LINDBERGH'S TRIBUTE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 128, 3 June 1927, Page 7

LINDBERGH'S TRIBUTE

1 ATLANTIC FLYERS

GALLANT DEEDS IN WAR TIME

(British Official Wireless.)

BUGBY, 2nd June. Captain Lindbergh concluded his short visit to England this afternoon, returning to Paris by air in preparation for his departure for tho United States from Cherbourg in the American cruiser Memphis to-morrow. The famous airman, who was accorded another popular ovation on his arrival at Epsom racecourse to witness the Derby yesterday, attended a farewell" dinner last night. ' . Besponding to the toast of his health, Captain Lindberg recalled the great flights of the past, particularly the first trans-Atlantic span of the two Englishmen, Alcock and Brown who quietly took the air in. Newfoundland and landed in Ireland sixteen hours later, a feat almost unheralded throughout tho Tvorld. He referred also to the flights toj India and Australia of British airmen, which had provided a strong incentive to airmen in America. Above all, he added there were the feats of courage and daring of airmen during the war, which in the circumstances passed almost unnoticed but which would never be paralleled in the air navigation of any time.