AIRCRAFT PROGRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1540, 20 January 1919, Page 5

AIRCRAFT PROGRESS.

FLIGHT TO CAPE TOWN. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Roc. Jan. 20, 11.20) LONDON, Jan. 17. The Air Ministry is preparing, an experimental airplane flight to Cape Town shortly. The trip will probably take a week or a fortnight. No attempt will be made at a speed record, the purpose of the flight being to demonstrate the best route.

ENEMY ALIENS.

EXEMPTION QUALIFICATIONS. POLICY IN ENGLAND. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Rcc. Jan. 20, 10.10) LONDONj Jan. 16. The Home Office has issued a memorandum showing the grounds on which enemy aliens were exempted from internment and repatriation. These include long residence in the United Kingdom, and having a British-born wife and children. They were also exempt if a son or grandson was serving in the Army. Women were exempted by reason of long residence in Britain, on giving proof that they had no connection with Germany, or owing to incapacity, old age or ill-health.

UNREST IN PORTUGAL

STATE OF CIVIL WAR. COMMUNICATIONS SUSPENDED. ("The Times.") MADRID, Jan. 17. According to frontier reports, the whole of the interior of Portugal is in a state of civil war. All communications have been suspended owing to the movements of troops. Santarem is in the hands of revolutionaries, under Colonel Figuerido, a member of the military .i-'ota of Oporto, which is organic rjg the movement with undoubted Bolshevik backing.

REVOLUTIONARY TROOPS. BOMBARDMENT COMMENCED. (A. & N.Z.) LISBON, .Tan. 15. As the revolutionaries at Santarem J did not surrender within the tune limit, loyal troops surrounded the 'town and began a bombardment.