CENTENARY AIR RACE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 October 1934, Page 5

CENTENARY AIR RACE.

ULTIMATE FIELD LIKELY TO BE TWENTY. GREAT EXPENSE CAUSES HEAVY 'SCRATCHING-S. {By Telegraph-Press Assn. —Copyright). (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, October 14. By 4.30 p.m., Ithe time specified for "the arrival of competitors at Mildeniall, who are competing in the Centenary Air Race, twelve had landed. Ex- - tensions of time have heen granted to ten other probable Starters, in addition to several who are regarded as unlikely to compete. Barring accidents, -the ultimate field seems likely to be twenty, not including the two Italian entrants, of whom (there is no news. Seventeen probable starters are, now in England, In view of the great expense to take part in the race, heavy seratchings from the original field of sixty-four is not surprising and recalls the early apathy, especially from Britain, that twenty starters would be satisfactory.

OUTWITTING FRENCH AUTHORITIES. MOLLIS ON S TO DELIVER FILMS OF ASSASSINATION IN AMERICA. For £30,000 the Mollisons plan tomorrow a return flight to Newfoundland with films of King Alexander’s assassination, leaving ’ them time to overhaul their machine for the Centenary air race. The Atlantic flight will be the culmination of American film interests in a battle to outwit the French authorities, who confiscated films about to leave Cherbourg aboard the liner 'Bremen. The Americans vainly tried to hire an English plane, then a film magnate telephoned the Mollisons on October 13th asking the price of an Atlantic flight. “Thirty thousand pounds,” replied the Mollisons. “Fifteen thousand pounds each, that is really the price we place on our lives,” said Amy. “We intend to refuel at Djublin and .fly 2070 miles to Newfoundland, which is actually 482 miles less than the air race first hop to Baghdad. (Should we reach Newfoundland in ten hours and deliver the films to the Americans our plane will return almost immediately.”