BOMBING 'PLANES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 23, 28 January 1937, Page 7

BOMBING 'PLANES.

New Type with Greatest

Capacity Yet.

CAN ALSO CARET TROOPS

(Received 10 a.m.)

LONDON, January 27.

The first of a new type of bombing aeroplane just delivered "from the Hand~ ley-Page works to the Royal Air Force under the expansion scheme, has a bomb capacity greater than any machine at present in service and is adaptable in an emergency to carry 30 fully-armed troops.

Other 'planes are being turned out under a mass production system.

FRUITLESS SEARCH.

FALSE CLUE TO MYSTERY.

(Received 9.30 a.m.)

SYDNEY, this day.

A large party of men began a search in the rugged country some distance from the Buirinjuck storage dam, near Wagga, for what was reported to resemble a crashed aeroplane. Local residents at Burrinjuck saw a glistening object some miles away in the forest. A pair of field glasses revealed what appeared to be the outline of an aeroplane wing, together with pieces of aluminium and large figures resembling the wreckage of an aeroplane. The party returned, however, without finding the aeroplane wreckage, but at the precise spot indicated they discovered seepage of water over a large rock, which at a distance would naturally glisten in the sunlight. It was thought that the supposed wreckage might have been that of the ill-fated Southern Cloud, lost on March 21, 1931, with fix passengers and two pilots.