MAILS LOST

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12751, 6 January 1936, Page 6

MAILS LOST

WRECKED AIR LINER

TIIBEE BODIES RECOVERED

(XJ.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright! LONDON, Jan. 3.

Imperial Airways estimate that approximately one-third, of the mail destined for Australia and New Zealand was lost in the City of Khartoum, which crashed in the sea off Alexandria.

The City of Khartoum carried the early bags, but mail posted within IS hours oi closing lime, which is the bulk of it, is safe, as it was carried by a sister plane. An Alexandria message states that divers recovered the bodies of Mrs. riorsman. Miss Eckford, a steward, and the Italian, Signor Tarteglione. ft will probably be impossible to raise the wreck. The hawsers and tug’s crane ulready have broken twice.

AUSTRALIAN MAILS GONE

NO MENTION OF NZ. LETTERS

tU P.A. by Elec- Tel. Oipyrlgbt) /Received Jan. 6. 6.30 p.m.). SYDNEY, Jan. 5.

The Postmaster-General has been advised that the wrecked air liner Cii.v of Khartoum carried a portion of the New Year’s mail for Australia comprising one bag for each of the Australian capitals. No mention is made of any mail for New Zealand being lost.

ANOTHER BODY RECOVERED

PLANE ABANDONED

(U.P.A. by let. Copy right!. (Received Jan. 5, 6.30 p.m.). CAIRO, Jan. 4. Another body was recovered yesterday, that of Mr. Mason, a passenger to Australia. All the recovered bodies were buried to-da.v. Heavy seas are pre-vent-ng the search for the bodies of Garrett, and other victims. It was decided to abandon the plane, from which the divers have removed the

engines .and rno.t of the mail

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