AVIATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 91, 7 June 1911, Page 5

AVIATION.

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o LATHAM’S REMARKABLE ESCAPE. London June 0. Latham’s monoplane snapped a chain while turning at a sharp angle. The machine suddenly dipped and crashed through a roof at Brooklands. Latham had a marvellous escape. AN AIRMAN MISSING. Paris, June G. Lieut. Hague left Nice yesterday on an aeroplane flight to Corsica. Ho is missing. THE ALBANIAN TROUBLE. SUCCESS OF THE MOUNTAINEERS. TURKISH REINFORCEMENTS SENT. Cetigno, June (5. The Miridites have captured the old citadel at Alession. , Pasha bnevket Turgut has despatched three battalions with six guns to the citadel at Alessio. The Miridites attacked the troops at Zadrima, between Scutari and Alessio. BURNING AND MURDERING. TIIQUS ANDS DESTIT UTE. TERRIBLE CONDITIONS. London, June G. An Englishman travelling in Albania writes to the Morning Post stating that the Turks arc burning bouses in the Skreli and Kostrati districts wholesale. Aged and infirm peasants have been incinerated. Eight insurgents,. hearing the woundods’ mad shrieks for help, descended a hill at Kostrati to rescue them. The artillery turned their guns on them, six being killed. Two women and children were incinerated. Being Moslems, the.' did not consider it necessary to fly. They were mistaken by the Turks for Christians.

The correspondent adds that there arcmany thousands of destitute women and children in the Podgoritga district. THE PROCURATOR’S MURDER. Constantinople, June 6. The Procurator-General murdered a! Monastar had boon instructed on Saturday to prosecute the proprietor of r newspaper belonging to the Extreme Loft which had been violently assailing tin non-Turkish communities, g Macedonia and all the Balkan States. The mur lerer is a Moslem fanatic. THE TURKISH SULTAN. , LEAVES THE CAPITAL. Constantinople, June 6. The Sultan, his two sons, the Grand Vizier, and the Ministers of the Interior ind Marine, embarked on a battleship for Salonika, several cruisers escorting :ho party. RECIPROCITY TREATY. PUBLIC HEARING CONCLUDED. - Washington, June 0. The public hearing of the reciprocity i reaty before tbe Senate Committee ha c •oncliulel. The Committee will discuslie report on Wednesday. A newspaper publishes the evidence, vhich revealed the existence of a printng paper trust which the publishers loped would be smashed when reciprocity arrived.