NO SLEEP.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 157, 5 July 1926, Page 7

NO SLEEP.

RACE AGAINST TIME I AMERICANS' THRIELS IN THE SIBERIAN WASTES XURGAX Siberia . June -5. Evans and Wells. : ___ :wo Americans who are trying to break tiie record in speeding round "lie world, arrived here to-day. a: 0.3 p.m. A: every point east of Moscow :_ev | established a new record for a journey ! from New York, but their weariness of ! body is indescribahle. They left Moscow a: 1..5.3 a.m. in a smg.e-motore.l aeroplane belonirin:. to Aviakhim. a semi-official Russian TiviaThe pilot. M. Mot-pilot - , was the most experience-! available for the lonir ilisht to ri m-:< over virtually unknown territory. This staire of the iouraev cost £300 f or -_; le i7iiri m ii e s. The speedster- must overtake the pxpress which departed from 110-cow 3_ hours hefore th-'lr arrival there. j "I' Las seldom been -iven to two] -::•'-: to experience the thrills and amaz-j inz sights we witnessed to-day." they particular!-.- danserou*. ,v.- Jr tens of' mil'L-n- of acres of fore--. n _ r «s , va . j the fir = t "-lane to land a: Kra-nndimsk. md the entire do.illation of 3000 - inW ! •-'' : "_/n-i offered. •;'- food , n ._ drlr.k. "From Krasn'idimsk -he country was frankly terrifying. It would have been impossible to land in case of an emerzency. W e ran into a fierce electrical : storm for three hours, lost - ur way, and ' at dusk landed at K'i-_ai 'n-*ea.-'" of a* Omsk, v ■'Everyone throughout R-issia is apnar- i antly aware of our journey. Even "the ! remotes: villages are making smoke sisna's to guide us along the route. "We are almost dead from fa;i_".e. j Neither of -is has slept since disem'-ark- ' inz from the Aquitania. Slee. is im- '• possible In an aeroplane owing to the roushness of the weatier." Evan- and Wells left Kurgan at 3.33 a.m.. an 1 arrived at Omsk at 10.16. They hone to reach Chita on Mon.iay niarht. The Commissariat of Communications at Omsk, has ordered the Trans-Siberian train, on which Evans and Wells are ! travelling, to be rushed on to Harbim, where it is due on -June 30. A special has been ordered in the even: of an emergency.