AIRWOMEN MISSING
ADVENTUROUS PAIR
LOST IN STORM IN KENYA
(British Official Wireless.) (Received 17th / January, .1 p.m.)" EUGBY, 16th January/ Aeroplanes left Nairobi to-day to' search for two young-English airwomen, Misses Joan Page and Audrey Sale Barker, who were missi. g after leaving Moshi for Nairobi on Saturday. The airwomen, who had flown from the Cape, were returning home by easy ■■ stages. The hop from Moshi to Nairobi'ia 180 miles over rough bush thickly inhabited by tig game. They set off in stormy; weather, following the mail aeroplane,' but when, owing to the weather tha latter turned back, the girls flew on. This afternoon one. of the searching pilots reported seeing about forty miles from Nairobi a wrecked machine with, one girl standing .by waving. .Being unable to land he returned to Nairobi and is leaving with other machines and with a doctor, food, and first-aid equipment to the spot. •"'•'.
Miss Page, who is an ■ experienced pilot, is the daughter of Sir Arthur Page, the Chief Justice of Burma. Miss Sale Barker is a noted skier.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 13, 17 January 1933, Page 7
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176AIRWOMEN MISSING Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 13, 17 January 1933, Page 7
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