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WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1928.

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'PLANE CRASH.

LITTLE GIRL KILLED IN STREET.

THE CHINA MAIL,

Jury's Criticism.

At the inquest on the victim held recently the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and added a rider condemning the carrying out of evolutions aver villages.

Wing Commander Wright, com. manding the squadron, said the pilot had had twenty hours' dual control flying and twelve hours' solo flying. He was out on a solo practice flight at the time of the

PILOT BADLY INJURED.

Belfast-An acroplane of the Ulster Bombing Squadron, Royal Air Force Reserve, piloted by Flying-Officer Stewart Davison, of Crail, Fifeshire, crashed in the main street of Dunmurry, a vill-accident. age five miles from Belfast, kill-chine was out for a joy ride, and The foreman asked if the ma. ing a little girl, Daphne Fox, aged Wing Commander Wright replied 8, who was playing there at the that it was not a joy ride. No time. The pilot received a frac-"stunting" was to be done under tured skull and leg and other in 2,000ft. in any inhabited area. juries, and was in

Another juror complained of carious condition in the the amount of flying in the Dun- Victoria Hospital, Belfast,

murry district, and said that for The machine had come from the last two or three weeks the the squadron headquarters at inhabitants had been unnerved Aldegrove, co. Antrim. The acci- "waiting for something like this dent was seen by many people to happen." Wing Commander who had been watching the pilot Wright said this was the first he loop the loop.

had heard of the matter. He Mr. Harry Mussen, a racing promised that the whole matter cyclist, who witnessed the smash, would be the subject of full in- said: "The aeroplane had been {quiry.

pre-

Royal

TWO-VOTE WOMEN.

flying around Dunmurry for The coroner said looping the twenty minutes. It circled round loop over villages should be stop and round and rose to a consider-ped. able height, and then as the pilot began to come down he looped the loop beautifully twice. He then circled round my house, and I noticed his engine was not firing as it had been a little earlier. The machine suddenly disappeared from my view, and the next in [stant there was a terrific crash.

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CURE CLAIMS.

Belleving in the waters of heal- ing advocated by a new religion more than 1,000 men and women were immersed in lukewarm water in a moss-lined tank in the presence of a large London audi- ence in the Albert Hall,

this new sect-the Elim Evangel The dominating personality in of the Four Square Gospel-Is Principal George Jeffreys, a young Welshman, who, together with half a dozen Belfast shop-assist- ants, founded the sect of the "Elimites" In Monaghan, North- ern Ireland, 12 years ago.

His preaching style is modelled on the typical Salvation Army cap- tain. It is claimed that he has 6,000 followers in London alone.

No provision is made in the Re-— Franchise) Bill, which gives the presentation of the People (Equal

Principal Jeffreys before the immersion ceremony claimed that cripples had been enabled to walk, and the blind to see by the healing

waters.

girl who, it was said, had been Among the claimed cures was a

bedridden for 15 years, suffering from a tuberculous knee, which made one leg 41⁄2 inches shorter than the other.

Another woman was said to have been a cripple for 31⁄2 years with her head twisted down to her knees.

Waist-Deep in Tank. "When I arrived on the scene

Entire familles lined up in the the pilot was sufficiently con-

long queue for immersion. The scious to be able to state his vote to all women of 21, for alter imen wore white shirts and tweed name. The little girl's body was ing the rate by which the expendior flannel trousers, and the buried under the engine wreck-ture of parliamentary candidates in women, who were in a majority, age. She had obviously been determined, says the "Daily Mail's" were in white dresses, and a few killed instantly."

political correspondent. The pro wore rubber swimming caps. Another eye-witness said: "I posed increase of the electorate Principal Jeffreys, throwing off heard the sound of the engine will involve candidates in the per- a black gown, stood waist-deep in come near, but it was a quite dif-mitted expenditure of an extra the tank, accompanied by four ferent note to the hum I had pre- £260 each (calculated on a general young men assistants. vlously heard. Having had con- average basis). siderable experience of acroplanes during the war. I recognised at once that the pilot was in trouble with his engine.

"He appeared to be making a great effort to control the engine sufficiently to get some place to land, and I fancy he was trying to reach the park. As the machine came lower I could distinctly make out the propeller revolving too slowly to keep the machine in the air long.

"Suddenly it nose-dived practic- ally over a builder's yard, and erashed near by.”

Before his enlistment Flying Officer Davison was a motor sales- man in Belfast,

Stepping into the tank each The Government considers that man and woman was guided by an the House of Commons must itself asistant to Principal Jeffreys determine whether any change in who gracefully tipped them back- this connection is desirable, and it wards into the warmed water, will be left to some private mem-which did not cover their faces. ber to move a clause reducing the

The immersion was very quick rate if this is desired, and proband did not seem to be unpleasant. ably a free vote of the House will Old men and women mingled with be permitted.

youths and girls, and all went

Once out of the tank the baptised cheerfully under the water while the congregation sang hymns. hurried to dressing-rooms and changed their clothes.

effect of giving two votes to a cer- One of the clauses will have the tain number of women. These are the wives of men having, a voting qualification both in respect of re- sidence and of business premises. Husbands of women with similar voting qualifications will also have two votes.

An impassioned appeal from Principal Jeffreys for a show of handa from those in the audience who wanted to be converted brought 52 recruits.

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