TIE AIR RACE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 61, 5 December 1919, Page 7

TIE AIR RACE

ROSS-SMITH DUE AT SINGAPORE

POULET'S BAD LUCK

Dv Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Roc. December.i, 9.JA p.m.) Weltevreden (Java), December 4. Captain Ross-Smith was detained at Singora. He will arrive at Singapore to-day.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

HARD LUCK FOR I'OULET. Rangoon, December 3. Poulet had arranged to start to-day, but three tyres burst as tho machine was moving. He will try to leave to-morrow. —Reuter. ' AUSTRALIAN CRUISER PATROL OUT. Melbourne, December 4. The cruiser Sydney is patrolling between Koenang and Darwin (a distanco of about 150 miles) in order to assist tho aviators.—Press Assn. "STUNTS" V. COMMERCIAL PIONEERING ATLANTIC AND AUSTRALIAN FLIGHTS COMPARED. London, November 30. Maior Blake, aeronautical correspondent to the ''Sunday Times," contrasts the immense public excitement over the trans-Atlantic aerial flight, with the indifference regarding tho much more important flight to Australia. Tho former was a "stunt." more or less useless except as an advertisement; tho Australian flight has a direct, bearing 011 the important question of commercial aviation. Maior Blake states that Captain RossSmith will probably win the prize. Ho adds that the far-seeing Chincso-Govern-ment has alreaoy purchased a hundred aeroplanes similar to that Ross-Smith is living (a. Vickers-Vimyj for internal com-munication—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.