YELLOW BIRD’S PASSAGE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 June 1929, Page 5

YELLOW BIRD’S PASSAGE.

WAS THERE A STOWAWAY? (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (■Received This iDay, 9.5 a.m.) NEW* YORK, June 14. A report from Old Orchard, Maine, stated that rumours persist there that Arthur Schreiber, aged 22 was a stowaway aboard the Yellow Bird, the largo French monoplane manned by Xotti, Assolant' and Lef evre, which left there on Thursday morning for Paris, but no confirmation has been .received bv radio from Lotti, so verification is "improbable before the plane ■descends. SATISFACTORY PROGRESS MADE. WIRELESS FROM AZORES REGION :**v Telegraph-Press Assn:-Copyright.; (Australian Press Assn. and Sun.) (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) PARIS, June 14. The aeroplane Yellow Bird has wirelessed that it is 100 of the Azores. SLOWING DOWN AGAINST HEADWIND. DOUBT ABOUT PETROL SUFFICIENCY. <By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) PARIS,'June 14. A wireless picked up at Bordeaux from a steamer reported that the Yel- ' lowbird was midway between the Azores and Portugal, meeting with a tfiead-wind and slowing down. The pilot is "worried owing to the heavy consumption of petrol, but hopes that there will be sufficient to make Portugal. '

YELLOW BIRD REACHES SPAIN. (Beceived This Day, 12.15 p.n\.) {t&y 'ielegrapft-Press Assn.-OopyriKht.. LONDON", June 14. The Yellow Bird landed at Santander at 9.30 a.m.