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Show RECORDS ARE BROKEN BY DUTCH AVIATOR Los Angeles, Aug. 29. In a new j Martin seaplane LiouNsnant H. Ter - m i iii Poorten, crack flyer of tho Netherlands Nether-lands East Indian army, broke all records rec-ords for a flight to San Diego and return today, making tho 224-mile flight in 3 hours 25 minutes, averaging averag-ing better than a mile a minute. The Hollander was unacquainted with the topography of the country and his flight was a remarkable one. Lieutenant Ter Poorten is here with Captain Visscher, also of the Netherlands Nether-lands East India army, and they have arranged for the purchase of twenty of the Martin seaplanes for their country. This is the first timo, so far as known, that a foreign military officer of-ficer has made a flight of this kind In the United States. n - |