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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 92, 16 March 1927, Page 2

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The earthquake damage at Japan is officially estimated at £1,000,000, which is regarded as surprisingly low. The second official Air Force Cape to Cairo flight with four Faireys under the leadership of Air-Commo-dore Samson will begin from London on March 30. '

Chief-Inspector Gillion, of Scotland Yard, has taken charge of the English inquiries into the Daniels’ mystery. In the meantime the Boulogne magistrate has appealed to the Yard to send detectives to France. “Everything in our power will be done to assist them,” he says. M. Jahnis Tscliakste, the President of Latvia, is' dead. He strove long to free his country from the Czarist yoke and succeeded at the time of the Bolshevik revolution in forming Latvia into a separate State. Since then he has raised it into the most flourishing of all the Baltic States.

A cocktail-shaking contest at Vienna was attended by representatives from all parts of Europe including London. Some 115 varieties were judged. A German won with a cocktail called “Valencia,” which was composed of two dashes of orange bitters, half a glass of orange juice and a liqueur glass of apricot brandy. An aeroplane crashed at Pesliawur and an officer and two men were killed.

The famous German airman, Ungewitter, crashed from a height of 4000 feet and was killed instantly.

The Paris Matin states that the ransom for the Uruguayan airman Larre Borges and his companions was £9OO.

In a Soccer match played in a suburb of Paris the goalkeeper, Le Bivois, falling on the ball, was fatally kicked in the neck by the centre-forward, the latter breaking his leg. The late Sir Rupert Clarke left real estate in Victoria valued at £BI,OOO and personal property valued at £204,000, also estates in New South Wales, the value of which is . not stated. '

Detective-Inspector Addison, who brought the Dixons from New Zealand, jumped 80 4 feet from the roof of Selfridge’s, London, when the streets were crowded. He missed a chauffeur by inches, and was killed instantly. A retired merchant, A. I. Robinson, aged' 65 years, has just made his first solo flight of half an hour at Stag ’Lane, London, aerodrome. He said; “In these days men of my age are not old. I see no reason why flying should not be as popular as golf. There is nothing dangerous in flying nowadays, and the sensation is the same whether you are sixteen or sixty.”