BLAKE REACHES KARACHI.
AN EVENTFUL FLICHT. By Teleyraph— Pres, Association—C .pyneht Australian and >'.Z. Cable Associa'ion LONDON. July 18. A message from .Major Blake troiii Bandar-Abbas states he reached there after an eventful flight down the Persian Gulf. The machine acquired many new mascots at Basra. Every inch of it is now covered with signatures. The flight from Bushire became a race against the s -t. ' 4 Though a speed of 120 miles an hour was attained in the last twv hours,” continues the report. “ darkness forced us to descend at BostataSi (110 miles soifth-west of Bandar-Abbas) in the level sand and v«e spent the night in the open. suffering greatly from heat and lack of water- Before daylight we start' d again and arrived here before the sun was up. We had to have the radiator lengthened as the water was nearly boiling. The temperature at Basra on Sunday was 115 degrees in the shade. The heat is less intense here.” LONDON. July 19 Major Blake reached Karachi (Sind©) this morning
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16790, 20 July 1922, Page 5
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