Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 443, 27 August 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

MOTH WINS DERBY. —The Australian Derby of 42 miles, in which Jnere were i. 3 starters, was won by Brain, in a Moth airplane. His *ane was 26min. 23sec. .PRISONERS SHOT —An attempt "(* aS J na<^e ky I"! prisoners to break out or the Federal prison in the Isle of ines. The warders shot and killed 10 or them.— A.P.A. - U.S. i AVIATIOX IX JAPAN- 2 —Commencing’ to-day, the proprietors of the Japanree , newsp . a P er “Asabi” will run a t h*~ ar airplane passenger service times a week from Tokyo to . * There will also be a weekly between Tokyo and Sendai.— SPY.—A woman of 50, Masanf Siebe neck. has it: Berlin been li r°;®? ced to imprisonment for 30 p f °r espionage on behalf of Si*K Ce * r l ast five years. Matilde ein^ 6r l eck was a German spy in Belshe 1 in War time. It is reported that rest- Partly responsible for the arU.S ° f th ° late Xurse Cavell. —A.P.A.in^ 3 anniversary of the openrr .? r British civil air traffic to the senil nent * It: is recal led that 20 pasjqi q ers w ere carried weekly in August, ent * c °mpared with 2,000 at the prestravfiK* Gh busy days 50 air liners 50 bet ween Croydon and Paris, and Co t ns ,°f freight are carried weekly, in "'"ith a few small packages 'r—tlL 9 - —a.p.a.-ii .S- __