SENSATIONAL END

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 74, 29 March 1932, Page 7

SENSATIONAL END

MOLLISOtf EXHAUSTED LOST WAY Oy£R CAPE TOWJtf, (Heeeivsa 29th March, 1.30 pjn.) €APE TOWN, 2m. Maxch. Mollison's landing -was sensational,but the flyer is at. present incoherent in his account. He is exhausted, be-: wildered, and incapable of telliag what happened. By piecing together fragments of-his -story it.-appears that Ms sight -was affected and -that ne-was see-' ing double both over the SanaTa, wherV ie landed, and Hearing <3ape Town. To*1 night /he was confused1 by the revolv--ing beam of the aerodrome, and giving^ it a wide Tserth he flew almost into 'Cape: • Town itself. He then became confused, again by the crowded' lights on th'ft beach promenades. He says that he saw; a jetty, tnougii there is no jetty "there.He landed on the Tseach, narrowly-miss- ■ ing cars on the beach roaa. A -taximan whisked him off' to' the aero-i drome. • . '■ ':■; In a room full uf thick -smoke, dazed' •' by questions fired at Mm on all sides, ' Mollison became completely .confused, arid incapable of saying what nappene.d till the Mayor' took command, lead* ing him away to rest.' ; V MeanwMle his aeroplane, abandonedon the beach, was overtaken Tjy tne xis» ing tide. It either landed upside dowk: or the waves overturned it. \'