TRIP ROUND WORLD
TWO JAPANESE JOURNALISTS. OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS TAKEN. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) London, June 25. Two Japanese journalists, Shingu and Fukuna, who arc flying round the world in opposite directions to settle a bet whether the eastward or the westward route is quicker, unexpectedly met at Croydon after travelling 20,000 miles. They embraced and exchanged their experiences for half—-an-hour and then resumed their travels. Shingu flew' from Tokio to Newmarket and thence proceeded to Southampton by steamer. He embarked on an Airways liner for Paris, thence flies to Moscow, takes the train across Siberia, and flies from Korea to Tokio. Fukuna has already covered the route Shingu has* yet to travel.
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Southland Times, Issue 21431, 27 June 1931, Page 5
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112TRIP ROUND WORLD Southland Times, Issue 21431, 27 June 1931, Page 5
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