OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1929, Page 6

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

THE NON-STOP RECORD,

BRITISH TO TRY FOR IT

(British Official Wff&lbss.)

RUGBY, October 20

A British attempt upon the nonstop flight record is to be undertaken next month by a Royal Air Force Fairey-Napier monoplane, in which it is hoped to fly 6000 miles from Britain to South Africa.

Squadron,-Leader Jones-Williams and Fitight-Lieutenarit Jenkins, who undertook a non-stop flight in the same aeroplane to India last April, will again be its pilots. The machine has recently been modified and will now carry nearly four tons of petrol. It is hoped that Capetown will be reached in fifty hours. v

TEACHING THE TURKS. BRITISH MILITARY PLANES DISPLAY. RUGBY, October 20. Tliirtv F itish air pilots of the Fleet, t' e Air Force, and the Army, taking off from the aircraft carrier Courageous, yesterday gave a display of formation flying and aeronautics at Constantinople, where Admiral Sir Frederick Field, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, and a squadron of warships are now paying a visit. It was the first of its kind ever given for the benefit of a foreign Power.

. As a final, event sixteen machines formed the Star and Crescent of the Turkish flag, and, keeping their piecise position, flew in tin’s formation over Constantinople and back to the Courageous.

BRITISH LEGION. | RUGBY, October 20. ! Lord Methuen, a British Field Marshal,' presiding yesterday at the conference of the British Legion, gave reasons for being strongly in favour of pilgrimages to the battlefields. A knowledge, of people of other nations, he said, would conduce to peace more than anything else. When he was Military Attache in Berlin he was as ; fond of the Germans as he was of the English people, and in time of sorrow lie received from them sympathy which he would never forget. | KING’S MESSAGE TO SIR | DOUGLAS MAAYSON. j RUGBY, October 21. | Tbc King lias sent the following message to Sir Douglas Mawson, who .sailed in. the Discovery on Saturday from Cape Town on his expedition to the Antarctic: “The Queen and T send you and all members of the expedition our best wishes for your success and safe journey.” 1,1 ' i i