kus
Range. Under plates strained. Crew at Ghat where repairing Dec. 13th.

BISCAY, MARK BOAT reports Caducci (Valandingham Line) slightly spiked in
western gorge Point de Benasdue. Passengers transferred Andorra (Fulton
Line). Barcelona Mark Boat salving cargo Dec. 12th.

ASCENSION, MARE BOAT--Wreck of unknown racing-plane, Parden rudder,
wire-stiffened xylonite vans, and Harliss engine-seating, sighted and
salved 7 20' S. 18 41' W. Dec. 15th. Photos at all A. B. C. offices.

Missing

No answer to General Call having been received during the last week from
following overdues, they are posted as missing:

Atlantis, W.17630. Canton--Valparaiso
Audhumla W. 889. Stockholm--Odessa
Berenice, W. 2206... Riga--Vladivostock
Draw, E. 446.. Coventry--Pontes
Arenas Tontine, E. 5068. C. Wrath--Ungava
Wu-Sung, E. 41776.. Hankow--Lobito Bay

General Call (all Mark Boats) out for:

Jane Eyre, W. 6990. Port Rupert--City of Mexico Santander, W. 6514..
Gobi Desert--Manila Y. Edmundsun, E. 9690.. Kandahar--Fiume

Broke for Obstruction, and Quitting Levels

VALKYRIE (racing plane), A. J. Hartley owner, New York (twice warned).
GEISHA (racing plane), S. van Cott owner, Philadelphia
(twice warned).
MARVEL of PERU (racing plane), J. X. Peixoto owner, Rio de
Janeiro (twice warned). For the Board:

LAZAREFF }
McKEOUGH } Traffic
GOLDBRATT }

NOTES

High-Level Sleet

The Northern weather so far shows no sign of improvement. From all
quarters come complaints of the unusual prevalence of sleet at the
higher levels. Racing planes and digs alike have suffered severely--the
former from 'unequal deposits of half-frozen slush on their vans (and
only those who have "held up" a badly balanced plane in a cross-wind
know what that means), and the latter from loaded bows and snow-cased
bodies. As a consequence, the Northern and North-western upper levels
have been practically abandoned, and the high fliers have returned to
the ignoble security of the Three, Five, and Six hundred foot levels.
But there remain a few undaunted sun-hunters who, in spite of frozen
stays and ice-jammed connecting-rods, still haunt the blue empyrean.

Bat-Boat Racing

The scandals of the past few years have at last moved the yachting world
to concerted action in regard to "bat" boat racing. We have been treated
to the spectacle of what are practically keeled racing-planes driv