OVER THE ATLANTIC

Hawera Star, Volume L, 31 July 1930, Page 5

OVER THE ATLANTIC

PROGRESS OF RIOO

ALL WELL WITH DIRIGIBLE PREPARATIONS POE RECEPTION (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright). 'MONTREAL, July 2!). Si. H'liiboT't airport Is lia'stenlhig preparult.ions !t\> rqeeivo Wvo airship RlflO, which 'loft lOardiinlgiton, Eregtend, on Mo'ivcllay niio.rnihsg. Weather reports tiiow 'in'd'ijcaitb con'ditiouls 'sh'ou'kl improve its life dliirigilbile moves westward •.l.ml it is exported 1 ith'c vtistsd will moor at ,t)ho rviaslt ait Momtrea.l on Thursday might. The police and military are preparing la .control 'the .crowds ‘thalt will gredt .the alirsMp. •S'q ua'dron-Leadcr Bo'ot h wirelessed Miter palssinlg Irdacml 'that evcryitlhing u'as O.Tv. He reported by .wireless a't inltervadls during the day, and-'this eveninirr omiye the dirigible’» 'position gs well ouit over ithe Atlantic, 'nc.nth-wc's't of Ireland. The weather was fine, bult rhtiher cold. The .airship w.as nn'akang a speed of 60 miles an hour. The' wireless' equlpin'erat' on' Ri'OO alppearls to- be woiki-ng satisfae.'torliil'y'.'The airship ran .into a 'storm after leaving fhe Scolttiish .coasit and the ’course wals changed. Wheat the storm paissed tiro i-ipeod. was increased to 60 miles- am .lromlr.

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Tito. 8100 connmm'iieatcd _ with .five Camiadialn Gov'crimvcnit raidio staltsi'oni n't Belle Isle mid with Ithe liner Empress of Pr.ruleo at 2 pan. (Greenwich .mean t'ilno), iwhen. Ithlo liner Was about 700 ml Lies due east of Belil'e Isll'e. The •dirigible t'ook bearings from Belle Isle iamd report edl her.s'elf north-easi 'of the Empress of Framiee. The atatiion alt Port Resolution, in the North-West Territory, alnnioumiced that, it picked up 'th'c Eloo k signals, but t.lrev were too weak ito understand.