ARMY OFFICERS
MAY BE ORDERED TO TAKE FLIGHTS (Australian Press Association.) (Rec. November 23, 11.15 p.m.) London, November 23. A War Office order provides that officers and other ranks of the-army may be ordered to take. flights for reconnaissance or other purposes. Officers and men of the Royal Navy are already under obligation not only to go aloft, but under water when required.
Hewett was expected to remain is regarded as reassuring. No further official bulletin is expected until 10 o’clock, this morning. Their Majesties’ personal friends called at the Palace. A crowd lingered at the’gates all day long. Sir William Joynson-Hicks, reading a message from the King at a meeting in the Queen’s Hall in connection with the Bunyan centenary, said: “I was at the Palace this afternoon. You will rejoice to hear’that the King is going on very well.” The message expressed thanks for the loyal greetings and expressed the opinion that the memory of Bunyan’s life and writings would never die wherever the English language was spoken.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 52, 24 November 1928, Page 9
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