Paris, April 22 'Captain Frank' Hawks, the well-known American flier, after having} tered Air Commodore Charles Kingsford-Smith's record for travel between London and Rome, to-day) failed in his attempt to. fly mndon to Rome and back again to London in a single flight.
'Captain Hawks left the Heston Aerodrome, England, at this morning, He arrived at the Centocelle Aerodrome, Rome, 11.48 o'clocie this morning, thus} breaking Air Commordore' Kingsford-Smith's London-to-Rome—record of 128 hours, At LAL o'clock this afternoon Captain Hawks hopped off from the Centocelle Aerodrome on the return fight to England but not very far short of his mark the bad weather forced him down in France.
Captain Hawks said that while ig from London to Rome he was Jeompelled to ascerd to an altitude fof 20,000 feet over the Alps. Throughout the entire fight he was plagued by most unfavourable wea Aix Commodore Kingsford-Smith will return from Koepang, Timor Island, to-morrow afternoon, and probably will arrive here on Tuesday.
An Australian National Airways machine left Sydney this morning with a quarter of a ton of Austral-fan mails for England and is due at Port Darwin to-day. The maib comprses, neaely 26000 separate atic jes.—Througn Reuter.
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