SAFE IN BEHRING SEA.
TWO MISSING AIRMEN. JAPAN-AMERICA FLIGHT. NEW YORK, Sept. 16. A message froin Seattle, Washington, states that Messrs. Don Moyle and Cecil Allen, American airmen, who have been missing for more than a week on a flight from Japan to America, arc safe in Oliutora Gulf, Beliring Sea, north of Kamchatka. Messages from three Russian vessels to tho coastguard station at Seattle state that tho fliers landed on an uninhabited island, were well and would be home soon. Messages were also intercepted by the United States naval radio station at St. Paul Island, Behring Sea, and by the United States coastguard cutter Itasca, of the Behring Sea patrol. Tlie messages received by the Itasca said the airmen were on board the Russian steamer Pialy Krubalobe. Another Russian vessel, the steamer Esquimos, at Penjenskbar, wirelessed that the Pialy was in Oliutora Gulf. Mr. Moyle sent a message to his fiancee saving: Everything all right. Will be in Seattle on September 22. Messrs. Moyle and Allen were flying from Tokio to' Seattle for a prize of £SOOO offered by the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun. The machine carried fuel for 41 hours aloft and had a cruising speed of 100 miles an hour.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20981, 18 September 1931, Page 9
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203SAFE IN BEHRING SEA. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20981, 18 September 1931, Page 9
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