ROUND THE WORLD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 144328, 17 February 1914, Page 5

ROUND THE WORLD.

THE GREAT AIR RACE. SAN FRANCISCO, Fob. 3. Tho route to be followed by tho competitors in tho great aeroplane race round tho world, which is to start from tho Panama Exposition grounds on May 15, 1915, and for which the first prize will be £24,000, will represent approximately a distance of 22,000 miles. After surmounting tho Sierras the airmen will touch at Reno and Cheyenne, and will then have a choice of route through Kansas City, Chicago, or St. Louis, to New From Belle Isle, near Newfoundland, is a jump of 610 miles to Cape Farewell. Greenland, and then another of 670 miles to Reykjavik, Iceland, and one more of 570 miles to Stornoway, in tho island of Lowis-with-Harris, one of the Outer Hebrides. From Stornoway the competitors fly to Edinburgh, then to London, Berlin, St. Petersburg, and Moscow.

Tbe route follows tho trans-Siberian railway to Vladivostock, then to Japan, and back north to Kamtcbatka, crossing Behring Straits, and descending via Vancouver to Seattle, Portland, and Tacoma. Arnold Kruchman, manager of the Panama Exhibition Bureau of Aeronautics, goes east soon to outline the route, and to take counsel of all the aviation experts lie can find regarding the general conditions surrounding tho race.