Eighteen of the leaders in the ternational 4,000-mile-round-Europe aeroplane challenge competition landed here this afternoon after having flown from Brossels on th> last lap of their journey. They were not allowed, under the roles of the competition, to land before three o'clock in the afternoon. Mos!
them arrived hal€ an hour earlier fand circled over the acrodrome till the clock struck three.
"Amongst the leaders were three British contestants, Lord Carberry, Captain Broad and Miss Evelyn Spooner, the only woman cometitar.
The competition will end on August 20 and, therefore, there will bye plenty of time for stragglers te arrive. The winner of the com-
Petition will be the scorer of the most points for speed and regularity.
"The race. began on August 7, when 43 light aeroplanes took off from here—Reuter.
A despatch from Berlin reports that the Graf Zeppelin, which was to have left Germany' for Tokyo at 8 o'clock on August 14, has changed the time of departure, owing to bad weather, and has decided to start at dawn on August 15.
Arrangements have been com pleted that all the passengers of the airship will be quartered *in the Imperial Hotel here, while its captain and crew will be accommodated the officers quarters of the ypanexe naval air-force at Kasumi Since it is anticipated that the Graf Zeppelin,- will reach here on August 18 oF 19, officials of the Foreign Ottice, the Ministry of] Communications, the Departments of War and the Navy yesterday afternoon held a joint meeting and discussed measures to welcome the captain and crew as well as the 30 passengers of the dirigible. Tt was Gecided that an elaborate tiffin party, would be given on the day following the airship's arrival in the Imperial Hotel in honour of the visitors by air, which would be at-
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