ATLANTIC FLY

Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1930, Page 5

ATLANTIC FLY

JUBILATION IN FRANCE., (United Press Association—By Electric - f Telegraph.—Copyright.] PARIS, Sept. 3. A delirious wave of enthusiasm lias swept throughout the- country at the new's of Costes’s success on the transAtlantic flight. C-iowds of people blocked many of the streets where the latest news was posted. France feels that the deaths of her airmen, Coli and Nungessor on Atlantic flights from east to wrist, have been avenged by their comrades. '( COSTES? STORY. CROWD’S KEEN INTEREST. • o NEW YORK, Sept. 2. ■ i The Atlantic flier, Costes, when the bxoitement had subsided, said in an interview': “The flight was uneventful until I reached the coast of. Ireland, where I ran into dirty weather. It was also rather. smudgy over Halifax, , Our motor functioned perfectly.,, I believe that we flew approximately six thousand five hundreu kilometres, and ,we were in the air for 37 hours,: which, is. one hour more tlutu I had hoped .that the flight would consume.” . . ■ . Meanwhile the crowd outside the hangar shouted their demands to see the fliers, but the authorities refused to heed the crowd. After the interview, decoys, attired in the fliers’ clothes, left in automobiles to detract the crowd’s attention, while the real fliers, accompanied by Colonel Lindbergh, boarded other motor cars, ,in which they were driven to a New York hotel. CLEVER ADVERTISING FEAT. 11 ■ NEW YORK, Sept. 3. ■: The very latest feat in advertising has apparently been carried out by the • “Question Mark.” The newspapers yesterday morning carried fullpage advertisements, in the French language, from the principal resorts in France, sending greetings 'by Cc3tes, and capitalizing his feat in the interest of “tourism,” for which the;.French are famous. “Come to France!’,? say the advertisements. ' OOSTE’S AMBITION. GREAT NEW YORK RECEPTION. (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 3. Coste and BeLlonte announced their acceptance of 25,000 dollars for a noil-stop flight from New York to Dallas (Texas), made by W. E-. Eastwood, a millionaire, The fliers plan to-start to-morrow, ' Interviewed, Coste revealed his ambiton to circle the globe from north to /south, He said: “I am confident liiith Hho Ipresemt experience I can get oven more out of the airship in the future. It is my hope that some time I shall be able to fly round the earth’, making a trip to include both Poles.”

The aviators were officially welcomed at the City Hall after the customary parade through the streets of the financial district. Solid masses of cheering citizens lined the streets while torn paper floated from office buildings, which were festooned with flapjs of United States and France. The enthusiasm and turbulence was as vivid as that which marked France’s greeting to Lindbergh three years ago. '

, At the City Hall the fliers were received by Mayor Walker and other np table parsons, who lauded their achievements, after which the aviators were presented with a scrooll and traditional key to the Freedom of the City. After the reception Coste and Bellonte, sitting on top of, an automobile, were driven with a motor cycle .police escort, through more crowded streets to their hotel. .