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ioked pel BE I, ven with their places in proved to be : pew 17 Island. Shortly after midnight, hartly to the failure |pting system. For jas in darkness, Once 80 foet from the water. seen, then a moun- fghted what ap- paling steamer, It ghthouse on Gre 4 "> te 3 eastern and|, antec time, on Thursday, the Bre- 'Men stood fully fueled for her flight the where a safe land- entire region tine be made. coasts of Labrador and New- Soludiant dec rocky aod rugged. At pup. this time of the year the water is with rough and broken ice. Had the fliers attempted to reach the imterior of Labrador, a landing would have n fraught with almost insurmount- aie difficulties, Instead they brought their a ne to rest at a s] Where food an: | shelter were avai : Lonely Lighthouse There is a lighthouse on Greenly Island--Fog Horn'Light--which warns the mariners to avoid the shoals and' rocks to the south. The lighthouse keeper and Wiis family are usually the chief residents of the island at this time of year, Thus the winter popul- ation of the island may be somewhere botween 7 and 12 persons. But they exhausted, | 91 the runway at Baldonnel Airdrome, Captain Hermann Koehl and Mal. James Fitzmaurice sat at the controls. In a compartment behind sat Baron von Huenefeld, ready to man the fuel After a daring take-off through a breach in a stone wall, the plane was going strong, two hours later, well over the Atlantic, having passed over Costello, Galway, at 2.03 a.m. Foggy weather prevailed along the coast. Flying In Darkness Soons however, the plane ran into clear weather over the Atlantic. All Thursday during the daylight hours the plane traveled, westward rapidly. That night, swept the altitude in the s or; & blizzard The plane lost ditions-and it oceand' system failed during The fliers were unable to instruments and Captain SIDE OF Bhowing the extra fue sufficient buoyancy to ke nd balloonets fi float, are equipped 'with ample Supping meet the immediate needs ofAhe three airmen. Communication is a more serious problemi, The island, known locally ag Ile Verte, fs about two miles from the mainland. There, at the extreme southerh tip of Labrador, is Blanc! Sablon,' a settlement of some 100 French-Canadian fishermen. There is a telegraph station there. Sometimes it operates and sometimes it does not 'An@l when the Bremen flashed out of the fog and came to rest, tne tele graph line wag out of commission. The location of the island Is reter- red to as the southern extremity of the Straits of Belle Isle, which stretch for abofit 70 miles between the Gulf of Bt. Lawrence and the Atlantic Ocedn, Separating Labrador and New- toundlafd. Some 20 miles up the straits on the Labfador cost is Point Amour, where the mating #ignal service station 18 located. It was from this station that the Wwiréless. operator flashed the first news td the world of the arriyal of . the flies at Greenly Island. . Closed to Navigation ~ land itself is less than three- of a mile lon ; The 1 quarters widest point only a halfy tony deep gove 1 sho! o al at_cuts. in EW of o 85 feol-risTng "sec! ofthe 1sland and" 20 feet high « on the south "It is on this fquithern bh ; 'lighthouse, 1 a hy He its} gave them opportunity to if direction. The weather, 6 worse and worse, | only with great difficulty e could be kept up. Oft the cast of Newfoundland they struck a heavy fog and began to wan- der, at 2000 feet the fog still enveloped them. They descended to within 50 feet of the waves buf' had to climb upward again because of the high seas running and threatening to engulf them, * Then they saw land, it was a wood- ed country and they flew over it try- ing in vain to locate their position, Next they flew over a large river which they could not identify. A large mountain loomed in their path. Again the Bremen headed upward and over it, Finally they saw what they took 1 in IBY trousers' pocket." '|the bomb outrage at Mian was the lowers to assuite kingly power him- 1 0 They tried to fly above it, but I" of your life if you don't grab me now ee oy Co Cos Co , . CROSSING THE ATLANTIC OCEAN IN A CANOE EC CC ae Cae Pr =P D> So Capt. Franz Romer, intrepid German adventurer, clearing from Lisbon in a daring attempt to cross the Atlantic ocean to New York. be a sealing steamer rozen in the is- land and, although the Bremen was without skids or a landing on ice, they descended. The plane broke through the ice, the metal propeller was bent, the axle o the landing-gear broken, This was noon on Friday, April 13. ERE Ld -- | Travellers Says Police Started Reign of ~~ Terror Agrah, Austria. -- Newspaper dis- patches from Rakek, Italy, on the Italian-Jugo Slav frontier, quote tra- vellers a8 saying that panic and chaos reign throughout Ifaly. . The police, aided by Fascist Militia, are sald to have inaugurated a reign of terror in an effort to get even with "enemies of Fascism." Hundreds. of persons- suspected of eS \pondent of The Christian Str ange Customs Holland Alters "Cart Dog Act" ---- The Hague.--There is a marked im- provement in "the treatment of ani- mals in Holland during recentt years, according to statetments to a corres: Sclenca Monitor, by Government officials. A very important addition to exist: ing legal protection of dogs drawing carts has recently come into force. [The existing so-called "Cart Dog Act" of 1910 was not very efficient, and the Antl-Cart Dog League has been trying to Improve it for many years. Since Dec. 17, 1927, the act has undergone a very substantial change, mainly in two respects. There will be annual examinations in order to ascertain if the dogs used for pulling are of the required size and quality for this kind will a man be allowed to sit cart which is pulled by a dog.) n the being anti-Fascist, fro being arrested daily in almost every town of Italy and throwh into overcrowded prisons. One traveller brought a report that wor kof extremist Fascists themselves | held from King Victor Emmanuel un- til the last minute his decision not to go to M Other solin} ha Emmani posals fro Bena, ravellers allego completely terrgrized Victor and 1s only waiting for pro- his own black shirt fol- elf. An Estate Ag Agent Proposes Marriage Well, old girl, I'm gonna glve you the first chance to make yourself Mrs. Henry H, Jones. I'm the very best to be had in the matrimonial line and I on' "No" for an answer. Plenty are. crazy to get a chance at who were trying to settle thelr ac-! Amster count with the reigning dynasty, This | report had ft that Mussolini had with, | that Mug¢ f Great work has been achiéved in this direction by the humane' societies already mentioned, and also by the persistent work of the Netherlands Soclety for ghe Protection of Animals at The 1 ie, the Sophia-Society at She--"What's the matter, Jack? ce you're a good friend of mine} though, I'm making you the first offer. - And let me tell you right now you'll be making the biggest mistake while you ¢an get me, you say?. Well, whadd: The modern woman has been weighed and found wanting--every- thing under the sun. RGR Ran, "Oh, Dick," cried the wife hysteri- cally, "I've lost my diamond ring, and I can't find it anywhere: "Never mind," said the husband, "I found ft Did' that cake I gave you give you a pain In the stomach?" = He--'No, That cake-eater who just a ves me a pain in the neck." re vig "Sex Equality does not want preferential pro- on to which she fs not entitled, Where is the woman who would not glory In military conscription, pro- vided she be assigned to duties to which she is sulted. The work of wo- men during the late war, in Britain a8 well as in the United States, proved that the fair sex had fewer slackers than the male side. \ Washington Post.--The modern wo- tect | memes NE Fad Submarine In Dry Dock T-- of work, and under no ot fo he F GL Details tab Full Significance of the Flight to Australia (The tollowing udlcation' from the Christian Science Monitor's special : correspondent in Brisbane, giving ploturesque detalls of Bert Hinkler's recent flight fram London to Australia, witth supplement the inadequate reports about that great achievement hitherto available. It will be remembered that in his great exploit of flying 13,000 miles in 15 days, alone, Hinkler wag able to make five new fiying records, and there fs no doubt that this notable perform- ance will be counted as one of the out- standing pioneering feats 4n the his- tory of aviation.) Brisbane, Queensl--""You are a wonderful young man, Bert," sald the Mayor of Bundaberg in the course of the civic welcome accorded Bert Hine kler dn his native town, as soon as the airman stepped out of the cockpit of his tiny Avro-Avian machine on com- pleting his Australian trip. "We are all proud of you, and we are here to pay you the homage and respect you have justly earned in accomplishing that deed." The "deed" in question was briefly this: Hinkler made the quickest flight from London to Australia, having flown the 18,000 miles in 16 days 234 hours as against the previous record of 28 days; he made the world's long- est flight in a light airplane; the first non-stop flight from London to Rome, thie fastest journey from England to India and the longest solo flight. The flight was made in a little 30-horse- power machitie, running costs being altogether £55-- £45 for gasoline (re- presenting a consumption of 450 gal- lons) and £10 for oil, The whole en- finds 6, | cars in ude, 1500 ks and et] and 400 motoreyel ew RI IN | Shir gaia the heat haze, are as m as parts of England. I felt as if I were fying into the door of & furnace. It almost set fire to my face. It was a difficult section. I had wet beat In Arabia, but it was not nearly as severe as that fn the Northern Territory." Hinkler sald that he left Darwin at 7 o'clock on the morning of February 26, and, after two hours, passed over Katherine Waters. He then turned into the desert, where the. flying con- ditions were bad. The sun was in his face, and there was a strong head wind, with clouds of dust. After about five hours battling against adverse conditions he thought it was time to look for a landing place, Seeing a windmill in the distance, he decided to land, as he thought he would at least be able to get water and he might be able to see somebody who could tell him where he was, as the only map tis had was an imperfect ome, A Lone Aborigine He landed safely and got a drink of water, but he could see no one. A short time afterward an aborigine came along, and though he could bare ly speak English he made the aviator understand that he was between Brunette Downs and Alexandra sta- tion. He tried to fly his machine, but this heat was go great and the air so heavy that tt would not rise, so he de- cided to stop till morning, With the aborigine as a companion he had sup- per, and made himself comfortable Welcome Home AN ACE OF at Port Darwin, Australia, THE ACES Bert Hinkler, Australian aviator, who broke flve records when he landed after a fllight of 15% days from London. terprise was undertakef with the! smallest possible margin of funds, Hinkler having falled to secure finan- clal backing in London, The London-to-Rome Record Talking over thie adventure of this remarkable flight Hinkler sald: "My longest hop 'was 1200 miles from London to Rome, I dodged the mountains and followed the rivers down. I knew of two aerodromes on | this pant of the Mediterranean coast but darkness found me between them, so I decided to push on to Rome. Though it was dark, the moon came out and I managed to do it by 8.45 pam. TI had been in the air for 12 liours and 40 minutes. When I left London, I wore a sweater, a coat, a Jumper, and an overcoat, but as I went southeast into a warmer climate I had to shed them. The whole route between [England and Australia is littered with my discarded clothes." Arab Tents and Camels After that, Hinkler sald he seemed to remember nothing but ~endiess stretches of desert, with occasional Arab tents and camels. Once after Janding in Libya he was trying to clear a space for taking off, when a party of Arabs rode up, Not know- ing whether they would prove friend- ly or hostile, he made overtures to them and finally secured their assis~ tance in making the clearing. Soon he was flying over more desert until he came to the stony wastes of Pales: tine, "In getting from Victorla Point to Java, I had to race a rainstorm," Hinkler said, "A wall of water chased me, but I managed to beat it. ~ 1 had just land- ed when it came down in sheets, and 1 could not see 100 yards. = "I landed at Darwin about 5.56 p.m., after flying over the sea practically all the way from Bima on the Malay Archipelago. I found Bima inconveni- ent. I put up in a native's hut, but could not sleep. I was out at 4 p.m, ready to start for Darwin, I had a tricky climb with a full load out of the mountains, and then made for thie open sea. My first sight of Australia was Bathurst Island, and it caused great Joy in the cockpit." : gors of Northarn Territory Hinkler said his bigest. thrill on 'the trip came after he had landed at Darwin, aud le plunged Into a thick for the night. Next morning he flew off and landed near Alexandra station, where be was given breakfast and en- tertained by the station manager. He then rose, and in another 40 miles saw Rankine towmship, of a few houses, on the edge of a vast plain. When he was receiving his direction before leaving Darwin, Hinkler was told that he could not miss Alexandra statton. "As that station 1s 16,000 square miles in area I could not easily ' | iiss it," Hinkler sald, "but as a land- mark it was of little use to me." "lI struck ° rainstorms up above Gladstone, Queensland," Hinkler went on. "There was a strong head wind, and I followed the raflway. Then I eame down the Dawson Valley, and at Baralaba *I circled around to wave greetings to my aunt. For three weeks 1 rose between 8 and 8 in the morning," added Hinkler, "and I have seen 21 sunrises in successions, many of them over different countries, Carriage Bullt for Long Grass * "The engine ran perfectly," he sald. "l sat behind the engine throughout this long trip, and it never missed its steady, droning beat, The extreme regularity and rellability became monotonous." He explained that his machine was fitted with 4 patent un- dercarriage which gave him a very wide wheel track, making the ma- chine veny sfable on the ground, de spite any wind that might be blow- ing. Also, the carriage had no axle in the ordinary way, Therefore, in landing in long grass there was no thing to hinder the machine. By a speclal contrivance the wheels were drawn back as the wings were folded, thereby avolding throwing any extra weight on the tall. This made the machine just as handy to move ®bout.- when the wings were folded as when they were m. In two or thres places Hinkler landed fn a strong wind, and « the undercarriage worked admirably, keeping' the ms. chine stable. All over the machine were fitted little special techalemite nipples, and with his grease can be could ofl the machine from thg cock- pit without walking round. The flight to Australia has been a complished previously by Sir Hoes and Sir Keith Smith, Pater and Mo Intosh; Sit Alan Cobham, end the Italian airman, de Pinedo. De Pinedo included Australis in a flight around the world. The shortest ¢ hither- to occupied in the, o Jovtaey to from Lon. | don to Australia 'was 28 Lr F the Smith bro and Sir Alan Tho . first 1 Smiths this country in rive tas ig operation of railways and the ising of loans, according to the new aty with the Arab starte, recently ublished here. The great railway m Bagdad to Medina, by which the rks maintained their hold on Arabia ofore the war, passes through Trans. jordan, an dthat country is also cons. cerned In the exploitation of the riches of the Dead Sea, so that this provision fs of considerable import. dnce. But, by the terms of its man.' date over the country, Great Britain is bound to maintain the "open door" system for trade and industry of all countries. The new treaty also maintains the present customs agreement between Transjordan and Palestine, but the two countries are still to be kept ens tirely separate as regards administra. 'tion and gino. No obstacie is to be placed In the way of customs or other agreements between Transjordan and neighboring states. Thus 1s opened up the possi- bility of ultimate political unfon be. tween the various Arab principalities, which has been the aim of educated Arabs for a number of years. Syria, however, is under a French mandate, and the prospects of any sort of union with Transjordan are considered ex- tremely remote, The same applies to Transjordan's southern neighbor, the Hejaz, since the rulers of the two countries, Emir Abdullah and King Ibn Saud, respectively, have a long- dtanding feud with one another. But King TFelsal of Irak is Abdullah's brother, and here the chances of a union are thought to be somewhat brighter. Use of the words "neighboring Arab state" will be interpreted by the '| Arabs to include Palestine, where 76 per cent. of the population are Mos- lem Arabs, Here the question is com. plicated by the "Jewish Home," which {3s being fostered by Great Britain but is not recognizd by th Arabs, Trans- jordan, hough undr the Palestine man- dute, 1s expressly excluded from the operation of the clauses relating to the establishment of a national home for the Jews. Defense of Transjordan under the treaty is to be organized by Great Bri- tain, but at the expense of the local government. Until such time as the finances of the g¢ountry can assume more of the burden, however, Trans. jordan will continue to bear one-sixth of the cost of the Transjordan fron- tier force. Great Britain Is to be represented At Amman, the capital, by a British resident. Canada Eager To Have British As Immigrants Official Counsels Making In- ducements Attractive Home Folk Ottawa.--"We should go to the limit to make it clear that we want all the Hritishers to come to this country whom we can settle," W. J. Black, Director of Colonization for the Cana- dian National Rallways, informed the Agricultural Committee of the House of Commons. Dr. Black recommended that the medical and civil inspection be made reasonable protection of Canada's In. terests, and that the reduced passage rates be continued for the movement of juveniles and families migrating to engage in farming, but that for single men arrangements be made for a flat rate of £10 or £12, and that for this class there be no occupational test. The same rate should apply to trans- where the father or head of the family, 1s established in Canada. In order that opportunities for en- gaging successfully in farming may be increased and the lack of housing accommodation for such families in rural districts may be partially met, it is proposed that the Federal Gov: ernment establish a fund of $4,500,00¢ a year for each of the next three years, to provide for loans for the erection of workers' cottages on' the farms of those who wil lapply for such loans. These cottages would provide temporary homes for families while gaining experience, and should be va- cated 'within 'two years for other ime migrants. "Dr. Black suggested that public lands in the prairie provinces should be placed under the jurisdiction of the Depdrtment of Immigration and Cole ontzation. and that the present home« regulations be cancelled; that a a lands near a railway be - exdnifned and only the best be offer- as simple as possible, consistent with - portation in the reunion of families °