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KINGSFORD SMITH * _ [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] NEW YORK, 'July 24. Kingsford Smith and Stannage sailed on the liner Europa. Smith expects to start a flight to Australia .within a week or two after reaching England. WOMAN’S LONE HAND. § LONDON, July 24.
Mrs Victor Druce proposes to start In less than six weeks’ time on a long solo flight, in the course of which it. is expected that, she will visit Australia.
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RUGBY. July 24
Two British Moth aeroplanes, piloted respectively by Alan Butler and Captain Broad were the first to reach Nimes,-en route to Barcelona, to-day, in the circuit of Europe race. They arrived in control within five minutes of each other. Butler leading. The course from Nimes lies by way of Lyons, across Switzerland. South Germany, and Austria to Poland, and then back to the starting point,- Berlin, by way of Danzig.
LATER. Broad arrived at Lausanne ahead of Butler and Thorn.
TRANS-ATLANTIC VENTURE
BERLIN, July 21. Wolfhirth, who lost a leg in an air crash, and Oscar Weller, a journalist, left Stuttgart in a Klemm monoplane for Chicago, via the Orkneys, Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 July 1930, Page 7
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