WORLD FLIERS
MAJOR MARTIN SAFE AEROPLANE STRUCK A MOUNTAIN Seattle, May it. A wireless message from Cordova, Alaska, reports that Major Frederick Martin, commanding officer of the four American aeroplanes which started out to circuit {lie world, for whose welfare there has been some anxiety, is safe at Port Moller. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Rec. May 12, 7.20 p.m.) San Francisco, May 11. A message from Cordova says that Major Martin’s plane was completely wrecked by striking a mountain 199 miles west of Chignik. The two aviators were lost for seven days, and finally found a trapper’s cabin at the southernmost point of Port Moller Bay, during the morning of May 7. The country is still under snow. —■ Reuter. NEW MACHINE .FOR PORTUGUESE Lisbon, May 11. A now aeroplane is being dispatched for the stranded Portuguese airmen, fitted with a radiator speciality designed for long distance flights in the tropics. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. AERIAL SURVEY OF AUSTRALIA Perth, May 12. The two aviators, Goble and Macintyre, who are carrying out an. aerial survey of Australia, have arrived. — Press Assn. (Rec. May 13, 8.10 p.m.) Perth, May 12. Goble and Mncintyre have left for Albany.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 195, 13 May 1924, Page 7
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194WORLD FLIERS Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 195, 13 May 1924, Page 7
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