NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 December 1924, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

PLANE SINKS AS SIX AEE RESOLED. . * HOxNOLULU, Oct. 23. ' Six men were brought into Honolulu aboard the mine-layer Ludlow after having drifted for nearly seven hours at sea aboard a disabled seaplane. Ten minutes after the Ludlow took them off their wrecked craft, the seaplane sank. The men were Lieut-Commander Fraizer, tJ.-S. N., pilot of the plane, three members of his crew, Lorin A. Thurson, Honolulu newspaper publisher, and A. L. Atkinson, a Honolulu attorney. The plane was inaugurating a mail service between the islands of the Hawaiian group, and left Honolulu early on Monday morning for the island of Maui. Engine trouble forced a landing on .the surface of the water at 10.10 a.m., and it was not until 4.40 p.m. that the Ludlow sighted the disabled craft and made the rescue. DAUGHTER AIDS LABOUR HEADS AS FATHER ASSAILS THEM. BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 23. Lady Cynthia Mosley, daughter of Marquis Curzon, of Kedleston, and wife of Oswald Mosley, Labour candidate against Neville Chamberlain in the Lady wood Division of Birmingham, is a picturesque and active figure in the election. She trudges through downpours of rain to canvass handfuls of women on behalf of her husband* and rain or shine she is “on the jot)” almost continuously. •- ? Between fiilial and marital devotion, there is lip compromise with Lady Mosley. While, her father makes onslaught on the Labour Government such as that iii his speech in London a couple of nights ago, when he declared that the Government wa s “in the hands of its gunmen” and was not master of itself, Lady Cynthia speaks in unmeasured terms of Premier MacDonald’s wonderful achievements. Lady Cynthia, gives the Labour Premier credit particularly for his achievements as Foreign Secretary in clearing up the mess left by his predecessor in the secretaryship, otherwise her father, Marquis Curzon, Foreign Secretary ift the Baldwin Government.;