Feb, 1.
Majdr Franco, the Spanish avia-for, has flown 3,685 miles at an average speed of 97 miles an hour since leaving Spain.
He has 2,057 miles to cover to Aires for which place he to start to-morrow, after which he will probably fly to the United States vid Panama and Cuba and return to Spain vid the Azores.
Later.
How the Spanish airmen were faced with disaster on the eve of, success was disclosed by the statement that Senhor Franco had decided to halt at Fernando Noronha. owing ta heavy darkness and was foreed to remain there all night eeause of the rough seas. It was found in the morning that the waves hud damaged the rear propeller, but the flight was continued till the airmen reached a spot 100 miles from the mainland, when the propeller broke. The crew threw out clothing and tools to lighten the machine and ran the rest of the Journey on a single—propeller,
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