SECOND EDITION Rl00

Hokitika Guardian, 31 July 1930, Page 5

SECOND EDITION

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LANDING PREPARATIONS AT MONTREAL.

(United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph —Copyright I MONTREAL, July 29. The St. Hubert Air Port is hastening it« preparations to receive tiie airship RIQO. The weather , reports now indicate that the conditions should improve as the dirigible moves westward, and it is expected that sue will moor tic the mast here on Thursday night. The police and the military are preparing to control crowds greeting the airship. . . ,' : r

■ PROCESS OF VOYAGE. Vi MONTREAL, July 30. R.IOO communicated with the Canadian Government radio station at Belle Isle and with the liner Empress of France at 2 p.m., when the liner was about TOO miles due east of Belle. Isle. Thei'dirgible took hearings from Belle Isle and reported herself northeast of the Empress of France.* The station at Fturt Resolution, in north-west territories, . announced it picked up R.lOO’s signals but they were too weak to understand,

EXPECT TO LAND TO-MORROW. . (Received this iriaV at 10 a.m.) : NEW YORK, July 30. RIOO, is expected to arrive at St. Huberts 1 at six p.m. to-morrow (Montreal time). . • Commander Booth radioed “All well.” ‘ Speed increased to seventy miles an hour. Making splendid prograss in good weather with tail winds. The' ship expects to sight land at four p.m. to-morrow at the strait of Belle Isle. .

V PROGRESSING WELL. 1 , LONDON, July 30. RIOO wirelessed at noon—Making seventy knots, everything all right. Airship expected to land at eight on the morning of. Thursday.