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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29. 1927.

NOT IN TIME-Here we have the trim metal wasp in which Lieutenant Alford Williams, the American Navy's speed ace, hoped to recapture from the Italians the covet- ed Schneider seaplane racing cup. Above, Williams is seen in the ship going down the

At the loft- ways at Port Washington, Long Island, for a test over Long Island Sound. below is a close-up of the 24-cylinder, 1,:00-horsepower motor and, at the right, Williams and his wife. Owing to not being able to get to Venice in time, this machine. has not been entered, so America will not be represented,

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NEW SPEED PLANE.-After more than a year of work by engineers of the Packard Motor Company, a new army pursuit plane capable of 190 miles an hour has boon. completed. It is heralded as the fastest fighting plane ever made. Below the new sky-scooter, which is partly of aluminum, are shown (left to right) Captain L. M. Woolson of the Packard company and Robert Minshell, designers, and Lieutenant Leslie Tower, test pilot,

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·TRAIN HITS BANK.-A heavily loaded interurban freight train ran wild down a mile long grade in Ann Arbour, Michigan, jumped the track at the foot of the grade in the heart of the business district and crashed at a speed of 70 miles an hour into the front of the Farmers' and Machanics' Bank building, causing G$500,000 damage. The accident occurred in the night, and no lives were lost, the train crow jumping to "safety. This shows the wrecked building after the crash.

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NOW HAS ALIMONY.-Here are Charlie Caplin's two sons, to whom, he now says, Lits" has been a good mother. At the loft Lita is holding Sydney; ber mother, Mrs. Lillian Spicer, is at the right with Charlie, Jr. Mrs. Chaplin recently secured & divorce and substantial allowance.

ORIGINAL GRAMOPHONE-Thomas A. Edisoù ex- plains the original phonograph to Governor A. Harry Moore of Now Jersey during the celebration at West Orange com- memorating the 50th anniversary of its invention. Edison made his initial talk over the radio on this occasion, recit- ing "Mary's Little Lamb," which constituted the first phonograph record.

BOMB OUTRAGE. The plant of the Fellowship Forum Publishing Co organ of the Ku Klux Klan at Washington, was mysteriously wrecked in the middle of the night, and police are trying to determine whether It collapsed accidentally or was destroyed by a bomb. In the ruins was found a note protesting the Sacco-Vanzetti ex- ocution and threatening to blow-hell out of Washington:"

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