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PLANES FROM SINGAPORE. Leaflets in Dialects Dropped— Rewards Promised to Villagers. (Received 4 p.m.) SINGAPORE, this day. Officials of the Royal Air Force believe tliEvt the aeroplane which was reported as having been sighted at lakuata, ten miles inland from the west coast of Siam, at 7.30 a.m. on November S, could only have been that of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. A squadron of Viklebeestes and other machines from Singapore are searching the area. Leaflets printed in the dialects of the villagers are being dropped from the air instructing them to search in the jungle, and the promise is made that they will be rewarded for news of the missing airmen.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 272, 16 November 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)
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