CONTINUED BAD LUCK
PIPER AND KAYE’S ADVENTURES. (Received 10.30 a.m.) United Press Assn —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SINGAPORE, March 20. Because the airmen landed on. the Royal Air Force ground, adjoining the naval base, eighteen miles from Singapore town, few were, aware of the, arrival on Wednesday evening or departure this morning for. Muutok of Piper and Kaye. The bad luck encountered in India continued alter leaving Calcutta. Flying off Burma, coast engine trouble forced a descent on a small uninhabited island at Boron go. near Akyab, where they were delayed for three weeks, working at repairs all day in a tropic sun. and sleeping at night in the machine, a.s there, was no shelter. Despite adversities they wore most optimistic, though tired out when they arrived, at 'Singapore.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11401, 21 March 1930, Page 6
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