STAGE TO MARSEILLES
SOME ANXIOUS MOMENTS '
PERIL OVER APENNINES
ROME, April 26. Miss Jean Batten, the New Zealand airwoman, arrived here yesterday, started for England at 5.50 a.m., today, local time, and arrived at Marseilles. Jubilant at the prospect of breaking the record, she said: "I feel fine, and hope to reach London tomorrow evening; I had anxious moments over the Apennines when the engine fired badly owing to magneto trouble. The mountains looked horribly rough. I was very thankful to reach : Foggia aerodrome. The flight after that was without trouble, except for terrific head winds." (British Official Wireless.) (Received April 27, 10 a.m.) ' RUGBY, April 26. Miss Jean Batten, on her return flight to England from Australia, left Rome airport early this morning and hopes to cover the 900 miles to Croydon by • this evening in order to '' beat her own record of fifteen days for the outward journey. If she succeeds she will be the first woman to make a double flight alone. She holds the record for a solo flight by a woman from England to Australia.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 9
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180STAGE TO MARSEILLES Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 9
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