Sydney, May 15.
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and his two companions, who narrowly escaped drowning yesterday while fying across the Tasman Sea, owe their safety to a daring act by Cap-fain P. C. Taylor, the navigator.
While over the Tasman Sea, the! plane lost one of her propellers and one of the engines began to sputter.
Sir Charles was obliged to jettison. cargo and mails in order to keep height, and things looked blacker than ever when the centre engine went out of activity.
Taylor then climbed out on to. the struts carrying with him a thermos ask in a handbag. He managed to obtain enough elf from the useless centre engine which he fed to the "sick" motor.
This act alone, according to Sir, Charles enabled the Southern Cross to reach the Mascot aerodrome here.
Reuter.
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