AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1928, Page 2

AVIATION

Australian Press Assn.—United Service AIR, LINER CAPTURED. LONDON, July 4. A Casablanca message states that the mystery of the missing air mail liner in the service connecting Marseilles and Rio De Janiero is solved by the news that it was forced down and captured by the Moors, who are holding the liner and mails for ransom. SOUTH ATLANTIC VENTURE. EERRARIN PASSES CAPE VERDE. LONDON, July 25. Ferrarin wirelessly reported he was 350 miles north of Cape Verde Isles at eight o’clock last night. AMUNDSEN STILL AIISSING. KING’S BAY, July 4. The ship which is searching among Hie ice barrages around Bear Island, lias found no trace of Amundsen. NOBILE ILL. KING’S BAY, July 4. Nobile is abed ill. I' uKKER PLANE SMASHED. BERLIN, July 4. Despite forty workmen holding the wings, a Fokker aeroplane was lifted fifteen feet and turned over and smashed. AIRMEN STRIKE. AVARS AAV, July 5. The air services at AVarsaw, Dantzig and Vioiina have been suspended, as a result of the pilots and mechanics striking, following n refusal to a claim for thirty per cent increase in wages. TRAGEDY IN AEROPLANE. MILLIONAIRE” DROWNED. LONDON, July 5. The well-known Belgian financier and millionaire, Baron Lowenstein, was drowned as the result of a most remarkable air accident. He left Croydon for Brussels; by aeroplane, accompanied by bis personal stall', besides the pilot and mechanic. While Hying over the sea, between Dunkirk and Ostend, Baron Lowenistein apparently opened the wrong door, fell out, and was drowned. It is recalled that ho offered to lend the Belgian Government ten million sterling, without interest, to stabilise the franc. BRUSSELS. July 5. Lowenstein’s secretary, who was aboard the aeroplane, believes he was the victim of a tragic mistake. Lowenstein left his companions to visit the lavatory. Owing to prolonged absence, a search was made. The lavatory was empty. Apparently Lowenstein opened an adjoining door giving ogress. LO\VENSTKIN’S HEALTH. "■ LONDON, July 5. Lowenstein for some months has been showing signs of ill-health, attributed to his increasing activity. He is believed to bo-considerably disappointed at the French and Belgian Government’s rejection of his offers. LONDON. July 5. The Stock Exchange instantly reacted to Loewenstcin’s death. Dealers refused to quote international holdings or hydro-electric security in wliicn lie was heavily interested. The former dropped sixty points and the lattei twenty-six points, regaining twelve. The machine was his own tlivee-en-gined Fokker. It was crossing the Channel at a thousand feet altitude at the. time of the tragedy. The body lias not been recovered and must have been reduced to pulp.