MISSING GERMAN AIRMEN
NO FURTHER NEWS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY, 19th June. Wyndham messages report that there is no further news of the missing German airmen.
NOTE ON SEAPLANE y (Received 20th June, 11 a.m.) PERTH, This Day. While no official news concerning the missing German airmen has been received at Perth, an amateur picked up a wireless message stating that a party in the launch which was sent from Wyndham came upon the abandoned seaplane. They found on the ’plane a note dated 20th May reading: “Australia to-day. We left the ’plane in a float, using it as a boat, in a westerly direction along the coast. Bertram.” The launch examined the coast without success.
According to another report Sergeant Flinders, of Wyndham, said that probably after exhausting their tinned rations the airmen entered the bush in the hope of finding aid, and were murdered and eaten by natives not more than five miles from the coast. '
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 20 June 1932, Page 5
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