ATTEMPT TO CIRCLE WORLD.
IIY AIR AND STEAMER IN 25 DAYS. MOSCOW, Feb. 27. Linton Wells, writer and traveller, and Edwin S. Evans, wealthy Detroit man, who plan to iflakc a circuit of the globe in less than 25 days, have begun negotiations with the Soviet Government for permission to cross Russian territory', and also to obtain an airplane for the Russian section of their journey.' Wells and Evans expect to start from New York on June, 22, Hying to Vancouver, crossing Hie Pacific by the liner Empress of Russia, trans shipping ,at Hakodate, Japan, for Vladivistok. Tlu-v plan to ily from Moscow to Cherbourg and catch the Mauretania there, Wells gained prominence as a correspondent covering the round-the-world flight of American army aviators in 1924. lie reported for the Associated Press the flight across the Pacific iron) the Aleutians to the Kurile Islands and the stages over Japanese territory.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17008, 15 April 1926, Page 3
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