LANDING AT BATAVIA
UNFAVOURABLE CONDITIONS
ON TO COCOS LATER
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)
SYDNEY, June 5,
A radio message from the official correspondent of the Commonwealth Government aboard the flying-boat Guba, which left Western Australia on the first stage of an exploratory flight across the Indian Ocean and was last reported to be 530 miles from the Cocos Islands, stated that, because of clouds obscuring the stars, and the turbulence of the air conditions at critical times, which had made fixing the position from the stars impossible, it had been decided to fly to Batavia and there await conditions which would enable the Guba to be navigated to the Cocos Islands by astronomical methods.
The Guba was reported to be making for Sunda Strait, between Java and Sumatra, in accordance with the decision to proceed to Batavia rather than use surplus fuel in an endeavour! to reach the Cocos Islands in the ex-: isting conditions. i | BATAVIA, June 3. I
The flying-boat Guba landed at Batavia at 7.30 a.m. (G.M.T.). It is expected to depart for the Cocos Islands on Wednesday.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 131, 6 June 1939, Page 9
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