PAGE 11.
NEWS OF THE DAY
IN
PICTURES
Hongkong
FROM FAR AND NEAR PHOTONEWS
THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1936.
HAPPENINGS
AS SEEN BY
THE CAMERA'S EYE
under construction for
A symbol of our time: the now Imperiai Airways Empiro flying-bont now service on the Australia, Capo and other routes--a monoplane of all-metal construction, equipped with four "Pegasus" air-cooled engines and having a top speed of about 200 miles an hour,
Italian Boy Scouts laying a wreath of laurol on the Statue of Julius Caesar on the anniversary of
his assassination.
Clem Sohn, the American, is the first human being to really imitate the flight of binis. After jumping from an airplano ha in ablo Lo keep himself flouting in the air before opening the parachute. Our picture, which was taken at Clem Soln's first demonstration in England, shows exnetly what he does just ofter his jump into space.
The firm surface of the desert in this spot makes an ideal training ground for B battery of the Royal Horse Artillery stationed at Abbassin, Egypt. The battery is galloping into action over the desert with dry dust flying from the wheels of the modern war chariots. The guns are drawn by three pairs of horses with a man astride to handle each pair. When the sands are shifting and loose they retard progress to such an extent that motorised manoeuvres aro-practiently impossible. Across the border from Egypt is
Libya, belonging to Italy,
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7th June 7,000
7,000
7,000
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