ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY.
ACROSS CENTRAL ASIA. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. CALCUTTA, January 17. After three months' adventurous journey across Central Asia, by lorry Sir Eric Teiohman, secretary of the British Legation at Poking had a narrow escape from disaster when 1 fivino- from Gilgit in Kashmir to Rawalpindi. After crossing the Himalayas at .a | height of 15.000 feet in intense cold the"plane was flying over tribal terriotrv when it was shot at. the bullet smashing through a window near the pilot’s head, but no one was injured. This is the first occasion that a civ;! plane habeen flown front Gilgit and the occupants had a striking view of the unconquered peak Manga Parbat.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13161, 20 January 1936, Page 3
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