The Archive · 1929

Soviet Aeroplane Forced Down

Landing at Uninhabited -Place in Irkutsk District Moscow, Aug. 12.

Land of the Soviets, the amphi brian aeroplane piloted by M. Shesftakov, who flew to Tokyo from Moscow in 1927, arrived at Krasnoyarsk in Eastern Siberia on Sunday.

M, Shestakov started from Moscow on Thursday on a flight to New York vid Alaska in order to ascertain the extent to which the Siberian route is suitable for a regular ait service.

If his flight is successful it is proposed to establish an airline in 1931 between Moscow and the Pacific feast of the Union States American aviation meteorological circles are assisting the fight which is expected to occupy 40 days, The Land of the Soviets has failed to arrive at Chita, having tended by' the Premier, Mr. Hama-Guchi, all the Cabinet Ministers, Deen, forced, to descend at an un-) habited place, 170 from fond many other celebrities, both in government service and private lite, Irkutsk.—Reuter Aug. 15.

'The Naval Department has announced that the Japanese navy lih [completed all arrangements to give aid whenever necessary to the Graf Zeppelin in the Japan Sea and in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, instructions having been given' to the naval stations at Yokosuga, Maizuru, and Ominato to post guard ships along the route over which the Graf Zeppelin expected to fly—Rengo.

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