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AIRPLANE DISASTER. /Received this day at S a.m.) NEW YORK, May 29. Advices from Augusta. "Georgia, states several thousands gasped with horror at the spectacle of a burning airplane with four army aviators crash to earth in the army airplane manouvres on Sunday. The bodies were almost incinerated. The plane was one of fourteen bombers and had ascended five hundred feet and was waiting there, for the planes to take ofl. when the motor stalled and the plane nose-dived, a flaming mass.
ATTACK ON WATER SUPPLY. NEW YORK, May 29. Los Ang-'.es water supply for this great city is endangered by an amazing feud started ten years ago breaking out again during tlie past week, causing damage of one hundred thousand sterling. Appeals were made that tho Governor of the State of California sliould order troops to patrol 265 miles, tlie total length of the aqueduct supplying the city against armed bands of ranchers in Owens A alley. The latter claim their homes and farm lands are desolated by Los Angeles damming the mountain lakes. The power plant and svplion were successively dynamited on Thursday and Friday', perilling the city’s entire supply. The ranchers ask for half a million sterling compensation and threaten other reprisals. ■
burned to death. VANCOUVER, May 29. A telegram from Augusta, in Georgia, U.S.A. states: Four aviators of a" United States Squadron, bound from San Antonio, in Texas, to the Langly Flying Fields, were burned to death to-day, when tlieir aeroplanes fell in flames near Augusta.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 May 1927, Page 2
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