The aviation, contests now being held on Betheny Plain, Rheims, are attracting great interest throughout the Continent and Great Britain. Enormous crowds ...
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Article : 63 wordsWhile executing a gunlaying test off Babbicombe Bay, Devonshire, H.M.S'. twinscrew battleship Hannibal, 14,900 tons, scraped a reef. Several plates were torn, ...
Article : 108 wordsThe War Office has issued regulations for the organization and administration of cadet corps thronghout Britain. It is hoped that scores of thousands of boys will ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Ottawa correspondent of The DailyMail states that the initial naval programme of the Canadian. Dominion is expected to include the provision of four or ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Victorians at present in London entertained Mr. W. L. Baillieu, the Victorian Minister of Public Works, at a banquet at he. Grosvenor Club on Thursday evening, ...
Article : 72 wordsA sensational robbery on a gigantic scale was attempted on Sunday afternoon on the premises of Mappin & Webb, Limited, jewellers and manufacturers of ...
Article : 639 wordsThe defence delegates from the overseas dominions on Thursday attended a meeting of the Committee Imperial Defence, a permanent body of which the ...
Article : 121 wordsIt is officially announced, at Capetown that the Government and the Admiralty have abandoned the search for the steamer Waratah, which left Durban on July 28 ...
Article : 121 wordsOn Monday a trial trip was made on the banks of the Seine, France, of a ClementBayard dirigible airship, which had been constructed to the order of the Russian ...
Article : 365 wordsThe principal underwriters who insure Australian produce recently complained with respect to the unsatisfactory manner in which they stated frozen meat is ...
Article : 81 wordsPersons of a sanguine temperament have (suggested that the steamer Menarandra, 651 tons, bound from Madagascar to East. London, which is 25 days overdue at the ...
Article : 78 wordsAn apparently inspired statement in connection with the Defence Conference which was circulated in London on August 19 alleged that under the arrangement entered ...
Article : 353 wordsThe first-class battleship Agamemnon, 16,500 tons. 183/4 knots, ran aground on Wednesday at Long Sand, off Sheerness, at the mouth of the Thames estuary. With ...
Article : 350 wordsThe Government of Cape Colony, in consequence of the-wreck of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion steamer Maori at Duiker Point, has decided to erect additional beacons and ...
Article : 43 wordsThe British cruiser Pandora, which has been out searching for the missing liner Waratah, now 28 days overdue, has returned to East London. The man-of-war ...
Article : 53 wordsThe steamer Paparoa, which left Capetown on August 2, arrived this morning. Capt. Clifford states that when he left Capetown the weather was fine, but that ...
Article : 273 wordsAt Betheny Plain, Rheims, on Tuesday, 100,000 persons congregated to witness the contest with flying machines. M. Fallieres (the French President) was ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Winnipeg tribune condemns the decision to impose on Canada its own navy instead of joining the other colonies in a contribution towards the improvement and ...
Article : 103 wordsAt Channel (for orders).—Montrosa, barque. from Tasmania April 26. At LonSon.—-Calchas. steamer, from Port Adelaide June 30. At Avonmoutb —Clan ...
Article : 213 wordsDuring the experimental aerial contests over Betheny Plain, Rheims, on Wednesday M. Paulhan achieved a world's record flight. Ascending in a Voisin biplane, he ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Holt liner AlcinOus, which arrived on Monday evening from Glasgow, is the first steamer that has reached Port Adelaide via the Cape of Good Hope since the ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Spectator, in dealing with the report of the special committee of the navy, who considered the statements made by Lord Charles Beresford, states that the ...
Article : 97 wordsTroops are being hurried to Monroe, a town in the State of Louisiana, U.S.A., where serious conflicts are occurring between the whites and blacks. ...
Article : 119 wordsMr. Llovd-George (Chancellor of the Exchequer) returned to London on Tuesday after his brief visit to Rheims to witness the aerial contests. In a press ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Times, in a leading article discussing the work of the Imperial Defence Conference says that Australia's strong initiative in military and naval defensive ...
Article : 109 wordsThe steamer Wonga Fell, which sailed from Capetown direct for Sydney on the day on which the Waratah was due at that Port from Durban, arrived to-day. Capt. ...
Article : 199 wordsIn the House of Commons on Thursday the Bill creating a Constitution for United South Africa was taken through committee without amendment. Mr. Balfour ...
Article : 319 wordsM. Louis Bleriot, the first mail to fly across the English Channel in an aeroplane, and Mr. H. Latham, who twice failed, are arranging an aviation match in London for ...
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Article : 92 wordsThe Russian Government has decided to found professorships of aerostatics (aerial navigation) in connection with the industrial colleges assisted by the State. ...
Article : 26 wordsSir Edward Morris (Premier of Newfoundland) has returned to the island colony from the Imperial Defence Conference. He states that the conference was ...
Article : 175 wordsMisfortune seems to dog the efforts of Mr. Walter Wellman to attempt to reach the north, pole from Spitsbergen by means of ah airship. ...
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Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905 - 1931), Sat 28 Aug 1909, Page 36
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