LATE CABLE NEWS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIX, Issue 3157, 7 November 1929, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS

FOKKER PLANES. ARRIVE AT SYDNEY. KINGSFORD SMITH’S VENTURE. Australian Press Association —United SYDNEY, Nov. 0. Three giant Fokker monoplanes for Australian National Airways, • Ltd., ordered by Kingsford Smith and Mr C. Ulm have arrived. They are almost identical with the Southern Cross. POSITION IN FAR EAST. SOVIET DRIVE EXPECTED. CHINESE PRISONERS STARVING Australian and N.Z. Press Association. SHANGHAI. Nov. 6, The Chinese armies on all fronts in Manchuria are being strengthened in anticipation of an attack from the Soviet troops. To-morrow is the anniversary of the birth of the Soviet Republic, and consequently a general Soviet drive is ex" pected, apart from the sporadic fighting in the small area. The position is quiet at present, though the Soviet aeroplanes continue to fly over the Chinese defence, dropping bombs and destroying railway tracks and depots. The German Consul at Harbin reports that 2000 Chinese prisoners, which have been detained by the .Soviet authorities, are starving and are without / winter clothing. ■ Requests are being made tothe National Government, to send immediate relief, otherwise hundreds are likely to perish. The Consul is undertaking the distribution. GERMAN AIR LINER CRASHES. SEVEN PERSONS BELIEVED KILLED. SMASHES INTO FOREST. LONDON. Nov. 6. A German air liner from Croydon to Amsterdam crashed in flames at Marden Park. It is believed that three passengers and four of the crow were killed and one passenger saved. Marden Park is between Godstoßff and Catterham in Surrey. When the plane left Croydon the officials said everything was then all right. After passing Godstono visibility was so bad: that the pilot turned back. He may have misjudged the height of the trees on the Foster Down, which is part of the North Downs, for the plane apparently struck the edge of the copse and ploughed through the trees deep into the wood, before finally crashing in flames. The bodies were burned.