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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 7, 1937,

CLOCKWORK PRECISION OF FIRST DIRECT AIR MAIL SERVICE OVER N. ATLANTIC

London, To-day.

The first survey flights for the joint Anglo- American Atlantic Air Service were successfully completed yesterday when the American flying- boat, Clipper III, landed at Foynes in the Irish Free State at 10.50 B.S.T. from Botwood, Newfoundland, and, ten minutes later, the British flyingboat, Caledonia, landed at Botwood from Foynes.

JULY FOURTH DEATHS IN AMERICA

New York, To-day. The death-roll from Indepen dence Day celebrations all over the United States during the past week-end totalled 568, the highest for eight years.

Deaths in motor-car accidents accounted for 310 and drown- ings for 107, and fireworks in jured '84 in New York alone-Reuter,

City

VANDERBILT CUP TRIUMPH FOR GERMANY

Berlin, To-day.

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Many telegrams of congratula- tions have been received by the commanders of the two machines, including a message to each from the Air Minister, Viscount Swin- ton.

Weather

conditions, although fair, were not particularly favour- able for the Caledonia owing to persistent low clouds and drizzle.

She flew low to minimise the effect of head winds, while the Clipper III maintained a height of about 10,000 feet to take full ad- vantage of a following wind.

Captain Wilcockson, commander of the Caledonia, said he had petrol enough left for 800 or 900 miles when he landed.

PROMISING FEATURE

In his view, the promising fea- ture of the flight is the evidence it affords of two planes flying to schedule in opposite directions.

Radio contacts with land atations and between the planes were main- tained throughout and when they passed in mid-Atlantic, although far out of sight of each other, they exchanged greetings and v weather reports.

con-

News of the victory. of the Ger-

The success of the flights man speed driver, Bernd Rosemeyer vinces the pilots that there should in the Vanderbilt Cup race on the be no difficulty in operating regu- Roosevelt track near New York City lar Transatlantic services. British has been received here with consi

Wireless. derable gratification. The victory is attributed to the driving skill of Rosemeyer as well as to the superior qualities of his Auto Union car.

IN FIFTEEN HOURS

EAST TO WEST

The fact that the Englishmap,

London, To-day. Seamen, who finished second in

The first experimental com- the race also drove a German car,

mercial trans-Atlantic flights namely, Mercedes-Benz, 80

came to a the

successful conclusion papers point out, proves that the yesterday when the Imperial German automobile industry. has Airways Caledonia and a Pan- American Airways Clipper cross- éd the Atlantic.

regained the place which

it held immediately before the Great War when for instance, three German placed first

Mercedes cars were

the French Grand Prix in 1914.

Almost simultaneously, the Clip-

second and third, respectively, in per arrived at Foynes, in the River Shannon, before noon yesterday, The papers, moreover, note with

and the Caledonia alighted at Bot- satisfaction the exceptional interestwood, Newfoundland.

the

taken throughout the world in The Caledonia crossed the ocean the Vanderbilt Cup race and point in 15 hours 9 minutes, and out that this year's race was the Clipper made the journey from west

first American race since the war in which German drivers and cars participated. Trans-Ocean.

AIRSHIP LINE

to east in 12 hours 40 minutes

Mr. Eamonn de Valera, President of the Irish Free State, and a large crowd, welcomed the Clippe Trans-Ocean.

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Lively interest manifested by Company. Dutch commercial circles

Ec-

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the The paper states that Dutch projected airship service between trading circles are particularly in- Amsterdam and Batavia has been terested in the building programme evidenced according to the paper of the Zeppelin works. Trans “Telegraf” by conversations which Ocean.

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