AIRMEN FETED.
MOSCOW'S WELCOME.
" Give Last Drop of Blood to
Defend Stalin."
TREASON TRIAL REFERENCES
United Press Association.—Copyright,
(Received 1 p.m.) MOSCOW, June 25
Stalin visited the aerodrome to welcome the trans-Polar airmen, Schmidt, and Vodopianoff, in the company of scores of Soviet leaders, whose attendance contradicted rumours of their arrest.
An airman sprang to the dais and kissed Stalin. Marshal Yoroshiloff and Marshal Biudennv.
The Vice-Premier. Churbar, declared that Russians, now that General Tukhachevsky and his gang wero destroyed, were more devoted than ever to national defence. Schmidt, one of the Polar fiver.-, replied: -When we heard by wireless of Tukhacaevsky's treason we decided to give mir last drop of blood to defend Stalin."'
Flower-decked cars bore the airmen along eight crowded miles of highway to tin' Kremlin.
RETURN FOR REPAIRS.
MRS. PUTNAM'S WORLD FLIGHT
BANDOENG, June 2.3.
Mrs. Amelia (Earhart) Putnam turned back from Sourabaya ami arrived here for repairs to her navigating instruments. It is not certain when she will again leave.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 150, 26 June 1937, Page 9
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