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To Chichester’s Flight AIRMEN SURPRISED. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 13. In a message from Narrabal. Air F. C. Chiehes'er who. with Air F. D. Herrick, of Hawke’s Day, i.s flying tn. Europe, via the Far East and Russia. states that, on July 1. they received n “knockout blow” in the shape of a cablegram from the British Ambassador af Aloseow, reading: “The Soviet Government states that vour lapplicat.'oi) cannot be granted, t.-wing to a general decision —of which this is the first intonation —to prohibit flights across the who’e extent of tlm H.S.S.R.” “When we received a permitw'lhout (lemur, from Manehukno, ve expected no trouble at a'l about Kussia.” writes Air Chichester. He ados that th' 1 Iwo airmen intend to continue to Peiping and they wijl see wliat can be arranged when they have arrived theK'. They expect to arrive at Peiping early in August. It will be a' ureat disappointmeu 1 : to both freers) "if they are unable to carry th~rough fhei'r project of the flight across Sit>er*a.
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Grey River Argus, 14 July 1936, Page 5
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