Evening star., 1936-10-14
KEIRAN BOARDS
j ship TO MANILA
Globe GirdIer Finds Repcse
. Even Though Liner
| :. Is Tossing.
BY LEO KIERAN.
Nv Radio to The Star.

Dy Radio to The star.
ON BOARD THE PRESIDENT
PIERCE, EN- ROUTE TO MANILA,
October 14.-This reporter. having set
out to make a trip around the world
by using only established commercial
transportation facilities open to any
traveller, is now steaming toward
Manila exactly on schedule.
Natives along my route, however,
appeared to have the mistaken idea
that this was an attempt to better the
"round- d-the-world record Of seven days
established my Wiley Post. Without
chartering special planes, 1t Is appar-
ent that regularly scheduled transport
facilities at present cannot bring a
person around the world in less than
three weeks.
Landing at Hongkong early yester-
day afternoon banished all doubts OF
making my schedule, the Imperial
Airways plane bringing me here with
several hours to spare for my boat
connection. At Manila, I expect to
take the China Clipper for San Fran
cisco on the first regular passenger
flight across the Pacific.
Talks to Correspondent.
Flying into Hongkong, talked by
radio-telephone with a New York
Times correspondent stationed in the
city and asked him to have q car in
readiness to take me to the steamship
pier. This, so they tell me, marked
the first time in the Far East that
any one on land had conversed with
an airplane passenger by radio.
After the long hop by air from
Bfindisi, Italy, the sea leg Of
my round-the-world journey looks
particularly inviting to somewhat
wearied traveller. I'll have q chance
I'd get brushed and shined up q bit
for the homeward hop across the
Pacific.
my flight from Bangkok to Hong
kong, through Penang. Saigon and
Turanne, was accomplished in the
worst weather conditions have expe-
rtenced in 18 years Of aviation. but,
from q passenger viewpoint, it was
tering. The plane left Saigon at
dawn, 10 minutes late because Of the
tardiness of the auto driver from the
hotel. We climbed through the clouds
ia $4,000 feet and headed northeast
for Turanne, where we landed only
five hours behind the regular run,
which is supposed to start the day at
Turanne for the trip to Hongkong.
The plane refueled and scared to the
13,0oO-foot level for the 600-mile
flight over water to Hongkong, where
we arrived two hours behind schedule.
But I still had nearly three hours in
which to catch the boat, only short
distance away.
Out Of Laundry.
found myself completely out Of
laundry, so I spent the intervening
time in remedying the lack. I pur-
chased three shirts and q pair Of gray
slacks to replace my trousers, which
had been ruined when my fountain
pen exploded at high altitude, spat-
tering them with ink.
The President Pierce Is rolling vio-
1ently as this Is written-more dis
comfort than I have experienced in
the last Il, 900 miles-but I find re-
pose in the thought that there will be
no hurried rising at dawn to 60 else
where.
Iwould recommend thai, on dupli-
cation Of my trip, longer stops be
made to see the wonders Of the
world, but that the travel schedule be
kept the same With week end visits
to interesting places. the world might
be done educationally and comfort
ably in less than six weeks.
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