The Archive · 1934

MRS. MOLLISON BACK IN LONDON

Mrs. Amy Johnson Mollison arrived back from India" to-day, having travelled as far as Amsterdam from Athens as a passenger in a Nether~ {lands airliner on the Singapore to Sudan service.

'Her husband, Mr. James Mollison, piloting their D-H. Comet home, was held up first! at Lyons and then' Brussels by bad weather, but jis expected at Croydon to-morrow.

Mrs, Mollison denied any sugges-that they returned home separately owing to a quarrel, explaining that the idea of separate travel ori minated as a joke in which "Jim was to give the airliner a start and race her to Marseilles."

Mrs, Mollison dwelt on the kindnesses that she had received and the fact that she had borrowed clothes from Royal Air Force stations en route home.

Mr. and Mrs. Mollison, who were the first to take off from the Mildenhhall aerodrome on October 20 on the London to Australia air race, were dogged by bad luck after they had taken less than thirteen hours to complete the 2583 miles to Baghdad. They landed at Karachi, which was 1450" miles short of their non-stop goal, owing to doubts ay to the adequscy of their petrol supply. After taking off at Karachi they were forced

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