IN THE AIR.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1919, Page 5

IN THE AIR.

AIRSHIP AND CREW DESTROYED.

STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. By Telegraph.—Press Received July IG, 5.5 p.m. London, July 15. _ Coast dwellers at Cromer saw a glare in the sky and a burning mass fall into the sea. Airship wreckage was later washed ashore at ■Sheringham. A, coastal airship and twelve ot the crew from Pulham are missing. 'lt is believed they were struck by lightning.-AUB.-N.Z. Cable Assn. London, July 15. The airship No. 11 was struck by lightning. Twelve of the crew were lost.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Received July 17, 12.50 a.m. London, July 16. It ig confirmed that ,the airship No. 11 was blown up in Norfolk.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' < • ANOTHER '£lo,ooo PRIZE, RETURN TRIP TO INDIA. AND SOUTH AFRICA. ißeceivedtfnly 16, 115 p.m. London, July 16. The Daily Express offers a prize of £IO,OOO for a commercial reliability airship or aeroplane to make a return flight frqm (Britain to India and South Africa, carrying a minimum of one ton. An Australian flight is excluded, owing to the Commonwealth's earlier offer. The competitors are to be judged on reliability and airworthiness. The competition aims at establishing the fact that India and South Africa, despite the shortage of shipping, are easily communicable from London.—Aus.-KZ, .Cable Assn. | THE PLIGHT TO INDIA'. Beceived July 16. 8.10 p.m. London, Jnly 15. The R34 begins a flight to India-next week.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.