RELIEF EXPEDITION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19924, 18 April 1928, Page 11

RELIEF EXPEDITION.

MISS JUNKERS AND PARTY.

ARRIVAL AT MONTREAL.

FUEL AND SPARE PARTS.

Australian and N.Z. Press Association. (Received April 17, <5.38 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 17.

Miss Herta Junkers, daughter of Herr Junkers, tho manufacturer of the monoplane Bremen, left New York yesterday for Montreal in the Fl3, a sister piano to tho Bremen. Her object was to make plans for a relief expedition to Greenly Island.

The machine was piloted by Mr. Fred. Melchoir, chief pilot to the Junkers Company in America, a mechanic and Miss Junkers' brother Erhardt. Miss Junkers had received a message from Baron Huehnefeld asking for benzol, a new propeller and spare parts. New landing gear had already been despatched and will be picked up by the relief expedition at Montreal.

The party carried 100 gallons of benzol. Miss Junkers said their principal purpose was to havo the Fl3 as close to the Bremen as possible, so that any part tho latter needed could be sent to Greenly Island. That applied particularly to the propeller now being used on the Fl3, which was tho only one that could be found .which would servo efficiently on the Bremen.

A message received early this" morning from Montreal said Miss Junkers and her party had arrived there. Miss Junkers said they had gone to Montreal in order to study more closely the situation of the Bremen. There was little possibility of them flying to the island. A report received at Montreal from Greenly states that three men arrived in a small boat from the mainland. They said the ice-breaker Montcalm was making little or no progress through the heavy ice. The storm was also holding the vessel back.

Mr. Boy Brown, a Canadian airman who killed the famous German aco Von Richtofen in tho war, is now preparing to leave New York for Greenly in a fourseater piano.

MONOPLANE'S PILOT.

CAREER IN GREAT WAR.

THRILLING EPISODE RELATED.

Australian and N.Z. Press Association (Received April 1", 8.25 p.m.)

BERLIN. April 17

Tho Berlin newspapers give prominence to a thrilling episode in the war-time career of Kerr Ivoehl, pilot of the Bremen on its transatlantic flight. He was the leader of a bombing squadron on the Western Front. Single-harded he blew up an ammunition dump, Dut later he was obliged to descend eight miles from Paris owing to his machine being damaged by anti-aircraft gunfire. However, he managed to destroy the machine and avoid those who hurried to the sceno. For three days he made his way through hostile country pretending to be an American airman. He was then arrested by a British officer, but ho escaped in a stolen motor-car.

GERMAN PRESIDENT.

MESSAGE FROM AIRMEN.

AN INTERMEDIATE LANDING.

Australian and N.Z. Press Association. (Received April 17, 6.5 p.m.) BERLIN. April 17

President Hindenburg has received a message from Herr Koehl and Baron von Huehnefeld, saying:—"With God's help we achieved the first east to west Atlantic flight in a German aeroplane. We made an intermediate landing at Greenly Island. Accept our respectful greetings, in which our Irish comrade, Major Fitzmaurice, joins."

AMERICAN AVIATION.

GREAT GROWTH PREDICTED.

LINDBERGH LIGHTS BEACONS.

Australian Press Association—United Service NEW YORK, April IG.

Two powerful beacons, which have been established on the Central and Southern California coast, wero dedicated on Sunday evening by Colonel Charles Lindbergh. He pressed a telegraph key at Denver, Colorado, whero he had landed for an hour while en route to the east.

At a later function Mr. W. E. Boeing, head of the Air Transport Company, of Seattle, predicted that in a short time an aeroplane passenger would be able to telephono by radio and long-distance telephone to any jwrt of the United States while en route. He said tho United States had 4000 aeroplanes in service and factory orders indicated that this number would be increased to 8000 by tho end of the year.

ITALIAN HYDROPLANES.

TOUR OF MEDITERRANEAN.

VISIT TO MANY COUNTRIES

Australian and N.Z. Prena Association. (Received April 17, 5.25 p.m.) HOME, April 17,

Two squadrons, each of 25 hydroplanes, one under tho command of tiie Marquis di Pinedo, one under Signor Italo Balbo, Under-Secretary of State for Air, will shortly undertake a flight over tho Mediterranean. They will visit France, Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, Egypt, Turkey, Greece and Malta.

PARACHUTE DESCENTS

TEN MEN FROM ONE PLANE. AMERICAN ARMY AIRMEN. United Service. NEW YORK, April IC. A new world's record for successful leaps from an aeroplane wasi established on Sunday at the Rantoul training field, Illinois, when 10 members of the Army Air Corps School leaped with parachutes from a tri-motored 16-passenger piano in eight seconds and landed safely from an altitude of 2000 ft. The Virginia Army Corps held the previous record, with nine men.