LANDING AT TIMOR

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 980, 24 May 1930, Page 9

LANDING AT TIMOR

AMY JOHNSON ALLAYS j FEARS FOR SAFETY LAST HOP OVER SEA TODAY United P.A..—By Telegraph—Copyright BATAVIA, Friday. i The place where Miss Johnson ; landed on Timor Island is on the main road from Atamboea to Kupang, near the Portuguese boundary. As the village of Haliloelik is entirely isolated and without telephones the whole of the people in the Dutch East Indies from last evening until this morning were alarmed because there was no news. The War Department had instructed the commanders of the various garrisons in the outer possessions to take the necessary measures and the Resident on Timor Island instructed the captain of a Government steamer at present in Timor waters to search for the supposedly missing girl. At the same time two Dornier-Wal seaplanes from Souarabaya were on the point of starting for Timor Island to look for her. TENSION RELIEVED All these measures were cancelled in the nick of time when the Kupang wireless station at 10 a.m., Java time, received the first report of the girl’s safe landing. This relieved the anxious tension which existed, not only because of the unusual interest in this important world flight but on account of the general personal sympathy felt for the brave gin. A Sydney message says the news of Miss Amy Johnson’s safe landing at Timor Island was broadcast throughout Australia after luncheon. It was described as the best news the people had heard for a long time and caused a feeling of profound relief. The final stage of Miss Johf son’s journey, from Timor Island to Darwin, entails a flight over the Timor Sea of about 450 miles. Pier progress to date is given below: May s—Left5 —Left Croydon and arrived Vienna. May 6—Arrived Constantinople. May 7 —Arrived Aleppo. May B—Arrived Bagdad. May 9—Arrived Bunder Abbas. May 10—Arrived Karachi. May 11—Arrived Allahabad. May 12—Arrived Calcutta. May 13—Arrived Insein, near Rangoon. May 14 and 15—Delayed for repairs. May 16 —Arrived Bangkok. May 17 —Arrived Singora. May 18—Arrived Singapore. May 19—Arrived Tjomal, Java. May 20—Arrived Samarang and Sourabaya, Java. May 21 —Delayed for repairs at Sourabaya. May 22—Arrived Timor Island*

TOO MUCH FOR HER TERRORS OF SEA FLIGHT _ LONDON, Thursday. The “Daily Express” correspondent at Sourabaya says two fingers on Miss Amy Johnson’s left hand were injured during the Java Sea crossing. She said “They seem slightly septic, but J am not worrying and will not allow pain or discomfort to stand in the way of my fixed determination to reach Australia. “Nevertheless, it is unlikely that 1 shall return by air. I have had too many troubles on this flight.” She confessed the flight has been tco much for her, requiring more than she possessed in experience and strength. She admitted that flying over the open sea frightened her considerably. “Oh, you should know the forlorn feeling,” she said. “You alone on a frail machine, every moment dreading the motor will stop and you will have to face calamity. No; never, again.”