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ARCTIC FLIGHT IN PROGRESS.
THE GRAF ZEPPELIN UNDER WAY.
Router.
Leningrad, July 26.
TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JULY 27, 1931.
AIR RACE AROUND BRITAIN.
HIGH SPEED IN RAIN
AND CLOUDS.
Flying st
London, July 25.
an
THE EUROPEAN CRISIS.
OUTFLOW OF GOLD FROM
LONDON..
London, July 25. The Graf Zoppolis left for the
Average speed City correspondents are per- Arctic at 11.10 a.m. local time.—of 117 miles an hour through roln plexed as to the reasons for the and clouds, Flying Oficer Ed-heavy drain of gold bullion from Alr the Bank of England to France, amounting to £29,000,000 in a the fortnight and showing no sign of
Leaving Friedrichshafen on wards won the King's Cup Friday morning on its scientife Raco to-day. meteorological flight to the Arctic. The race was held under the Graf Zeppelin first of all land-most difcult conditions, and there censing. ed at Berlin and then resumed its were many withdrawals as the race In view of the soundness of Journey to Leningrad, which it proceeded. Fliers encountered the British financial situation, it reached early on Saturday morning. rain and clouds all day. The wins generally thought that obscure
political It is now proceeding on its way toner was the airman who, with French
considerations
The
the Arctic, by way of Archangel. Mies Spooner, crashed in the are responsible for the flux.
above nows, received Mediterranean last year when through Reuter over the week-end, both had to swim ashore. tells of the actual start of
Flight-Lleutenant Gibbons was hazardous fight which is being second, his average speed for the
for the purpose of
#1
uwertical observations. Ori. 1,000 mile course belag 100 miles · deraon's. visit to Paris last week,
ginally,
the Graf Zeppelin per hour.
The Start. was to have flown to the North Pole in conjunction with the effort
London, July 25. by Sir Hubert Wilkins in the sub- marine Nautilus, which has been Forty liers, including Revera! delayed by damage suffered in women, took off this morning at Heston Aerodrome for the annual crossing the Atlantic.
The present flight ig being 982 miles air race round Britain, undertaken in conjunction with a for the King's Cup. The women. Winifred trip to the Arctic by a Soviet ice-starters included Miss
A pictorial reason why Frank X. Shields, the American tennis slar, became the idol of Wimbledon during the All-English lawn. tennis tournament. The flashy young athlete, shown above in a striking action picture during his match with Dr. P. D. B. Spence, of South Africa.
The Daily Telegraph's diplo matle correspondent alleges that! there is close connexion between the withdrawals and Mfr. Arthur Hen- and asserts that during complicated discussions Mr. Henderson used words which are interpreted in Paria to mean that a moratorium in Germany would be followed by a moratorium in Britain, and nuch ainm NVAL crented in French political and financial circles that gold shipments set in Immediately. A Denial.
Paris. July 25, M. Laval, Prime Minister of France, emphatically denies that Mr. Henderson hinted that the moratorium in Germany might be followed by a moratorium in Great Britain.
Seven aeroplanes yesterday con- veyed ten tons of gold from London, creating a record day's consign- ment-Reuter,
Mr. Stimson in Berlin. -
Berlin, July 25.
Mr. Stimson arrived at Berlin this afternoon and is staying at the American Embassy,
Kave
The Ambassador, Mr. Sackett, a dinner in his honour at which all the members of the Ger man Government were present.
Mr. Stimson Is seeing President Hindenburg on Monday and will be leaving for London afterwards.- Reuter.
British Return Visit.
London, July 26. Mr. Arthur Henderson, accom- panied by Sir Walford Selby, left for Berlin this morning to return the visit of Dr. Bruening and
| Dr. Curtius to Chequers.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald will be leaving for Berlin by air to-mor- row.--Reuter.
New German Bank.
Berlin, July 25. Following a conference between Government officials and repre- sentatives of the Reichsbank and leading banks, it has been decided to found An "Acceptance and Guarantee Bank," with a capital of 200,000,000 marks, designed to restore unhampered currency cir culation and enable the Darms- taedter Bank to reopen.-Router.
"NO STATUS CHANGE POSSIBLE.”
LONDON WRITER'S VIEW OF THORBURN CASE.
breaker vessel. According to the Brown, (last year's winner), Arctic explorer Professor Wise, Lady Hailey, and the Misses Delia who recently left Archangel Crossley. Diana
Jean Guest. aboard the lee-breaker Malygin Forbes Robertson (the actress), for the Polar region, a meeting and Peggy Salaman, aged 21, the between the airship Graf Zeppelin youngest competitor. And the Malygin is scheduled to The weather was most unpro- take place on or about August 1.
There will be an exchange of mising. The landing places are Norwich, Leeds, ́Liverpool, mails and possibly passengers this
Heston, and Bristol, finishing att being in the nature of an Important Heston at about 8 p.m. A number
Loudon, July 20. experiment.
of competitors retired early
An article by Mr. O. M. Green, the race, including Lady Bailey in the Sunday Times today, re (the most heavily handicapped capitulating the incriminating in- CRASHED IN FLAMES. woman entrant), and the scratch cidents in connexion with the dis-
fier, Lieutenant Wincote.
appearance of Mr. Thorburn from Shanghai concludes:
p.m.
to 8,30
SEVEN KILLED IN PLANE DISASTER.
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on
How The Race Weni,
"Nobody asks for a return of Later.
the days when Rutherford Alcock Flight Lieutenant F. G. Gibcould threaten to hold up all Shang- Two Englishmen were among the bus, of the Royal Air Force, who hal's trade until justice had been started nineteenth, held the lend indicted on the assailants of the occupants of an acroplane
at least we the Constantinople-Bucharest for the greater part of the race. missionaries, ut service which caught fire in the He was ninth when Norwich was should make it plain to Nanking, the British gone into first that no change in air over Karnabate (Bulgaria) and reached, but had
place at Leeds and held this posi-status in China can even be dis- crashed, in flames. All the cupants were killed and burned un- tion at Liverpool and also at eussed while a disgrace like this! Heston, where he landed at 2.56 disappearance of Thorburn is pos- recognisably,
sible."-Reuter, The Englishmen. were Mesurs.D.m.
There were fourteen withdrawals Williams and Crouch, from Smyrna, and the other passengers included by the time Leeds was
due withdrawn by the afternoon, ex- Herr. Reppen. Norwegian Consul- owing to serious casualties General at Constantinople, and an partly to the unfavourable wea- cepting Miss Della Crossley,
Edwards Flying-Officer American woman and youth whose ther. The visibility was probably
the worst ever experience!!
second when Heston was reached names are unknown.
The blazing plane started a this race. force forest fire-Reuter.
All the women competitors had for the first time, arriving there
at 3.03 p.m.-Reuter.
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