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Show HOWELL'S AIRPLANE WRECKED IN CORFU LOX-DON", Dec. 14. The airplane of Captain Cedr:c Ernest Howell, one of the British airmen in the London-Melbourne flight, was wrecked off St. George's bay, island of Corfu, December 1, and there is no hope that either Howell or his ! mechanician escaped, according to a dispatch dis-patch to Lloyd's from Corfu. The dispatch dis-patch adds that the log of the airplane was washed ashore Captain Howell, flying in a Martinsyde plane with a 2 75 -horsepower motor, and accompanied by Henry Eraser, a skilled mechanician, ieft the Hounslow flying field in England December 4. He arrived ar-rived at Pisa, Italy December f, and at Taranto December 8. No report since then had been received from Howell. |