FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2062, 2 December 1919, Page 3

FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.

Ifoyy-SMITII AT .RANGOON. London, Nov. Mb. Captain Loss-Smith has cabled from Rangoon, under dale Mb|h A’o..vember, that he left Akvab a! 7.30 a.in., Mild arrived at at noon, in good weal her, lie followed the coast for a hundred mites, I lien went east across the mount a ins, which are nigged and heavily limbered. lie struck the Irrawaddy River near Promo, and (lienee went south. He circled over Rangoon for ten minutes‘and landed in the racecourse, where he was received by a crowd of about forty thousand, and Inula great ovation. The \imy was the first machine that ever landed in Rangoon, lie was coming to Rangoon yesterday, direct from Calcutta. but I lie races were in progress. The Turf Club offered to postpone the races, hut the machine lauded at Akvab instead. It is hoped to reach Bangkok to-morrow.

PULLET CAUGHT AT AKYAB. Calcutta, Nov. 28. Captain Koss-Smith arrived at 2.10 pan. to-day and was welcomed by a groat crowd on landing at the racecourse. The journey from Allahabad was excellent. Ho will depart for Rangoon to-morrow, baiting at Akyab. (in Burma). London, Nov. 30. Captain Ross-Smith cables from Akyab that he left Calcutta at 8.30 a.m. on 29th November, and landed at Akyab at 1 p.m. He hew east to Chittagong, across the months of the Ganges, and then south, in good weather. Poulet is also at Akyab, and both machines will leave for Rangoon to-morrow. Ross-Smith reports “All well.” CAPTAIN WILKINS. London, Nov. 26. The Blackburn Kangaroo (Captain WTlkins) has arrived at St. Kaphel, near Frcjus’(in the South of France). Captain Wblkins left St. Haphel for Capua at 9.30 o’clock on Saturday morning, in tine weather. ROSS-SMITH FORCES THE PACE. ■ Sydney, Yesterday. A mesage from M. Poulet, sent yesterday, states that he arrived, all well, at Rangoon. Captain Koss-Smith telegraphs that he intends to fly in one day to Kalidpati, and thence to Binia (on Sumbawn Island, east of Java). If Poulet is not’pursuing him too closely, he will land after reaching Binia, but otherwise he proposes to fly direct to Australia. Calcutta, Nov. 30. ■ Captain Ross-Smith took on board here the first Australian aerial mail. M. Poulet reached Rangoon an hour behind Captain Ross-Smith.