GREAT AERIAL RACE

Gisborne Times, Volume LI, Issue 5343, 2 December 1919, Page 5

GREAT AERIAL RACE

10 OR 11

ROSS-SMITN AND POULET AT RANGOON.

AUSTRALIAN ARRIVES FIRST

FRENCH AVIATOR FOLLOWS ONE HOUR LATER.

PLANS FOR CONCLUDING FLIGHTS

United Press Association—Coavricht SYDNEY, Dec. I.’ Captain Ross-Smith cabled from Rangoon on the 30th, stating: “Left Akyab at 7.30, arrived at Rangoon at noon Good weather. Followed the coast for one hundred miles, then travelled east across the mountains, which are rugged and heavily timbered. Struck the Irrawaddy near Prome; thence south, circled over Rangoon for ten minutes, and landed on the racecourse, being received by a crowd of about forty : thousand who gave us a great ovation. The Vimy is the first machine which has ever landed in Rangoon. We were coming here yesterday direct from Calcutta hat the races were in progress. The Turf Club offered to postpone the races, hut we landed at Akyab instead. AU well. Hope to reach Bangkok tomorrow.”—United Service.

LONDON, Nov. 30. M. Poulet wired from Rangoon on the 30th: .“Arrived, all well.” Captain Ross-Smith wires that he intends to make a one-day flight towards Kalidjati, thence to Bima. If Poulet is not pursuing closely, Captain RossSmith lands, after reaching. Bima, at Asamoenda Island. Otherwise he flies direct to Australia. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.

CALCUTTA, Nov. 30. Captain Ross-Smith took aboard "here the first Australian mail.

M. Poulet reached Rangoon an hour behind Captain Ross-Smith. —Reuter.

AVIATORS LEAVE RANGOON TOGETHER.

AUSTRALIAN EXPECTS TO ACCOMPLISH JOURNEY ON DECEMBER

(Received Dec. 1, 11.10 n.m.) ALLAHABAD/ Dec. 1. Captain Ross-Smith and M. Poulet left Rangoon at daybreak for Singapore. Captain Ross-Smith expects to reach Bangkok in five hours, and is due in Australia at nine o’clock on December 13. He expects, however, to accomplish the journey by December 10 or December 11, all going well. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.