STILL MISSING

Grey River Argus, 18 August 1937, Page 5

STILL MISSING

SOVIET PLANE Search Flights [Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.l NEW YORK, August 16. Russian organisers of the rescue flights to the Pole believe the search may occupy a week or longer. No further signals were picked up in Alaska. The cabled reports of weak signals received by Moscow are the only clue on' which the fliers at Fairbanks are working. STEFANSSON'S OFFER. (Received August 17 at 7.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, August 16. The Arctic explorer, Vilhalmur Stefansson, has offered to assist in the search for the Soviet fliers. He conferred with the Soviet Embassy. ATLANTIC TRIALS. RUGBY, August 16. The Caledonia on the trans-Atlan-tic flights at first experienced favourable conditions, but they deteriorated later, and the boat flew for some hours in dense cloud and rain showers. She escaped these conditions somewhat by climbing to 200 feet, but head-winds increased and early in the afternoon the Caledonia reported the strength of the wind at 50 to 55 miles an hour. Captain Wilcockson, in command of the wireless organisation, proved efficient throughout the flight. The Pan-American clipper will use the southern route via Bermuda and Azores. The next flight will be io Southampton, which begins to-day, and will return the same way. .