OFF TO GREENLEY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 336, 23 April 1928, Page 9

OFF TO GREENLEY

FORD PLANE DEPARTS HELP FOR GERMANS (United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright» fAuatrnlian Press Association) Reed. 0.5 a m. OTTAWA, Sunday. A message from Murray Bay says that the Ford plane hopped off for Greenley Island to-day, to reach the German flyers, Herr Koehl and Baron Huehnefeld. The sudden illness of both pilots ha.* delayed the Ford plane’s flight to the island. Lieutenant Floyd Bennett * developed influenza during the night, and later it was learned that Lieutenant Bernt Balchen was suffering from the same malady. The plane had been loaded and was ready to take off when word yeached the field that both flyers were ill. Lieutenant Balchen had left a hospital in Detroit to make the northern flight. Mr. Duke Schiller, the Canadian airman, may have replaced Lieutenant Bennett. Major Fitzmaurice was expected to accompany Lieutenant Balchen and Mr. Schiller. WIVES CROSS ATLANTIC Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Sunday. Mrs. Fitzmaurice and her daughter joined the German liner Dresden at Queenstown, for New York. She said: **l will not prevent my husband from flying back across the Atlantic. Why should I? He know* what he is doing.” Frau Koehl is a passenger on the same ship.