1930-10-07 — Page 12

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29th Oct.

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Avents.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1930.

ARE AIRSHIPS SAFE?

QUESTIONS RAISED BY R101 DISASTER.

NATION MOURNS.

London, Oct. 6. While the whole nation has been plunged in mourning for the

UNREST IN CUBA.

PLOT TO KILL PROMINENT GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS.

New York, Oct. 6. A plot is reported to have been discovered to assassinate high of ficials of the Cuban Government, including members of the Cabinet of President Gerardo Machado. The alleged leader of the conspiracy has been arrested and a quantity R 101's gallant dead, now that the of arms and bombs seized.-Reu first stunning effects of the news ter's American Service. are beginning to pass off one of the questions taking form in the minds of the public is "Are lighter than air craft practicable?"

ship as soon as possible."

AUSTRALIAN FLIGHT.

ATTEMPT TO MAKE TRIP IN WEEK.

London, Oct. 5. Flight Lieutenant C. W. Hill started out from Lympne Aero- drome this morning on a Moth machine for Australia, to visit his parents in Queensland. He hopes Flight Lieutenant Hill was the to beat Bert Hinkler's time. hero of a dramatic escape from a

Turkish prison camp during the war, after foigning maduess. Reuter.

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safety

The bodies are now lying in a chappelle ardente in the village of mination to conquer the air until could be Allonne; and it is hoped to identicomparative

achieved.. fy at least some of them to-day.

The American newspapers com- national disaster; ment as upon and dwell on the setback to diri- gible progress as the R 101 was accounted the very type designed successfully to ride out adverse weather such as caused her down- fall-Reuter.

Empire Conference Condoles. London, Oct. 6.

war-

The morning newspapers one and all unite in paying tribute to

The oil tanks were still burning the skill and heroism of the gal- lant pioneer crew who met their at o'clock last night, "casting a deaths in the tragic flight, but the sinister glow over the wreckage gravest doubts are voiced as to Rain was pouring down, and the whether airships generally are scene was reminiscent of not by this disaster shown to be time. Mounted troops, lit up by the grim blaže, slithered in the too vulnerable.

Simultaneously, the newspapers mud around the wreck to the ac demand the most searching en-companiment of the drone of quiry, not only into the disaster lorries bringing up material for but into the whole question of relief work-Renter lighter than air craft.-Reuter.

Beauvais, Oct. 6.

Injured Man Succumbs.

Beauvais, Oct. 6. The injured survivor named The most vivid story of frantic efforts with teeth and nails to Radcliffe, a rigger on the airship tear through the fabric of the R 101, died at Beauvais this mor- blazing airship is told by the ning-Reuter,

Desley, He' wireless Operator

com-

An Imperial Conference munique states that a resolution moved by Mr. Benueit and seconded by Mr. Scullin recorded the sorrow at the loss of the R101, and paid homage to the gallant men who had given their lives as pioneers in the cause of human progress, while French Press Comment.

expressing heartfelt grief to the be- London, Oct. 6. said he was lying in his bunk

Hearts all over the world have reaved persons and offering deep when there was suddenly a tre- mendous burst of flame. He rush-been gripped by the tragedy. sympathy to "our chairman", at the pour- loss of a distinguished colleague and ed along the corridor and attack-Messages of sympathy are

well-loved friend-Reuter. ed the fabric in an effort to es-ing in from all parts.

French Nation Mourns. A typical French newspaper cape, but the fabric resisted all

Paris, Oct. 6. The

Minister, the efforts of his teeth and nails, leader exclaims, "These are

M. Prime whom brothers "I sank down exhausted and foreigners, but

the Tardieu, has decided that to-mor offered up prayer for I believed blind chance sacrificed upon

Another re- row shall be observed as a day of my fate was sealed. Suddenly altar of progress." felt something give way and I fell marks that the catastrophe has national mourning for the R101 into what seemed a raging, in-added to the long roll of British ferno of fire. I felt something heroes, who have met a glorious

end on French soil. wet, and it was the wet grass. got out only just in time."

Depressing Scene.

London, Oct. 6.

US. Message. The United States Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Adams, has sent a It is understood that the bodies message to the First Lord of the of the R 101 victims are being Admiralty, deploring the loss of a deter- brought back to Britain by war-pioneers animated by

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disaster.

Instructions have been tele- graphed to the civil and military authorities to fly the national flag at half mast. M. Tardieu will himself attend the removal of the victims from the bodies of the town hall at Beauvais, at eleven in the morning-Router.

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