DARING BALLOONISTS.
Successful Oversea Trip. f E (Received 5.41 a-m.) STOCKHOLM.. Mey 11. a Two Swedish officers have safely voy- I aged from Stockholm across the Baltic c Sea to the coast of Courlantd, the descent being safely made in Russian territory after a twelve hours voyage. [The voyage is remarkable, not for its length or speed, but ,rom the fact that the whole flight was oversea, the distance travelled, from Sweden across to the South-western RussiaTi coastline, being between 150 and 200 miles. The longest recorded balloon flight is that of iierr Erbsloh, a German, who in the race tor the Gordion-Bennett Cup, the cliief event . of the aerial sporting world, starting j from St. Louis, last year, covered 875 miles' airline. Last year a Russian balloon was lost in the Gulf of Finland, three officers being drowned. On May 2S last year, an English war "oaiioon was carried out to sea, two officers being drowned].
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 113, 12 May 1908, Page 5
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