MISSED AIR TRAGEDY
LORD BEAVERBROOK MISSION TO AMERICA (Reed. Ails?, 16, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 15: The plane in which the Minister of Supply, Lord Beaverbrook, crossed the Atlantic, intended to accompany the trans-ocean machine which crashed into a hillside in taking off, causing the loss of 21 lives. Lord Beaverbrook arrived in Washington by plane yesterday. A Washington message states that Lord Beaverbrook told the press he had come to the United States to secure tanks, aeroplanes and food in quantities as large as the United States could supply.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20636, 16 August 1941, Page 5
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