Microphones and loud speakers have not yet taken the place of the bugle in the British army. Here is a bugler of the 2nd. West Yorks call- ing the men to dinner at Stanstead, Essex. (Fox Copyright).
JEAN BATTEN'S UT While Broadbent Is "Fed Up' By Delays
London, To-day.
new record for the Australia England solo flight was achieved by Miss Jean Batten, the youth- ful New Zealand airwoman, when she landed at Lympne aerodrome at 3.45 yesterday afternoon,
Miss Batten beat H. L. Broadbent's record for the flight by 14 hours 10 minutes, her total time from Port Darwin being 5 days 18 hours 15 minutes. compared with Broadbent's 6 days 8 hours 25 minutes.
Miss Batten, who
met
plane
the Channel over
to stand, and was and the plane through
escorted to Lympne by other enthusiastic throng- planes, arrived tired but smil ing, and was wildly cheered by crowd of hundreds as she was lift ed from the plane.
She took off agam at 408 pm and landed at Croydon at 435
When she arrived at a London hotel a few hours after her arrival, Miss Batten stated she could still hear the roar of the engine.
red from
- BROADBENT HELD UP- Meanwhile, the Australian man, Harold Broadbent, who making a simultaneous attempt
Miss Batten's England- lower Australia record, was forced to re- turn to Baghdad on his hop to Basra owing to bad weather.
Interviewed by Reuter at Bagh- dad, he stated he was "fed up" and would probably abandon the flight, TRIUMPHANT DRIVE
as he had lost too much time Earlier she drove in triumph, owing to a headwind all the way standing in a car through the from London.
streets.
He made a forced landing in the
She was greeted at Croydon by desert 60 miles from Baghdad with her mother, who had come from New out petrol, so he borrowed a donkey Zealand a few weeks ago for the from Arabs and rode four miles be fore he could obtain petrol from a
purpose.
When she alighted from the motor car with which to resume his plane, Miss Batten was almost too flight to Baghdad Reuter.
At left
Three hundred boys, whose ages range from 15 to 17, are manning HMS Ramilles, the 29,000 ton battleship, now at Invergordon. To meet the urgent demand for training personnel, the Admiralty has turned two battleships, Bamilies and Revenge, into temporary sea-going training ships for seamen boys. In many cases the boys are making their first voyage. Practical training is being carried out. Photo shows 200 boys are required to hoist the quarter deck awning. Here they are seen car- rying it, like some huge snake, along the quarter deck. (For Copyright).
Mias Amy Joha ing Club and is alr tor describes her as stable (Fox Copy
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Bringing Up Father --
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YES-MRS MALIDE DESTE- OF COURSE, MOTHER IS GOING TO THE OPENING OF THE OPERATONIGHT- | DON'T KNOW IF FATHER IS GOING WITH HER OR NOT - YOU KNOW HE HAS BEEN TROUBLED WITH THE "GOUT IN HIS FOOT
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ONLY GASOLINE MAKES A SMOKE
PLACE LIKE
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