MALCOLM CAMPBELL'S ADVENTUROUS TRIP

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 91, 29 November 1928, Page 5

MALCOLM CAMPBELL'S ADVENTUROUS TRIP

CAPTURED; ROBBED; RESCUED; DISAPPOINTED BEARGH FOR DESERT SPEED « TRACK. ILLUSIONS SHATTERED. (Received 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, Nov, 28. Malcolm Campbell has returned after an adventurous flight. He was forced down on the African Coast, robbed by Riffs, rescued by Spanish soldiers, and came home in a Spanish steamer. He. found an ideal speed track, but decided not to utilise it owing to the remoteness and the expense of maintaining headquarters. Campbell said he was returning with shattered illusions as to making a motoring re.cord in the, Sahara. Ho found an area all right, about eight hundred miles north of Timbuctoo, but it is 150 miles, to the nearest outpost and the only access is across arid, uneven desert over which all supplies including water must be carried- United Service.