LONDON’S WELCOME

Evening Star, Issue 20556, 7 August 1930, Page 11

LONDON’S WELCOME

MISS AMY JOHNSON TRIUMPHAL DRIVE THROUGH STREETS (British Official Wireless.) Brest Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, August 6. (Received August 7, at noon.) Miss Amy Johnson was accorded a tumultuous reception when she drove in triumph through the London streets to-day to attend , a luncheon given in her honour. The police had great difficulty in keeping the way clear for her car, and flowers were showered upon her along the whole route. In the procession through the streets she was accompanied by many of her own generation and notable women who have won distinction in various directions, and by pioneers of aviation, including Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, who, with the late Sir_ John Alcock, flew' across the Atlantic for the first time eleven ■ years ago. A large floral model of Jason, her Moth aeroplane, was suspended over the luncheon table, at which Mr Esmond Harms.vortli presided. Among those who paid eloquent tributes to Miss Johnson for her great achievement were Mr J. H. Thomas (Secretary for the Dominions), Sir Sefton Brancker (Director of Civil Aviation), and Sir Philip Sassoon (chairman of the Royal Aero Club).