Guba in Batavia After Rough Trip Batavia. June 3.
The flying-boat Guba, which left Portland, Western Australia, at 5.30 yesterday afternoon on the first stage of a flight across the Indian Ocean to South Africa, arrived here at 3.10 this afternoon, local time.
The object of the flight is to explore possibilities of an alternative air-mail route between Great Britain and Australia.
The Guba, which originally intended to make its first stop at the Cocos Island. was forced to go to Batavia after abandoning its attempt to reach the islands.
Shortly after noon. local time, she wirelessed that since it s, impos: sible to fix the position of the islands, she had decided to fly to Batavia and wait for conditions that would enable navigation by the astronomical method.
It appears that the Guba, which experienced a severe tropical rainstorm at 2.30 am., Melbourne local time, and extremely bumpy conditions, circled within 100 miles of the Cocos Islands before abandoning the attempt to land there.—Reuter.
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