Missing Dutch Aviators Located
END or HOLIDAY FLIGHT 'United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Sunday, 9.50 p.m. PERTH, Oct. 4. The ipissing Dutch aviators were located from tho air 120 miles southeast of Kargoorlie. They informed tho airmen who landed beside them that they became lost and were forced down through lack of petrol. Assistance is being sent to enable them to take off. A cable from Perth on Friday stated that an extensive aerial search of tho country near Kalgoorlie failed to reveal any sign Of W. Rous and H. Van Beekman, two Dutch airmen who had been missing since Wednesday morning. A land party left KalgOorlie to investigate a theory that the aeroplane crashed where a fire was seen 60 miles from Kalgoorlic, and that, together with the missing men, it was • incinerated. The Dutchmen were making a holiday flight around Australia-
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 235, 5 October 1936, Page 7
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145Missing Dutch Aviators Located Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 235, 5 October 1936, Page 7
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