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their sucmiled flight from Eng- erica, as told to and 2 her husband's EY Other Side', was a lecture here 10- Vi KY "Mrs, Hinchliffe, a aiidience that she now a convinced spiritualist, Mncalitte and - Miss Mackay were Azores, March 14, Ha br i hRitcked airplane into th Hiuchitte's lecture, of 'the correspondent obtained ant copy, says she obtained fullest details of the aiv trag- édy i a seanée she had here May " wr at ateny: of Trip Mrs. Hinchliffe's description of what happened at that seance as contained in her speech, follows in part: 'It appears that after leaving the Irish coast at 2 p.m,, my husband flew in a northwesterly direction at a speed of eighty to ninety RO miles an hour for eight hours 10 p.m., 50 gw Sawa pract) ally 700 miles. weather w bad at first, but the [elouds dense. Ed "At 10 p.m., he sald, 'I altegea my course to a little more nosth and 1 think I must have reached something like 100, miles hour, In the two hours from pm. to midnight I therefore covered other 200 miles or néa Ady I encountered bad weather, This can be proved from the he the 100 land as I know the maiseriosion service has weather charts of tha Atlantic. Force of Gale Terrible " 'We got right into the storm and the force of the gale was ter- rible. It broke one strut of the machine and another strut cracked, Canvas was tearing and one plug in the engine was missing. The further I went on in the direction of the American continent the heavier the storm became. I knew by midnight that it would be im- possible to reach America and then 1 thought of the Leeward Islands. (He explained that he meant the islands situated to the leeward). Therefore, at midnight I deliber- ately changed my course to due south, Panic Stricken " '1 felt that the further south I went the better able I would be to get out of the storm. I contin. ued on a southerly course until 3 a.m, So if you judge the speed of the machine during these three hours of flying south it will give you the distance ' direptly momth, Miss Mackay was in a. terfible state, As soon as we 'strugk' bad weather she became, panic en and hysterical and when, at41 a.m, we were caught in several whirls at EY Aa winds," she became unconscious through terror, ok wih "Seta le tions. At 3 a.m. the machine came avy Sg water within fight of land. 0 outermost rocks of the Asores. 1 was hoping that the tide would carry the machine onto the rocks, but instead of this it cayried the machine further away, " 41 got free out of the machine. London, Nov, 22 ---- The Dally Express today says that the Ad- miralty has been caused consider- able anxiety by the result of recent experiments which show that bat. tleships and cruisers are extremely vulnerable to the new form of air- craft 'attack, The newspaper says that pro- found modifications in future Hrit- ish programs for naval shipbuild- ing are fore-shadowed by the ex- periments which were carried out by the naval branch of the air force and fleet, Depth charges and wireless-controlled torpedoes rve- leased from airplanes are sald to have defeated all precautions tried against such devices, It is said to be heyond the akill of shipbuilders to construct steel hulls impervious to teopund depth charges, while the destructive effect 'of wireless torpedoes is certain, [mate and a waiter from the crew Usain vo BAL Lava, THURSUVAY, NOVEMEER 22, 1928 PAGE ELEVEN rary ty in he water waited through long hours for rescue. , the saloon mate, and the waiter, both paint- ed a graphic picture of water swishing about, inside the ship Sun- STATES VESTRIS ALWAYS LEAKED, HEAVY WEATH Saloon Mate and Waiter Tes- tify to Condition of Ports and Doors New York, Nov, 22.-- A saloon in through a half-door tn the ship's side, near their quarters. ia Writing O'Connor tes! . ied that, as part of his duty, he had reported in at the conclusion of the Vestris' last two us voyages the for re-rubbering 14 port- holes, ese reports, he said, he understood went to the land office of the Lamport and Holt line, Scott and O'Connor described the difficulties encountered in lower- ing the lifeboats over the port side ~--the side of the ship that was up out of the water, It was to these lifeboats, which the crew started to lower first, that the women and children were assigned. Scott and O'Connor said {it took two hours to get them down and Scott said that ome of them never got away from the ship at all, After Scott and O'Connor had testified that hatches near the leaking half-door wer mever cover- ed until Monday morning, when canvas was stretched over them. Ford sald that when he went on duty Sunday morning water was tice feet deep In the ship's stoke old. Ford sald that Monday morning conditions had become so bad In the stoke hold that four men were need- ed to do the work of one--one man to hold the fire-door open, one to shovel, and two to hold the shov- ller up. Water Down Ventilators of the steamship Vestris testifiea Tuesday that «he ship always leak- ed at ports and doors when there was heavy weather, One of today's witn who told of the leakage, which both as- serted was customary whenever the ship struck a storm, yy be had reported the defects in writing, telling the land officials of the line that the ports and doors needed to be re-rubbered, The other said lhe had made no report as to the leaks which were a matter of com- mon knowledge. Both sald that no repairs had been made prior to the last voyage of the Vestris. Other W itnenses The other witnesses were Gilbert Ford, the negro chief fireman, and Frederick Sorenson, a second class passenger, Ford told of water pouring into the stoke hole from an ash hopper where the ship's ashes were diluted with sea water so they could be pumped out through the side. He said the hopper overflowed becaus Vy the top was not fastened, the screw being rusted so that they were use. ess. Sorenson told of the events lead- | Sorenson told of "quite a lot" of 'water coming down oad some {ventilators on Sunday the (Steward's room. These Ri Pag ho sald, Bad mo covers over them. Water also went into the galley, putting out the stove so that mo more food could be cooked. At this point the British nauti- cal advisor at the bearing, Capt. Henry MéConkey, marine superin- tendent of the Cunard Line, said he wished to question the itno. "Did you, as a ship's officer," sald to Seremson, "volunteer »"... services launching the boats or in caring for the rs?" "No," Sorenson replied, "I was busy helping the women ,and never thought to do that" CONFEDERATION Canadian National Rallway Of- ficials are being congratulated om having continued the popular "Con. federation" in operation between Toronto and Edmonton. 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