STRANDED AIRMEN
FLIGHTS FROM SYDNEY
GOVERNMENT KEEPS WORD
SYDNEY, Dec. 17.
A New Zealand Air Force Dakota plane arrived at Mascot to take home 15 stranded R.N.Z.A.F. men. They had sent a cable to the Minister of Defence a fortnight ago requesting repatriation before Christmas. In the meantime a Catalina flyingboat arrived at Sydney unexpectedly and took 13 of the waiting airmen home. The Dakota is returning with the remaining two airmen and 15 civilian internees from Canton and Shanghai, who arrived in Sydney on Friday. *
Flying Officer L. H. Simes, of Wellington, who reached Sydney in November after service in England, the Middle East and India, is one of the men returning in the Dakota. He said: “No other Government in the world would act on a cable from its fighting men. It is a grand gesture on the part of the New Zealand Government and we will not forget that our Government looks, after its servicemen and keeps its word.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21899, 18 December 1945, Page 4
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