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SPITFIRE
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Now Being Produced In Good Numbers
The Spitäre fighter acroplane which has aroused most interest in the last two years, has a speed of 802 m.p.h. at a height of 16,000 feet and
is the fastest aeroplano served out in numbers to any Air Force.
--| A steady stream. of Spitores coming out of the factories dow, writes a Home correspondent.
May 18, 1939.
"SHOW MUST GO ON," SO LINER SPEEDS TO H.K.
WITH every turn of her en- | gines tho N.Y.K, Ilner Terukuni Maru clipped time off hor schedule on her journey from Japan to Hongkong.
LITVINOFF ECLIPSE
She carried the performers in
Parade" revue, who, bowed behind the Queen's Theatre footlights at 3.30 p.m. to-day in the first per- formance of their Hongkong season,
Cowan, and Balley's "Holywood on Soviet Orders "Purge"
Of Associates
MOSCOW, May 17. The
The season was originally to have completo eclipse of M. Maxim opened yesterday, but a ship transter Litvinoff, former Russian at Kobe, where the vessel which Foreign Minister, was officially brought them from America went indicated to-day. into dock, put the players behind a day and the opening had to be post-j
To mark this triumph over diff- culties a display was given at Dux- ford Aerodrome, near Cambridge, recently by No. 19 (Fighter) Squa- dron
A squadron or a Bight of Spitares is A most impressive sight. They Jook tiny little creatures to possess poned.
A writ lins, been issued by the such great power as they do, for the
People's Commissariat for Internal wing span is only 36 ft. 10 in, the The Terukuni Maru was
set to Affairs, ordering a purge to be carri-: length 29 ft. 11
and 11 ft. 6 in. The en, and the height reach Hongkong at 2. p.m. to-day, ed out in all the Moscow
engine is a power-Two radio calls from Hongkong Leningrad newspaper offices of the ful Rolls-Royce Merlin, which is re- yesterday started her speeding and supporters and proteges of the former
Foreign Commissar. markably quiet. The landing wheels already she clipped off her time. are retracted in flight, and speed can arriving in Hongkong by 1 o'clock. lowed up by the dismissal of pro- It is expected that this will be fol- be checked by split flaps in the trail- ing edge of the wings.
SOVIET SHIP TRIALS
Moscow, May 17. An extensive trial has been given a number of Soviet-built warships during the Baltic fleet manoeuvres which have just ended. The vessels, which include a battleship, ure stated to have completely satisfied the experts.
M.
Passport inspection would normally minent members of the staffs of T'ass Agency, "Pravda" and the "Izvestia" keep the players another half-hour, who
were associated but" arrangements
with made for we
Litvino--Trans-Ocean.. them to be released as soon as their
and the removal of their baggage. A passports were examined,, for special launch rushed them to shore make up and scramble into their and, they had barely enough time to theatre costumes before the curtain went up.
It is all in the day's work for show
It is announced that the term of service of the Soviet navy has been people, but an ordinary laymon feels increased from three to five years. that he would be too breathless to
The newspapers hall the construc-sing a note after such a rush. tion of the great Soviet navy under Stalin's personal supervision. Izvestia) declares that the coast is now quite armour-clad and inaccessible.-Řeu- Ler.
MOSQUITO BOATS
Manila, May 17,
It is understood that three addi- tional "mosquito" boats will arrive
Swedish Flier Missing
Trans-Atlantic Airman Not Yet Reported
STOCKHOLM, May 17. NO NEWS has yet been re-
Mystery Man's ceived regarding Mr. Charles
Funeral
Backman, the 25-year old Swedish airman who left New- foundland yesterday for a trans- Atlantic flight to Sweden,
horsepower Lambert monoplane carries no radio equipment.—United Press.
from England soon, similar to the Harbour Body Not Mr. Backman's 00
one which the Philippine Army Off Shore Patrol recently acquired. The Philippine Army plans to acquire 40 of these torpedo motor boats by 1040. I -United Press.
UNION'S COAST DEFENCE
Pretoria, May 17, The authorised establishment of the Union's coast garrison, active citizen forces and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve for 1939-40 has been in creased by 5,000 to 1,402 officers and 20,405 other ranks, Reuter Special.
Japanese Monoplane Resumes Flight
Yet Identified
NO identification has yet been made of the body of the unknown European which was found floating Godownd yesterday. in the harbour off the Kowloon
The body appeared to have been in the water for some time. The man appears to have been a sailor who apparently fell off a ship and was drowned.
The funeral will take place at the Colonial Cemetery, Happy Valley, this afternoon, entering through the Stubbs Road entrance at 5 p.m.
HOPE ABANDONED
STOCKHOLM, May 17.--Experts sold all hope for Mr. Charles Back- man has been virtually abandoned,
Aviation circles have indicated that his petrol supply would have been exhausted this afternoon,—United Press.
$38,000 Estate
Hongkong estate valued at $30,000 was left by the late Mr. Pun Taz-ping. otherwise spelt Pan Tscu-p'ing or Poon Ching-ping, altas. Pun Wo- KARACHI, May 17-The Japan-Kowloon, was walking near her home Cheng Tal, ten merchant, who died Miss H. Irving, of Carnavon Rond, hing, alias Pun Ming-chak, slids ese monoplane "Soyokaze", which yesterday when her handbag, con- Intestate at Vole 108 No. 3, Hanol, on arrived here from Baghdad at 4.30 talning money, and articles valued at April 18, 1938. Letters of adminis p.m: yesterday on its return from a $42.85, was snatched from her by ntration to Roodwill fight to Teheran, left here Chinese who ran away:
the estate have been granted to Pun Yat-kal.
for Calcutta at 8.30 o'clock this morning. Doniel,
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Firing practice will be carried out from Fort Stanley between the hours
of 10 s.m. and 2 p.m. to-day.
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Telaviv Riots
JERUSALEM, May. 17. Some 1,500 Jewish demonstrators in Telaviv raided the district govern- ment offices to-day and destroyed the Interior, which they set on fire.
A
Jewish wounded when people in the crowd constable was seriously opened fire on the policemen who Indulged in baton charges in an effort to disperse the mob,
Two Jewish supernumeraries were slightly injured when several bombs exploded in the upper storey of the Government Immigration department In the centre of Jerusalem, causing o conflagration.
of
While the majority of Jews reject the idea of violence, the bulk opinion supports the Jewish Agency stalement rejecting the White Paper. Passive resistanc) comparable with Gandhi's methods
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MANILA, May 17.-The finding of WARSAW, May 17-Marahal the Consular inquiry Into the slaking| Smigły-Rydz - Inspector-General of of the Lindenbank says that the the Polish - Army, will shortly be actual position of the ship when she visiting LithuanÍA, Latvia, and struck the reef was 10 miles south of Estonia, according to Polish press re- her estimated position.
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