London, Feb. 9.
Alex Henshaw, who set out from Gravesend on the morning of February 5 to break the record for the England-South Africa return flight arrived back at Gravesend at 1.51 p.m. today (G.M.T.) or 9.51 pin. (Shanghai Time), beating the record by 30 hours and 40 minutes. He took 39} hours for the journey to Capetown, beating the record by 5} hours. Henshaw landed at Liberville, in French Equatorial Africa, at 5.50 a.m. on February 6, when he narrowly missed crashing in a ditch. Henshaw left Capetown at 10.18 p.m. on the night of February 7 on his return flight to England.—Reuter.
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