SAFE AND SOUND

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 46, 23 August 1922, Page 5

SAFE AND SOUND

THE MISSING AIRMEN

LAND ON THE BURMA COAST

MILK IN EXCHANGE FOR CIGARS.

(CHIT» Mil AIKHSATION.—eetTRIMT.)

CMUTER'S TiUfllAH.) v (Received 23rd August, 8.30 a.m.) DELHI,'22nd August. ~Advioes received from Calcutta state that a telegram, has been received by "The Statesman" newspaper from the missing airmen, saying: "We'1 came down one mile south of Lukhidia Char through engine failure. All OK now: Petrol is short, owing to the heavy adverse wind. Advise Chittagong to keep a lookout for us from high tide Tuesday. Living on milk supplied'by natives in I exchange for cigars."

[After Major Blake was compelled to relinquish the world flight and undergo an operation for appendicitis, His companions, Captains Malm and MacMillan, continued th» adventure. They set off from Lahore in a Fairey seaplane on Saturday morning, their destination being Akyab, in Burma, ' a 'four hours' iourney. Until to-day's message no news lad been received of them? and the worst was feared. Search vessels were sent 'out, particular attention being paid to the Burma coast, where it was thought they might have been compelled to land} ' /-