LISBON-RIO FLIGHT.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17437, 24 April 1922, Page 7

LISBON-RIO FLIGHT.

AWAITING A NEW MACHINE.

(Br Cable—Press Associationr-Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable As :ooiat l( m.) (Received April 23rd, 5.5 p.m.) BUENOS AIRES, April 21.

The Portuguese aviators nave arrived at the Island of Fernando Noronha on board a cruiser. They will await a new seaplane, which is being shipped flora Portugal.

TA previous message said the aviators arrived at St. Paul Roc-ks, about /OO miles from the coast of Brazil on ,Tue*T day afternoon, after a flight of 1000 miles from the Cape \erde Islands. A wireless message received at Pernambuco stated that, owing to an accident to their seaplane, the Portuguese aviators must abandon 0 r indefinitely dolay tho remainder of their flight to Rio de Janeiro. Fernando Noronha is a small island about 200 miles from tho north-east corner of Brazil.}