AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 January 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAIILE ASSOCIATION. AIRSHIP ADRIFT. XEAY YORK, January 10. A telegram from l.akehur.st. New Jersey, says that the Navy airship Shenandoah, moored to steel masts for a ten (lay test, broke away in a fiftymile gale. She has a crew of thirty aboard.

Radio communication was established with the diiigible late to-night, which was then believed to he over New Brunswick. Canada.

If is said in be able to ride out. lieg”.h*. It is understood that the Shenandoah was being prepared for the pioposed air flight to the North Pole iu the Spring. XKAY YORK. January Hi.

A telegram from Lnkchurst. New Jersey, says that it was a tremendous wintry gale which tore the airship Scran, popularly called the Shenandoah, from it's HiK) foot mooring mast, where it had bene fastened for the last loin days, at a test, pieparatory to the coming polar trip, ((."allied December 25th). The gale drove the ship toward the sea. with a crew of twenty j men aboard, and the motors going. Tlie l dirigible has slip) lie. for a four thouI v nii' : mile cruising trip aboard, hut it i not known "Imt injury it has .stifle red. Tin- crews have I,ecu mciutnined aboard for .such an eventuality, but. there F great uncertainty tell regarding the vessel's late, .since Hu- gale I continues. A short radio message from the dirigible indicates the crew are renfident they will ride out the .storm, hut Commander AYr-yeibnch. of Fakehurst Station, said he had little hope of the ship returning to safety. Experts believe that her metal nosetap, where the entire framework eonverges. was torn out when she "as wrenched free from the mast, thus weakening the vessel, and endangering its safety. AGE OF J ER PSA I .EM. lEeecivotl this day at 9.t0 a.m.) ,\KAY Aim;K, Jan. Ili. Professor Montgomery, President of the American Oriental School of Research has announced that .Air Stuart McAllister, a British explorer, discove!ed uia-oury and pottery in the walls oj Palestine excavations that would take the history of Jerusalem hack to! three thousand years before Christ.! thus making the city six hundred . yours older than the previous tuscoveries indicated. The pottery is similar to that found iu the Egyptian excavations. The find is regard-si as mod important. SEKPAI FOR SCARLET I EVER. XEAN YORK. Jan. 17. The di-covery ol seiiiiu for scarlet fever i- announced by Doctor Docile/., associate professor of medicine. at ('ofuuihia Pnivei'si I,\ . ( OAI.MINERS TO HIT!'. SVDXEA’ ( Nova Scotia l, Juu. 17. Twelve thousand coalminers will <liiit when their contract expiles, ami when ills- British Empire Steel Corporation has lopped twenty per cent, off the wages of nine tho|sand of it-,

p.s.a. cruiser agropnd. NEW AOR ix. Jan. 17. A message from Galveston (Texas), states that the Failed States cruiser Tacoma is aground, and in distress oil A’era Cruz, 'lhe seas are heavy. Aid is being rushed to tlie scene. THE AIRSHIP SHENANDOAH. Received tuis dav at 9.25 a.m.) AVASHIXGTOX. Jan. 17. L'nitiiiieutiuc on tile Shenandoah's sate ict urn. Secretary Oenhy said that she v.vs fully < 111 : 1 1iIir■ >I to undertake a pulai nip as the lnnhiighl flight o: F'.e Sl'ee.o ha demon 'w dMu t her moor’.'., F' Wit ; c -<t: ..' IcqiKd tell mo:,', oio ”•’ v - e 'e a; as she is fueled l.'l'S* 1 A- : safe in thy a*r. It i: Lj? •'' e that the Shenandoah will cm uijnlca on the Artie expedition any test as severe as that- which she has already met successfully. THE AIRSHIP SAFE. NEW YORK. Jan. 17. A message from Fake Hurst says tin- Shenandoah outrode the gale lor nine hours and returned safely to the hangar undamaged.