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Mr A. P/ Herbert’s Marriage Reform ■Bill, providing for a number of new legal grounds for divorce in England, passed its third reading in the House of Commons by 190 yotes. to "37, |
- It is announced that seven : members v of Highland regiiments yjere killed and 20. -yvere ’ wpunded -in . frontier- - opera-: tions against; the Fakir of Ipi. •• *- •’ •• •• •; Ernst Jachtsmann; a gliding instructor, glided for' 40 hours 45 minutes, setting a world's record/ says a Berlin message. ' ’ .• •■ i • Flying-Offider- Llewellyn started at 4 a.m. from Capetown on the return trip to* Croydon* He Will . attempt to beat > Mr H-. L. Brooks’ time record, •established earlier in ■May. : ■ ’■ * ’ ' ■ ■ m\. •’ 7“ ■. ■' “.‘ r .* ■ Mrs Amelia Earhart Putnam announces that she hopes to start again on her world flight tomorrow or on Tuesday, but she will reverse the route, in order to encounter more favourable weather.
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Northern Advocate, 31 May 1937, Page 5
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