HOPES TO REACH MAINLAND
FEAT REGARDED AS GREATEST IMPORTANCE COPENHAGEN, April 22. (Received April 23, at 11.5 a .ra.) When Captain Wilkins was compelled to land at Dauholmen ho had little food. Fortunately whale fishers sighted the machine, and went to its aid in a boat. They were astounded to learn that Captain Wilkins had flown from Alaska. The supplied him with food.
When the flyers reached Green Harbour the temperature was several degress below zero. They said that they were tremendously hungry.
Captain Wilkins hopes to complete the flight to the European mainland presently, provided the machine will permit this to be done. It is undertsood that the machine is in good condition.
Everywhere the feat is regarded as of the greatest importance, as it will enable geographers to fill in maps of the Arctic circle and the great white space beween the North of Canada and the North of Siberia.—Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 19848, 23 April 1928, Page 5
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154HOPES TO REACH MAINLAND Evening Star, Issue 19848, 23 April 1928, Page 5
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