ARRIVAL AT ATHENS
MISS BATTEN’S ENGLISH FLIGHT. TRIBULATIONS ON JOURNEY. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 7.20 p.m. London, April 25. Miss Jean Batten, in an interview with the Daily Express at Athens, said the heat across India was unbearable. Her hand was very badly blistered through pumping petrol, as she had no automatic pump. She experienced further trouble at Basra, where terrible thunder and sand storms reduced visibility to nil. Even the Dutch mail plane was unable to fly the next day. “A forty miles an hour westerly gale was blowing over the Syrian desert,” she said. “My machine is only capable of 80 miles an hour, so I had to wait for the wind to drop before I could go on to Damascus. From there the weather was quite good to Cyprus. “I cannot say when I will arrive in England. I may be held up by fogs in France. “My machine was fourth-hand when I bought it. It has behaved wonderfully-” Miss Batten is delayed by engine trouble.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 April 1935, Page 4
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