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Northern Advocate, 17 April 1933, Page 5

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MISS BATTEN SAFE MAROONED IN MARSH TRIBESMEN PROVIDE ESCORT. MACHINE NOT WET LOCATED.

(United Press Association—By.. ElectThTelegraph.—Copyright.) - WVT (Received 9 a.m.) ! ' CALCUTTA, April 15.

Nows, ofthe. safety, of -Miss Jean- . Batten, the 'AncLland, v glri ' wio Lympne, Kent, last /Sunday on a flight to Australia, wa;s received today. iTJjerftihad: been no hews of-her since? •she left Bagdad on Wednesday. . ! It transpires that after leaving Bag- 1 ' dad for Bushire, Persia, Miss Batten' [ was marooned in the wastes ‘of Bald- - ‘ chistan. She was succoured by frieridv* ly tribesmen, who escorted her to Belaj" ithe capital of that province. : f> -!? The girl arrived;.. In , Karachi in a motor lorry provided by British officials., The ,journey ly 12 hours over rough-'tfackij^-.?^^: Miss Batten encountered 'dwefjr Tfrfd- < sandstorm when flying over the Pei- ‘ sian Gulf. '.Her -malffiinofV^‘sfeeple-'' chasedover hills,-crevices'-had-wifif:-

country. Finally, she saw a of country and landed, only ?t<F'?An(L that it was marshy ground. - The-aero-' plane tilted and the -jir ope Her" wa’sbroken, " _ •’ . -i" 'IVly; Intrepid Spirit.- - •The girl’s.pluck was : ohown;.:by ' fact that shortly after her arrival in Karachi she wan Fed to return in the" • ? motor lorry tov-her'itrahd€d ; -'machine with a new propeller; However, _a member of the Aero Club bffered’- to . take her this morning? ‘ * r , 9 ‘-' ’* ?•?,

, Miss Batten’s 7: time ' (4£ days ; "td‘ India) is the best achieved yet‘by"*a ■ woman on a flight-Trdm - England ■' '{o'. , Australia. -A

The girl flier eoiild not locate her ’’ machine, though ehe-made re'cdnnais- L sanee flights today. Finally eh'e went 1

in a- car to Bela. The position,' there/;.fore, is that she cannot hbpe’to beat' 1 the - ’international reebrd -for 'the Bight. However? she - intends-, to/. carry *bar-air ;j !soon as her maehineri's'diFcoverbß?*^ I*'’'' 1 *'’'' f.-.

ianoasteb' missing. : a - - • - ■ ; i. • \ ■•r- ---: BELGIAN CONGO STAGE. . I . NO CLUE OBTAINED. - v f ''' (Received 9 -A PARIS, April 15. <; The Trans-Saharan .Company has 1 Be- | spa tolled a 'party, ih-A ’search? for,; Captairi* (V: who -Jlas, not - been ?aceA ■ sinee 'Rpggaß Belgian- • A terday morning in the' course' o£ v ‘ KiS ■ •?- flight from England to Cape Town. , : A message, .from the searohers. etate A that they have* discovered no' clue to •the whereabouts of the missing man.

; . BERTRAM PLIGHT. , LANDING AT ALEPPO. AMBITION FOILED. ' ;: -i ■'■■■■ f V (Received 9 a.m.) ■ .■ ■- <.{; ‘] CALCUTTA,, AprJU,ls.-r>. ■Captain Hans Bertram, the ••.Gennanrjf ‘ ; v , ■airman, who flow with Adolf i-Klmls- 1 mann to.-Australia last year,-and ‘ lost for several fweeks~ a#&r«landings . left Karachi at-noon, yesterday^ Bushire, Persia. • The airman, readied ) ‘ Bushire, . and afterwards./flandft(P- ; flt- ./£ Aleppo. . He- has abandoned his c: ; «t-\, - ;,j tempt to fly from Sourabaya, Aavaj: t*T A Berlin, in six days,-which would I ,have; ‘. j imeant jrqfWihingj ■ his r destination morrow,:! : - . 1 ' -

MRS BONNE Y’S ATTEMPT, *-• J AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND; '-j-' yS (Received 9 aim.)' ’' ‘ ~V-j darwin; f : -Mrs H. Bonnev, the Sydney aviatrixp' "A who left here yesterday' ah' ; at-* ’ tempted record flight to England,"has ’ ‘ arrived safely at Koepang.' ■ “