WORLD FLIGHT

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 August 1924, Page 5

WORLD FLIGHT

AMERICAN PROGRESS. PERILS TO BE FACED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGRI WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. Lieutenant Lowell Smith, commanding the United States globe flyers, has reported to the air service that he will hop off from Reykjavik, Iceland, tomorrow. The delay is due to the establishment of a, new base in an ice free harbour found by scouts in Greenland. The plan is to fly to Amnagsalik, Greenland, to-morrow, and Ivigtut on Sunday. °

VANCOUVER, Aug. 16. A message from Port Moller, Alaska, states that William- Sullivan reports that he found an aeroplane wrecked on April 30, when Major Frederick Martin, commander of the United States world flyers, was forced to land. The plane struck gradually" sloping ground, there being no mountain within a . n } de the spot. Sullivan is of opinion that the plane was flying very low when it hit a slope, and if the machine had been 150 feet high it would have passed over all the elevations in the vicinitv.

The plane was found thirty miles from the cannery at which Major Martin arrived after ten days’ wandering, suffering hardships in the snow and brushwood. The machine was hopelessly shattered.

MISHAP TO M ACL AREN. VASCOUVER, Aug. 16. A message from Prince Rupert states that the Canadian trawler Thiepval, carrying MacLaren, the British flyer and party, has arrived. They were formally welcomed by the city officials. Lashed to the trawler’s rigging were the remains of the aeroplane, which was damaged in a forced landing in the North Pacific. ENGLISHMAN NEEDS REST. Received Aug. 18, 8.5 ann. VANCOUVER, Aug... 16. A telegram from Prince Rupert says that Sergeant Andrews, mechanician, will enter hospital on his arrival by the Thiepval at Vancouver on Tuesday. He is suffering from a nervous bi’eakdown. MacLaren is well, hut requires a. long rest to recuperate. Received Aug. 18, 9.5 a.m. VANCOUVER, Aug. 16. The Russians at Petropavlovsk debated for four hours whether they would coal the Thiepval, and they finally decided to do so. MacLaren and his party reached here in the clothes they wore when rescued. MacLaren traces all liis difficulties to the accident in Burma. But for that delay he would have arrived in the North Pacific a- month earlier and probably avoided the terrible storms and fog.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ZANNI COMES TO GRIEF. DELHI, Aug. 17. A report states that Major Zanni, the Argentinian aviator, while resuming the flight from Calcutta to Bangkok, came to grief and made a forced landing at Tavov, in Lower Burma. Details are unknown, BUENOS AYRES, Aug. 14. Ensign Avaristo Volo, an Argentine aviator, is sailing for Tokio to join the world flier, Major Zanni. Ho will act as navigation officer on the transpacific flight.

LONDON, Aug. 16. The flyer Loeauli has arrived' in Iceland