Information was received by the "North-China Herald" on August 10 that the Soviet government has definitely refused to give Captain Francis Chichester permission to over Soviet Russia in the course of his Sydney to Britain Aight ina Puss Moth aeroplane. This refusal, it is understood, is based on a regulation (which only went into effect after the New Zealand aviator began his: flight) that no foreign airman may fly from one end of Russia to the other.
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