FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15987, 2 December 1919, Page 5

FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.

ANOTHER ENTRANT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received December 2, 10 a.m. LONDON, November 28. Lieutenant Parer, of the Royal Air Force, has entered for the Australian light. The Beardmore Aero Engine Company is collaborating with Parer on the details of the machine, the construction of which has commenced.

POULBT CHASING ROSS-SMITH. A GREAT RACE. Received December 2, 1 p.m. RANGOON, December 1. Poulet left for Bansrkok twenty-five minutes after Ross-Smith. SYDNEY, December 1. Ross-Smith cables from Bangkok under date December first that he left Rangoon at seven and readied Bangkok at, one. A heavy storm after passing Moulmein caused delay and drove him out cf his course. He followed the river Menam south to Bangkok, finding an excellent reception and assistance had been provided by the Siamese Aviation Corps. He hopes to land at Singe ra on the second and Singapore on the third All well. KANGAROO REACHES PISA. Received December 2, 9.15 a.m. LONDON, December 1. Captain Wilkins , in the Kangaroo machine, reached Pisa on Saturday, and Rome on Sunday afternoon. He intended to leave for Taranto to-day. The last machine to start on the flight was the Blackburn Kangaroo, manned bv Captain Wilkins, Lieutenant V. Rendle, Lieutenant 0. R. Williams, and Lieutenant G. H. Potts, which left London on November 31. Plying into a heaw snowstorm it was obliged to descend 62 miles last of Paris the same day.