Round-World Flight

Amelia Earhart Crashes On Round-World Flight

A FTER months of careful preparation, Amelia Earhart, famous American airwoman, left San Francisco on March 17 in a Lockheed-Electra ’plane to fly around the world (27,000 miles), via Hawaii, Howland Is., Lae (New Guinea), East Indies, India, Central Africa, South America, and Central America.

With three companions, Messrs. Paul Mantz, Fred Noonan, and Harry Man ning, she made a record crossing to Hawaii.

While trying to take off from Honolulu on March 21 for Howland Island, the machine crashed and was so badly dam aged that the round-the-world flight had to be abandoned. The three occupants —Amelia Earhart (otherwise Mrs George Putnam, wife of the well-known Ameri can publisher) and Messrs. Noonan and Manning (navigators) escaped injury.

They are returning to U.S.A. by steamer.

Mrs. Earhart Putnam expressed deter mination to attempt the round-the-world flight again later.

Three leading residents of Fiji, who arrived in Sydney on March 13 en route to London and the Coronation. Left to right: Ratu Joseva Sukuna, B.A. (Oxon.), Mcdaille Militaire, barrister-at-law of Middle Temple, M.L.C. (Fiji), and Honorary A.D.C. to the Governor of Fiji; Major Clive B. Joske, M.C., Commandant of the Fiji Military Forces, A.D.C. to the Governor; Ratu Edward Cakobau, descendant of the Royal Houses of Fiji and Tonga, second lieutenant in the Fiji Defence Forces, and captain of the Fiji cricket team.