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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1928.

AIR MENACE AT SEA.

DAY ON A FLOATING "FLYING GROUND."

OUR NAVY "MIRACLE"

Oct. 12.

DEATH INQUIRY.

CHINESE CRUSHED BETWEEN

LORRY AND WALL."

Sitting as Coroner, Mr. R. E. Idndsoll conducted an inquiry yea- terday, into the cause of death of a Chinese who died as a result of Injuries caused him through being run down and crushed by a motor lorry in Queen's Road West on October 81,

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Whatever may be the answer to the Bomb versus Battleship controversy, it Is certainly

The gruesome nature of the in- a norve-shaking experience to be juries sustained by the deceased menaced from the air in a ship. was described by Dr. A. Cannon, To-day I transferred from the Medical Officer in Charge of the battle cruiser Hood to the aircraft Victoria Mortuary, who atated in carrier Furlous, and was there tor-evidence that following a post morten examination on the body of pedoed, bombed and machine-gun- the deceased on the morning of ned by a fight of machines that November 1, he found that the base fell out of the sky like meteors, says of the skull, the breast, bono, the a special correspondent of the sixth rib, and the right forearm, were all fractured. Both the man's Morying: Post,

lungs were torn and the spleen and liver were ruptured. Cause of death was primarily multiple in- juries and secondly shock.

Yesterday the weather was al- most too rough to permit any firing; today, ironically, it was almost too Thero enim to allow any flying. was scarcely breeze enough to lift motor lorry No: 230, a two-and-half Giving evidence, the driver of a feather, and Furious had to ton Thornycroft, said that he had stretch herself to twenty-five knots and make an artificial headwind to been a motor driver for several enable her planes safely to tako years and a lorry driver for two Stoff and land on her expansive iron years. At 6.16 a.m. on the morn

ing question he was proceeding deck.

to Aberdeen and when nearing One cannot pretend that the air-the Government Civil Hospital craft-carrier makes a graceful ship he began to skid as he was taking -it reminds one of an unbelievably curve large dismasted frigate but the plain exterior hides a miracle of said that it had been raining that Asked to explain this, the witness organisation and technical effl-morning and that there was a bend ciency.

In the rond at that point. While Furious carries on her two lower the lorry was skidding, a man em- decks about thirty machines-tor- | erged from a latrine constructed in- pedo bombers, Alghters, and reconside the retaining wall just under naissance spotters-with all the the entrance to the Government Hear, spares, and overhaul facilities Civil Hospital. There was no time necessary to keep them in flying to avoid the man and witness there- trim. The hangora and repair fore shouted to him to run, at which shops are interesting.

the man ran back. Meanwhile the brakes were slightly applied and the lorry, which had been skidding up to then, began to swing its rear The deceased towards the wall. was caught between the lorry and the wall."

Vaulshing Feat.

But it the topmost deck-the floating flying ground for arrivals and departures-that is the marvel of the ship. A cloud of machines left this 150 yards of level iron in few minutes to-day to carry out their attack, and were below again with folded wings before Furlous was more than a few miles further on her journey.

On leaving the lorry, the witness found the injured man unconscious and not being able to got a police- man he jumped into a rickshaw and made a report to the No. 7, Police station.

After evidence had been given by

The aeroplanes were raíadil to the upper platform on two ponderous an apprentice who was in the lorry bydraulic

at the time of the accident, the In- so that rudder almost rubbed pro-quiry was adjourned. peller in two long lines.

and

placed

Then I saw the bridge forward aink out of sight, the signal maste fall fat, ond the wireless uprights swing through 90 degrees until they were facing horizontally outboard.

Everything that made an impedi- ment to a clear deck effaced itself of its own volition, and with a quiet nir of finality, one by one tho en- | gines of the Daris opened their spluttering uproar, the draught of the propellers blew like a hurricane along the deck, and the next thing ono knew they were gone like a stream of bullets and dizzily climb. ing into the open sky.

WOMAN'S CAR DASH

DOWN AFRICA.""

CHARGE INTO LIONS WITH BLAZING HEADLIGHTS.

Johannesburg, Oct. 8. The story of a woman's motor dash down the length of Africa was

here of Gerry Bower in a Chrysler revealed to-day with the arrival Sedan after a record journey,

by steamer. But on his arrival at

Mr. Bower parted from his wife They closed formation, rose into in Paris, the intention being that the distance, and then turned to at-she should travel to South Africa tack their mother-ship. With hungry ingratitude they rushed to wards us until only 1,000 yards away, and then plunged with head- long velocity to within a mere yard or two of the surface of the sea.

Cairo, he discovered that his wife was awalling him, having hurried by air, and she calmly announced her determination to accompany him.

The two accordingly set off with- It is at this instant in times of war that the torpedo begins its dead-out any other companion and sue- ly journey to the threatened ship, ceeded in travelling from Mongalla, and it is at this instant, when hts on the Nile, to Johannesburg in ten days. Mrs. Bower several times course is held steady, that the air-prevented disaster by awakening man is in most danger from the defending gunners.

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her husband, who frequently fell asleep at the wheel. She shot a magnificent Ifon en route,

On another occasion three lions disputed the right of way but fted when the car charged them with headlights blazing.

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The crows in Furlous redoubled their mimic efforts, but only for few seconds did their target remain favourable; a moment more and the After a quick breakfast in Johan- attackers had swept down, dodging nesburg Mr. and Mrs. Bower and twisting and turning steeply hastened. on in an endeavour to nway in a mad scamper to escape. complete the journey from the Nile In the wireless telephone room I to Cape Town in twelve days, which could overhear the flight leaders equals the times of many giving orders to their accompanying planes. 'planes for our destruction. "It was a wonderful experience, Earlier, we ourselves had been and I wouldn't have missed it for conversation with the flyers,

anything," said Mrs. Bower. Tho "Parrot calling Black Swan" only thing I really missed was a (that is the name of one of the bath." aerial groups). "Can you hear me?" and a little later, out of the telephone would come Black Swan's

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