IN THE AIR.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3362, 15 December 1919, Page 5

IN THE AIR.

POULET’S ADVENTURE 3.

I MAKE STRANGE RE tome-.. , .. ! ~ STILL A’I‘_RANGOON. I - Received 8.45 am. ' _ PARIS, Dec, ‘.3. - Plou,leUs 'adventur.es :m'.ll~:e .s'tr-inge reading. Le Matin, publishes an account which states that the Frenchman regarded his troubles as no-rmsl until between Vvalonai and Salo:lika_ He nearly run, into a peak I’.-2&0-Z) n‘-.‘etres lh'ig'h.,- lnear .lDed'caga'tch; a sudden storm beat Poulct. to the eartli, and he flew dangerously at a height of 1550 feet to the ground. Owing to *tbS)ll(‘,e of petrol at Konia. and Adazra, he tc ok in supplies of castor oil. He sul"fr.-.1-ed severely from the heat zn ':v'les()p3tamia, and was forced to l:lild'.‘l'.A the middle of the desert of .C11:w;L.“, where Baluehis, xairnicd to the téath, sul'r»ulld. led and threatened him. . « “After a great to do, the S~.‘u!':.m cvltended his protection over us,” writes I Poulet, “though we did not understand ~ a word each other said. I did not like the surroundings, and we kept our "eyes open throughout the night. We only got a handful -of rice and water which a Parisian would not have drunk for one hundred. thousand francs.” Poulet found Karachi excited owing to a report that he had. fallen into the sea,“ B'ritish authorities sent post haste to the spot, and fotfnd it was a {whale stranded by the tide’. Poulct is still at Rangoon.

} POULET TO CONTINUE. [ LEAVING FOR BANGKOK. , ' ___,..,__ ‘ ' . I Received 11.15 am. I ALLAHABAD, Dec. 14. ' Reports from Moulmein state that |Poulet‘has decided to make a final attempt to continue the flight. He will leave Moulfuein for Bangkok on Mon day if the weather IS suitable.