THREE FLIERS KILLED.
CRASH INTO OAK TREE. FATE OF BRITISH OFFICERS. LONDON, Sept. 13. Three Light Infantry officers, Captain Baddeley and Lieutenants Boileau and Hughes, were killed when a hired aeroplane in which they were roturuing from tho Schneider Cup flying demonstration crashed into an oak tree in a Surrey wood ifli a fog. The machine was completely broken up. FATE OF AIRMEN. FATAL CRASH IN RUSSIA. EXPLOSION OF ENGINE. (Received September 14, 5.5 p.m.) MOSCOW, Sept. 14. M. Doret, tho survivor of the three Frenchmen who were on the aeroplane Trait d'Union fr. when it crashed, says the engine exploded in mid-air. ITis colleagues wero probably dead beforo they hit the ground. ATLANTIC CROSSING. ATTEMPT FROM LISBON. START BY THREE AIRMEN. LISBON, Sept. 13. Two Germans, Hcrr Wily Rody and Herr Christian Johansen, and a Portuguese, Scnor Costa Viege, started at 9 a.m. to-day on a flight to New York, in a Junkers aeroplane. LINDBERGHS IN JAPAN. VISIT TO TOKIO ENDED. TOKIO, Sept, 13. Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh have, concluded their visit to the capital, where they were royally entertained.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20978, 15 September 1931, Page 9
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