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Show FLYER KILLED NEAR EVE OF WORLD RIGHT i s i n.i.N , April 13 Rv the Aaao-I r( r,.. , sir K0se Smith, the1 Ausir.ilmn aviator who witli hi broth-j er, gir Keith, had plsniiod to start I from Croydp.n April jb, oh a flight arpund the world, vas killed in a practice flight at Hrooklands today. ( .( h uii.n.i in Bennett an engineer who wan planning to accompany .s'j Rosi nnd Ms brother on their arounri-the-workl flight, also was killed s m ( u win s The machine which erashed was t lie urn tin.- iTmiihs Intended to use In liielt light. Captain Conkoiill of the Vlck-ei Vlck-ei company h-id previously flown It for half an hour, then handed it over to Captain Smith. As (he nir nine was approaching the airdrome to land it pot into n spin and the era-h followed. ( NOTE Captain Sir Rons Smith sprang into prominence In 1919, when accompanied by his brother, Sir K -jth he made n flight from England to Australia, 11.500 miles, winning prise of 10.000 pounds from th- Australian Kovi rnment. Uotli aviators WPJ'O knighted for the feat. SERVED in WAR Captain tsmlth saw distinguished crvice In the war, tirst with the Australian Aus-tralian forces In Er pt and Qallipoll, and later with th' Australian Dying corps in Egypt and Palestine, lit was " ' !n- i:rlt'rh ,:tiny aviators, who in December, 1 y 1 8 . made in,- first flight from Cairo to Calcutta. Th? route of the flight around the world which (he brothers expected to start from Croydon near London, April .'5. was by way of Fran-re. Eypt. A I :a Minor, ndlo China. Japan ttu Siberia, th.nce lumping North Am-i Am-i in :l Bering straits with landings on some of the Aleutian islands and at Alaska In Alaska thn e lo Canada io ifis Sob, Swinging there to the southeast to New Vork and continuing continu-ing along the Nek England coast to Newfuundlani.1 for tin ji':ii,i ac-i lin.- At lan tic to Ireland; The aviators expected to cover thv 1.5000 miles in 2-10 hours of flying spread oyer a period of thrc-i- months. 1 h-ir machine was of ih. hydroalr-i plane type, fitted with wheels tor aliKhunp i,i, land .mi propelled by an i engine of -1 5 horse power.) S I WiT I'll! Nil li LISBON. April IS. (By the A3-ciatcd A3-ciatcd Press) Bad weather prevent-ed prevent-ed a --tart today bj Captains Sacadura and Coutlnho, the 1'ortuguei-o aviators, on the third stiit.e of then- tliphi to Brazil from tin- Cape Verde islands to St. Paul rock in mid Atlantic. ! The aviators cabled here today that ; ho c'ohditions would make it impossible impossi-ble for them to leae before Sunday. The airmen, who started from Lisbon, Lis-bon, successively jumped to the Ca-nii Ca-nii Islands and (hen to the Cape VerdCl ahd whose ultimate destination destina-tion is Pernambuca, Brizal, had ex- i 1 lo vt.iri from St Vlm-ent. Cape verde islands, at 1 o clock this morn-! ing. This contemplated Jump was over t00 miles of water. Thcv expected expect-ed to reach 81 Paul rock In"approxi- mately ten hours and there to refill i with puiollne frojn the Portuguesel warship Republics before essaying the next stage of thoir flighi to Fernando Noronha off the Brazilian coast. on i |