CABLE BREVITIES
The King, aboard his yacht Britannia, opened Cowes Week, winning the Cayley Cup. The first divorce action ever heard in Madrid is the petition of an ex-Cabinet Minister, Senor Alba. ♦ » ♦ Bernt Balchen states that he will he the ’chief pilot of a 33-ton Amphibian which will attempt a flight from Minneapolis to Europe about August 15. ♦ • • A huntsman In Rumania shot down a great eagle with a twelve-foot wing span near the village of Blej. He was amazed to find wedged In the talons the body of a four-months-old child. The August Bank Holiday (Monday) was largely spoilt for Londoners by a storm of remarkable fierceness, with blinding lightning and torrents of rain. Considerable damage was done and a man wajs killed by lightning while sheltering under a tree during a cricket match at Twickenham.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 264, 3 August 1932, Page 9
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137CABLE BREVITIES Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 264, 3 August 1932, Page 9
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