The Archive · 1928

Exciting Flight to Australia

Capt. Kingsford-Smith "Twenty-three Hours in Gales Sydney, Oct. 15.

At the conclusion of a terrifying Aight Iaeting 23 hours from New. Zealand to Australia, during which they were buffeted "by gales and haremed by fox, Captain Kingsford-Smith and his companions, Mr. Ulin ard Mr. Litchfield, arrived here this evening in their aeroplane, the Southern Cross, to find the nero-drome in complete darkness owing to the failure of the clectric-curireled round over the hundreds of motorcars, hastily riven into the enclolit up the Ianding-ground by raing on their headlights. This, had been

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