Amanullah Aloft

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 311, 23 March 1928, Page 13

Amanullah Aloft

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AFGHAN KING FLIES OVER LONDON VISIT TO GREENWICH Association. — Copyright. tu CM*®9 S am. LONDON, Thurs. ,*,.nuUah ot Afghanistan is the A ting to fly over London for halt in » K iant airliner%'e i»M it was the greatest thrill of *ik!*“DaUy Telegraph” states that 1 “5 reign Office has arranged for '* Jibing of King Amanullah's tour 1 a the film, with Persian ■Httoe are to be ' forwarded to where there is only one ll Kinf Amanullah was keenly interI jjn what he saw to-day on his . j n a launch down the Thames. to sf passed many big ships, includ- “ White Star liner Megantic. ; w th . King George V. Dock he inctß< the great 150-ton lifting der- . k which is the latest acquisition. The Customs sheds and the im,a warehouse where the merchanis stored were pointed out to the 'l' gm i he was astonished at the mart nude Of the dock. Visiting Greenwich Observatory, tile .. was conducted by Sir Frank nvson, Astronomer-Royal. He injected the original observatory ‘iiiaded by Charles 11. in 1675, and iened by Sir Christopher Wren. He Voted through the giant 28-inch tele- ' (ip e which weighs 31 tons, and is 4, Hugest ft Europe. r had been hoped to show him a [ta r ol the first magnitude, but the Jw WIS too cloudy, and there were no -ianpti in a position favourable for observation. —A. and N.Z.