German Aviator Safe in Calcutta After Landing in Jungle Cateutta, Feb. 11.
The German airman Otto Koenneck, of whom there had been no news for three months, arrived here to-day. The last reports were that he was repairing the damaged tail of his machine in a jungle 200 miles from Allahabad, Unheralded Landing Feb. 12, The German aviator, Lieutenant Otto Koennecke, who arrived here last night, interviewed by Reuter, said that he was quite ft and the scroplane was undamaged, After covering 700 miles in seven hours, said the airman, he sighted Calcuita' at five o'clock yesterday evening, "Me circled over the city for an hour and then proceeded to Barrackpore, vid Dumdum. He was unable to make out the smoke-signal at the Jatter place owing to clouds of smoke from other places in the ity. Tt was becoming dark, so he landed, safely, on Sankrail Field and was surrounded by a crowd, tone of whom guided him and his companion to. the. police-station, where he rang up the office of the German Consti-General, There was no response, so he Fang. up a Calcutta newspaper, a member of ho. star of which immediately drove out to Sankrail and brought, them "into" Calcutta "early this morning.
Lieutenant, Koennecke hopes resume his ight on Thursday, to Rangoon. Thence he will make a non-stop trip to Hongkong, and subsequently fly to Shanghai and Tokyo, where he expects. to stay until April. He will then hop off for Alaska—Reuter.
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