LOST IN DESERT?

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 15, 19 January 1933, Page 7

LOST IN DESERT?

FEARS FOR SAFETY.

Search of Sahara for Missing

Airwoman.

LADY BAILEY'S SILENCE,

(United P.A-—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) ]

(Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, January 18. Mr. J. A. Mollison, the famous airman, has announced that he is prepared to join in the search for Lady Bailey, who has been missing, since she left Oran on Sunday on the second hop of her attempted record flight to Capetown, which she did in spite of symptoms of influenza. He has gone to Ireland to discuss with Captain Saul, who was a member of the crew of the Southern Cross on the Atlantic crossing in 1930, his proposal to again cross the ocean, and' when he returns he states he will set out in search for Lady Bailey if required. Mr. Mollison will use a sevon-seater de Havilland air liner and will have two companions.

Mr. Edward Hillman lias lent Captain W. N. Lancaster a big air liner, which is fitted with special tanks in order that he may search for Lady Bailey in the Sahara Desert. The airwoman did not pay the French Ministry the £1300 necessary to ensure an air search if she crashed in the Sahara Desert.

A message from Algiers states that M. Poulain, the French airman who in February, 1932, rescued two of his countrymen after they had been stranded in the Sahara for six days, is also preparing to begin a search for Lady Bailey.

The airwoman, when she left Oran, had fuel sufficient for 17 hours' flying.

The French Government has given an assurance that everything possible is being done. A thorough search of the desert by French military machines has been'ordered.