KEPT THEIR HEADS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 77, 31 March 1928, Page 9

KEPT THEIR HEADS.

Federal Cabinet And Airship Policy. ZEPPELINITIB RESISTED. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, March 30. The "National Review," in an editorial, congratulates Mr. S. M. Bruce and his colleagues on "keeping their heads in this road world" by refusing to commit Australia to an airship policy until further and better evidence has been supplied of the ytility of giant gasbags and airships which have been represented as a serious solution of Imperial communications. With several Home Ministers suffering from Zeppelinitis there was the danger that Australia would be rushed into a grandiose scheme, resulting in a ruinous loss of life and money to Australia, which had been deluged with propaganda by fantastic orators from the Air Ministry.

Therefore, it was all the more creditable that Cabinet had kept their heads and let airships be tried out by Americans who have more money than they know what to do with. MID-DESERT RESCUE. AIR LINER SAVES A LIFE. (Received 8.30 a.m.) CAIRO, March 30. A dramatic rescue in mid-desert is reported. An Imperial air liner, in response to a wireless message descended and picked up and rushed to hospital at Bagdad an official named Abbosh, who was seriously injured by rebels who raided a motor eonvoy. Abbosh is recovering. —(A. and N.Z, and Sydney "Sun.") ENDURANCE RECORD. AMERICANS WIN THROUGH. (Received 9.30 a.m.) JACKSON BEACH (Flo.), March 30. Eddie Stinson and Captain George Haldeman, flying a Stinson-Detroiter monoplane made a world's endurance record on Friday, being in the air for 53 hours 35 minutes. The previous record was 52 hours 25 [minutes, held by German aviators. ' —(A. and N.Z. and Sydney "Sun.")