ATLANTIC FLIGHT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21932, 16 October 1934, Page 9

ATLANTIC FLIGHT

MOLLISONS' -MISSION FEE OF £30,000 ASKED CONVEYING MURDER FILMS THE MARSEILLES TRAGEDY By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, Oct. 14 For a sum of £30,000 Mr. J. A. Mollison and his wife, formerly Miss Amy Johnson, propose to start to-mor-row on a return flight to Newfoundland, carrying in their aeroplane news-reel films of King Alexander's assassination in Marseilles. The Mollisons hope to complete the journey and be back in time to make a complete overhaul of their machine before the start of the Melbourne Centenary air race on October 20. This Atlantic flight will be the culmination of an American film interest's battle to outwit the French authorities, who confiscated films about to be despatched from Cherbourg by the German liner Bremen. The Americans vainly tried to hire an English aeroplane. Then a film magnate telephoned the Mollisons on Saturday asking their price for an Atlantic flight. Their reply was £30,000 each. "That is really the price we place on our lives," said Mrs. Mollison. The fliers intend to reftlel at Dublin and fly the 2070 miles to Newfoundland, which is actually 483 miles less than the first hop of the air race to Bagdad. They should reach Newfoundland in 10 hours, deliver the films to an American aeroplane, and return almost immediately.