MRS BRUCE AT CROYDON

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 23 February 1931, Page 5

MRS BRUCE AT CROYDON

WELCOMED BY HUSBAND AND SON (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, 20th February. Mrs Victor Bruce arrived at Croydon, escorted by ’planes piloted by Miss Amy Johnson, Miss Winifred Spooner, and Miss Delpliine Reynolds, I who is planning a flight to the Cape. Mrs Bruce was warmly greeted by her husband and ten-year-old son before she climbed out of the cockpit, wearing two strange decorations, one of which is the highest Japanese aviation honour, and has not previously been given to a foreigner. The other decoration is the “Million Elephants and a White Umbrella,” the gift of the Governor of Hanoi, which entitled the IndoChinese in the olden days to the possession of those articles. She was wearing a Hong Kong juniper, a Shanghai skirt, Vancouver shoes, and handpainted lingerie, the gift of the Chinese ladies of Amoy. “What impressed me throughout the journey,” she said, “was that it was always full moon owing to my daily flights of about five hundred miles. (Received 23rd February. 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, 22nd February. Mrs Bruce says that she has decided to fly the Atlantic. Her flight to Japan was undertaken to prove that the standard British ’plane has.no superior. She wants to fly to South America as a counterblast to the extensive American sales campaign there.