AUSTRALIAN FLIGHT.
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) c LONDON, Saturday. Though the adventures already attendant on the Australian flight have shown the grim hazards of the enterprise, flyers still remain undeterred. Young Australians are pleading with every manufacturer to provide them with aeroplanes. A Bristol company has a list of more than a hundred men eager to embark, and other companies are in a similar position. The numbers arc gradually thinning as the men are called up for repatriation, but the boys wait till the last minute hoping to get a "bus. ,, TJie newspapers are mystified regarding Captain Matthews, and are discussing whether ho crashed somewhere in Germany and was interned. The Air Ministry states that nothing definite has been heard since November 2nd. Matthews did not ask permission to fly over Germany, and if ho landed there he would probably be imprisoned.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13987, 25 November 1919, Page 6
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