TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 164, 20 October 1910, Page 5

TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT

WELLMAN WRECKED. THE CREW RESCUED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, October 18. Wellman was wrecked 480 miles from land. The steamer Trent rescued cae crew. Wellman and his crew abandoned the balloon east of Cape Hatteras, half-way to the Bermudas.

THE BIG BALLOQN RACE. New York, October 18. The balloon race for the Gordon-Ben-nett trophy from St. Louis will break the records with ten starters. All were afloat at noon to-day. CAPTAIN DICKSON. London, October 18. Captain Dickson, the English airman, who was seriously injured at the Milan meeting, is convalescent.

With the late Hon. C. S. Rolls Captain , Dickson shares, says the Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail, the honor of having borne the British colors to victory : in France; in fact, his astonishing success ; in that country has shown that English- < men cannot only hold their own, but sometimes "go one better," when com- ' peting with the French expert. Captain Dickson has had a remarkable career. As a young man he played Rugby for the London Scottish and Middlesex County; he won foot races at school, and steeplechases in the Army; as a light-weight boxer he would probably have won the Army championship but for a sprained wrist. He was chosen to play for Scotland at Rugby. He has read a paper on Kurdistan before the Royal Geographical Society; nineteen rhihoceri and innumerable lions, leopards, hippopotami, bears and ibexes have fallen to his rifle in East Africa, Persia and Somaliland. For two hours and at a distance of 100 yds he let the Kurds prove conclusively that their markmanship was hardly up to the Territorial standard. The Kurdistan climate, however, proved more deadly than the Kurdistan riflemen, and, retiring home on sick-leave, he devoted his attention to "Hying," "to give his nerves a rest." Parisian crowds who have seen him "plane" down from some 500 feet in the upper air would imagine he had none to recuperate; indeed, he declares that lie has never been nervous while in actual danger, though the after effects may I have left him somewhat unstrung.