AIR TRESPASS.
Swiss Guards Fire Warning
Shots at Zeppelin.
FRONTIER CROSSED. BASLE, April 28. Swiss artillery fired blank shots as a warning when the German airship Graf Zeppelin flew low over the Swiss frontier. The Zeppelin immediately withdrew to Germany. The Swiss authorities have protested to Berlin. BAD WEATHER DELAY. MRS. BONNEY AT BANGKOK. (Received 10.30 a.m.) SINGAPORE, April 28. ' Mrs. Bonnev, the Australian airwoman who is making the first flight from Australia to South Africa, is held up at Bangkok owing to bad weather.
AFTER SOLO RECORDS. TWO FLYERS' PROGRESS. (Received 2 p.m.) LQNDON, April 28. Mr. H. L. Brook has abandoned his attempt -oil Mrs. Amy Mollison's solo record to the Cape, following damage to a wheel of his machine in a crash during a storm north of Juba. He will fly on to South Africa and, after repairs to his 'plane there, will attack Mrs. Mollison's solo return record.
Mr. H. F. Broadbent, who left Darwin at 6.45 p.m. yesterday on the first stage of his attempt to lower Mr. H. L. Brook's solo record from Australia to England, arrived at Singapore this morning.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 100, 29 April 1937, Page 7
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