MISSING AVIATOR

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11832, 13 January 1933, Page 5

MISSING AVIATOR

ROUTE'NOW DIVULGED. t

PREPARATIONS FOR SEARCH FOR

HINKLER.

“WHERE CAN WE LOOK?”

(British Official 'Wirelessj RUB'GY,. Jan. 11

'Another day has passed without news of Squadron-Leader Bert Hinkler. He intended keeping bis route secret, but as anxiety for his safety is now felt bis London agents disclose that lie intended to proceed via. Brindisi or Athens.' Alleppo, Bagdad, Basra, Jask, Karachi, Allahabad, Calcutta, Rangoon. Alorstar and Singapore, and then by wav of the Dutch East Indies.

Captain W. L. Hope, three times winner of the King’s Cup air race, says: “Though beginning to fear the worst, we are organising a search for Squadron-Leader Bert Hinkler, but are afraid it is hopeless. Where can we look? There are three possibilities—that he came down in the Englih Channel, was lost in the Alps, or came down in the Adriatic Sea.”

Captain Hope thinks it likeliest that Hinkler came to grief between Brindisi and Athens.

Squadron-Leader Marsden, on behalf of Mr. S. M. Bruce, was called to tile Air Ministry to discuss the question of a search, but no official request for an organised search lias yet been made, owing to the uncertainty as to whether Hinkler is in French, Swiss, Italian, or Greek territory, or whether be came down at sea.

FAMILY UNEASY

MOTHER CONSTANTLY AT WIRELESS.

(U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) BRISBANE, Jan. 12.

The Hinkler family at Bundaberg is now beginning to display uneasiness as to the whereabouts of their aviator soil, Bert, whose mother Vis not •lost hope. She is constantly listening on the wireless, and believes that he will soon bo located in some unexpected spot.