FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11990, 29 January 1920, Page 5

FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.

PROGRESS BY CAPTAIN MAT-

THEWS,

Unifcecl Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright.

Sydney, f Jan 27.

Captain Matthews cabled from Bagdad on January 24th as follows: — “We flew from Constantinople to Aleppo on the 14th without a stop, in three hours at 10,000 feet, 200 miles being over mountains and ravines. It was impossible to laud. There was snow everywhere, and much;rain followed. At Aleppo’there were no hangars, and no British, We flew from Aleppo to Bagdad on the 21st in four hours, experiencing the first tine flying weather. An overhaul was carried out’,;'here with every assistance from the R, A, F. We are leaving on the 27th and will go by the usual route to India. The average speed to t date is 104 miles an hour. The machine is wonderful in bad weather. The crew is O.K. ”