KINGSFORD SMITH.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 79, 15 January 1936, Page 5

KINGSFORD SMITH.

"NOT YET PASSED OVER."

DUTCH MEDIUM'S WORDS. (United Press Association--Copyright). (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, January 14. A correspondent of the "Sun-Her-ald" Service says that the Foreign Office has received a report from .Sir Hubert Montgomery (British Minister at the Hague) concerning information about Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, alleged to have been given at a seance at The Hague. The Foreign Office, advised the Commonwealth Admiralty and Air Ministry on the report, which says that an elderly woman medium received a message from the "spirit" of a Dutch pilot, Captain IBeekman. who was killed in the "Flying Hotel" that Sir Charles Kingsford Smith "has not yet passed over," but is on a coral island near Bencoolen, on the Sumatra coast, in great distress and danger. The message urged immediate help. It was stated that the message was intended for the British Legation, to which it was accordingly sent. AN IMPRACTICABLE SUGGESTION LONDON, January 13. Regarding the report that Air Commodore Sidney Smith, commanding the Royal Air Force in the Far East, wjhich, following the loss of SirCharles Kingsford Smith, communicated to the Air Ministry strong views concerning the control of long-distanco flights, official opinion is that little can be done beyond the issue of permits for flying over foreign countries. The suggestion that pilots should rigidly adhere to their announced routes is fine in theory but impracticable, climatic conditions and mechanical defects often making changes of loutes neces-' sary.