OVERSEAS ITEMS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 23, 22 August 1928, Page 8

OVERSEAS ITEMS

• , , CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF. Six persons* were burned to death | when a high speed; bus, bound for Chicago with ten passengers, plunged into a. ditch and took fire. : •' *:' '•' '. x x x x It was revealed "that Air Chief Str John Salmond, when en route from Sydney to Brisbane, narrowly escaped a crash immediately after the start om ■ Sunday- When the machine : was passing over Manly the wifeless aeriali depending from the Mfiifrmarine aircraft struck' the. side weatherboard of ;:. house and also broke the electric light wires. Residents say a ten-ific report followed and the electric supply was interrupted in tho locality. xx x x In it's final article on the Ttaria flight, Professor Behotmek says: "My special apparatus for the expedition I consisted of a contrivance for measuring the number of irons and the electrical property of the air, I also had apparatus to riieasuro radio activity, experiments hitherio ur>attemptted, in polar regions. Tho laboratory constructed on the bridge of the Citta do Milano functioned only a, few days : bS- : V' s&v&ft' almost all the records and measurements made... -P' ; T'''i ,'''L." ! i