Japanese Render Assistance

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6629, 17 August 1931, Page 7

Japanese Render Assistance

Received Sunday, 9.50 p.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 15.

The New York Times’ Tokyo correspondent states that Chichester on the last lap of his flight here from Katsuura to-day encountered difficulties in an attempt to take off from the water and after a fifty-minute struggle to gain altitude failed to clear an electric cable. Tho machine crashed on a stone embankment and he was seriously injured in the head, chest and thighs and will be laid up for sovcral weeks, but the physician!; at tlie hospital in. the neighbouring town of Shingu, where he was taken, report that he will recover. The Government aviation bureau has sent officials and doctors to care for him. The townsfolk, who rushed out to extricate the flier from the plane, which was badly damaged, described how valiantly ho struggled against the wind which drove him low over tho cliffs near to the water, there encountering tho cable which caught the wing of the machine. Tho townsfolk carried him to a local doctor and at noon he was removed to Shingu. Plane Will Be Useless Received Sunday, 10 p.m. TOKYO, Aug. 16. The chief of the Aeronautic Bureau states that Chichester’s machine will be useless for further flight. The airman is now likely to return to Australia and start again.