AVIATION.
(united Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
-MESSAGE FROM FITZMACRICT w NEW YORK. April IS.
Mayor Walker, of New Aork, has received the following message I coni Major Eitzmauriee at Clarke ( ity :
“Your information that ! am on my way to Xew York city is incorrect. I am on way only to Murray Bay. in order to arrange lor spare parts to repair the Bremen and also to conduct husiness - oil hoiia 11 ol Herr lvoehl and Baron Yon Huhenfeld. lam returning to Greenly Island to-morrow. Please correct the wrong impression. Regards. (Signed) Eitzmauriee.”
IIOI’RS OF ORDEAL. NEW YORK. April 1?. \\ hen the Bremen was off Newfoundland. the oil fuel pipe broke in the dense log. Major Fitzmauriee. however. repaired it. Then the Polar Star appear to the airmen for a moment, thus showing them their direction. Next their compass failed, and they lost again their direction, which they could lint pick up for hours. Then there came the sun again No snow adhered to the plane. The airmen occasionally took heel' toil or orange. When the Bremen landed, they suffered /from slight bruises. Major Fitzmauriee said that they were not cold. Init they were too frightened to eat.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1928, Page 2
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