FRENCH FLIERS’ FEAT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 327, 12 April 1928, Page 9

FRENCH FLIERS’ FEAT

TOKIO TO KARACHI 5,000 MILES SINCE MONDAY (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian Press Association) Reed. 11.55 a.m. KARACHI, Wed. Costes and Lebrix, reached Karachi this evening, after flying 5,000 miles from Tokyo since Monday. ■> A few hours after reaching Karachi they resumed the journey to Basra, despite the darkness. They hope to reach Paris by Friday. An earlier message said that the airmen flew from Hanoi, in French Lndo-China, a distance of 1,100 miles, in 11 hours. They left Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday, in an effort to reach Hanoi, 2.600 miles away, but were compelled to descend and refuel, after having flown for 25 hours without a stop. The airmen left Calcutta yesterday in ail effort to reach Jodhpur, in north-west India, a distance of 1,500 miles, in a non-stop flight. GERMANS OFF AT DAWN Reed. noon. DUBLIN, Wednesday. The German airman Koehl and his companions made final arrangements to-night to take off on their transatlantic flight at dawn, from the Baldonnel airdrome. Their plane is the Bremen. ITALIA BAPTISED Reed noon. MILAN, "Wednesday. Cardinal Tosi baptised General Umberto Nobile’s airship Italia. The departure for Milan is imminent. General Nobile is about to undertake a flight across the North Pole. LADY BAILEY DOWN CAPETOWN, Tuesday.

The champion woman aviator, Lady Bailey, who is engaged in a solo flight in a Moth plane from England to South Africa, has sent a cablegram to her husband, Sir Abe Bailey, saying she crashed at Tahora, huts was not hurt. Her machine was wrecked, however.

The Egyptian authorities refused to allow Lady Bailey to proceed south of Khartoum, owing to the dangers attendant upon a forced landing in the Sudan. They provided her with an escort as far as Mongalla, Sudan, on Sunday.