'A War Libel Exposed Oct. 26.
New York, Oct. 25.
With nobody on board, 17 of 23 In connexion with the stir arising American Navy seaplanes here for from a report that General Char-two days for the naval pageant teris, Chief of "the British Intel. broke their moorings in a 76 mile ligence Staff during the war, told gale Inst night, and were strewn the National Arts Club at a recent! along the beach. Seven were des-private dinner that the story that troyed. the Germans had boiled bodies of Later. dead soldiers for the purpose of seaplanes were damaged in the gale, Nave of the, Schneider Cup obtaining fat was a deliberate velttion, General Charteris told though Hinkler's machine had a.
Reuter's correspondent, before leav-narrow escape. As the wing struck {t the airmen leapt on and brought ing for England to-day, that he had been incorrectly reported. His reit to a standstill a few inches from ferences to propaganda, which had the pillars of the hangar. been purely incidental, had been Britain's Hard Luck in Trials made for the express purpose of Later. emphasizing the principle followed by the British that propaganda, to The British team for to-day's be effective, must be based on truth. Schneider Cup race is reduced by He added that he had only mention-tone. The reserve Gloster-Napier the case of the "corpse factory" machine, piloted by Hinkler, failed for the purpose of emphasizing that, to qualify in the morning's try-out, the report was not utilized for when the machine struck the water Propaganda when it became known and wulfered heavy damage to the that the soldier's diary, on which had been founded, was fictitious.
Won by America Reuter's American Service, Later.
'The Schneider Cup seaplane race of seven laps, aggregating 350 kilometres, was' won by Lieutenant Doolittle, of the American Army, piloting ' an army Curtis racer. His average hourly speed was 232.573 miles per hour.
Lieutenant Doolittie's speed was a record for the race, Captain Broad (Britain), piloting a Gloster Napier, was second with an average of 199 miles an hour, M. di Briganti (italy) in a Macchi flying boat being, third. with 168 miles. an hour.
remaining two competitors, both Jof whom - were Americans, "were. forse Re tetcends Lieitenant iddihy having averaged 220 for six laps, and Lieutenant Ofstie 218 for~five laps, both piloting Navy! Curtis racers—Router's American Service.
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