Aerodrome at 5.35 a.
8 and by lett Croydon Meantime fight may satisfy the jim to have been completed 10 days, He left Timoi carly this morning and Port Darwin at 2 o'clock this after noon, local time. Me received an overwhelming reception, His small single seater Avro Avian machine, with a 120 H. Gipsy engine Is the latest model of the type used by Hinkler on his Austration flight. It gave him' no moment of anxiety of the long journey.
Wing - Commander Kingsford Smith has made possible the most remarkable long distance flight in the history of aviation. When he left England he was suitoring from the effects of an operation and was advised by doctors not to fly. He disregarded these injunctions and added another record to the many shievements to his credit, which include flights round the Australian coast, across the Pacific and Atlantic oceans and a flight round the world, is understood he will proceed to Sydney front Port. Darwin via Broken Hill.—Wireless through Reuter.
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