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SOUTHERN CROSS
RUMOURS DENIED
KINGSFORD SMITH INDIGNANT
DELIBERATE AND MALICIOUS LIES
SYDNEY, May 17
Indignant denials were given by Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith before the Air Inquiry Committee today, to rumours that the forced landing of the Southern Cross had been premeditated and arranged as a publicity “stunt”. He said that such rumours “were absolute, deliberate, and malicious lies”.
The Brisbane Courier, 1929
Rowland decided to take a breakfast of sorts in the conservatory. He settled for scones and bread and butter rather than try to convince his housekeeper that it was not sinful to eat eggs and bacon at four in the afternoon.
Edna was already there, cleaning up some of the successful firings from the night before. She wore a man’s shirt—which Rowland suspected might
