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Evening Star, Issue 19583, 15 June 1927, Page 10

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MORE EXECUTIONS IN RUSSIA. LOXDOX. dune U.—The * Daiiv Mail’s’ Riga correspondent says t!mt twenty-eight additional ex-Tsarist officers ware executed at Moscow. FRENCH AIRMEN’S ESCAPE. PARIS, June M.—T.ioiitenant Daisy's and Doom's escape Irani the Ida King plane is one of the most dramatic episodes in aviation. After deciding to postpone the venture Doisy suddenly resolved to marl, and, in the presence of a lew people at he Uourgel. he look oil /perfectly alter a long run, hut had obvious difficulty in rising owing io the storiuv atmospheric conditions and the added six Lons load, Doisv resolved to land at the first opportunity, hut was compelled to I'y two miles as low as .Tdt heimo reaching a field sufficiently large in land. Seeing a cornfield he descended, hmde 1 perfectly, and the machine taxied at a terrific pace he a short distance, when, without warning, idle lauding wheels collapse”!. Daisy shouted ‘Mump." am! lie and Dm,in leapt, out just as 1,000 gallons of petrol exploded, and the machine became a mass of Haines, Roth airmen crawled clear, and rolled in the wheat Io extinguish the Ihimes, which had already caught tJieir dolhmg. EIFFEL TOWER SUICIDE. PARIS, .June 1 1 —An imuhmlific i man jumped olf the Kill'd Towel, fell a good distance, and-then struck the girders KiUlt ironi the ground, in which lie remained jammed. Men, using (ire escapes, are attempting to roach the body .-—A. and X.Z. and ‘Sun’ Cable. GOLF. In the final Fur the Otago Ladies’ Golf Club championship, played at Balmacewen this afternoon, Mrs H. Dotlgshun beat Mrs ,W. R* McCarthy 5 up and 4 to play.