30 DAYS AROUND WORLD

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22539, 2 October 1936, Page 11

30 DAYS AROUND WORLD

JULES VERNE UP-TO-DATE AMERICAN WRITERS' TOUR (Received October 1, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. BO Three American journalists, representing respectively the North American Newspaper Alliance, the Scripps Howard Newspapers and the Hearst group—the last-named a woman —left to-night in the airship Ilindenburg to make a round-the-world trip in less than three weeks. Thov will use only scheduled and regularly established modes of passenger transportation. The Zeppelin will take them to Frankfort, thence they will continue their journey across Europe and Asia by other air lines. They will take a steamer from Hongkong to join at Manila tho China Clipper on her first Fast-bound flight with passengers, returning by air from San Francisco to New York.

Round-the-world travel by international air lines in two weeks and at an approximate cost of £6lB in New Zealand currency was envisaged recently bv tho Literary Digest. The great air services of the United States, Germany, Hritain and the Netherlands, were shown connecting on a regular schedule to make possible a comfortable flight of nearly 27,000 miles round the globe by aeroplane, flying-boat and Zeppelin The time allowed was two days by Zeppelin to Frankfort, Germany, connecting there with the Royal Dutch air line for Penang, in Malaya, which could be reached within a week of leaving New York. The traveller was to take an Imperial Airways flying-boat from there to Hongkong, but had to charter a private machine to connect with the clippership of Pan-American airways at Macao, 40 miles awav. Tho next stage would bo via Manila, Guam, Wake and Midway Islands to Honolulu, and thence to San Francisco. it was calculated that the transcontinental service would then bring the traveller back to New York exactly two weeks after he had left-,