With their red and green Emseo monoplane functioning perfectly and, with as little ado as though they preparing for a test flight "Messrs. Don Moyle and Cecil Allen, courageous American aviators, too off from Sabishiro Beach at 5.2 O'clock this morning on an attempt to make a non-stop flight across the Pacific ocean to Seattle.
"The take-off was perfect, in definite contrast to the past take-ofts fon similar ventures with the same plane by Lieutenant Harold Bromley and later by Captain Thomas Ash. Ina southerly direction the monoplane sped down the natural sandy Tunway here for a distance of 1,200 metres, Then the wheels left the point 1,800 metres from the start Mr, Moyle, who was at the controls, pulled his'stick and the monoplane, Fesponding, climbed to an altitude of 60 met The aviators then circled the little throng assembled on Sabishiro Beach, Gaining altitude slowly but the plane, despite its in altitude of yy and then, heading northward, soon disappeared from the sight of those who were waving farewell.
"The fliers carried 1,100 gallons of gasoline, which they calculate will take them to Seattle with 500 miles to spare. They will follow the Great Circle route, They must fly 4,500 miles if they are to be successful in making the first non-stop aeroplane flight between Japan and the United States, their arrival in Japan Messrs. Moyle and Allen have made changes in the plane. Its propeller has been shortened. 'A new tail has been tacked to its fuselage and its motor has been whipped up by the installation of a supercharger. The plane has a cruising speed of 115 miles an hour and a maximum speed about 130 miles an hour, The odds are all against the tiers. Both American panese the plane is not capable of a tra ile fight. But while it was being constructed for Lieutenant Bromley Me. ant superintendent in the Emsco factory. ud he has faith in the ship. He and Mr. Allen are qualified aviators and navigators.
Prior to their departure from Japan Messrs. Moyle and Allen received messages from Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, who now visiting in Japan, wishing them Miss Johnson, in khaki shirt and shorts, looking fit and bronzed, was showered with con gratulations on her safe return.
Asked what became of the Siber-sheep-dog puppy presented to her at Kazan, in Russia, Miss '20 [Johnson explained that two and army officials commandeered "flying dog" at Lympne, Kent, here shq stopped to refuel for the last stage of her flight. She was told by the officials that the pup, as laid down in official regulation, would have to spend six months in quarantine before it could rejoin its mistress.
Interviewed by Reuter's repre sentative she expressed the opinion that an aerial service from London to Japan is "absolutely feasible She said she learned a lot of lessons on the flight, but could not think of any of them on the spur of the
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