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MISS JEAN BATTEH FLIGHT ACROSS INDIA Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CALCUTTA, May 15. (Received May 16, at 9 a.m.) Miss Jean Batten left Karachi at dawn for Allahabad. She is now flying across India at the hottest period of the year. Tho temperature is over HOdeg in the shade. The French Air Force at Damascus was very, gallant, and a flight of military planes escorted her over thirty miles of the Syrian Desert. HEW YORK TO ROME FORCED LANDING IN IRELAND. LONDON, May 16. (Received May 16, at 1.30 p.m.) After thirty-nine hours’ Hying from New York Pond and Sabelli made a forced landing at 8.30 on Tuesday night at Moy, three miles from Lahinch (County Clare), owing to engine trouble. They had been Hying blind for two and a-half hours. Engineers from the Baldonnel Aerodrome arc going to repair the machine.
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Evening Star, Issue 21721, 16 May 1934, Page 9
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142AVIATION Evening Star, Issue 21721, 16 May 1934, Page 9
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