AIR MAIL ON CYGNUS SALVAGED
London, December 16. The whole of the mail of the flyingboat Cygnus, which crashed at Brindisi, comprising 120,000 letters, has now been salvaged. A few of the letters are so badly damaged as to be undeliverable. Stamps which became soaked with water and peeled off will be carefully preserved for six months, after which they will be sold, but anyone receiving an unstamped letter marked or damaged by sea water can have stamps on application.
'The Post and 'Telegraph Department has received advice that air mail dispatched from Auckland on November 16 and 20, arrived in London on December 12. These were mails which connected with the Imperial Airways flyingboat Cygnus. The post oflice is awaiting advice as to the condition of the mails when they reached London.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 72, 18 December 1937, Page 9
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133AIR MAIL ON CYGNUS SALVAGED Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 72, 18 December 1937, Page 9
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