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Grey River Argus, 13 November 1935, Page 5

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NO TRACE OF SMITH Intensive Search (Ans and NZ. Cable Assn.) SINGAPORE, November 11Flyingboats took off at dawn to search a l islands and the coast between Rangoon and Victoria Point. Melrose is searching the place where h e thought he saw the Lockheed over the Bay of Bengal. The "flying boats wirelessed that they had arrived at Rangoon after a thorough search of the Bay of Bengal with no success. The Vil-de-beestes and Melrose searched the coast of all islands westward of Siam with no success. All are resunrng at dawn the flyingboats mak ino* a wider sweep over the route. An Australian Government message to Air Commodore Sidney Smith warmly thanked him for the search efforts'. He says that these will be continued while there is the faintest hope. The Commonwealth also authorised the use of Quanfas D.H.86 now at Singapore and the airliner is taking off at dawn. AMY'S RECORD BROKEN. LONDON, November 11. Llewellvn and Mrs Wyndham . arrived at Hanworth covering the journey from the Cape in 156 hours three minutes, breaking Amy Mollison’s record established in 1932. by eighteen houn<, forty-eight minutes.