Captain Kingsford Smith and his three companions left Barking Sands (Hawaii) for Suva early on Sunday morning. Messages received throughout yesterday and last night from the airmen indicated that the Southern Cross ...
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Article : 117 wordsThe English Rugby League footballers had their first victory yesterday, when they atoned for their previous ...
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Article : 212 wordsMarshal Chang Tso-lin left Pekin early this morning for Manchuria, accompanied by his staff and most of the Cabinet. The Ministers for Foreign ...
Article : 169 wordsThe "Morning Poet's" Rome correspondent says that the-flight not only aimed at the endurance record, but served as a trial for a projected ...
Article : 43 wordsIt is reported that a bridge was blown up while Chang Tso-lin's train was passing over it. Four carriages were wrecked, and there were many ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Duchess of Bedford took the controls for an hour out of a 150 minutes' test flight, under severe conditions, in a giant Fokker 'plane in ...
Article : 69 wordsJ. B. Hawkes, the last Australian in the French hard courts tennis championships, was eliminated by Lacoste ...
Article : 471 wordsChang Tso-Lin left Pekin at three o'clock on Sunday morning in a heavily guarded train, and arrived safely within ...
Article : 186 wordsThe plans for the Anglo-Indian air route are now nearing completion, and the service, it is expected, will be in full operation by April 1, 1929, ...
Article : 151 wordsAll messages from the Southern Cross have been picked up by the Observatory Radio Station, 4CM, since the 'plane left Hawail for Suva. ...
Article : 143 wordsWhen the steamer Ormiston arrived to-day the crew were given 24 hours' notice of dismissal. When they are paid ...
Article : 117 wordsMr. George Putman, the well-known publisher, announced that the trimotored Fokker plane in which Wilmer Stultz flew from Boston and ...
Article : 88 wordsA message sent from the Southern Cross about 2.30 a.m. declared: "Doing fine. Expecting to sight land, but not yet sighted it." ...
Article : 68 wordsSir Robert Houston, the ship owner, who left an estate valued at £7,000,000, paid a tribute in his will to his wife's "intuition, which on two ...
Article : 171 wordsAt last Friday night's meeting of the Brisbane branch of the Marine Cooks, Bakers, and Butchers' Association; a letter from the General ...
Article : 199 wordsNo flight, with the possible exception of Colonel Charles Lindbergh's Flight to Paris, has created so much interest as the departure of the ...
Article : 133 wordsEarly on Friday morning Mrs. C. T. P. Ulm received a misleading message from a friend in Honolulu, which read: "Petrol going. Lost our course ...
Article : 355 wordsDean Inge, towards tire close of a sermon in Westminster Abbey, said: "I regret that there is being honoured with applause in this country to-day ...
Article : 124 wordsWhen a motor lorry plunged over a steep embankment near Clunes, between Lismore and Bangalow, early on Sunday morning, four Brisbane ...
Article : 97 wordsAmerica scored comfortable victories over Japan in the Davis Cup singles matches to-day. Wilbur Coen defeated Abe (Japan), 7-9, 6-2, 6-4, ...
Article : 104 wordsThe New South Wales selectors have chosen 15 players from whom the final selection will be made for the third match against England, on Saturday. ...
Article : 123 wordsA naval radio message received from the Southern Cross at 11.16 p.m. (Pacific Coast time) stated: "Sailing fine, above rolling clouds, with nice ...
Article : 31 wordsA writ has been issued by Andrew J. Hunter out of the Supreme Court of Queensland against Mr. W. McCormack (the Treasurer, for the time ...
Article : 85 wordsThe tramway employees have started a regulation strike as the result of the new rules not allowing the men to clock off until full time, is up. ...
Article : 101 wordsMessages from the Southern Cross are now being heard here. At 3.10 the 'plane was heard to call Fanning Island as followse. "Hello, old man, nice place. ...
Article : 285 wordsThe steamer Braganza has departed with 13 Alpini, under Sorra, and eight days' supplies, to search Reindeer Island, where the Italia may have ...
Article : 43 wordsPike Cup competition matches played to-day resulted: Post Brothers defeated Past Grammars. 12-7; Carlton defeated University 23-12; ...
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Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Tue 5 Jun 1928, Page 7
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