ATLANTIC FLIGHT
AMERICANS SUCCEED. NEWFOUNDLAND REACHED. A FORCED LANDING. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received September 15, 12.35 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 14. Harry Richman and Dick Merrill, the American trans-Atlantic fliers, took off from Southport at 3.5 a.in. on their return flight. Thousands cheered the fliers. Richman said that they had already ordered a dinner of steak and chips at New York, and they expected to eat it at 7 p.m. The airmen passed the Arran Islands at 5 a.m. Later a Montreal cable reported that the correspondent of the United Press at St. Johns (Newfoundland) had reported that Richman and Merrill had heen forced to bring their ’plane down in a marsh near the town at 2.20 p.m. (New York time) to-day.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 246, 15 September 1936, Page 7
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