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PARER AND MACINTOSH'S CRASH REPAIRS NEARLY COMPLETE By Teleeraph-Prejs Associatlon-OopyricM (Rec. April IG, 8.25 p.m.) Londom April 15. Lieutenants Parer and Macintosh, cabling from Moulinein, state that they are now out of hospital, and repairs to the machine arc'nearing completion, but they must await a new propeller. A complete new under-carriage and fuselage are being built at the site of the crash. Their message state;;: "We had decided to land in the sea, when a rift in the clouds showed Monlmein close at hand. The'exhaust manifold had burst and our faces and clothes were burned. The impact of n forced landing ot a speed of eighty miles an hour knocked us unconscious. Had we not crashed we would have killed many of the crowd." —United Service.
■MATTHEWS-TO START FOE BALI THIS MORNING. ■ ' (Rec. April 16, 10.40 p.m.) Wcltevredem April 10. Captain Matthews will start on iTatnr-. day morning for Bali, and goes thence to. Bimiv, which he expects to leave for Timor on 'Monday morning.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn,, . ' ROME~¥~TQKIO , FERRARI LEAVES RANGOON. (Eec. April JG, 5.5 p.m.) Delhi, April 15. . Lieutenant Ferrari, the Mian airman, who was'detained at Rangoon owiiy to his engines catching fire, left on April •14 for Bangkok, en route to Tokio.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 173, 17 April 1920, Page 7
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210FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 173, 17 April 1920, Page 7
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