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R.A.F. DISASTER

IN EGYPT

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COMBINED MILITARY AND AIR FORCE FUNERAL

Cairo, To-day.

A combined military and Air Force funeral will be given to-j day to the victims of the R.A.F. bomber disaster. The High Commissioner, the Inspec- tor-General of the Air Forcel and the General Officer Com- manding the British forces in Egypt will be attending.. Reuter's Bulletin Service

An earlier message said that a Royal Air Force bomber crashed in the desert near Mersamatruh, seven occupants being killed.

Later: Three infantry officers and four Royal Air Force non- commissioned officers lost their lives when the bomber transport in which they were flying crashed; at Mersamatruh Aerodrome when landing in the darkness.

The dead were Captain F. E. Barford. Essex Regiment, Cap- tain H. Symonds, East Kent Re- giment, and Captain D. E. Mackin tosh, Canadian Corps of Signals.

The Royal Air Force men killed were Sergeant R. G. Allen, Air craftsmen E. M. Adams, - A. G. | Hassall and J. White, all of No. 216 Squadron stafioned at Helio- polis.

Benry L. Bercume, of Worcester, Masssénusetts, snown above with his wife. Helen, has sued for divorce, charging that his wife had set a price of $20,000 for his sale to another woman, identified only as a “Mrs. Jones, of Milbury, Massachusetts.” Bereume said “Mrs. Jones” dacharged him as her chauffeur, when his wife set the price. The divorce was denied, by Judge Harry A. Atwood.

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Considerable alarm was caused to the occupants and staff of Bishop's House, Lower Albert Road, shortly after 8 p.m. yester day when a rumbling noise, something like a crack of thunder, followed by the unmistakable sounds of some sort of building collapse. was heard. ******

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The machine burst into flames Free Speech For Foreign Delegates School, apparently undermined

when it crashed but the fire was İquickly extinguished by a fire en- gine. The men were killed by the impact and not incinerated. There were six survivors who were tak jen to hospital injured.

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London, To-day.

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Lord Snell, opening the con- ference, told the foreign re- presentatives that they could say what they liked, as there

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Frankfurt, To-day. The new world airport of Rhein- England, and asked whether any Main at Frankfurt was inaugur kind of agreement between theated yesterday in the presence of British and German Governments thousands of spectators by the existed, permitting this.

by the recent rains, had col lapsed, carrying with it a lean- to kitchen used by the servants' staff of Bishop's House: For- tunately no one was in the building at the time, so that there were no casualties.

The electric wiring of the structure also miraculously es caped damage by coming away easily from its attachments. Only a main water pipe was actually

the severed, but P.W.D. Water Department quickly had that put right.

BRITISH AIR FORCE

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The King

NEW BOMBERS SHOW THEIR PACES

London, To-day.

Secretary of State, Herr Milch, An inspection of the Royal Air The Under-Secretary for Air,

Air-flight General, on behalf of Force stations yesterday by HM Sir Victor Sassoon, answered that the commander of the air arms the King, accompanied by HRE it was not a fact that the Hinden-

and the Air Minister, General the Duke of York, was the first burg regularly flew across

an Goering. The speaker paid high occasion that a British monarch part of England; moreover, that tribute to the airship pioneer, has ever made such an aerial tour. the existing agreement between Graf von Zeppelin, and reviewed The King, who wore the blue Germany and Britain stipulated that the Hindenburg and Graf the progress of aerial navigation uniform of a Marshal of the Royal

Air Force, from his time to the present, Zeppelin should not cross over Bri-

ID.H. Dragon During the inauguration cere- tish territory unless compelled to

flew in his OWIL aeroplane from He first visited the do so by urgent necessity. Trans-mony the huge 265-acre flying-Windsor.

field was lined with planes, some Fighter Station at Northolt, which Ocean Service. ·

of them historic machines, while! forms part of the Fighter Com- the air hummed with dying craft mand of the air defence of Bri- tain. His Majesty then proceeded

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A Narrow Escape London: The agitation with re-overhead. gard to zeppelins' flying over Eng- The new airport is one of the by air to Wittering House of thei land lends piquancy to the state-largest and most modern in the No. 11 Flying Training School ment of the journal The Aeroplane, world, and constitutes not only a recently formed in connection with the the expansion of the force, where that an Air Force pilot practising European termination for

zeppelin

the pupils were paraded, and it- service blind flying narrowly avoided trans-Atlantic ramming the Hindenburg on one but also a junction for the airlines spected the airmen's dining-ball of her recent flights across Eng-of all parts of the world Trans and meas arrangements and took luncheon in the officers' mess. The Ocean Service. Jand.

Bomber Station at Mildenhall was The plane concerned contained an instructor and a pupil and took account additional safety factors inext visited. It forms part of the off from an Air Force serodrome peculiar to lighter-than-air craft (new Bomber Command, and here

to the aircraft and He thought it reasonable

crew of the in the Midlands. It was flying|

that the commander squadrons were inspected. through a cloud when the instruc- assume

KEEN INTEREST SHOWN tor saw something large and dark exercised proper discretion.

No complaints of low flying or jahead. He seized the control and

At Martlesham Heath, the aero- dived, and saw the windows of a failure to recognise regulations as gondola flash by. They missed to flying over prohibited areas had plane and armament experimental establishment, the King displayed the airship by a few feet.

been received, and there was no

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reason to believe that the regula-keen interest in several aircraft, including a Vickers single-seater tions were not properly observed 5ghter "Spitfire L" which is a

Statement The Commons

·NO INFRINGEMENT OF AIR REGULATIONS

11 RETURN JOURNEYS

com-

The

German airships had made wing monoplane with an enclosed eleven return journeys over the pilot's cockpit of all-metal Atlantic since March. As they struction, chiefly duralumin, with were not subject to special ob retractable under-carriage. servation unless reported to be Spitfire" gave a demonstration of its terrific speed when it made-a London: It was announced in infringing regulations, he was an- the House of Commons yesterday able to state the precise number Power dive, and also showed its that the question of recent fights of occasions on which the English over England by the German sir-coast had been crossed.

Wonderful stability with a slow

ship Hindenburg are being taken In reply to supplementary ques most impressive display.

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