SEARCH TO BE MADE.
KINGSFORD SMITH’S ’PLANE. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Mr H. A. Whitehead, who arrived at Sydney yesterday, after a leisurely flight from England, said that a search party, led by airmen, would shortly leave Burma for an island about 15 miles off the coast, to search for the wreckage of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’s ’plane. Those undertaking the search are so convinced that the plane crashed in,, the sea near an unmapped ‘island in the Bay of Bengal that they have- arranged for divei‘9 to join the expedition so that the sea-bed in the vicinity may be thoroughly searched.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 36, 22 November 1937, Page 5
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