SPIRIT OF DUTCH PILOT
MESSAGE TO MEDIUM KINGSFORD SMITH “LOCATED” (United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 15th January, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, 14th January. • The “Sun-Herald” says that the Foreign Office received a report from Sir Hubert Montgomery, British Minister at The Hague, concerning information about Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, alleged to have been given at a seance at The Hague., The Foreign Office advised the Commonwealth Admiralty and Air Ministry on the report, which says that an elderly woman medium received a message from the “spirit” of the Dutch pilot, Captain Beekman, killed in the Flying \Hotel disaster, that Smith “has not yet passed over,” hut is on a coral island near Bencoolen, on the Sumatra coast, in greut distress and danger. The message urges immediate help. It is stated that the message was intended for the British Legation, to which it was accordingly sent.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 15 January 1936, Page 5
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