LONG-DISTANCE FLIGHTS.
MACLAREN SAFE, BUT STORM .BOUND.
(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON. August 2. Maclaron, at Petropavlovski, reports himself all well but storm-bound. Tha American flyers left Kirkwall for Iceland, but. later returned owing to a blinding fog. The second American flyer, Nelson, has reached Hornafiord (Iceland), from Kirkwall. The aviator Zanni lias arrived at Karachi. NEW YORK, August" 2. The United States cutter Algonquin, near Attui Island, reports that the British world flyers met with an accident at Nikolshi, in the Komandorski Islands, but nobody was hurt. According to a wireless from the Canadian trawler Thiepual, the party, headed by MacLaren, flew, to West Kamchatka on Thursday, and from West Kamchatka to Nikolski on Friday. Another message states that the Thiepual is five hundred miles from Nikolski, for which she is making at full speed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16499, 4 August 1924, Page 5
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