The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-04

London. July 3.---(By The Associat- ed Press .)--The British dirigible R-34, that started yesterday on a 6,0Oo- mile Journey across the Atlantic to New
 York City and return, met storms this evening off the coast of Newfoundland and is swinging rapidly ,northward to skirt the bad weather area. At latest dirigible is within 400 miles of St Johns, Newfoundland.
 After fighting all day through fog banks, and rising high above them when possible, the airship changed her course this afternoon from west ward to northwest and at latest re- ports was swinging rapidly along a course that will carry the ship far north of Newfoundland.
 Whether the dedection in her course will delay the arrival of the R-34 in New York beyond Friday was not cer- tain tonight. An announcement from the Air Ministry early in the day in- dicated that the dirigible would touch at St Johns Friday morning and would make Hazelhurst Field, Long Island early Saturday But the Ad- miralty sent broadcast a wireless based on message from the airship D fixing July as the probable date of arrival in New York and stating that the mammoth ship was expected to complete her return trip to East For tune, Scotland, by the following Mon day
 The two British cruisers, Renown and Tiger, that through the day have followed in the wake of the dirigib1e to render aid in case of need, have reported the airship's progress from time to time.
 Apparently all Is well aboard the
 dirigible. for, though communication has been maintained with her through
 out the flight. no word of distress has been received by the waiting radio stations.
 Weather reports up to noon con- l tinued to be good, although the pres ence of a low pressure area off New Foundland 1oomed threateningly. Ma
 jor General J E B.Seeley. speaking in I the House of Commons expressed | hope that a following wind would | soon be struck that would aid the ship into port.
 General SeeIey said the RIA was l carrying messages which would be | dropped at St. Johns. At o'clock yesterday morning, he said, the dir l igib1e had covered 1,035 miles, or one-third of the journey to New York General Seely said that reports from the airship to the ministry in- dicated that much valuable informa- tion of the heretofore unchartered air currents of the Atlantic was be- ing obtained and that as a result the possibilities of overseas air traffic would be revealed He expressed a hope that the flight would bind still closer the ties between this country and America"
 The reports of progress of the air ship came through varied sources
 The Renown, stationed in mid-Atlan- tic, reported that when the dirigible
 passed the midway point in ,ne ocean shortly after 6 o'clock Green
 wich meridien time e a. m. New York time). the barometer was steady, the wind our miles an hour
 from the northwest, the sky clear, visibility good and the sea smooth.
 Word of the swing. to the north-
 ward that if maintained will carry
 the dirigible into Baffin"s Bay, off
 Labrador, was received by the Air Ministry radio from, His Majestys
 steamship Tiger, which reported at
 e:30 p. m. (English summer time.1 8 0
 D. m. New York time) that the R-34
 was then in latitude 54 degrees 20
 minutes north, longitude 40 degrees
 west-a position approximately 700
 miles northeast of Newfoundland and 500 miles south of Greenland