PACIFIC FLIGHT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 150, 15 September 1927, Page 15

PACIFIC FLIGHT

PREPARATIONS MADE ANDERSON AT HAWAII By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright Reed. 11.30 a.m. HONOLULU, Wed. Lieutenant Anderson, a member of Captain Kingsford-Smitb’s party which is to attempt a flight from Seattle to Australia, has arrived to inspect landing fields here preparatory to their hop-off from the mainland en route to Australai.—A. and N.Z. ROUND WORLD FLIGHT PLANE AT TOKiO Reed. 11.30 a.m. TOKYO, Wed. The American flyers, William Brock and Edward Schlee, who are attemptiu ga flight round the world, have arrived in their monoplane the Pride of Detroit, from Amura, near Nagasaki, where they had to descend owing to shortage of petrol.—A. and N.Z. GERMANS HEAD EAST TO CROSS NORTH PACIFIC Reed. 11.30 a.m. BERLIN, Wed. The German airmen who recently abandoned for the present year their attempt to fly from Europe to America are now arranging a flight eastward. They intend leaving shortly and they he pe after flying across Asia to reach San Francisco after a final flight across the North Pacific.—A. and N.Z. IN REMEMBRANCE NEW YORK, Wednesday. Clergymen of he Catholic, Jewish and Protestant faiths joined in leading a large crowd, of people in simple ceremonies in remembrance of the seven airmen who were lost in the recent flight from California to Hawaii for the Dole prize. The steamer Maui has sailed with wreaths of flowers which will be dropped in the sea 700 miles off shore.—A. and N.Z.