NO NEWS OF MRS MOLLISON.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20729, 14 December 1932, Page 11

NO NEWS OF MRS MOLLISON.

LONG OVERDUE AT DUALA. TWENTY-TWO HOURS WITHOUT WORD. (C SITED IT.J3SS ASSOCIATION—B 5T EUECTSIC TELBGItArE— COPYRIGHT w (Received December 13th, 11.55 p.m.) LONDON, December 13. Twenty-two hours have passed without any news of Mrs J. A. Mollison, who was last reported flying strongly over Loanda (Angola) on the way to Duala (Camoroons), where she was due yesterday. [Mrs Mollison, who is attempting a record-breaking flight from Capo Town to Croydon, arrived at Mossamcdes (Portuguese West Africa) at 3.45 p.m. on Sunday, somo hours inside her scheduled time, and left for Duala (Cameroona) at 9 o'clock at night. She encountered a fog and landed at Benguella and, after a delay of three hours, resumed her flight at dawn on Monday.] A DARING AVIATOR. LONG UP-SIDE-DOWN FLIGHT. (Received December 13th, .11.55 p.m.) PARTS, December 13. A Paris airman, M. Detroyat, flew upside-down for 26 minutes. It is claimed that this is a record. CAPTAIN BERTRAM FAILS. CRASH SPOILS ATTEMPT ON RECORD. SOURABAYA, December 13. Attempting to take off at 4 o'clock this morning, Captain Hans Bertram's aeroplane, too heavily loaded, failed to rise, and ran into a ditch at tho end of tho field and crashed. The landing gear and propeller wero smashed, but Captain Bertram and Mr G. U. Alien, his co-pilot, were uninjured. After leaving Bima Mr Allen detected a stowaway, who was immediately arrested on his arrival at Sourabaya. Captain Bertram stated that tho flight hitherto had been hampered only by strong head-winds. Tie intended leaving at sunrise, and hoped to reach Mcdan, in Sumatra, in one hop. A later message from Port Darwin says that the stowaway on Captain Bertram's aeroplane is believed to answer to tho description of the 20-years-old Jack Dodson, who was reported to be missing from an unemployed camp after midnight on Sunday. No watchman was guarding the aeroplane. [Mr G. U. Allen was formerly ono of Sir Charles Kingsf ord-Smith 's pilots in Australian National Airways. Ho flew tho Christmas air-mail aeroplane that crashed in tho East Indies last December, and was to have been second pilot in tho Southern Cross's Tasmau flight next month, but ho was released to go homo with Captain Bertram.]