SOUTHERN CROSS’S NEXT FLIGHT.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 August 1928, Page 5

SOUTHERN CROSS’S NEXT FLIGHT.

PERTH TO ADELAIDE. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Dav, 10.15 a.m.) PERTH, August 21. Fine weather, has returned and the Maylands aerodrome has so improved that the Southern Cross will hop off -to-day for Tarnmin, where a full load of petrol, and Wireless-operator McWilliams and Navigator Litchfield will be taken aboard. The flight to Adelaide will begin about 5 p.m. Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith expects to arrive at Adelaide on Wednesday morning at eight o’clock (Adelaide time). »Thc Meteorologist predicts rain for the whole journey, but the aviators five desirous of losing no more time. LITTLE HOPE FOR HASSELL. PLANE PROBABLY CRASHED AMONGST ICE-BERGS. <By Telegraph-Press Assn .-Copyright.) (Received This Dav, 10.15 a.m.) VANCOUVER, August 20. The gasoline supply fur Hassell’s machine must have been exhausted many hours ago. On leaving Cochrane on 'Saturday his radio was heard regularly while Hie machine ■ *vas crossing Northern Quebec, then traversing Labrador and the fringes of Ungava, but no word has been received since they left the continental coast-line for the jump across the iceberg-infested seas between the mainland and the Greenland coast* What has happened to them is a matter for conjecture.

Bert Hassell (pilot), Parker. (radioman), and Cramei (navigator), arrived at Cochrane last Thursday afternoon. from Eockfield (Illinois), wheie they hopped off early in the morning on a three-stop monoplane flight to Stockholm. They left, on Friday for Mount Evans, Greenland, and thence to Reykjavik, Iceland.