LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1931, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS

THREE BRITISH ’PLANES. FLYING BOATS INVESTIGATE NEW ROUTE. RUGBY, February 4. Three Rangoon type living boats of the Royal Air Force, the first float-ing--.specimens of the military type o' Short-Calcuttn machine, will make a formation flight from Felixstowe to Basra, a distance of 3500 miles. They are expected to leave England within a week. The flight is in accordance with the normal methods by which seaplanes proceed to their flight stations. On arrival, they will meet three Southampton flying boats of No. 203 Squadron, which will be flown home in formation. The Rangoons are fitted with .three Bristol-Jupiter engines each, and the reliance placed on them is demonstrated in the choice of the route. They will fly overland for 230 miles from Bordeaux to Marseilles, and again on the two stages from Alexandria* to Basra, alighting at Baghdad, on the Tigris. The Mediterranean route, via Malta and Crete, is experimental with a view to testing the possibilities of an alternative to the land sections of Indian air mail between London and Athens. AVALANCHE VICTIMS. THREE BODIES RECOVERED. BERNE, February 4. The bodies of Airs Frank Furnivnl, Miss Galloway, and Guide Christian Baertsohi, who were overwhelmed by an avalanche in the Alps a week ago. have been recovered. They were found ten feet deep in the snow. The body of Miss Dorothy Furnivnl has not yet been recovered, but it is expected to be found to-morrow. All the bodies were more or less mutilated. though Afiss Galloway’s glasses were unbroken and her watch was sti'l going.