New York Stock Exchange Building and on the loft is the office of J. P.
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Opponents in "American politics, Senator David A. Reed, left, and Sonator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas,'will work together an onvoys to the Naval Arms Conference In London.
Vividly pictured above is a tragedy of tho son which cost 45 lives-the disastrous wreck
Torrential autumn rains and overflowing stream turned the area about Hialeah, a Miami, Fla., suburb, into a chain
of the hugo steamer Haakon VII off the Norwegian coast.
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Photograph taken at the cabaret tes dance given under the auspices of the Entertainment Committee of the British Women's Association In Bha
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