MAPPED FROM THE AIR.
SMART BIT OF 'WORK. SURVEYING TUSCAN HILLS. (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, January 22. Captain Thomas, in a lecture delivered before the Society of Arts, gave an. account of interesting surveying -work done from the air in the Palestine campaign. The British advance was held up some distance from Jerusalem by the mountainous the country. The old maps were useless, and the air force, was ordered to make a new one. was issued one night, and next day in one flight two Australian officers, Captain Roes Smith and Lieutenant Austin, photographed the whole of the area, thirty-seven square miles between the British lines and the Holy City. The surveyors worked all the following night, and by the next evening they had printed an entirely new map ,on the field press. Five days later Jeru'ealem was taken.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 20, 23 January 1920, Page 5
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