FLYING TO AUSTRALIA
AX AIRMAN'S ADVENTURES
(Received 4th October, 2.30 p.m.)'
LONDON, 3rd October.
One of the most interesting aspirant* for a lone flight to Australia is High* Lieutenant C. W. Hill, who announce* that he will take off to-morrow in. » light aeroplane. It is also announce^ that Major C. M. B. Piekthorne ;an4 Flying-Officer Chabot will set out at th» same time in a Moth equipped with. » C4ipsy engine. . Plight-Lieutenant Hi? iis famous as one of two officers wh# escaped from a Turkish prison cam» by an elaborate spiritualistic plot._ HiJ adventures have been described in » book called "Road to Enddr." Flight Lieutenant Hill and his companion who was.said to be a medium, so "worlfr ed on the credulity of the Turkish conY mandant that he became a slave to i treasure-hunting scheme: directed by the spirits." They simulated madness ■ for many weeks at the cost of great physical and mental suffering.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 83, 4 October 1930, Page 10
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