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LONDON PLANE’S FLIGHT LONDON, Nov. 8. , Keen rivalry on the part of London newspapers to be first in the field with photographs of the Ethiopian coronation led to drantatic . flights, from AcfdjsAbaba, in i Abyssinia, (hie group , to-day presents pictures brought by Gaptain Laurence Mope and Captain. Birkolt, bbi> accomplished ,• «• great Journey of 50CO miles to (Ypyduh iii fivts days. ■ .Major Irwiti Cliirke,' bildli% an opposition machine; set off frdm AddisAbaba a few hours earlier, and although ill, ho pluvkily continued to Tunis, where lie W|is cohijkllfed to give ih and wius only ablo to dispatch photos to Marseilles -by scapaue the following day. From the pictures Were telephoned to London, thus enabling simultaneous publication with those of the rival group.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17453, 30 December 1930, Page 10
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125OUT FOR PICTURE 'SCOOPS' Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17453, 30 December 1930, Page 10
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