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SMITH’S PROGRESS {United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) ! SINGAPORE, -Dec 5. Air-Commodore Ivingsford Smith .'pent the ni<_ r ht here, and lie left for ! Alcrstar at six o’chr-k this n orning. Owing to the softness of the ground, •Jr... to rains between Sint are and Rangoon, a ,; d to a consequent ciifaculty in taking off with a heavy lo d, ' Smith will probably the Southern 1 Sun’s mail, and make two tri 'ft with it from Alorstar to Rangoon, after I which no trouble is expected. ! BERT HINKLER. ! MADRID, Dec. 5. Bert Hinkler has .been detained by had weather between here and ParisMADRID, Dec o. Bert Hinkler has left here on a non-stop flight to Paris. SPEED FLYER KILLED DETROIT, Dec. 5. Lowell R. Bayless of Springfield Massachusetts, a speed flier, was kin ed on Saturday when his plane struck the ground and burst, into flames while he was making an attempt on the world’s land plane record. A few days ago Bayless attained a speed of two hundred ancl eighty-one decimal nine miles per hour.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1931, Page 6
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