AVIATION.
(Australian Press Association A bun. A.IR LINER CRASHES . LONDON, Aug. 22. A Dutch air liner crashed at Seven Oaks. A mechanic was killed and seven passengers were injured. I hose injured in the air liner’s crash included three Britishers. The machine dived from a thousand feet. Tile pilot kept up the nose until the wind tore off the rudder. The liner crashed between trees and burst into flames.
PLANES FOR MUSSOLINI. LONDON, Aug. 21
• A Milan correspondent reports that in a letter to the President of the Aero Club, Mussolini lays down the conditions of the collection fund to provide aeroplanes for the State. He says the subscription must bo truly popular, lienee a low rate must be fixed. The present is not the time to ask the public for money. Subscriptions must be absolutely spontaneous and no pressure must be brought to bear. One must consider and lie content with the symbolic value of every offer, however modest the subscription. Tt will attain the greatest results, not only in the number of aircraft provided, but if it succeeds, in fortifying more strongly the flying conscience of the nation. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 21. With sixty-two vessels searching for the seven missing aviators and no trace found, hope has virtually been abandoned. Public comment now openly condemns the race as an unwise venture. It is pointed out that’ all efforts of the United States Department of Commerce to have the race delayed, so that the entrants could better prepare the planes, were unsuccessful, and its suggestion that the race could be held over land, or that the planes should fly from Honolulu to California, thus having the entire continent as their destination were refused.
Newspaper leaders ask that aviation he put under control.
BRISBANE TO INVERCARGILL. BRISBANE, Aug. 22.
Frewen states that lie hopes to fly from Brisbane this week, en route to Hobart, from whence he proposes to fly to Invercargill. He will u.se a Bristol fighter aeroplane with a ■
speed of 90 miles hourly and living range of 1200 miles.
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