A FEMALE SERPENT.
FEARS FOR AVIATORS.'
UNNECESSARY HEAD-SHAKING. :: • TOKIO. July 29. Many of the Japanese people were shaking their heads at the likely fate of the British world fliers, who had sheltered on Marsh Lake, Urupp Island. It is the home of a mythological female serpent, . which has never been known to ai.Urw anyone attempting to cross the marsh to escape. , "". '■; t ,' ■ . A cablegram published in. Monday's Jlkkald stated that Captain A. S. Maclaren and his party of British airmen had, arrived at Peiropavlovsk, Siberia. 'Hie party, which landed at Urupp Island; in a, 1 dense fog about a forthight* ago, was weatherbound there for some days.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18774, 30 July 1924, Page 9
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107A FEMALE SERPENT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18774, 30 July 1924, Page 9
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