The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03

motor that Nielsen kept his plane in the air till we struck Karachi. And then we found that a piston was broken and thnt he had four holes through hls crank case"
 Leigh Wade, asked the same ques- ton, said he thought the part ot the flight that stood out most in his memory was the crossing of the Tau rus Mountains (Asia Minor), in the course of which the machines had to bass in single file through a narrow gorge. the wing tips nearly touching the walls, with heavy clouds overhead and a rushing torrent underneath. '
 All Look Different
 At this point the flyers were asked if all countries didn't look more or Joss alike from the air.
 "No," said Smith, "they look almost as different, l guess, as they do from the ground. You notice at once the dit- ferent ways the land is cultivated, the change in the styles of architecture, and the difference in the ways in which the towns are laid out, as you fly over one country after another. For instance, the funny little Chinese villages, each of them with a tower at both ends, were absolutely different from those we had seen in Japan, and just as unlike those we flew over on our way across India.
 I've all agree that the prettiest stretch of country we've yet flown over was that after Aleppo when we left the desert behind and right along to London. It's all so green and beau tifully cultivated, and the little toy villages, standing out in the midst of green plains and on mountain sides, are a treat to see"
 "Where were you hottest and cold est?" was another question.
 "I guess we suffered most from the heat around Multan, in India between Delhi and Karachi. 1t was about 116 in the shade fo the machine there, and if you put your arm over the side where the sun could get at it, it would be seorched. It was mighty hot, too, all through Indo-China; in fact we were grilled steadily all the way from Hong Kong to Constantinople, and in Bagdad especially it was some thing fierce!
 "As for the cold, that was worst while we were in the Aleutian Islands. At one stage during that flight we were flying through snow for three hours, while below us a thing was hap pening that I'd never vseen or heard of before. The wind appeared to be blowing two ways at once, driving the whitecaps east and west at the same time, so that they drove into each other at some points and churned into the most wonderful foam I guess anybody ever saw.
 Courtesy In COnstantinOple
 There's one thing particularly I'd like to say" Smith added. Ut has been stated in the French papers that we were delayed in Constantinople be- cause the Turkish officials insisted on examining our machines, and the i'm precision has been given that we were treated badly there. The fact is that at no point in the flight, unless it was in Japan, have we received finer treat ment than we got in Constantinople. The military and air officers did every thing they could think of to make us feel at home; nobody could have been more polite and considerate. Those Turkish officers are all clean, hand some men and very fine fellows.
 There was one big general who and couldn't do enough. He said that he had arranged a few entertainments in our honor, and hoped we could manage to accept some of them, but that he realized we were in a hurry, and wouldn't take it amiss if we couldn't spare the time. Of course, enc expects certain amount of cour- tesy from the officials in a country, but what shows the real feeling of a nation toward you is the behavior of sthe common people, and wherever we drove in Constantinople the people in the streets waved their hands and cheered us and showed their good will in every way that they could. As for being held up, we had planned to stay there three days, and actually were there one.
 "Everybedy in Japan was politeness itself, too, especially the officers. Ev- cry one of those we met had a little map of the flight, some of which they had made themselves, and they were in terested in every detail. At two places they had the school-children out to sing our national anthem.
 Tn Tokyo we went into a big store to buy some things we needed. As soon as the proprietor, who was a very rich man, heard we were there, he came down himself and asked if we were get ting proper attention and if he could help us in any way. He said it would give him very great pleasure if we could come up to his private office and have tea with him, and we sure would &%A Siszzls si5ssIaz5l