FLYING NEWS
“MESSAGE” FROM SOUTHERN CLOUD.
IS IT A IIOAN?
o.l* A. by Elec. Tel. Copyrights (Received Oct. 25, 5 p.m.) MELBOURNE. Oct. 25..
It is reported' that a beer bottle has been picked up in Lacepode Bay, containing what purports to bo a message from the air-liner "Southern Cloud,” lost on March 21, ana stating that the plane was lost and flying aimlessly over tho, water. The ending is blurred and apparently unsigned. Ulm discounts the story: He sajpa tho plane carried no beer, bottle and that tho “message” is couched .in terms which would not bo used by an experienced airman. "«'• The Director of Navigation at Melbourne points out that, the trend ; or the se» currents is. eastward, . nob westward, as it would need, to bo to carry flotsam . to. Lacepedo 'Bay, ‘‘ FLIGHT ABANDONED - i LONDON, Oct. 25Hamilton Brothers have indefinitelv abandoned their- flight ta Australia, owing to bad weather.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11470, 26 October 1931, Page 5
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