MAIL PLANE MYSTERY
Rubber Boat Washed Ashore
NO BODIES FOUND
(Rec. December 13, 5.5 p.m.)
Algiers, December 12.
An empty rubber boat, which has been washed ashore, has been identified as equipment belonging to ' the French Algiers-Marseilles mail plane which was brought down in the Mediterranean by engine trouble on December 9. The crew sent a wireless message stating they had as a precaution ripped the canvas, off the wings to prevent the destruction of the plane in a rough sea. This was their last word.
Ropes attached to the boat indicated that they had tied themselves in, but a storm had washed them out.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 68, 14 December 1931, Page 11
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105MAIL PLANE MYSTERY Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 68, 14 December 1931, Page 11
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