TWO FAILURES

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21308, 30 October 1934, Page 11

TWO FAILURES

j FITZMAURICE'S MACHINE ! DAMAGED ! TRIBUTE TO OFFICIALS I _ I {•TS'ITED PRESS A SSOC IA TIO.V -- BY ELF.C'IRIC ' TELEG R.\PII COPY"RUI HT. i (Received October 30, 1.30 a.m.) ! LONDON, October 29. i Flying the special Bellanca aeroj plane entered for the Centenary | air race by the Irish Hospitals j Sweepstakes Trust, and withdrawn lat the last moment, J. C. Fitz- • maurice and E. Watt Bonar left | Lympne at 6.30 this morning, but returned at 10.5 minus a piece jof the undercarriage fairing. This | was their second false start. They j left yesterday morning but re- | turned with brake trouble. | The machine had taken off I splendidly in less than 300 yards, carrying 600 American gallons of i petrol. They hoped to reach I Bagdad in 10 hours. Before their ; departure Fitzmaurice paid a j tribute to Air Ministry officials. I He said they could not have treated j him better if he had been flying ; a British machine. ] When they returned, Fitzmaurice, ) who is acting as navigator and ' wireless operator while Bonar I flies, said that they had been flying ! about 230 miles an hour and had | passed Liege when the damage to I the undercarriage and wing was discovered. On their way back they dumped 150 gallons of fuel in the Channel to facilitate landing i and then flew to Croydon for rej pairs. ! PROGRESS OF OTHER ; COMPETITORS | STODARTS AT ( lIARLE VI LI. E ! (Received October 30, 12.20 a.m.) ; MELBOURNE, October 29. | Progress of air race competitors (is as follows:—- | The Stodartx reached Chatieviik; |at 8 o'clock (New Zealand time) toI night. I Hansen and Jensen reached DarIvvin at 8.47 (New Zealand time! 'to-night. Wright and Polando are sfill delayed at Calcutta with engine trouble. Melrose is leaving Newcastle Waters at midnight for Cloncurry. WALLER AND JONES PASS CALCUTTA FILMS AM) PICTURES ON WAY TO LONDON (Received October 30, 12.20 a.m.) CALCUTTA. October 29. Waller and Cathcart-Jones, in their Comet, flew here at 1.35 p.m. j (New Zealand time) on their way |to Allahabad. j They said at Singapore, which ithey ieft early this morning, that itliey would spend the night at Alia- j jhabad, and Tuesday night at Baghdad. They are not flying at night. , They are taking to England 4000 | feet of film depicting the Duke of Gloucester's arrival and the finish lof the air race, and pictures for London newspapers. LI'NGH FOR COMPETITORS FKKE PASSAGES lIOMK OFFERED MELBOURNE. October 29. j Plans are now being formed for j a luncheon at Parliament House to the visiting airmen, probably on Wednesday. The luncheon will possibly be preceded by a triumphal procession through the streets. The Orient and P. and O. shipping companies have offered competitors free return passages to England. SABOTAGE SUGGESTED j I'AKER AND 11 EMS WORTH ASK FOR IXVE.S THiA ITON PARIS, October 28. Ray Pai er and G. E. Hemsworth (Australia) suggest that they werej the victims of sabotage. They found the sparking plugs in their air race aeroplane clogged with oil when they landed at Calais: They are lodging a formal request tor an investigation by the Royal Aero Club. DUTCH MACHINE'S MAIL j POST OFFICE RLLIM; MELBOURNE. October 29. Thousands of letters from stamp collectors and others in Holland, brought to Australia by for reposting to Holland, are affected by the refusal of the Postal Department to allow their carriage bv the Dutch air-liner. "The letters must be forwarded by ordinary steamer service. The department claims that if permission is granted to Parmentier it must also allow other competitors to carry mail home.