ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18462, 17 August 1925, Page 13

ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

AEROPLANE DAMAGED. (BT CAIILR—PRESS COMJUOBT.) (AUSTRALIAN ANl> X.Z. CABLE ASSOCUTIOS.) WASHINGTON, August 14. The Navy Department has been notified by wireless fropi Etah that the. Macmillau expedition aeroplane waa nearly sinking from a leak from pound* ing in the surf. It was hoisted aboard the Peary and is Toeing repaired. Lite 'planes across EHeamere Land to llayes fjord, where opes sea permitted a landing, lite; discovered another place free of ice t£est of Flagler fjord, where another attempt to establish a base will he made as soon as weather conditions improve. Heavy gales and fog have so far prevented this. The round flight lasted from ,9.30 till midnight. ENGLISH DOCTOR SHOT. ' ♦- SON-IN-LAW ARRESTED. (AUS"fIftU.IAX AKD N.Z. CABLE ASSOOAMO*-) (31 CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COJIffIKW*-) LONDON, August 14. Arising out of the discovery that Dr. Swayne, of Bristol, was dying of revolver rounds in a bedroom in a country liouso near SeHach; Hertfordshire, wlicro ho was the guest of Bichard Brown, Swayne's eor.-in-law, who was found in bed, tho latter was arrested. Tho doctor died and Brown was charged with murder. Dr. Swayne was a well-known obstetrician with a brilliant professional career, including professorship of the Bristol University. I TEN YEARS' GAOL. ' ♦ PICKFORD KIDNAPPING PLOT. (BY CABLE—PHESS ASSOCIATION—COPraIOHT.) (AUST.:AUAX AND N.Z. CABLE ABSOCUTIOX.) SAX FRANCISO, Angnst It. A message fronj Los Angeles states that Stephens and Holcomb were each sentenced to ten rears' imprisonment for plotting to kidnap Mary Pickford. WORLD FLIGHT. ♦—— ITALIAN REACHES NEW GUINEA. x (BY CißU*-PBSj * ' (lusnytfjAH AKQ JI.S. ttsros Hie Marchess di >here from Thursday