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Makes Long Flight* . uIn Passenger PlaneMontreal Woman Uses Air Line From . England to CairoTo a Montreal woman/Mrs. F. Eve-lyne Schopflochor, of 1904 Van Horne Avenue, lias fallen the honor of being one of the first persons to make thei •flight in the' first passenger airplane• •from England to Cairo. / •The plane in which Mrs. Schopfloch-er was a passenger left Croydon air-f• • ' * . , . V 1drome on December 20 and made a successful flight over England, France and Italy, flying over Vesuvius at a height of 9,000 feet and swooping clown• * • * ? •• * I s • 0 1direclly^over the ■ crater which was belching smoke clouds and flames. Itthen passed through ilie Straits of• • • • § ( •Messina to Malta, then across .theMediterranean to Klioms and . descended to 300 feet across the Semissiterritory, between Benghazi and Sel-luni. ; /. - ; '• :•••:Mrs. Schopflocher is to visit the. headquarters of the Bahai movement at Haifa, Palestine, anti will then fly to• • • * • i • i i fBagdad, for a lecture tour, which will• • • | . ' ^ • * ' % •take her through India and Persia,• % • , / * • • f m. • * •*.•*** •lecturing on the League of Nations Union. - * //•••' . .(IA
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Greenwood Ledge

Greenwood, British Columbia, CA

Thu, Jan 20, 1927

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