SPEED RECORD

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 149, 23 March 1928, Page 11

SPEED RECORD

ANOTHER ATTEMPT BY BRITISH PILOT DECIDED UPON BY AIR MINISTRY (Rec. March 22, 7.30 p.m.) London, March 21. The Air Ministry has decided to again attempt to make the speed record at Calshot during the coming two months. The pilot has not been .‘elected. SEARCH FOR HINCHCLIFFE NO SIGN OF WRECKAGE (Rec. March 22, 8.30 p.m.) Ottawa, March 21. A Canadian flying officer, Bath, searching in the State of Maine for Hinchcliffe, reported on Wednesday night that no wreckage had been seen during the day’s operations. A WOODSMAN’S “JOKE” Bangor (Maine), March 21. It was reported on Tuesday afternoon that a Canadian aeroplane searching for Hinchcliffe sighted what the pilot believed to be wreckage and two bodies on a mountain in the Moosehead Lake region. The searchers were unable to land in the rough country. A Bangor detective traced the rumour to a “joke” by a woodsman. —A.P.A. and “Sun.” THE PERSIAN QUESTION Rugby, March 21. Sir Austen Chamberlain stated that no settlement of the questions outstanding between the Persian Government and the British Government had yet been reached, and he could not. at present make a statement regarding negotiations for the establishment of a civil air service between Iraq and India.—British Official Wireless.