RELIEF PLANE LOST
Carrying Ex-Prisoners
(Received September 24. 7 P-m.) SYDNEY, September 24. Eighteen Australian prisoners of war, one R.A.A.F. nurse, and eight R.A.A.I. personnel have been missing in a Douglas transport plane between Biak and Merauke, Dutch New Guinea, since last Tuesday. Hundreds of planes have flown thousands of miles in a vain search for the missing plane, including a close survey of Shangri La Valley, in the Dutch New Guinea mountains. Australian Army and Air Force authorities have questioned the Japanese in the areas where the plane is believid to have disappeared, but without result. The route of the plane lay over wild country inhabited by headhunters. Air Force officials are puzzled by, the fact that no distress signals were received from the plane-
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Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 306, 25 September 1945, Page 8
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