REPORT DENIED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 18, 2 November 1935, Page 2

REPORT DENIED

NOT ON WAY TO ABYSSINIA.

TWO AMERICAN AIRMEN.

(Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, Novemoer 1. Much interest was taken in the arrival, of the New Zealander, Baron Corneille Hubert de Mey Dalkemade, a passenger from Honolulu by the Lurline, because of the story which was .cabled from Honolulu on October 23, that he had sailed for Auckland with two American flyers recruited in Hawaii for the Ethiopian air force. Baron Dalkemade, dapper, well-dressed man of 42, wore no gaudy uniform. This afternoon, as he paced the deck of the Lurline, he was dressed in a well-fit-ting suit and wore the familiar miniature badge of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association. He was silent and would not comment in any way on the story published a week or so ago, referring to two American flyers whom he was said to have recruited for the Ethiopian air force. Baron Dalkemade told a reporter that he did not desire to say anything for publication. “My wife is waiting on the wharf for me, and I cannot talk now; but I will be down at my home at Brown’s Bay if you want to see me,” he said. So the reporter then looked up Goodson and Harvey, the two young Americans. Both smiled broadly when they were shown the cabled item from Honolulu, in which their nanies were mentioned.

“Ethiopia?” said Goodson. “Say, we’re not going to that place. "We are foofch here for several weeks to see the sights of your country, and we plan to catch trout and then marlin fish up at Russell.”

Both Goodson and Harvey requested that the news, as cabled from Honolulu, should be denied" on their behalf. “What happened in Honolulu has been veiy embarrassing for us,” said Goodson. “We certainly met Baron Dalkemade, and he spoke to us about the Ethiopian air force; but there is nothing in that as far as we are concerned. We are not army flyers' at all, although we have done a little flying. Our trip out here was planned long before we met the Baron, who stayed at the same hotel as we did in Honolulu. People talked a lot about the story, and we got a great kick out of it. We have not come out here with the Baron.” .