Eight persons were killed when a German passenger aeroplane, on its way from Berlin to Dresden, crashed when near its destination.
One of the six passengers killed was Mr. Philip V. Blackwell, a member of the firm of Butterfield and Swire, agents in the Far East for Alfred Holt and Co., of the well-known steamship line. Mr. Blackwell was home on leave from Shanghai. He booked his passage in the air liner at Hamburg.
Mr. Blackwell, who was 33 (says the British United Press), spent Wednesday to Friday at Hamburg, where he had business.
He was engaged on an inspection trip on behalf of his employers to Holland, Germany and Czechoslovakia. He had intended to go to Prague.
The other victims of the crash were two German and two Viennese women passengers, a German man passenger, and the pilot and mechanic.
At the Lufthansa offices at Croydon aerodrome the Daily Sketch was informed that the machine was a Messerschmidt monoplane, and was flying on the route from Berlin to Dresden.
"The cause of the smash is not quite clear," added the official. "The machine was flying at a height of about 1,500 feet when it suddenly side-slipped and crashed to the ground. So far as we know the plane did not catch fire."