The Archive · 1925

Over Darkest Africa

Daring Flight from Cairo to Nigeria Cairo, Oct. 27.

Squadron-Leader Coningham and Flight-Lieutenants Rowley and Baggs started from Helouan at seven o'clock this morni three!

DH-9A machines on flight to Nigeria and back.

General Haking and others wish. ed the aviators God-speed.

The first halt will be at Haifa, then Khartoum, Obeid and Fasher, after which they will fly across the unexplored French Equatorial Africa—Reuter, ceeding last year's record of 1203.

Oct. 28, French franes were quoted on the London foreign exchange market this morning at 1213, thos exceeding last year's record of 1203, Jbut in the afternoon the rate re-corered to 1121.21.—Reuter, New York, Oct. 24.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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