A GREAT FLYING ADVENTURE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)

A GREAT FLYING ADVENTURE.

I A remarkable etory of an airman's feat has found its way into tie cabled news from South Africa. At Malange, in tie north-central part of Angola, tie Portuguese West African possession, Mrs. Wengatz, -who has made herself universally respected by her work as a missionary, has had a terrible experience leading .to a .splendid ilight by a South African airman. At midday, when the main street was well filled, a mad dog came down the roadway frenziedly snapping right and left. The panic-stricken natives rushed indoors. Then down tie street came Mrs. Wengatz wondering at its emptiness. Before she could be warned tie dog iad sprung at ier and iad bitten her arm. At once tie people rallied and the dog was quickly j>ut out of its misery. 1 Safety for the missionary could only be found in an injection of Pasteur's serum against hydrophobia, and the nearest place where the serum could be obtained was Cape Town, 1500 miles away. A message from Malange to Loanda was cabled to the Bishop of the American Episcopal Church at Cape Town, and the serum was obtained at the Government Bacteriological Bureau there and was quickly dispatched "by "train to tha Baragwanati aerodrome outside Johannesburg, 1000 miles away. There the •precious serum was confided to Lieutenant Kodwell King to carry it in his Moth 'plane, first across South-West Africa to Windhoek and then, northward to Loango, 250 miles from Malange. In all, there and bafck, tiis would involve a lonely journey of nearly 6QOO miles. Tie journey was accomplisied, and | Lieutenant King returned safely to Johannesburg. Tie gallant airman iad surmounted many dangers." The worst was wien ie was over dense forest land in tie northern' part af South-West Africa. Nigit was coming on; he was siort of petrol; and ie was bound to land. He found a little piece of sandy ground on tie bank of a river and managed to come down on it uninjured, but it was so small that he could not get run enough to rise, and he had to take his machine to pieces and have it carried for fourteen miles along narrow forest footpaths before he could find sufficient good ground for a start. All mankind who hear of it will wish for the missionary lady safety from danger, and will honour the airman wio did such a splendid thing for such a fine purpose. —C.X.