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TUESDAY AUGUST 5, 1924

BAD LUCK TOO

STRONG.

SQUADRON LEADER MACLAREN DEFEATED. “

WORLD FLIGHT ABANDONED.

"MACHINE MEETS WITH ACCIDENT IN FAR NORTH

(Reuter's American Servicė)

New York, August 4. Squadron Leader Maclaren has been compelled to abandon his attempt to fly round the world.

Later. The earlier wireless despatch mentioned that MacLaren was involved in an accident near Nikolski Komanorski.' but nobody was hurt..

The airman intended to proceed to Attu.

Later. MacLaren has sent a wireless message that abandonment of the flight was necessary because spares could not be obtained to repair the damage to the plane which fell near Nikol on Saturday when just completing the flight from Petropavlovsk.

MacLaren added that the wings, flouts and tail were all smashed, though the hull and engine were salvaged and taken aboard the Canadian trawler Thiepval."

The

[Atiu is the westernmost of the Aleutian Islands with a'small population of Aleuts. Aleutian Islands is a chain of treeless, grassy and mostly mountainous islands, with numerous volcanic peaks, stretching 1,650 miles westward from the narrow peninsula of Alaska and belonging. to the United States. The principal islands are Unimak and Unalaska, the most westerly Attu. The climate is humid and stormy, but free from extremes, the temperature rarely falling below zuro or rising above 75 deg. The inhabitants are mainly Aleuts, a people allied to the Eskimo, who live chiefly by fishing. Under Russian rule they were partly civilized, and are adherents of the Greek Church Fur traders visit the islands for the capture of the seal, sea otter and Aretic fox. The population is about 8,000.3

This photograph shows Squadron "Leader MacLaren (middle), Flying Officer Plenderleith (extreme left) and Sergeant Andre ws (extreme right) in their first 'plane just before the start of the great-adventure.

Summary Of Flight.

The first section of the flight followed the meelgi route to India

to recali Talist is interesting tw by Maclaren Linself in 1918 in a Handley Page,

Early disaster was hissed by a few Bot only when the cliffs of Free lead in of the thick fog. Brilliant, manipulation by The pilot saved the machine which Anded in the water and "taxied" to Huvir. After an uneventful, aitheagh sipmy, Sight to Lyons it was devided to push on in the direction of Renae but in the course of à détour, necessitated by poor weather conditions, the aimmen wen forced to descend at Cento rl where they smashed their port Boat in landing After two days waiting for the repair of the flost lus fight to Brindisi was made via Ren, tempestuous conditions being met with.

service in this area. Head winds were encountered on the way, to

The Crash At Akyab. Heavy rain was experienced

at

Baghdad and the speed was ofters Akyah and when, after a few days only 50 miles an hour. Conditions were even less favourable between delay the airmen rose from the Baghdad and Karachi: the aviators harbour, they

found that

the

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Battling With-a-Storin. Resuming his fight in the neroplane sent from Japan, Mao- Laren reached Bangkok, the capital of Stam, on;Saturday, June 28, and on Sunday left again for Haipong on the journey to Hong- kook.

The flight from Rangoon to Bangkok was one of the most di ficult sections of the journey; Early on Friday MacLaren reached Tavoy, Buntis, and it was his fatention to go on to Bangkok the same afternoon. Clouds had been gathering, and by the time they were in the air the storm had broken, and they were compelled to fly at a height of 100 feet, narrowly escaping accident on the mouttain tops. Buffeted by the stom, MacLaren and Flenderleith found it impossible to go on, and returned to Tavoy.

Starting once.inore on Saturday they were forced to fly through clouds again. After following the course of the Tenaserim River for some time, they found themselves fa the centre of another heavy storm, and time after time, when they had crossed the mountain ranges, they found beyond them' only vast stretches of jungle where was possible to land. When they landed eventually at the Donmuang erodrome the aviators were almost exhausted.

Above The Jungle.

The British airmed 'left Bang- kok at 6 am. on Sunday. Their journey was uneventful till they

passed Thakek, where they climb.

OPIUM HAUL

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puunds of raw oplum and th Approximately six hundred hundred taels of prepared opium. which

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This vessel had come in fro Hoihow and Haiphong and was anchored In the West Point anchorage when the party went on board to make the search and, ultimately, to effect the seizure. Fall details are not available yet.

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the mountains. They found that the public who suffer; but, at the these were covered with thick clouds, and they were unable to see anything, so they came down lower, only to find that the tops of the mountain were obscured.

They were forced to fly 100 feet above a swampy jungle, and were hemmed in by clouded mountains. They did not know how to get out They thought that it would be best

to land, and came down to 10 feet above the jungle. They found that the supposed open space consisted of a long, grassy swamp, and if they landed in it without smashing they would never get

out.

They wandered about for half an hour, under the clouds, and then climbed to 9,000 feet, and cleared the clouds. The land was entirely bloned out, and they steered by the compass a course towards Vinh (a seaport of Annam, French Indo-China), and chanced to luck.

That little experience.took.about. 10 years off our lives," said Squadron-Leader MacLaren, in a special dospatch. "We were never so frightened before. While we were over the jingle we saw large herds of elephants and buffaloes, and any amount of deer. We sight- ed the sea at noon, and landed at Vinh at 12:45... Nobody met us, as our arrival was unexpected, so we landed and searched for petrol and oli. "We resumed at 350 p.m., and

the Wing Lee building in Des The bricklayers were at work on Voeux Road Central and a passer- by complained that their bricks were obstructing the passage to an adjacent lane. Upon their refusal to move them, defendant is alleged to have organised an attack on the workmen. In the ensuing affray one of the workmen sustained an injured arm.

Inspector Grant appeared for the Police and Mr. H. C. Lee for the defendant. The latter applied which was granted. for a remand

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followed the coast in a flight that was without incident, landing at Haiphong (in Tonkin) at 6.5. p.m. Here again nobody expected us, from Paris, and the American and as it was Sunday the telegraph world fliers, who had passed

we through.

offices were closed, and were unable to obtain petrol or bil.

*

Reported Missing.

were forced to a height of 7,000 machine was water-logger It fort and no a 1esult were nearly refused to stay in the air and frozen. They struck enormous air-pockets, often dropping 100 dropped heavily into the harbour. feet. Sandstorms obliterated the The airmen escaped unhurt but track in the desert and steering was their machine was too badly dam

Squadron-Lender MacLaren left done by compass ulil the aged to be repaired and Maclaren We had dinner with the British the last Japanese post on July 15, Euphratca was sighted.

cabled to Tokyo for his spare Consul, and went to bed dead and it was not long before he was Fears for the An Adventurous Flight. machine there to be sont to Akyab. tired.

reported missing. It was an adventurous fight It was then that the Americans "We left Haiphong at 10.10 am. safety of the fliers were dispelled fois Baghdad to Bushire chiefly on proved the sincerity of their oft the next day, and flew for pearly however, when word was received

count of sandstorms and heavy expressed good

commander of the Wishes to the an hour through a very heavy from the winds. In MacLaren's own American" fliers. Lieut-Comman-rainstorm, but the sky cleared at Japanese destroyer "Isokase" tint words, we were chucked all over der Hulings, American naval at- toon, just before passing Pakhoi." the British airmen had been found the place hat in spite of it all the taché, and Rear-Admiral J. S. "Thereafter, we had a nice trip at Tokotan Bay on the coast of aeroplane averaged 80 miles an Abbott, instantly got into touch to Hongkong, where we landed at Urup, the third island in the

with the Commander-in-Chief of 5.12 p.m."

Kuriles group, and just north- the "Araerican naval forces in the

"east of the island of Yetorofu. Far Eastern waters and obtained From Hongkong Maclaren dew The radio from the "Isolaze said perinission to offer the use of an to Shanghai without meeting any that word by wireless had been American destroyer to transport mishap, resting at Foochow on the picked up from the the machine immediately.

Reading Japan; he wasUruppu Maru" in Toxotan Boy Col. L. G. Broume, in charge forced to land 14 miles west of that the fliers had descended there. Major MacLaren and his fight of the unangements.in connection Kushimoto, owing to his petrol with the flight across the Pacific, supply becoming exhausted. A companions were forced to land at in accepting, said that the offer Japanese Vickers plane, which Tokotan Bay owing to heavy fogs, examplied sportsmanship of the had been sent from Osaka with but they were safe and the machine

fuel for him, thashed. The machine was not damaged. highest type.

The plane arrived in Hongkong was smashed, but the pilot escaped. The British birdmen

were in by the American destroyer Paul A great. Welcome was arzunged good spirits, and shortly after- British aviators wards they hopped off for Mura- Jones" on June 8 and was trans- for tha.

Kasumigaura 4 close to kami Bay. They were next beard shipped to the U.S. destroyer at

William B. Preston." It arrived Tokyo. They remained there of at Petropavlovak, Kamchatka, there on June 13.

nativ July 12, and spent on the Eastern shore of Avacha three days at Tokyo in a round of Bay, where they were reported to banquets and presentations. Their be delayed by fog. Nothing fur- entertainment was similar to that ther was heard of them until accorded to the French aviator to-day's news came to hand re- Lieutenant, Doisy, who flew there porting their accident.

hour. The flight to Karachi com- pleted the first stage of the flight and there he was delayed for nearly three weeks while a new engine His Descent at Corfu.

was sent out from home.

Nasirabad was the first stop in MacLaren expressed complete satisfaction at the behaviour of the the second stage and the 500 miles arhine so for but on continuing from here to Allahinbad was flown the flight to Athens n forced des- in six hours. A short delay oc- cent at Corfu as necessitated by cured at Allahabad owing to water the failure of the reduction gear getting into the patrol but good which necessitated a delay of over time was made when this had been week whilst another was sent out remedied and Calcutta was reached from England.

in six hours. A halt of a few days The flight to Egypt was accom was made and, when a new bow plished in good time and at Cairo compression engine was fitted good they found

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