HOT TIME FOR JEAN
UNBEARABLE HEAT OVER INDIA HANDS BADLY BLISTERED. (U.P.A. by Elec. To). Copyright.) (Received April 25, 6 p.m.) LONDON, April 24. The Daily Express Athens correspondent states that Jean Batten, in an interview, -said that the heat across India was unbearable. Her hand was very badly blistered through pumping petrol, as she had no automatic pump. She experienced further trouble at Basra, where terrible thunder and sand storms reduced visibility to nil. Even the Dutch mail plane was unable to fly. Next day a forty miles per hour westerly gale was blowing over the Syrian desert. “My machine,” she continued, “was only capable of 80 miles per hour and I have to wait for the wind to drop before I could go on to Damascus. From there the weather was quite good to Cyprus. I cannot say when 1 will arrive in England. I may ho held up by fogs in France. The machine was fourth hand when bought and it has behaved wonderfully.” (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright.) (Received April 25, 11.40 p.m.) BRINDISI, April 25. Jean Batten loft Athens at 5.45 and passed her© at 9 o’clock.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12537, 26 April 1935, Page 5
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