The Archive · 1931

Mr. Chichester's Plight

Tokyo, Aug. 5.

Messages from Formosa star that Mr. F.C. Chichester, the Australian airman, passed' over Karenko at 2.90, Taihoky at 3.15} jand landed ut' Tamsui, in the perth-west of Formosa, at 3.28.

Mr. Chichester is engaged on a Aight from Australia to England, but was delayed in Manila for some time owing to a disagreement with the Japanese authorities regarding the landing fields, he} might uje in Japanese territory Reuter Taihoku, Aug. 6.

Owing to the necessity of repairing one of the floats of his machine Mr. F. Chichester did not take off {for Shanghai to-day as he intended.

Aug. 7

Mr. Chichester left here to-day. Reuter Mr. Chichester arrived here on Aug. 7. A full report appears un: der Shanghai News, Non-Stop Pacific Flight Failure Pairbanks, Alaska, Aug. 3.

For the second time within a month Messrs, Reg Robbins and H.S. Jones, plagued by unfavour-fable weather and having lost rheic refuelling plane, failed in an attempt to make'a non-stop flight] [from Seattle to Tokyo in their

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