NEWS IN BRIEF.
An eight-ton air liner carrying 18 passengers recently made a record by crossing from Paris to London in 100 minutes. Lord Knutsford’s few minutes talk on, the wireless on behalf of the London Hospital produced over £44,000. An express train on the way to Leningrad was brought to a stop by an owl turning the tap of the air brake. Sir Napier Shaw has formed the opinion that the air a hundred miles above the earth consists almost entirely of helium. In Madrid there is a family of centenarians —a woman aged 127 with five sons aged 111, 109, 108, 106, and 105, all at work. Over 1000 girls under twenty were reported as missing in London last year, and all but 24 are known to have been found.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3797, 26 May 1928, Page 4
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132NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3797, 26 May 1928, Page 4
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