Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-02
WORLD C|RCLERS
ARRIVE IN JAPAN
Take Train to Yokohoma,
Where They Will Board
Boat for u. S.
BY LINTON WELLS.



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SH1MONOSEkI. Japan, July .
We arrived at this place tonight at
$50 o'clock on schedule and are
leaving at s:45 o'clock by train for
Yokoham ma. We are scheduled 10
reach Yokoha ma tomorrow evening
at I 80 O'Clock. catching the Empress
of Asia 20 minutes later for America
BY EDWARD s. EVANS.
FI'SAN. Korea, July .. Linton
Wells and | arrived here at 10 o'clock
this morning and will proceed 10
Shmonoseki by boat in thirty min
utes. We are now travelling on the
sixteenth day of our attempt 10 break
the record for circling the globe. To-
morrow we should reach Yokoha ma
about seven days ahead of the record
OF John Henry Mears. who completed
the circling of the globe in a few
hours less than &c days.
In our brief dispatches yesterday.
written and flashed in the few min
utes we could spare from the business
of breaking a record. we We're unable
to explain that our paths parted at
Hardin. few to Mukden by myself
Wells rode down on the Chinese
Eastern
Arrived at Hardin yesterday, we dis
covered that the plane which Chang
Tso Lin had sent for ns was one
scatter. His officers had the idea that
Wells was making the trip alone and
our progress had kept pace with the
news. The Chinese Eastern officials
at Hardin. however. knew the details
of the trip and AS soon as they dis
covered that small plane had been
sent. got special train ready for us.
At Hardin there was 30 minutes of
feverish discussion. Finally Wells
and | decided that one of us must
break the record at any cost and that
the surest way to do this WAS to split
UP. | chose the plane for the 420-
mile flight. Wells took the train to
Antung, risking a connection there
for Mukden.
Dividing Proved Hard.
I think the lowest point of the trip
for both of us was when we divided
our wardrobe and the realization came
to us that we might not finish the
trip together Wells took his tooth
brush and change of clothes and
felt the least / could do WAS to throw
in the family comb.
Linton climbed up to the platform
Of his luxurious coach and we shook
nanOS Win Rather ali empty ltelulS.
However, ii was worth it for the
reunion at Mukden. | arrived long
before Linton and was waiting for
him on the platform. He had made
all his connections on the dot. His
grin when he saw me in the mob on
the platform waiting for him seemed
to Indicate that he was fully as glad
to see me as I was to see him. We
posed for countless pictures and were
presented with a great ba sket of flow
ers nv the South Manchurian Rail-
way.
I was met here at the end of my
flight by Gen Chow Pei Ping. a mem
Der of Chang TsoI.in's air staff. He
felt very badly over the situation and
said that he would have sent two or
a dozen planes if he had known we
needed more than one. SokObin. Ameri-
can consul at Mukden has done won
derful work for us. He has Il splendid
personality and a reputation which in
itself enhances American prestige
throughout Manchuria.
Well Ahead of Record.
The railroad officials decided to be
in on two records It once, 50 they sent
us out from Mukden to Fusan ON a
train which was to make a 3l-hour
trip in "a hours. This it was success
full In doing.
The worst of our trip is over now.
A boat trip train ride across Japan.
the transpacific lap on the Empress
of Asia and the flight across
America stand between us and a
record of 81 or. Is days. We fully OK.
pect now to be in New York before
the middle of July. probably more
than a week ahead Of Mears' record
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