FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.
ANOTHER COMPETITOR STARTS. THREE AIRMEN ENGAGED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copjr.-efit. London, Nov. 12. Captain Ross Smith has started on a flight to Australia, using a Vickera-Vimy plane. [There are now three airmen on the way to Australia, the other two being Captain C. G. Matthews and Lieut. Etienne Poulet. Matthews was last heard of on the Rhine, and Poulet has reached Karachi, in North-West- India. Poulet is not eligible for the prize of £IO,OOO, which the Australian Government is giving the first aviator to make the flight from England to Australia, as the conditions insist that the winner must be an Australian.] ARRIVAL AT LYONS. Received Nov- ,14, 1.5 a.m. London, Nov. 12. Captain Ross Smith, en route to Australia, has arrived at Lyons (in the south of Prance), after an icy journey. His instruments and food were frozen.— United Service.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1919, Page 5
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143FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA. Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1919, Page 5
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