AVIATION.
CAPTAIN MATTHEWS’ ADVENTURES.
IMPRISONED AT BELGRADE,
By Eleotrio Telegraph.—Copyright. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. Received December 31, 8.55 a.m LONDON, Dec. 29. Mail advices from Captain Matthews, dated from Belgrade, show that lie was unable to get supplies of petrol in Vienna, and was hampered by fogs, fain and snow all through his journey. Ho was forced to descend i/i a fog within 100 miles of Belgrade, where armed men surrounded and arrested both himself and his mechanic, Sergeant Kay, and took their papers. ! The aviators were imprisoned for four days in a small room ten feet square, and fed on bread and pig’s fat. Ultimately, becoming desperate, they broke away from their captors and succeeded in reaching their r/iachine, and ascended in a dense fog and managed to reach the aerodrome at Novisad, 45 miles from Belgrade, occupied by French officers. Then they had only twenty gallons of petrol loft
A report from Captain Matthews stales that he went to Belgrade in a train, but General Plunkett was unable to supply him with petrol. lie ultimately, got some from the French authorities, but only sufficient to carry him to Sofia. When the mail left ho was still hold up by a four-days’ snow storm.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1712, 31 December 1919, Page 5
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