ADVENTUROUS FLIGHT
COBHAM REACHES CANARY ISLANDS (UniteA P.A. —By Tslegraph — Copyright) (Australian P.A.—United Service) LONDON, Tuesday. A message from Las Palmas, Canary Islands, says Sir Alan Cobham, who Is engaged on a survey flight round Africa has arrived there. He will proceed to Casablanca, Spanish Morocco, tomorrow. He said his party was tired, dirty and hungry, but otherwise fit. They encountered strong head winds from Port Etienne, French West Africa, 670 miles south of the Canary Island, where they spent Monday night at a local fort behind barbed wire fences, as a protection against marauding tribesmen. m
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 362, 24 May 1928, Page 9
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