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AIRMAN'S SURPRISE VISIT

MOLLISON

IN SYDNEY.

HIS WIFE PLANS FLIGHT TO

AUSTRALIA

64 TIMMY" MOLLISON, WHO HAS ACHIEVED WORLD-WIDE FAME FOR HIS FLIGHTS SINCE HE LEFT AUSTRALIA FIVE YEARS' AGO, IS BACK IN SYDNEY.

UNHERALDED, HE ARRIVED LAST MONTH, "JUST FOR A REST, AND TO SEE SOME OLD FRIENDS." HE EXPECTS HIS WIFE (FORMERLY AMY JOHNSON), TO MAKE A FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA AFTER HER PRESENT AT- TEMPT ON THE CAPE RECORD, RECENTLY WRESTED FROM HER BY TOMMY ROSES,

Royal Funeral

Train Driver

DIES AT WORK

Mr.. Mollison said they now Jowned an American 'plane, a Beech.

craft with a top speed of 175 miles! a hour.

With that speed, Mrs. Molli- son should be able to break the England-Australia record, al though he could not say that she would attempt the record.

Mra. Mollison would probably fly out Holo, he said. He would

RIVER Frederick Wil-fly back with her.

DR

"When I was in Australia fly- liam Collis, the man ing na second-pilot with Sir Char- who drove the royal funeral les Kingsford-Smith, on the old train bearing the body of Australian National Airways run and then flying the Melbournej King George from King's route with Charles Ulm as my boss, I grew to like this place so much. Lynn to

Cross, King's

I wanted to see it again." Mollison collapsed and died at Cam-said. bridge Station last month.

He was getting a train ready

for a run.

Mr. Collis was aged 55. and lived at Hnuxton-road, Trum-i Ipington, Cambridgeshire.

Torpedo Attacks

From The Sky

LAUNCHED 10,000 FT. UP BY PARACHUTES

By A Naval Correspondent I am able to give exclusive details of a novel form of tor

His visit is also connected with some business necessitated by the death of his father in Australla,

about 18 months ago.

HIS RECORDS

Since leaving Australia. Mollison Than accomplished an Australia-1 England solo record (1931), Eng- land to the Cape solo record (1932), Atlantic solo crossing from Ireland in the same year, and then an At-1 Jantic flight with Mrs. Mollison.

"In the air race," he said, i "Amy and I think we were rather' unlucky that cylinders of our Comet burnt out in India. We got there In 2 hours-due to my wife's! navigation, not mine-and we were leading."

After the race he sold the 'plane to Portugal and it was wrecked at (the first take-off.

FRENCH RACE

Mr. Mollison said he would enter

pedo attack from the air now in any air race which offered a being tested by the Italian navyworthwhile prize. He intended to and air force.

compete in the

.

DIVORCEE AT 84

Ten years ago Mrs. Anna Dy. son, 74, eloped to Honolulu with James Dyson. Their December romance went on the rocks and now 84, she has secured a divorce In a Los Angeles court.

Ceylon Stamp Censored

By War Office

SHOWED HARBOUR

A stamp issued by the Ceylon postal authorities, picturing an aerial view of Colombo Harbour, has been withdrawn as it was con- sidered objectionable for military and naval reasons.

Four stamps issued in Cey- Ion in connection with King George's Jubilee have also been withdrawn.

SEEKING

rate which the NEW LIGHT

The Italian navy has borrowed French were arranging from Paris

an idea which originated in an-to Salgon and China.

An around America race was also ON HISTORY

other country.

OF ANCIENTS

EXCAVATIONS NEAR ANTIOCH

An aeroplane carrying a torpedo talked of, he said. He had spent Bies over an "enemy" harbour or some time in America, where he anchorage at a height of 8,000 to had been greatly impressed with. 10,000 feet. A parachute is attach-the progress of aviation.

Mr. Mollison, who intends' going) ed to the torpedo, and the vertical! rudder of the latter is jammed hard to Adelaide after about a month's over, an that, on entering the water, holiday in Sydney, recalled how,. it will travel on a circular course when he was flying on the Mei- At the right moment the torpedo bourne service for the Kingsford is released from the aeroplane, and Smith and Ulm Company, the big British Museum an expedition in theory should drop amid the plane got out of control over Mount led by Sir Leonard Woolley, "enemy" ships crowded in the an- Koncluako in a storm. With a director of the joint expedition then was co-pilot Colin Ferguson, of the British Museum and the

chorage.

Under the auspices of the

On striking the water an auto.who was killed in New Guinea lust Museum of Pennsylvania Uni- matic device cuts the parachute year, loose and simultaneously starts the engines of the torpedo, which then

goes round in circles at b6 We All

with, presumably, a good chance of hitting something.

Prolonged and elaborate experi-

Should Live

ments with this device have been! 100 Years

conducted since the autumn off the Italian coast.

DISAPPOINTING RESULTS

versity to Mesopotamin, is about to start excavations ----ncar Antioch, in Northern Syria, the meeting-place of Asiatic civilisa- tions, Hittite, Syrian, and Sumerian.

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This geometrical figare reverKUS a girl in the midst of a bathe. -6. Abbreviated mun and a tune make an ancient Eastern town. 9 Part of this seu dainly is naver

cooked. 10 This animal pluralised sounds

like jumplag Jack's home. 11 Feminino name,

12 The most frequent occurrence in

modern war.

The object is to throy light upon the origin of civilisation in Europe by tracing possible con-14 This can be amusing to children nections between the art of early in rotation. Crete and that of the Asiatic 16 This must give its user a higher mainland. Two sites have been standing. selected for excavation. One lies 10 Part of this gardener's friend

Budapest, Apr. 1. The results, I learn, have been THE Hungarian health Ministry

believes disappointing. The uniformly

that everybody mechanical apparatus worka fault should live to be one hundred.

on the sea coast, at the mouth of lessly, but the percentage of hits They have issued a question the River Orontes, the second is in made by the torpedoes is negligi nairo to everybody in Hungary the great. Ank plsin between

over ninety asking for details of Antioch and Aleppo.

ble.

In spite of this, the new method their family history, personal HITTITE SCULPTURE has been adopted by the Italian habits, recreations, diet and mode navy, and certain squadrons of the of life generally. air force have been equipped with The questions Include the fol- parachute torpedoes.

lowing:

It is, I understand, assumed that: the moral effect of, torpedoes drop- ping "out of the blue" will be very great, especially where man-o'-war anchorages are crowded, as in cer- tain Mediterranean harbours.

I learn, further, that a satisfac- tory method of countering this form of attack has been evolved. That

What was the age of your parents

when they died?

What nesses did they have? How much do you smoke? How good is your appetite, sight, hearing, and memory?

What time do you rise and go

to bed?

What do you drink—and how much?

What do you eat? Describe your diet.

is circular.

10 Flower.

21 Bird with amusing tail. 23 This man describes an invasion

of England. 24 Certainly not designed.

The former enjoys easy com-28 Japanese town. munication through the mountain 29 "Table loro" (anag). barrier of the Amanus range with 30 This is situated a foot from the the Syro-Hittite towns of the in-

ground. terior. The second commands the at Among the following is one of

the metals. Caravan route to Aleppo and the 82 Evidence of a late but succe59- Euphrates, and should illustrate

ful come-back. the native culture and its reac tions on the Crotan. Its upper strata may yield Hittite inscrip- tions and sculpture.

Either site might give early Phoenician texts such as thos0 found at Raa Shamra the next harbour to the south, which throw new light upon Semitic religion

it should have been tried at all is: an admission that the low-flying torpedo 'plane is no longer con- It is hoped from the replies to sidered a serious menace to war-discover the secret of long life and the setting of the Old Test- ships.

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1 One of the earlier papers. 2 Argument with one of the

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17 Steal the heart of this scalawag. 18 The town beloved of all induk-

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19 Swagger,

20 This is mixed in 2 dowIL

22 This circus affair features a

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20 If this sailor played cricket ho

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20 A garment.

27 A grand old coin.

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