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World News In

THE CHINA MAIL.

Pictures

After Aerial Honours

British Premier at White House

Covers 1,250,000 Miles

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER

WITH ALL THE PEP of a Jazz Band.

All the Poise

of a

Drum Major

Miss Irene Matthews, 19-year-old aviatrix, who takes off from Rooxe. velt Field, in an attempt to break the world's endurance record estab lished in St. Louis by Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brine. She will be ac companied by Alvin Robbins.

Recalled

IN

Left to right, Lady Isabelle Howard, wife of the British Ambassador; Ishbel MacDonald;

Sir Esme Howard; J. Ramsay MacDonald, Premier of Britain, and Secretary of State Stimaon on the White House steps after visiting President Hoover.

Britain's Huge Dirigible

R10

E Hamilton Lee, dean of the Boeing Bystem Trans-Continental Ryera, has Just compelled his 1,250,000th mile in the air, which belleved to be the longest mileage ever credited to any single flyer. Lee, who has put in 12,700 hours ac- tual flying time, storted as a pilot sixteen years ago on the mall “run between Omaha and Chiengo. One of the outstanding feats of his career was the dropping of food from a mall plane to a group of lee-bound lamberjacks marooned on South Fox Island in Lake Michigan after six pilots who had made the attempt before him failed.

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Airship Commander

The Assurance

of a

Radio Announcer.

The Attention that

a Manipulator Caught Short in the Market

Gives the Ticker

The Perseverance and Optimism of an Ancient Pedant learning to Play - Ping Pong

IN

General Nuri Pasha, Iraq's Minis- ter of Defence, taken at the Iraq Diplomatic Ageney following his ro- call. It is said that Britain's new defence palley necessitated his with- drawal following the decision of Great Britain to support Iraq's entry to the League of Nations in 1932.

Noted Pole

Doubt has been removed from the minds of the sceptics who for the past month have been claiming that the R-101, Great Britain's new airship, was a failure. The huge 100-passenger craft». has met all texts required of it.

In Children's Court.

Major G. H. Scott, commander of

the airship R-101, in the control

cabin of the hundred-passenger craft.

Starts Studies

and the Pride with which a

Bride Ties, Her New Hubby's

Tie.

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