AVIATION.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16726, 8 January 1920, Page 7

AVIATION.

TRANS-PACIFIC FLIGHT. i (By Cable—Prn« AooeiatiOll —Copjrijbt.) (Australi&a N.Z. Cabl» Association.) VANCOUVER, January G. It ic understood that Major D. A. *- Arnold, the Australian Flying Corps -t '"ace," who is en route to Australia. v has cancelled his journey and is to cn- ■ tor tho scrvico of Messrs ickers, LUi.. 0 to make arrangements for a trans-Pari- >- fio flight from Australia to San Francisco. A special Vickers-J 'Viking' 11 machine is being built at A\eybridgo. Tho flight is dependent on the permis- ! 3 sion of tho War Office. lf FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA. )- e MATTHEWS AT CONSTANTINOPLE. a LONDON, January 6. is Captain Matthews arrived at Conr stantinople from Belgrade on December ft I 23rd. lie goes on to Bagdad when the --: weather permits. 0 I [Captain G. C. Matthews, in a SopI with machine, left London on October j "Ist, nrivod at Cologne October 23rd, v j I Mayer.ce November 22iul, Dagsburg No- '*; vember 21st, and at Vienna Deccic.bor r Ist. Nothing further was rccoivod ro I garding his movements until December ° j 11th, when it was reported that he had | reached Belgrade. Mail advices from ° i Captain Matthews, dated from Bel- '• ! grade, stated that lio was nnable to get y supplies of petrol in Vienna, and was p hampered by fogs, rain, and snow all through tho journey. He was forced to descend in a fog within 100 miles " of Belgrade, where masked men surrounded and arrested both Captain Matthews and Lieutenant Kay and took their papers. Ultimately, becoming desperate, they broke away from £ their captors and snccedcd in reaching f j, their machine. They ascended in a dense fog and managed to reach the aerodrome at Novisad, 45 mile* from Belgrade, occupied by French officers. r They then had only 20 gallons of petrol " left. Subseuently they secured sufficient petrol to take them to Sofia, whore they were held np by four days' snowstorms.] ° POULETR POSTPONEMENT. ALLAHABAD. Jannarv fi. Potilet has departed for Marseilles. Ho intends to return in October to resume his flight to Australia. THE MARTINSYDE DISASTER. , LONDON, .Tannani 5. The emplovees of Messrs Martinsyde, 3 Ltd., attended a memorial service in r memory of Captain G. E. Howell and 3 Mr Fraser, hiß mechanic, who met their deaths near Corfu, while atteranting 0 the flight from London to Australia. [i