AUSTRALIAN NEWS
FAT A L EXP EIMAIENT.
(Australian Press Association)
MELBOURNE, Feb. 5.
Fired by a desire to emulate German experiments in rocket propulsion work with a car, Leslie Ait-ken,. 17, was fatally injured by an explosion in a workshop at his home in Preston. He had been for some time studying reports of oversea research workers, and developing an idea of his own. He had a length of iron piping filled with explosive and fastened in a vice. A companion, ~Marcel MacMahon, who was assisting, left the shop for a few moments and a violent explosion occurred, and hurrying back the youth found Aitken unconscious, terribly wounded. Fragments of the iron pipe were scattered all over the shop. lad died in the hospital without regaining consciousness.
REPLY' TO COMMENT
SYDNEY, February 6
Doctor Peltzer’s comment at Christchurch on the political interference in economic activities in Australia and other matters were briefly replied-to ♦6-day by the Prime Minister Air Scullin, who depreciated hasty comment by casual vistors. He added that Peltzer could hardly be expected to know his subject, since lie merely “ran through the country.”
CAPTAIN CHICHESTER
SYDNEY, February 6
Captain Chichester to-night is the guest of the New Zealanders ;it the Savage Club reception. He w r as given a remarkable ovation. He sails on : Friday by the Maunganui.
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