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CAIRO. TO CAPE.

New Type Planes" Great Flight.

IMPORTANT AIR CONFERENCE.

Rugby, April 21.

Four aeroplanes under the com- mand of Commodore Samson have arrived at Capetown, having com- pleted the flight from Cairo with- out hitch.

The machines are of an entire- ly new type not yet generally in- troduced in the Air Force and nre fitted with Napier Lion en- gines.

Commodore Samson states that they behaved splendidly every inch of the way. The only mishap was a punctured tyre at Abercorn.

The machines flew over the Hex River mountains at a height of eleven thousand feet.

Empire Strategy.

At Kisuma, in Kenya, they were joined by four machines of the South African Air Force withi which they carried out numerous combined exercises in co-opera- tion with the ground troops,

PREMIER RESTS. FACE'S “SOUND.”

HIS HEALTH NOW FULLY RESTORED.

HARD WORK AHEAD.

Rugby, April 21.

It is officially stated that the Premier, who has lately felt the strain of his work, has benefited greatly from his rest at Chequers,

STANLEY BALDVIN/

to

Considerable importance is at- tached to these combined exer- where he went last Wednesday cises which form part of the Air week, and is now restored Ministry's policy and demonstrate health.

For the present, however, he will the ability of aeroplanes to main- reduce the number of his public tain the strategic lines of Empire engagements as much as possible.

He returns from Chequers next Monday in readiness for the re-

communications.

Fifteen States.

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assembling of Parliament on the following day.

An important international air conference opens at London next

Later in the year he hopes to Monday. Sir Phillip Sassoon, fulfil a programme of engagements Under Secretary for Air, will pre-which has been made for him, in

cluding the addressing of mass meetings in England and Scotland, --British Wireless Service,

'side.

The conference originally con- sisted only of the representatives of the Allied Powers, but it has been extended to include, delegates from other States.

Fifteen countries in addition to DUKE OF YORK. Great Britain and the Dominions

have been invited to participate at this conference.. It thus be- comes in the true sense of, the word international.

On Tuesday the Government will entertain the visitors to a banquet.

Women As Pilots.

One interesting subject on the agenda is that of the competency of women to pilot commercial air- craft.

TRAGIC AIR EVENT MARS WELCOME.

Melbourne, April 21.

A tragedy marred Victoria's rapturous welcome to the Duke and Duchess of York. The "Renown," escorted by four war- ships and 40 aeroplanes had steamed up the bay as close as From the technical aspect one possible inshore for the benefit of of the most important.suggestions the crowds on beaches, though

is that of standard international misty squalls spoilt the specta- minimum requirements for the cular effect.. issue of certificates of airworthi- nese, and unification of the char- acteristics required for materials used in aeronautical construction. -British Wireless Service. * "Planes to War on Insects.

The weather cleared sufficiently not to interfere with the impos- ing landing ceremonies. The nero- planes stunted over the barge on which the Duke and Duchess of York landed on shore and: con- London, April 6,*

tinued to escort the procession Addressing the Institution of through nine miles of decorated Aeronautical Engineers, Mr. city and suburban streets. Dudley Wright suggested the use

The lined up troops were of the aeroplane for distributing tumultuously cheering crowds insecticides to exterminate insect but the cheers were changed into pests in plantations in the British cries of horror when, as the Empire.

CLASH WITH MARINES.

NICARAGUAN LIBERALS

LOSSES..

Managua, April 21. United States Marines have been in action against a company

procession was entering the grounds of the Government House, two aeroplanes, only a few hundred feet up, collided with a sickening impact and crashed in flames. They fell onto a garage which was set afire and four airmen were killed,

Their Highnesses did not wit- ness the accident though. they

"LIKE NOTHING EVER HEARD."

TELEVISION EXPERIMENTS.

London, April 21. "Like nothing ever beard" is the description given to the "sound" of a face transmitted from London to New York by Mr. J. L. Baird, who has invented the televisor.

Mr. Baird eat before the telev sion apparatus In a London labora- Lory.

.His face became a "Autuating electric current" which was picked up by a listener-in at New York who heard a sort of scratching.

Mr. Baird told Reuter, that he is going to America a month hence with a receiving machine with the idea of turning the face's sound into the face itself.-Reuter.

Company Registered.

London. April 5.

A further milestone on the road i to Television was passed with the registration by Mr. S. L. Baird of the Television Company, Limited, with a nominal capital of £125,000.

DIVIDEND.

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF. CANTON,

Subject to audit the Directors of the Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd., will recommend the payment of a Final Dividend of Sixteen Shillings per share and a Bonus Dividend of Five Shillings per share for account of the year 1925.

They will further recommend an Interim Dividend of Twenty- four Shillings per share for ac count of the year 1926, and a Bonus of 20 per cent..on Contri-f butory Premium.

NOTICE

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

RAFT Programmes and Entry

Do the THIRD

EXTRA RACE MEETING to be held on SATURDAY, the 7th May, 1927, (weather permit- ting) may be obta.led at the Race Course, Hong Kong Club and Causeway Bay Stables.

Entries will close at 1 p.m. on WEDNESDAY, 27th April, 1927. Hong Kong, 22nd April, 1927.

PUBLIC AUCTION:

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· · 23rd April, 1927, commencing at 11 am.

at Godows No, 16, The China Provident, Loan & Mortgage Co., Ltd., West Point (for necount of the concerned) 33 Cases Loose Tea 19 Cases Tea in Packets

6 Packages Coloured Waste AND

A Quantity of Loose Resin, etc.

all more or less damaged by

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Terms: Cash on Delivery.

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BUSINESS DIRECTORY

of Nicaraguan liberals, carrying were only half a mile away Red Flags and wearing red Reuter. hatbands, who attempted to capture the village of Posoltega in defiance of the United States authorities-order that there must be no fighting within 2,000 feet 10.80 sm of the railway

2.30 p.m. After a skirmish in which the 2.80 3m. Marines suffered no casualties 3,80 p.m. the Liberals fled, leaving three|

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SERIOUS AMERICAN FLOODS.

Memphis, Tenn., April 21. In consequence of the growing, menace of flood disaster in the lower Mississippi Valley the situation is very grave. It fa estimated that hitherto 4,000,000 acres have been flooded, and 100.000 people

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