FLIGHTS TO AUSTRALIA.

Otago Witness, Issue 3995, 7 October 1930, Page 48

FLIGHTS TO AUSTRALIA.

TWO MORE ANNOUNCED. LONDON, October 3. One of the most interesting aspirants in the lone flight to Australia is Fightlieutenant C. W. Hill, who announces that he will take off to-morrow in a light aeroplane. It is also announced that Major C. M. B. Bickthorne and Flying-officer Chabot will set out at the same time in a Moth equipped with a Gipsy engine. Flight-lieutenant Hill is famous- as one of the two officers who escaped from a Turkish prison camp by an elaborate spiritualistic “ plot,” whose adventures are -described in the book “ The Road to Endor Hills.” His companion posed as a medium, and so worked on the credulity of the Turkish commandant that he became a slave to a treasure hunting scheme directed by spirits. ’“They simulated madness for many weeks, which cost them great physical and mental suffering.”. AUSTRALIAN AVIATOR. PLANE CRASHES AGAIN. DELHI, October 4. Mr Cunningham, the Australian aviator, who is flying to England, crashed at Nyaukpyu. The plane was damaged, but the airman was not hurt.