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To-day,

(September 24,

CAPTURED BY THE

RIFFS.

ADVENTURES IN THE PURSUIT OF

Rotary Club Tiffin, Land, Craw- ford's Restaurant, 1 p.m. Speaker: The Rt. Rev. John Curtis on "The (Anglican); Church of China?? arm

Annual General Meeting of Mem-SIR bors, Hong Kong Ladies Hockey Club, Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 5.16 p.m. uh

Lammort's Auction Sale of Pro-|| perty, Salen Room, 3 pim, j

Queen's Theatre: "Ship Mates World Theatre: Sea Wolf." Star Theatre: "A" Lady of Scandal."

Central Theatre: "Drums of Jeopardy,"

King's Theatre: Body and Soul.".

Prince's Theatre:"The Thirteenth Chair

Dinner Dances at Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels."

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Tides High at 5.20 and 8.539; Low at 2.98.

Wednesday.

SPEED

MALCOLM CAMPBELL'S SEARCH FOR THE PERFECT TRACK.

Like most people, writes Sir Mal-] colm Campbell, I have had my ufe and downs in life, but never has ill

* luck pursued me so persistently or with such malice as in the months which preceded my attempt on the world's speed record at Verneuk Pati in South Africa in 1920)".

Donald Wants to Go Too. Don, who was then Flight- Lieutenant, and I carried the minimum amount of kit.; All he had was a spare pair of flannel trousers and a toothbrush. I was a little

more luxurious as I took in addi- tion a spare shirt, a razor, a gouple of collars and a suit of couple, of collars and a muit of silk pyjamas. The last became most, use full

After putting up the record of 200.05 miles an hour at Daytona, I went off on holiday. While I was away I had arranged for altera

My little son Donald, who was at tions and extensive rebuilding to be

to acc carried out on the Blus Bird car, the aerodrome with my wife as I knew that Segrave, with me off, was very anxious to come."

with us, and most Ingubriously in- his thousand borse-power Golderi, Arrow, would not be long before he quired, "Why he could not go with altempted to beat my record. While | daddy #.!!, ie

I was on the high sens I heard that Wo had a good flight as far as

Ray Keech; the American, had done

(September 23.) Travessa" Trophy, Bi-annual Sailing Race, North Point.

Queen's Theatre: Ship Mates." 80. I immediately determined to World Theatre "When A Daughtry and raise it once more. ter Seeks Revenge" (Chinese film):

Star Theatre: "A Lady of Scandal."

King's Theatre...

Soul."

Body and

Central Theatre. Brums Jeopardy,

Prince'a Theatre: "The Thirteenth Chair"

Tea Dauce at Lane, Crawford's Restaurant Dinner Dances at Peninsula Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel,

Tides High at 6.30 and 919; Low at 12.10 and 2,02

Thursday.

(September 24.)

Autumnal Equinox (Chin-fen).

Daytone Hot Good Enough:

The moment I landed I started. inquiries with a view to finding out.

new speed track.

Paris, and then on into Spain. where we were forced to descend near Alicante, after losing our bearings. However, we took off very shortly afterwards and, next day, reached! Oran on the North Const of Africa. It was odd to By

in the space of some 48 hours or less, from the cold mists and toga Daytoun, to mind, was not good of England, to the bot, still, wind enough, and I still think that be less airs of Africa, with the Mediter fore long it will have to be superranean gleaming far below us and seded either by an artificial or the sands of Africa looming on the new natural one. It is too narrow

skyline. and too much at the mercy of wind and tide. You can only drive on it at really high speed about one month in a year.

I made inquiries all over Europë”. without success. Then the lato Air Lady Peel at Home to M.C.L.Vice Marshal, Sir Sefton Brancker, Workers; Government House.

Quees's Theatre: It's A Wise Child."

World Theatre: "When A Daugh ter: Secks Revenge" (Chinese film). Star Theatre:The Bishop Mur der Case.'

Our base was to be Reggan, in the Sahara desert. But at the way. I intended to" explore one or two. other tracts which I had heard were. likely spots.

Bad luck followed us the wholɑ mentioned something about a vast way. The first spot w

a dried area of sun-baked clay in the heart up lake at, the back of the town of the Syrian desert, in a region

of Oran, some 25 miles long and infested by markuding Arabe, 200 miles cast of Damascus. Someone usually as flat as a billiard table. else spoke of a marvellous flut

But when I reached it, after a King's Theatre: "Bed and Break-retch of desert in the Sahara flight through terrible weather in fast,"

Central Theatre: Cock O' The I weighed up all possibilities, and which the machine was thrown... Walk."

Prince's Theatre: "The Thirteenth decided to try the Sahara first. Tha

about and bumped so terrifically Chair."

quickest way there would be by air,

Dinner Dances Hong Kong so I bought a little Gypsy Moth that we almost lost control of her, and Peninsula Hotels 7H

European Mail-Inward Europe light acroplane, christened her Blue 1 found that the track was" com- pire Suez (Kashmir). Outward: Bird, and with, Squadron-Leader

Europe Superscribed in Siberia

(Empress of Asin) 10, n.m.

Tides-High at 7,35 ind 9.28

Low at 103 and 14.30.

Don in the cockpit, 1. lett Craydon pletely under water. It was an in-

aerodrome on Saturday afternoon, Iand sea.?

November 3, 1928,

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