POULET STARTS AGAIN

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 138, 9 December 1919, Page 7

POULET STARTS AGAIN

(REUTERS TELEGRAM.) - *■' (Received December 9, noon.) /' ' RANGOON, Bth December. J*'- Poulet has left for . Bangkok. The engines, appeared to be working well. He is confident of reaching Australia.

The following are, the time-tables, as nearly as the cable news affords data, of the various starters in the. flight to Australia.

M. Poulet (Caudron): Left Paris 14th October. 7 a.m ; landed Frejus, in the south of France, 2 p.m. October 15th or 16th, arrived at Rome. October 18th, left Rome; • forced by snowstorm to descend at Naples. October 20th, left Naples ; landed at Brindisi, owing to torrential rains: October 22nd, left Brindisi; landed at Valona ; further delayed by rain October 30th, arrived at Constantinople, after a terrible journey. November 4th, arrived at' Aleppo, via Konia and Adana.. November sth,' left Aleppo ; reached Bagdad in the evening. November 6th, left Bagdad, arrived at Brishire. Date uncertain, arrived Bandar- Abbas. November 10th, left Bandar Abbas for Karachi. November 11th, arrived Karachi, 3 a.m. Ncvember 19th, 'at Naiserabad ; delayed by damaged tank. November 25th, left Delhi, arrived Allahabad. November 26th, arrived Calcutta. November 29th, arrived Akyub (Burma) November 30th, arrived RangoPn. December Ist, left for Bangkok; forced by fog tp return. December 4th, started again; engine trouble ccmpelled him to return fpr thorough overhaul •

Captain Matthews (Sopwith) : Left London October 21st, 11.45 a.m.; landed at. Marquise, near Boulogne, owing to fog. October 22nd, arrived at Cologne > delayed by breakdown of machine and bad weather November 2nd, left Cologne, arrived Mayence (Slainz). November 20th. arrived Dagaburg. December 2nd, arrived Vienna.

Captain Rosa-Smith (Vickcrs-Vimy): Left London November 12th, 9.15 a.m. November 13th, arrived Lyons. November 14th, arrived Pisa. November 17th, arrived Rome. November 17th, arrived Cairo. November 18th, left for Damascus. November 20th, arrived Basra, via Damascus, Bagdad, and Kut-el-Amara. November 24th, left Bandar Abbas, arrived Karachi. November 25th, arrived Delhi. November 27th, arrived Allahabad. November 28th, arrived Calcutta. November 29th, arrived Akyub.-. November 30th, arrived Rangoon, '„ December Ist, arrived Bangkok.' December 2nd, arrived Sinora. December 4th; arrived Singapore,, December 6th, arrived Ka,lidjati: December 7th, arrived Sourabaya December Bth, left for Bima. Captain Wilkins (Blackburn "Kangaroo.") • Left Hounslow November 21st, 10.37 a.m.; arrived Romilly, near Paris. November 25th, arrived -Lyons. November 26tb, 'arrived St. Raphael. November 29th., arrived Pisa. November 3Qth. arrived Rome. December 3rd, arrived Taranto. B Captain C. B. Howell (Martinsyde): Left Hounslow 4th December, 9.34 a.m.