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MURDER HEARD
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"Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Warsaw, Dec. 30.
TELEPHONE bell rang in police headquarters in Gdynia, Poland's only port, yesterday afternoon. A sergeant took off the receiver. He heard the mocking notes of "Laugh, Clown, Laugh," from the opera "Pag- liacci."
Then came the crack of a revolver shot, followed by a human voice.
EXHIBITION
MODELS REVEAL
SECRETS
Secrets of the new fleet of flying-boats and of air liners now! under construction for Imperial Airways are revealed in ad air exhibition which the company is organising at the Science Museum, South Kensington, and which Sir
"I have shot my sweetheart”, it said. "Now I am going to kill my- self. You can call for our badies,"
An address followed, ther allence,
Flying squad men speeded to the house. Only one window showed a light. The door was locked and barred.
They broke in. In the diafng- room they found a girl sitting at the wireless as though she were Istening to the opera, A bullet was in her brain.
There was no sign of a revolver; no trace of her murderer.
SCREAMED
Eric Geddes will open in January.| Late last night a policeman saw
Models of the company's machines used in the last tena young mon jump from a pier in- years are on view. Attention will to the harbour. The bitter cold he riveted on the scale models of the new machines.
The new machines have already
been assembled.
was too much for. the would-be suicide. He screamed for help.
The policeman rescued him, took him to the police station. There The first air:he confessed. plane which ever flew, the Wright
"I Am a murderer--the biplane, looks down on the new monarchs which are to bridge the who telephoned you this evening," There was a revolver with one at a speed the Wright empty chamber in his pocket. brothers hardly dreamed of,
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A scale model of the new flying-with the composite seaplane per- boats, 29 of which are under ched on its back. This is also construction by Short Bros., of being built at Rochester and is Rochester, shows them to be expected to be ready next spring. remarkably streamlined, looking The seaplane has four of the air-cooled In-line not unlike a whale in contour, 16-cylinder- especially when viewed-from-the, Napier Rapier" engines. Each is of 350 h.p. This is the first front.
Each bont will have four of the time they have been fitted to a big powerful Pegasus Ten air-cooled commercial machine.
G-ADH are the registration radial engines of 740 h.p. Each la
fitted with a three-bladed all-letters 'allotted to It, while the metal variable pitch airscrew. parent body or lower component The giant wing has wing-tip floats will be known as G-ADHK. and la built high enough to keep the engines clear of spray.
The big model, whose interior can be lit up by pressing a button outside the show case, already has the registration letter of the first
re-
The seaplane will carry mails only as the scetloned model veals, and it will fly direct over the Atlantic to America.
FOR EUROPEAN ROUTES There is also an all-metal model";
of the new flying-boats-G-ADHL. of the giant passenger machines There is a forward cabin for for the European routes known as passengers just behind the pilot's the AW-27. A dozen of these high- cockpit and a mall compartment in wing monoplanes are being built a separate room above. Next comes by Armstrong Whitworth at Coven. something new in dying boat try and each will have four Sid- design-un observation platform deley "Tiger" 840 h.p. radial air- and then the after-cabin with cooled engines. They do not carry sleeping berths. The baggage and variable pitch propellers, but the engines are of geared type. There freight room is near the tail.
are sleeping berths. G-ADSR is the first registration allotted to No. 1 in the series.
SEAPLANE ON ITS BACK Just as interesting la the scale model of the Empire Flying-beat
WAR SECRETS DIE WITH MAN WHOSE LIPS
THE
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Hugh Hoy decoded enemy wire- Greatest Scoop of the War," which less mossages, deciphered splos brought in Amorien letters, solved mysteries of iden-i
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Listening stations on the east
Ing cables. He has died with his const picked up a code message. It lips still sealed.
proved to be from Herr Zimmerman,
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announcing the enemy's intention.
to start unrestricted submarine Its publication was stepped in May 1932 by the Admiralty, who, Warfare on February 1, 1917. Bccording to Hoy, "wished to as- Hoy's death at Charing Cross certain whether it contained any In Hospital was not unexpected. He formation it would not be in the has been a patient constantly there. publle Interest to reveal" It was Issued four months later, after He was born in 1886, was
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