Empire Air Routes.

A break-down of the British aeroplane initiating the British-Australian air-mail was repaired by Kingsford Smith, who flew north from Australia into Dutch territory to supply the missing link. This mail route seems to be now open for good airmen with good luck. In Africa Glen Kidston did some fast flying as an argument for speeding up the British-African air-mail, but after a remarkably rapid flight from England to the Cape he crashed fatally, with a companion, in Natal. Schneider Cup winner Waghorn jumped from a falling aeroplane in England, and his parachute (owing, it is said, to low altitude) did not save him from injuries resulting in death. His place will be quickly filled in the British Schneider Cup team. The Victorian-New South Wales air mail aeroplane Southern Cloud vanished without trace. British airship effort (gas) pauses after a colourless report by the R101 inquiry.