FOR TASMAN FLIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 122, 25 May 1932, Page 7

FOR TASMAN FLIGHT.

New Sydney-Made Machine Almost Ready. CONSTRUCTED BY LECTURER. SYDNEY, May 24. The "Sydney Sun" says Mr. L. J. R. Jones, aeronautical lecturer at the Technical College, has designed and built a high-winged monoplane for a Tasman flight to New Zealand, to be piloted by Mr. R. Mitchell, of Mosman. The machine is fitted with a 110-horse-power Harkness-Hornet engine, locally made. In test flights it has disclosed remarkable speed and climbing qualities. It is now being fitted with special blind-flying instruments, also extra tanks for petrol, so that the aeroplane will have a range of 1500 miles.

HIS FOUR "WIVES."

TRENCH PRESIDENT'S SLAYER. LONDON, May 20. Investigations at Prague disclose that Gorbuloff, the Russian who shot President Doumer, and had four heads of Powers on his list for assassination, namely, those of France, Germany, Russia and Czecho-Slovakia, had also had four brides. Marie Pogoriev, an .18-year-old Russian girl, whom he married in 1020, returned to her parents a month later. Subsequently she married the head doctor in Pezink asylum. Before his first marriage was dissolved, he married in 1922 Emilie Nehasil, a Prague hairdresser's daughter, who still complains of his beatings. ? She says he boasted he was the son of a girl who took the veil after her betrayal by a Russian Imperial Guard officer. Madame Stepkova, a 23-year-old dressmaker, whom he married in 1925, lived with Gorbuloff at Pchervo for four years. She alleges that, taking a large sum of her money, he fled the country to avoid punishment for illegal practices. Marie Geng, a Swiss, whom he married in 1929, before he was legally divorced from Stepkova, accompanied him to Monaco.