MISSING AIRMAN.
NO DEFINITE NEWS. - .UNCONFIRMED RUMOURS. (United Press Association —Copyright.) V LONDON,- July 19. ' The latest authoritative report is that Eric Hook," who is missing on his flight to Australia, lias not yet been found. A party is still searching along the Bali Cliaung and in the neighbourhood, but the swollen streams are impeding movement. Unconfirmed rumours that Hook had been found, and is being looked after in a certain village, are being investigated. The' Government considers it inadvisable to attach any importance to such rumours. , _ .James Matthews is still at Prome, progressing favourably.
reported in native village. SUFFERING HIGH FEVER. CALCUTTA, July 20. The impression gains ground that Hook may be alive. A repox-t has been received in R-angoon that he is suffeiing from a high fever in a village some miies from the spot where he was left by Matthews. \ . , Hook is said to be delirious, and unable to give a coherent account of his experiences, except that lie frequently mentions the word “tiger. It is said that villagers on a fishing expedition discovered him in an exhausted condition on the bank of a stream, almost naked.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 237, 21 July 1930, Page 5
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