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TỔNG KONO METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER.

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Hong Kong Observatory, Sept. 10th.

Previous 03 Dat On Bate

Day

Agenta,

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HONG KONG TIDE TABLE. From September 11th to 17th, 1923,

HIGH WAT

Month.

LOW WATER

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Standard

Standard

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Time.

Baronstor...

Temperatare Humidity Windo

29.69 89

29.71

99.67

81

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80

76

Tues, 11 m 7 1

Direction W

Force Weather...

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Highest open-air Temperature, 9th: 89 Fri. 14 Lowest open-air Temperature, 10th:81

Height.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th, 1928:

AIR RAID DRAMA.

PILOT LEAPS FROM BLAZ

ING AEROPLANE. „

PARACHUTE LANDING ON: LONDON ROOF.

TWO OTHER MACHINES DOWN.

Many thousands of people watch- ing the air maneuvres over Lon- don last evening, says the Daily Mail of August 17th, witnessed a pilot's dramatic escape from blazing aeroplane.

The machine a single-seater nt & great fighter-caught fire height over Richmond. The pilot jumped with bis parachute and landed safely on the roof of a house. His aeroplane crashed, in

Kew Gardens.

Two other machines-bombers- made forced landings, one near Grays, Essex, and the other at Cooling, on the Thames, opposite Canvey Island."

The air war ended at one o'clock. The Air Correspondent, in an article printed below, discloses the sensational triumph in the opera tions of a new fast bombing machine...

"PILOT'S HOUSE-TOP

LANDING.

SLIDES DOWN INTO A BEDROOM. The pilot in the machine that crashed at Kew was Flying Officer Leslie C. Bennett, of No. 1 Fighter Squadron operating from Northolt, Middlesex.

Elusive "Fox."

The sensational feature of the maneuvres has been the ability shown by high-performancë bom- ber, the "Fox," to escape intercep tion and deliver raids with which it has appeared impossible for the defence to deal adequately.

Built to attain great speed at considerable attitudes, 1

GHOST ANGRY WITH VISITOR.

HIS VERACITY ATTACKED.

LLANRILLETH, Mon. Faychists, nediums, and clair voyants have written to Mr. Her bert Dyer, of Hafodartha-road, the owner of the house which is number said to haunted by the ghost of of these Foxes" have run the his 12-years-old son Leslie, who gauntlet of the defences again and died two years ago, writes Daily again, coming in high through Mail correspondent. clouds, diving upon their objec They all want to come to shake tives, and then flashing of again hands with the ghost, for this at tremendous pace.

ghost is no ordinary poltergeist. It One evening a formation of dein said that it can take ornaments fessive fighters got to grips with from a mantel-shelf; move chairs, and claimed to have tables and pictures like BDY the "Foxes shot a couple down."

ordinary poltergeist, and do even On two other occasions, how-more than that. It shakes hands ever, after a squadron of defence with you, according to a dozen aeroplanes bad managed to intar people who have already had this cept them, the "Foxes" actually outstripped the machines that were privilege, reads your thoughts,

plays The Old Brigade intended to cut them off and sucbanjo when the lights are out.

I have sat in the kitchen and ceeded in dashing out of the war- zone unscathed.

watched the ten-table move across the room and, a chair jump when somebody was sitting on it And

A remarkable fact is that the particular "Fores" used in these manuvres are not by any means the fastest machines of this type available.

An improved Fox." fitted with a new high-powered British engine which offers a minimum of head resistance at high speed, is now at taining, astonishing speeds in the trials it is undergoing.

This

bomber, the

most formidable of its type ever pro duced, will be ready to play its": part in the next air maneuvres..

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& Axor old son, is there. Herbert was TJILEBOET Daley, Amoy Sta Oct. 10th Oct.

+p.m. Leslie's great chum, and it is through him that the poltergeist sends his messages.

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A Candid Message. Mr. Dyer told me that he and Strenuous efforts are being made his wife have tried in vain to get in the meantime to improve the in touch with the ghost when Her- performance of defensive fighters, beri is out of the house. several new types of which Early this morning a man and

Un-two women called at the house and TJIKEMBANG are now undergoing trials.

the speed of air fighters asked if they could be increased materially the manifestations, but Mr. Dyer said position will be reached in which that he was not going to have the the enemy they are required to in-house made a peep-show, and sent TJIKARANG tercept is capable of flying "de them away. Immediately they had aidedly faster than they can, with gone, the result that their task in war would prove hopeless..

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8th Oct. Mrs. Dyer there TJIMANOEK...Jaya Makasza 5th Oct. was a loud rapping on the table in the kitchen, and Leslie inspired! The gravity of the situation is Herbert to say that he was glad enhanced by the fact that, thanks they had sent the man away be. to its power of getting to high al-cause he was a liar.

Bed Fuse titudes and there making full of cloud protection, the "Fox' need have no great fear of ground defences,

When an ornament moves or when there is a rapping on the

All right;" table Mr. Dyer says: Leslie, boy. He was Aying over Richmond at

And Herbert Unless its way can be barred by bert in com Wait a minute, Her- a great height with six other machines in the direction of Lon-aerial fighters there is nothing to goes into a dark cupboard under TJISALAK

prevent it from reaching its goal the stairs to receive a message. don when bis aeroplane caught and dropping its bembe." fire.

The Bomber's Triumph.. In the vital problem of bomber fighter the Fox has scored emphatie triumph for the former.

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When he jumped his parachute opened perfectly and with theu- sands of people watching he drop-

The argument is strengthened ped safely on to the roof of No.

that a defensive policy is almost 3 Beaumont-avenue, Richmond.

hopeless, serially, and that the An eye-witness who saw him only sound line is to possess bom land said to a Daily Mail re-bers which are capable of flying porter: "I thought he was going faster, higher, and farther than to land in the road, but he drop- those of any potential enemy, ped right on the middle of the roof. He seemed a trifle · dazed, but pulled himself together, caught hold of one of the chimney pots. steadied himself, and then night.

down on the roof.

sat

Within a few seconds he began drawing his parachute together,

Mr. Winston Churchill's house at Westerham, Kent, was theoreti- eally demolished by the. Oth Bombing. Squadron on Wednesday

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Mr. Dyer and his son Herbert TJITAROEM tell me that as they were walking down a mountain side a bunch of flowers were thrown out of space TJILEBOET at them. Herbert picked them up and said, "Thank you, Leslie! A curious thing is that the flowers were picked up few yards away from the Dyers' house.

Preparations are being made for a séance of psychista

Seventeen Bpiritualists have al ready witnessed the phenomena, and all declare that whoever goes to the house must be convinced. One sceptic left the house half- fainting,

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and a rain-pipe and entered a bed- room window.

Another onlooker said: The aero- planes were in extended formation. We saw a light under one of them and wondered why. Then realised that the machine was in flames. A few seconds afterwards we saw a man jump from it.

we

The aeroplane was very high and he looked just like pellet shot from catapult. It was A wonderful sight.".

avenue

Was

Within a few minutes Beaumont- blocked completely with motor-cars, cycles, and thou- sands of people who rushed to the apot. A force of mounted police quickly arrived on the scene and the airman was escorted away.

The place where he landed was over a mile from the spot in Kew Gardent where the aeroplane crashed.

When be jumped from his machine the other pilots in the formation circled around the air- man, flying lower and lower as be dropped to the ground..

Bomber Down.

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The machine which was forced to came down near Graya, Essex, was a Fairey III. F. bomber be longing to No. 207 Squadron, stationed at Eastchurch, Sheerness. While it was engaged in a raid on the Royal Air Force Stores at Kidbrooke, S.E., the oil pipe broke, but the pilot, Flight Lieut. G. M. F. O'Brien, landed the machine without mishap in a field of beans at Stifford.

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