AVIATION VICISSITUDES.
MATHEWS AND KAY IMPRISONED
Received 8.55 oa..m.
LONDON, Dec. 29.
Mail advices from Matthews date-d‘ from Belgrade show he was unable to‘ get supplies of petrol in Vienna, and hampered by fogs, rain, and snow all through the journey, he was forced to descend in a fog within la. hundred‘ miles of Belgrade, where’ -armed men surrounded and’ arrested ‘moth Mat-‘ thews and Kay, and took their papers. The aviators Were. imprisoned for four days in a small room ;ten feet square, and fed on bread and pig’s- fate. Ul-tim-ately becoming desperate, they broke away from their captors and succeeded in reaching their machine,’ They asc-en‘ded in’ a dense fog," and managed to reach «the aerodrome at Novisad, 45 miles from Belgnade, and‘! occupied by French oificers. They then had .only 20 gallons of petrol’ left. i
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3374, 31 December 1919, Page 5
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