AID FOR FLYERS
Italy’s Friendly Part BRITISH APPRECIATION British Wireless. Rugby, December 7. The Italian Air Ministry, in a telegram to Lord Amulree, Secretary for Air, giving details of the accident near Belmonte to the aircraft in which Miss Spooner and Flying Officer Edwards were flying to the Cape, says that the two sufferers are enjoying the cordial hospitality of the Mayor of Belmonte and are surrounded by every care. The aircraft is on the beach awaiting dismantling. An officer of the Royal Italian Air Force has been placed at the disposal of the pilots. Lord Amulree replied, expressing cordial thanks, and adding: “Your action Is yet another example of the happy relations subsisting between Italian and British aviation.” FOUND AT SEA Miss Spooner’s Cheque (Rec. December 8, 9 p.m.) Rome, December 8. A fishing-boat picked up in the Adriatic Sea an aviation journal folded in which was a cheque for £4lO, belonging to Miss Winifred Spooner, the English airwoman who crashed into the sea during an attempt to break the London-Cape Town record. Fishermen handed It over to the authorities at Pizzo.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 64, 9 December 1930, Page 11
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183AID FOR FLYERS Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 64, 9 December 1930, Page 11
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