ATLANTIC FLIGHT

Grey River Argus, 11 October 1930, Page 5

ATLANTIC FLIGHT

BY AMERICANS , Will They Get There ? (Aus & N.Z. Cablo Assn.) VANCOUVER, October 9. A message from Harbour Grace, (Newfoundland) states that Captain Errol Boyd (Canadian) and Lieutenant Harold Connor (United States) navigator, took off for England in the plane Columbia at 11.20 on Thursday morning. STEAMER’S REPORTS. (Aus & N.Z Cable Assn ) NEW YORK. October 9. : There has been no further message of the plane Columbia,, with the exception of a message ninety-five minutes after the take off" sent from th.* steamer “Quaker City,’’ reporting the Columbia about one hundred miles north-east of Cape- Race, and fly'ng nt an altitude of two hundred feet and hc.-.ded “true, east; ’ and also another message from the “LancaA-, t v .ea” at 5.40 this evening, r. porting, sighting the aeroplane approximately iobr hundred miles cast of Harbour Grace. r No other word of the p’ane b.i : . been r. veivel up to midnight.” New’ York tfme. | It is believed that the machine is averaging one hundred miles per hour and that she should reach London at ' approximately ■ noon grenwich mean time, Friday. NEW YORK. October 9. , The steamer Lancastria reported that t. passed the tr.ins-Atlan.ic plane Columbia., four hundred miles cast, of Harbour Grace (Newfoundland) at, 5.40 p.m,. Eastern Standard time. | Flight to Australia KINGSFORD SMITH SETS OUT. (Aus. & N.Z Caule Assn.) LONDON, October 9. Wing Commander Kingsford Smith left Heston at dawn to-Jay for Australia, ROME, October 9. Kingsford Smith has arrived. i MATTHEWS RESUMES. ’BANGKOK, October 9. Matthews has left for Singapore. He is highly satisfied with the' repairs to . his aeroplane, which was half rebuilt. - Matthews Down i CRASH NEAR BANGKOK. (Aus. A N.Z. Cablo Assn.) I (Received October 10 at 7.10 p.m.) < SINGAPORE, October 9. ’ Tie British airman. Captain Matthews, living to Australia,-has crashed between Bangkok and Singora. No details are yet available.