LOST HER WAY

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11405, 5 January 1931, Page 5

LOST HER WAY

AMY JOHNSON’S TROUBLES

FLIGHT TO CHINA

MISTOOK MEUSE FOR RHINE

"SIGNBOARDS SHOULD BE ERECTED*”

(U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) BRUSSELS, .Tan. 2

Miss Amy Johnson left Liege for Berlin at Midday, hue landed at Cologne at 2.35 p.m., after a difficult flight, through sleet and snow. She will continue to-morrow. COLOGNE, Jan. 2.

"I almost think large signboards should bo placed on all rivor.odcs to guide lone flyers,” said Miss Amy Johnson, facetiously referring to her adventures yesterday when heading for Berlin from Stag Lane aerodrome,

“I encountered terrific head winds and decided to make Cologne when 1 mistook the Meuse for the Rhine. I flew along the river’s course and found myself above Liege late in the afternoon and consequently landed.

‘‘To-day, after a delay of six hours owing to Customs and other formalities,' I departed for Berlin I met atrocious weather and a head-on gale /made .reaching Berlin before dark an impossibility. Accordingly, I turned hack to Cologne half-frozen hut cheery.” Miss Johnson says that if the conditions are favorable she will cut out the call to Berlin and fly direct to Warsaw.

RECEPTION IN ~ BERLIN.

GREETED WITH NATIONAL ANTHEM.

(U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright)

BERLIN. Jan. 3. Miss Johnson arrived at 3.34. BERLIN, Jan. 3. Tile British Anthem and cheers greeted Miss Amy Johnson on her arrival after nightfall. She explained that had weather drifted her from her course, necessitating a descent at Lucbz, owing to loss in hearings. The cottager in whose field she alighted, though startled, gave every assistance. .She followed the railway line. The aviatrix. continues her flight to Warsaw at 9 a.m. on January 4.

WITH FLYING COLOURS

HOW "JOHNNY” GAINED HER. COMMERCIAL LICENSE.

(U.P A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Jan. 4, 5 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 3.

Alias Amy Johnson left Colojgne for Berlin. Her father discloses that she passed with flying colours her examination for a commercial license —the hardest test an aviator can undergo, necessitating certification by six doctors. There was nothing secret and she was not on any Government business in connection with her flight to Pekin.

EVERY HELP IN RUSSIA

ADVICE AT ALL POINTS

(U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Jan. 4, 5 p.m.) • MOSCOW, Jan. 3. 'Hie Aviation Chemical Society is fullv 'facilitating her flight to the Smolensk and Moscow aerodromes, ensuring a safe landing. Experts wiil advise her at all points, and heating apparatus will he installed in the aeroplane if neres-r.ry.

RUSSIAN OPINION

RECKLESS AND THOUGHTLESS

FLIGHT

(U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Jan. 4. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. Jan. 3

The British United Press correspondent at- Moscow says that Kirilov, the Soviet air chief, describes the flight as reckless and thoughtless, and intends telling Miss Johnson of the tremendous difficulties ahead, and the need for special heating apparatus to prevent the engine from freezing. Landing skis are particularly dangerous. On the contrary. Nobile’s rescuer, Chukhnoysky.’ is of opinion that the transit of Siberia is not particularly dangerous. except in the eastern wastes where jagged ice may he met.

OFFICIAL MISSION STORY CLEARED UP.

SEQUEL TO .MOTOR BY-LAW CASE.

AVIATEIX TALKING TO GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL.

(U.P.A. by Elec. Tel Copyright.) (Received Jan. 4. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 2.

It- is authoritatively denied that Miss Amv Johnson is on an official mission. ‘ Miss Johnson was nonplussed when a direct question was put. to her at Liege. She said, I am doing the flight absolutely on my own, and in nowise is it an official or a secret mission.” Messages from Cologne reveal a terrible flight from Liege. The weather was so bad that even a Luiitiausa air liner turned hack. (Received Jan. 4, 7.10 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 3. The mysterv of Miss Johnson’s Government work mentioned during a motoring ease, lias been cleaved up. It appears that she left her car unattended while she had a chat with the secretary of the .Empire Marketing Board about trade prospects in Australia. The defence pleaded that she was detained by a Government official with whom she was engaged on Government business. The'ease was dismissed.