PERILS OF THE AIR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 101, 19 June 1911, Page 5

PERILS OF THE AIR.

FURTHER FATALITIES. (Received 19, 8.5 a.m.) Paris, June 18. Lieutenant Princeteau, who was intending to start to-day in tho Paris-Brussels-London race, was practising in a Bleriot aeroplane at Issy, when tho machine fell and burst into flames. The lieutenant was so burned as to be unrecognisable. Another competitor on a Bleriot was fatally dashed against a tree, which is attributed, to a faulty propeller. PrtARITIME STRIKE. n-m ».•>» - t,» ___ FIVE HUNDRED SEAMEN JOIN. New York, June 18. Five hundred seamen of the International Union have struck. Several coasting steamers are unable to procure crows. (Received 19, 9 a.m.) London, June 18. The seamen’s strike is still spreading. Shipowners are opposing the creation of a Conciliation Board, arguing that half of the trade unionists are already absent, and so unable to bo consulted, and their absence would bo calculated to put updue power in tho hands of trade union leaders. THE DACCA CONSPIRACY. PRISONERS NOT GUILTY. (Received 19, 8.5 a.m.) ■ .Calcutta, June 18. The Assessors in the Dacca conspiracy found tho prisoners not guilty. The Court described the Government evidence as unreliable and the evidence of the police spies as worthless and incredible, and added: ‘ ‘The Samid organisation was intended to relieve helpless sufferers and promote physical culture.”