SEARCH FAILS
POSSIBLE KINGSFORD SMITH
CLUE
(Received November 25, 11 a.m.)
SINGAPORE, November 24,
Captain Hussey, a Qantas pilot, has arrived at Singapore from Sayer Island. He says he searched six islands, two of which are covered with heavy jungle. He sighted footprints on the sand and also the marks of the keel of a boat.
The Straits Steamship Company's Matang is leaving for Sayer Island to make a ground search.
The stationmaster at Padang Besar reports that the driver of a Siamese train was told by a woodcutter living at Setul, on the border of Siam and Malaya, that he saw an aeroplane shoot up over a hill and drop in flames. Another man confirms this. He said that he saw an aeroplane flying towards the Setul Mountains in rain, and thunder* An R.A.F. machine twice searched the area without success.
Mr. C. J. Melrosc will return to Australia on Tuesday.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 127, 25 November 1935, Page 11
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152SEARCH FAILS Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 127, 25 November 1935, Page 11
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