NATIONAL ANTHEM SUNG

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 5 January 1931, Page 5

NATIONAL ANTHEM SUNG

ARRIVAL AT BERLIN BERLIN, 3rd January. Miss Johnson arrived at 3.34. The Moscow Aviation. Chemical Society is fully facilitating her flight. The Smolensk and Moscow aerodromes are ensuring safe landing. Experts will advise her at all points and heating apparatus will be installed in the aeroplane if necessary. The British National Anthem and cheers greeted Miss Amy Johnson, on her arrival after nightfall. She explained that bad weather drifted her from the course necessitating a, descent at Luebz owing to loss of her bearings. A cottager in whose field she alighted, though startled, gave every assistance and she followed the railway line. The aviatrix continues her flight to Warsaw at 9 a.m. on 4th. LONDON, 3rd December. Amv Johnson left Cologne for Berlin, Her father discloses that she passed with flying colours her examination for a commercial license, the hardest tost an aviator can undergo necessitating certification by six doctors. There is nothing secret and she is not in any Government business concerning her flight to Pekin. DESCRIBED AS RECKLESS DIFFICULTIES AHEAD LONDON, 2nd January. It is authoritatively denied that Miss Amy Johnson is on. an official mission. Amy herself was nonplussed when a direct question was put to her at l-ioge. She said: “I am doing the flight absolutely on my own, and in nowise is it an official or a secreb mission.” : Messages from Cologne reveal a terrible flight from Liege. The weather was so bad that even a Lufthansa airliner turned hack. The British United Press correspondent at Moscow says that Kirilov, the Soviet Air Ch.ief, describes the flight as reckless and thoughtless, and intends tolling Miss Johnson of the tre mendous difficulties ahead, and the need for special heating apparatus to prevent the engine from freezing, and that landing skis are particularly, dangerous.On the contrary Nobile’s rescuer, Chucknovskv, is of opinion that the transit of Siberia, is not particularly dangerous except in the eastern wastes where jagged ice may be met.