NEWS IN BRIEF
LIGHT SEAPLANE RECOTtD. [PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] MEW ORLEANS, October 12. Henry Chapman flew a 65 horsepower Aeronca 1120 miles from New York, breaking the world’s light seaplane non-stop record. Chapman’s flying time was 69 minutes. FRENCH ATLANTIC FLIGHT. RIO DE JANEIRO. October 12. Two French airmen, Paul Codos and Henri Guillaninet. landed to-day in a French Farm an plane at Campo do Alfonsos. They are en route for Buenos Aires. They reached Natal last night from Dakar (Africa). NO CRIMINAL INTENT. SYDNEY. October 12. Having been extradited from New Zealand on a charge of false pretences involving £2.31.6. Gregory Psaltis, 39. a, fruiterer. was discharged al the City Court to-day. the prosecutor saying he had no evidence to offer, and also that he was satisfied there was no criminal intent on Psaltis’s part. JAPANESE TRAIN DISASTER. TOK 10. October 13. A message from Nikko, on the Island of Honshu (Japan) states that, two cars on an electric train plunged 30 feet into a stream. Twenty persons were killed and 120 injured. LA MBE'!’II CONFER ENCE. LONDON. October 13. It is officially announced that the Lamb# th nferonee has been postponed. i
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 October 1939, Page 2
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